More body poems
The latest update on the Salon body poetry collection has been published
http://www.salon.com/mwt/letters/2005/08/23/bodypoems_2/index.html. Very honoured to be included in the second page. There are some fun and great efforts here.
For Salon's body poem competition
Wrote the following as my entry for Salon's body poem competition inspired by a series of Nike ads celebrating the less than perfect body: For more background check out
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/08/18/poems/
I wanted to live in a magazine lean
shoulder-driven, stripped-back, six-pack
body, all hard angles and triangles,
to try on a waist, tight butt and thighs.
Hungrily I pounded out lost pounds,
ached my muscles, made my mistakes,
shaping life into a joint-jarring world.
For all that effort, tired, stiff and sore,
my edges make respectable curves,
my midlife midriff is solidly mid range.
The experts agree: just more work.
But as I sweat, I see my ideal body
on others who look more comfortable;
They can keep it.
Here's some of the published entries from Salon Readers
http://www.salon.com/mwt/letters/2005/08/19/reader_bodpoems/index.html
Dance
we dance to fulfil needs of the soul
vibrant rhythms makes us whole
the sway of salsa is all in the hips
flamenco - the magic of fingertips
bossa nova falls gently from the lips
the tangle of tango as each leg dips
music is passion, our hearts the beat
for ecstatic exhaustion, to feel complete.
