Tight-rope

When an arm-balance

hangs one-way (wrong! too long!)

it’s likely to see-saw

all the way the other way,

action and reaction

careening after dead inertia.

Yet, after pendulum alternations,

half-lives of chaos,

Balance finds Her still center,

peaceful, sturdy, real.

There are other models:

gyroscope: 360 degrees spinning stability,

hard to knock off center,

capable of lift-off.

Or, respect for All My Relations,

inner harmony, basic goodness, truth.

So hard to find our lost way back

to an open, living, shared home.

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“Breathe completely.

Put your weight downside.

Extend Ki; don’t pull Ki!”

The founder of Akido

said his 3 principles

are all one thing.

It is enough

to try to live only one,

impossible

to live one only.

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If you want my opinion, my world-view,

dark/black/night is good,

womben and bodies good,

sex good, a healing fire in our bones!

But balance (dynamic: lost, regained)

is what enables life to Be.

Sing, swing with each balanced breath,

in the dancer’s freedom:

joy in risk, in body and in health,

courage for creativity.

We are together in Her Dance!

The membrane, bubble of life

is strong, elastic, resilient,

yet fragile, breakable.

Beware, and be aware!  

  © Tamara Rasmussen 2018