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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They say there’s no “i” in team. I goes they’re right if it’s a matter of ignoring the talents, skills, insights and uniquenesses of Individuals.
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make that “guess” they’re right (curse this blasted autocorrect!)
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cursed cursed! 😉
yea, gotta agree mark, no “i” only if one ignores the participants that make the team in the first place! the mistake of many a dictatorship i feel
this is the same paradox through my whole life, we’re individuals part of the whole
and ignoring both components just doesn’t work for me, whether in yoga, the arts, sports, and good old regular life
glad you came by mark, thanks!
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if there’s ever been moments you’ve
been
most alone
it’s when you realize
you’re part of
the team… this is great…and think that’s the point not only in sports but when you grow together as a team with whatever task lying ahead…march madness…i like…smiles
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yea, i think both you and brian hit it right where i was thinking, this is how it is in all arenas, sig others, etc
sports is just another way we people have created and organized a way to almost provide training in being in those more personal relationships, we get rules and referees and standards and goals
plus they’re (usually) fun 😉
thanks claudia, glad you liked it 😉
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something beautiful happens when a group of people come together as a team….when there is truly that synergy everyone feels it…and you see it in how it happens…i am sure it can happen in yoga, basketball or just in life…you know….its a beautiful thing to watch…and i love march madness basketball too…my weekend will be a wreck because of it too…lol….
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lol for sure! 😉 weekends’ll be a wreck til early april!
it is a great feeling brian, happens on any level folk get together i think, which is part of why sports has worked since at least the early greeks, and probably from the very beginning
have a great night brian, gonna catch up on readings tomorrow, take care 😉
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