Sun reflected over water A world in double The calm washing over me As land falls away ~ Breath stills to rhythm A pulse driving motion And my blood cools enough That I could weep with relief ~ In this strange prayer and celebration As I seek the isolation Of that underwater world The body … Continue reading Therapy #MondayBlogs
Fitness
Effort
Finding the fire Crying sweat Chasing the lonely goal Blood races Fueling motion As the finish line dances Like a mirage - Caroline A. Slee
Tightrope
Muscles twisted into roped knots And a body out of balance Breath as a cure for every frailty And a mind driven distracted We push into silence Push into calm Forgetting the ground below us Each moment a tightrope walk As the body seeks stretch A reach into the sky As we melt into movement … Continue reading Tightrope
Track #wwwblogs
No competition arrived The challenge was met In solitude A push for speed A need for better Striving Always forward Though the path Is no longer visible A world of breath Exertion And pounding heart Expanding my lungs Warming my muscles Homecoming Joyful Returning to who I am ~ Caroline A. Slee
Erosion
After a storm On the California coast An entire beach nearly vanished ~ I remember the beachfront With its balconied apartments And gouging rental fees Suddenly less than desirable With balconies over open space ~ The cliff that had shored them up Washed away in floods and rains And the heavy scent of tar Filling … Continue reading Erosion
Returning
The body remembers Muscle memory its own force Building drive once more Until motivation And desire Overcome fear And pain falls by the wayside In the face of the rush The exhilaration Of that push That burn into a finish That is never final - Caroline A. Slee
Missed Meditations
Drive is reduced To the essential Control of breath No matter the racing heart As we slice forward Through an underwater world Consciousness shifts And body renews A purpose in opposition To every landlocked step Taken in the day-to-day At this homecoming A return to self In the return to water A meditation to transform … Continue reading Missed Meditations
Control
Life is challenge Arduous A climb whose end we cannot see And I forget Ferocity The spirit that fights We rise Exertion Forgetting the fun: To treat it as sport Functional fitness Each obstacle Overcome with breath And skill Until we remember We are warriors And we will not be Denied - Caroline A. Slee
Push
We each shoulder Burdens Some heavier Weightier in the comparison So we must ready ourselves For whatever Comes to us - Caroline A. Slee
How About Now? #MondayBlogs
The world does not wait And time stops Only for the romantics As the rest of us toil And chase end of day We must begin And begin again When our efforts Fall short Always starting To grab opportunity Hold fast To our chances And create the life We long to see Our beginning is … Continue reading How About Now? #MondayBlogs