Pictured, “101 Sports Poems” –
Post is in response to Open Link Night ~ Week 35 prompt from dVersepoets, hosted by Brian Miller.
“a beginner’s view: the intent of this blog is to incrementally build a body of thought that works toward integrating various topics, yoga, fitness, and the arts – it’s a process…”
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march madness : original sports poetry
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dVersepoets Prompt – Open Link Night ~ Week 35
hosted by brian miller
one of the founders of dversepoets, with claudia schoenfeld, brian says this about open link night,
“Welcome to OpenLinkNight!
“What’s that?
“Great question, and if you are just stumbling upon us you are in for a treat. Not because of anything we do but because of you. OpenLinkNight is the poets willing to lay their hearts to the pen, the wind that blows through the doors every week at 3 pm EST and whips into a whirlwind of verse for 33 hours.”
this is, from my experience, a great place to try out your verses, in a community of other poets whose intent is to support, critique, and be respectful – the latter something not always easy to be found 😉
brian goes on to add,
“OpenLinkNight is all about you. It is about the poets that make this a special place by talking back in the comments, by visiting each other. By interacting.
Interaction is where the magic happens….”
this is often, i’ve found, an active diverse creative group that’s gonna look at your work; i encourage you to give them a try, it’s free 😉
below is my creative effort of the day for the open link prompt
sports is on my mind, in a large work of poems i recently posted, “101 sports poems,” in a newer sports work in-progress, in the opening of baseball season, the upcoming olympics this summer, and so much more
starting now, of course, is the college playoff mania that stretches to early april
so with that in mind 😉 i give you, my march madness 😉
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March Madness
oh sure
we know that
sports includes coaches and
players with less than
stellar lives
like
the rest of humanity
but
march madness
for me
is
the holidays continued
in respectful competition with
oneself and others
the internal edge
of yoga
finds the brittle sharp blade
of interactive
experience chipped
into use
elbows find ribs
they’re not connected to
pain
is as much the sweat of analysis as
it is the beat of your heart
at the same breath
moments
in time
become memories stretched
to decades
while
feelings
of endurance
etch the set of your eyes
the shoulders next to you even
on the long bench
depend
on you too
if there’s ever been moments you’ve
been
most alone
it’s when you realize
you’re part of
the team
© 2012 felipe adan lerma
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blessings everyone ;-)
namaste´- con dios – god be with you
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