&

            I am so happy today

 feel myself encompassing the earth

    existing in all forms

        

            I've found beauty in the

                  quiet life of reeds           

    seen love in the eyes

                        of a pride of lions
heard melody issuing

                           from within the city

   I've reached

      I have reached out

            my arms have reached

   my hands have found

                        have found           

                                    © Dick Russell

                                    First published in Wolfprints, London, 1971