hands clasped in prayer.
Isn’t it more Zen
when you dare to dare?
You’re swaying oh so slightly
before anchoring the core.
Breathing in… breathing out…
Breathing in… breathing out…
You’ve seen yogis in books
and magazines, standing on rocks
by flowing streams,
white shirts wafting in the breeze
at sunrise and sunset
when time is golden.
So relaxed, so Zen.
It seems the forest
and oceans go to them.
So you stand on two feet
in the warrior pose,
careful not to flex your toes.
A revolving halfmoon,
the frog and cow,
lady of the dance.
Breathing in… breathing out…
Breathing in… breathing out…
virksasana
virabhadrasana
parvetta ardha chandrsana
bhekhasana
bitilasana
natarajasana
breathe in… breathe out…
dance the breath.
Bio
Elizabeth Lish Å kec has written poetry, plays, short stories, comedy and songs for adults and children. She has two chapbooks Butterflies of New Dawn 1995 & Leather Skin, skecteXt publishing 2002 and one poetry collection with spine Breath published by Luckner Press 2014 (with more in the works) and has been published in various anthologies worldwide.
Winner of the human rights slam poetry award, Lish has taught poetry, creative writing and theatre workshops for The Victorian Writers Centre, CERES, Overload Poetry Festival, SPAN Community House and was part of the video education series Picking Poetry Apart with Dorothy Porter among others.