Poetry Host: jjhunter

[jjhunter]

Hey all, I'm J.J., aka jjhunter, and I'll be acting as Poetry Host this week. I'm an amateur poet with a strong background in the Western classics and a love of science, mythology, Japanese art history, and people. I write everything from thousand plus word epic poems to haiku and haikai (more on that later this week), and enjoy being playful with language, especially in my use of sound, metaphor, and word combinations.

From the 'haikai for code' project:

welcome and well come
the word-water's fine; your space
awaits, you define

Due to how my schedule is working out this week, I'll be focusing primarily on sharing poems Monday-Friday, and then putting some thoughts down on paper (or should that be in binary?) about poetry in general and one poem in specific Saturday-Sunday. I look forward to talking with you in the comments! Please feel free to bring in anything you consider relevant to the conversation there--I'm always curious about what associations people have, and how the same words can mean very different things to different people. We each carry our own context around with us in our heads, and the richness of language means that one word in its time can play many parts.

Poem: "Yoga Class"

[jjhunter]

I've been practicing Vinyasa yoga on and off for years; when I started learning how to meditate sitting still, something clicked into place: yoga is my moving meditation.


Yoga Class

Even before I have finished
unlacing my boot
the breathing begins
ocean unbidden against the shores of my lips

I root myself in the here
mountain posed on the balls of my feet
animal body pulling me
from form to further form

the ocean deepens into quiet
as shores recede
ocean flowing in ocean
warmthblood earthblood
pulling up from ocean floor

here (quiet) body (breathe)



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