words, words, words!

It commenced with a couple emails, a few poems midway through and then ends with a certificate. And all the while the Contentment Study...

Words, words, words... except on "silent day" - when, I suppose, I still wrote a paper... hmm.

I graduated with my Yoga Teacher Certificate and hope I can upload the great picture from the ceremony... but no promises. Suffice it to say... I passed!

 

 

Certified Y.O.G.A

Yoga "Dancer" of Joy!

But I also wanted to share two poems (as I think both were really important to me in this part of my India journey). First, my St. John of the Cross (from the book "Love Poems from God" edited by Daniel Ladinsky)

They Can Be Like A Sun

They can be like the sun, words.

They can do for the heart

what light can

for a field.

I am sold.

And then I realized... my frame of contentment: Life as Poetry. So I will be working on that; starting with:

I Am In Between

the grace of the water

the smile of the clouds

And I am in between.

Himalayan birth canal of green

ocean of sky for its mythic decent

And I am in between.

this River Goddess to millions

this heavenly blue blanket for all

And I am in between.

on a  grey stone seat.

Mantras on the shore

majestic hills lush with trees

carry on long after, born eons before.

My dissolving white sweet

laughs of splashing boys

melting blue candle

all fade like fleeting wave-noise.

And I am in between.

LyndiaP February 5, 2011