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evolution of a pose – original yoga poetry
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if the words endure, they do so because they link the links –
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Evolution of a Pose
As a tiny child
(I am told)
I
liked to lift
my chest
off
the floor
and peek about
and smile at those around me.
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As a quietly raucous teen
(i’ve been reminded)
i’d lift my chest
from the
hot
beach sands
that are galveston
to peer around
at my peers.
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As a young man intent
on learning asanas
i’d lift prone from
the mat
to
the third chakra
i knew must be in there
…somewhere.
A
cobra
i was, i was told.
Maybe, with smiling fangs?
i wondered…
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In the service
i’d lift my chest
with my breath as
i pressed my finger
on the trigger.
I was a
cobra
now
i thought.
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As a dad
i’d lift
my head
as my children
learned to lift their head
then their chest,
core muscles moving
them
to the crawling mobile stage –
and i recall
(i would tell them)
they’d lift their chest
off
the floor
and peek about
and smile..at all those around them.
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The cobra pose is but
a stage of skin
between
the playful peeking child
and the grateful mom and dad.
The pose
is the peeking child
within.
Nothing more. And never nothing less.
© 2011 adam light creations / adan lerma
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this week i follow my new yoga poem, evolution of a pose, with a review of a lecture sheila and i attended recently, at the university of vermont, titled “it’s a stretch: is connective tissue the link to yoga’s benefits?“ –
this lecture led directly to a merging of my long-standing idea, that some poses with names like “cobra” might be better named closer to their more probable origin, people – with some developmental data presented at that lecture –
from which this poem emerged 😉
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longer than most my poems (though not all, like “when it ended” written in ’81) – my goal was to see if i recognized this one pose, from beginning to present, in some form or other, in my daily life
i found the exercise unusually satisfying 😉
namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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