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Vrksasana

Posted April 10, 2008 at 04:00 PM by Alexandra Haller

Section: Her Fitness, Her Health, Her Motivation, The Yoga Life

April is National Poetry Month. In the spirit of lyrical beauty, Her Active Life offers you the following poem by Leza Lowitz, from her book, Yoga Poems: Lines To Unfold By.

Vrksasana
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Tree

How difficult it is
to stand straight and tall.
How much more difficult
to do it on one leg.
God knew what she was doing
when she made us bipedal.
Yet we spend most of life
hunched over,
denying the true weight
of the gift we’ve been given.
Now the trunk aches
as it tries to expand to full height -
buried, as it’s been,
in the bone.
Gain and loss
victory and defeat
fame and shame
body and mind
mind and soul -
dualities vanish.
The tree grows green
against the blue sky,
drawing the sun’s rays
through the slatted shutters
of the ribs.
We are the roots.
We are the forests and the trees.
Here, there is only one trunk.
On it rests the world.

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