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October 09, 2014

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Though each digital outlet usually has a preview capability, what is previewed to the reader varies tremendously.

Some outlets have pre-determined unalterable percents; others allow the writer to set the percent, which then is passed on to where the book is distributed. But even then, the receiving retailer may have their own set limits.

What I want to be able to present to a reader, is at least 10% of the actual content.

Of the story. Or photo-memoir. Or photography. Or poetry.

This new series on my site allows me that.

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Arts Poems, Dance Yoga Music Art Writing +

Synopsis

Over 100 short original arts related poems.

Written by my wife and myself beginning in the early 90s.

Poems for Dance, Yoga, Music, Writing, Art, Photography, Theater, Creativity, and Inspiration.

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Sample

Note: some formatting adjusted to fit this blog.

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Dance – Original Poetry

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Aerobic Dance

Listening

to my body

anew

each time i start class

I start again

new

in spirit.

Lazy soft first

moves

meant to test

the day’s range –

listening to my body…

Tiny tap touches

on the beat

of

my extensions.

The melody

carries

the momentum,

the down beat

sets the limits

as i listen

to my body’s

waking dancing walk.

Repeat rhythms

release

the growing range of motions

the flowing stages of emotions

yes

the glistening body was also listening.

Aerobic dance in class

is

a conversation

of celebration between all that’s beautiful

in you.

© 2011 adam light creations / adan lerma

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Ballerina

Gentle strength –

a blessing

set in motion;

mind and feeling

spirited

onto moving flesh.

Nimble and sure…

placing our hearts

quietly

on tiptoe,

cradling our breath

on the tip of a wing.

© 1996-2012 adam light creations / adan lerma

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Dancer

Thump, thump. Sound.

The expression of the heart.

Movement.

The expressing of the voice

singing in our souls.

Stretch and coil. Expansion –

retraction. The dancer mirrors

the explosion-implosion of the universe.

Before thought

but giving rise to reason –

before sound

but vibrating the world

into the motions of awareness –

the dance of Life

made passions stir, opening

the ready eyes of its dancers:

you and me and all of us

upon this vast

dance floor of God’s called Earth.

© 1994-2011 adam light creations / adan lerma

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Dancing

It’s more than the movement

or the easy-sharp swaying

to a beat pounded out right.

It’s more the allowing – a letting –

into one’s skin and muscles

the very vibration of aliveness itself.

It’s a translating of the heartfelt

into the mind-known.

Turning feeling

into conception, vision into perception.

It’s the joining of that

that is perceived into consciousness.

One becomes alive

in time.

And time takes you-makes you

its minute hand

dancing you round

the hourglass of life.

© 1994-2011 adam light creations / adan lerma

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Dancing Is…

Dancing

is an art…

Dancing is a sport.

Dancing’s a way of life

expressing

what words imply –

what images

suggest

stirring

the heart

within

memories

of our movements.

The art is the letting –

the sport is the getting –

that we are space

we are time

we are…

dance.

© 2011 adam light creations / adan lerma

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Latin Dance

passion

of flowers reaching the sun

the shot of birds through the air

the smile of an infant seeing your eyes

soft as the first green buds

in early light

strong as the river releasing a winter’s snow

pausing and starting and flowing

like breezes signaling

return

of freshness

and always the pull felt

among all the planets and all of

the stars

connected

dancing the passion of space

© 2012 adam light creations / adan lerma

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Little Dancer

Your tiny dancing movements are

the most innocent of all.

They are the first fun steps created

both for you and your loved ones.

Everyone is watching you

with open eyes and

an open heart.

So enjoy.

Raise your rounded arms.

Sway and move your little feet.

Clap and move and keep on smiling.

For life is smiling through you.

And we can’t but smile back

remembering.

© 1994-2012 adam light creations / adan lerma

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My Dancer’s Pose

Balanced

between the earth and sky

with

one foot grounded and

one fist’s fingers

extended

up

feet and fingers

feeling

for

my lines’

passages through

my

heart and mind

my thoughts

steadied by my heart’s

beating breathings

my

feelings warmed

by

my mind’s acceptance

of

balance reaching from the

ground

my foot a peaceful planting –

my

dancing pulses playing waltzes –

set

between stars inside our patient earth.

© 2012 adam light creations / adan lerma

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The Quiet Dance

inside

when the music and the dancers talking

all around us wave and wind their way among

the beats and sounds and melodies

making life fuller…

when that music

penetrates

worries doubts sadness

and grit from biting the reins of

daily life…

when the movements in

our veins and finger

tips

are touched

with life

that responds and connects

the inside

with the world outside

then

the quiet dance with all the world begins

© 2012 adam light creations / adan lerma

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To Dance Class

“i’m tired, i’m old, i hurt, i’m hungry”

none of the old buttons worked

i still had to go 😉

dance aerobics called

and my body was craving

a rhythm feed –

i cued

my music-brain-part

a nudge

a wispy breeze to move the clouds along

my music-muscle needed stretching

carrying lifting lilting punching

swaying staying

in my

birthing heart beat

i had had to go

still hurt still tired still old

but not so hungry

now

© 2011-2012 adam light creations / adan lerma

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Yoga – Original Poetry

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A Child’s Pose Is…

a coil of hope

wrapped in leaves

breathing…

a seed

expanding

and gathering

new life…

a thought

curled into a roll

of pure cotton,

a salve upon the heart…

a rest

a moment

a shiny secret whimper

of delight…

© 2011 adam light creations / adan lerma

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A Yoga Teacher – a beginner’s view

no nirvana’s escape here

this is

the yoga of connection

eyes meant for speaking

breaths

linked to living

touches are

the stillness of motion

meant from kindness

yes nirvana’s here

a whispered union

of communion

© 2011 adam light creations / adan lerma

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