savasana poems
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7.17.12
Bikram yoga today Room at 105 I aim my practice today at your healing C’mon, God, listen up. I’m down here sweating like crazy, I’m a faucet Like John Keats here lies one whose name is writ in water _______ Savasana 8: the gift February 13, 2012 Just like always, the comforting ritual-- after an hour’s hard work of trembling muscles, sweat drops slipping off my nose tip and plopping onto my mat-- I am flat on my back in stillness but for the rise and fall of my chest. My mind drifts, then I notice my breathing. A thought shoots through me: I don’t have to earn each breath-- it is given to me. Pain, wordless, follows this thought-- then puzzlement, next I notice relief, then a joy so subtle, way down deep, tectonic. |
8. 1. 12
My lungs fill like sails Little God-wind puffs me along ________ 4.24.12 Today, in Atlanta, I followed my teacher, did everything she said to the best of my ability Now she presses a cold lavender–scented cloth to my forehead She blesses us with peace which she hopes we take off the mat and into our lives I’m white, she’s black-- tell me the world hasn’t changed _______ 2.8.13 Remembering the pain in my knees as I tried pigeon for the umpteenth time This body wasn’t assembled perfectly , which I have felt shame about I’m 61 now-- will I ever accept my body for what it is It’s about time |
4.24.12
Focus on the pauses beween breaths my teacher says I’m wondering whether she’ll tend to me first, draping the cool towel over my burning forehead, or will I have to wait till she’s done a bunch of others? I let this silly thought go into the pause between my exhale and inhale The undone late work I owe rises to my awareness-- “Shit,” I think. Then I think, “I just thought the word shit in savasana-- Who thinks shit in savasana?” I let that go too into the pause between breaths which is starting to fill up ______ 3.22.12 Something about money-- something about Bruce Springsteen-- something about the engine in the heart of my cells-- All lost, unfinished, let go of into savasana |