Please enjoy some poetry that our students have shared. The first is by a friend and poet of long time student, Shirley Axon. Nancy and Shirley are part of a local dance troupe and they composed a modern dance for this poem. The second was written by Sue Budin after a pranayama class years ago.
Upside Down
Nancy Baker Fate Heers
Ann Arbor, MI
Sometimes we do not know whether
We are upside down or right side up.
In Baselitz paintings, people are always upside down,
Just as we are often upside down in our thinking.
Upside down we see a new perspective.
Mignonette’s father tells her
to bend upside down and look
Between her legs at the sunset.
Let’s renew our spirits
With daily inversions.
We will not start wars
Standing on our heads.
Pranayama
Sue Budin
Ann Arbor, MI
Lips touch but
not touching,
the breath kissing
every cell/they shimmer,
shiver, their blood
in elliptical orbit
round the heart,
their membranes flush
with air and speed,
almost burning themselves out
but for the blood,
that carnelian brew
adding weight
so the body only imagines itself lifting
when the full breath
comes
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