Comments on: 2/10/10: Balance http://dailypoetryclub.com/21010-balance/ A poem a day keeps the mind at play. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:35:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: lazerlipz http://dailypoetryclub.com/21010-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-1105 lazerlipz Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:31:13 +0000 http://dailypoetryclub.com/?p=546#comment-1105 Move <em>slowly</em>. One foot in front of the other. Feel the plank beneath your feet. Claw your toes. Muscles tighten through your legs, Dragging your center <em>down</em>. Absorb each twitch, Each pulse in the knees. Square your hips. Straight spine. Shoulders back. Make an iron cross with your arms—but light. Sweaty beads stream your face. A drumming heart. <em>Slowly! Free your mind. . . Concentrate. Don’t <em>think</em>. Head up. Level eyes. Don’t look down. Don’t look back. Don’t breathe. Don’t <em>blink</em>! There’s a Mountain Dew Slurpee river raging below— And you might fall. Move slowly.
One foot in front of the other.
Feel the plank beneath your feet.
Claw your toes.
Muscles tighten through your legs,
Dragging your center down.
Absorb each twitch,
Each pulse in the knees.
Square your hips.
Straight spine.
Shoulders back.
Make an iron cross with your arms—but light.
Sweaty beads stream your face.
A drumming heart.
Slowly!
Free your mind. . .
Concentrate.
Don’t think.
Head up.
Level eyes.
Don’t look down.
Don’t look back.
Don’t breathe.
Don’t blink!

There’s a Mountain Dew Slurpee river raging below—
And you might fall.

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]]> By: Tristan http://dailypoetryclub.com/21010-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-1104 Tristan Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:45:00 +0000 http://dailypoetryclub.com/?p=546#comment-1104 Teetering on the edge of my bed at the very apex of silent motion, I can either fall back into blissful oblivion or stand up to painful reality. Teetering on the edge of my bed
at the very apex of silent motion,
I can either fall back into blissful oblivion
or stand up to painful reality.

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]]> By: SBgiselle http://dailypoetryclub.com/21010-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-1103 SBgiselle Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:34:57 +0000 http://dailypoetryclub.com/?p=546#comment-1103 His life depended On careful placement Of every footstep As he tightroped across The raging waterfall His life depended
On careful placement
Of every footstep
As he tightroped across
The raging waterfall

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]]> By: Russell http://dailypoetryclub.com/21010-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-1102 Russell Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:34:07 +0000 http://dailypoetryclub.com/?p=546#comment-1102 Act of a Lifetime age at 10 months learning on two feet age around 6 years doing it on two wheels getting a little older and I'm rockin' the act down the slopes I'm in the middle of it now trying it out with wife work and kids age is really getting up there enter the cane to keep me steady I'll stop balancing when I'm good and ready Act of a Lifetime

age at 10 months
learning on two feet

age around 6 years
doing it on two wheels

getting a little older and I’m
rockin’ the act down the slopes

I’m in the middle of it now
trying it out with wife work and kids

age is really getting up there
enter the cane to keep me steady

I’ll stop balancing
when I’m good and ready

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]]> By: J. Edwin http://dailypoetryclub.com/21010-balance/comment-page-1/#comment-1101 J. Edwin Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:14:16 +0000 http://dailypoetryclub.com/?p=546#comment-1101 Too much makes you sick broke stressed bored tacky angry dull flunk dizzy sad tired self-conscious dead. Too little makes you sick broke stressed bored tacky angry dull flunk dizzy sad tired self-conscious dead. Too much makes you
sick
broke
stressed
bored
tacky
angry
dull
flunk
dizzy
sad
tired
self-conscious
dead.

Too little makes you
sick
broke
stressed
bored
tacky
angry
dull
flunk
dizzy
sad
tired
self-conscious
dead.

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