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
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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
Fatigue #wwwblogs
Perhaps someday I could return As a house cat Committed to naps And pampered with rest Instead of living This life of deadlines And alarm clocks Always just a little tired A little sleep-deprived As the day comes upon me - 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
Sweat
Every effort And remnant of pain Pours down Tears of exertion Flooding From muscle and heart ~ Caroline A. Slee
Soaring
That center holds Within us The home that can never Be taken away The peaks and valleys To challenge and comfort us Always without and within We find home In the breath In the pulse driving us In the strength To overcome - Caroline A. Slee
Beauty Passed
Seasons are fleeting Though they return Their beauty shifts Transforms before us And we accept That nothing remains Change will take Even that breath We catch today Tomorrow all May be ash And all shall turn to dust In the eventual Cruelty Of years Our seasons pass Fleet of foot While we do not grasp … Continue reading Beauty Passed
The Hurdles #MondayBlogs
Our body physics Lift us forward Overcoming With force and momentum We chose this path This event For the challenge And the rush As we sailed Over and beyond The walls before us. But time is cruel And our momentum Has slowed While the hurdles Before us Hold steady over years The body remembers What … Continue reading The Hurdles #MondayBlogs
Stages
There were miles Meant to clear my head Soothe my fears And shift me Back into myself Miles spent alone A moving meditation That one clear thing That was my own But the miles Must be shared And my hours Must be divided So long as none Are ever spent in that silence again I … Continue reading Stages
Return
I miss sinking Into weightlessness: That drift into silence As chatter Is drowned out By the water. And my body: Dangerous as a knife Cutting through The surface. A firing engine All propulsion And swift Forward motion. I miss That feeling of balance: Finding grace Like a dancer Once I step Off from land. Breath … Continue reading Return