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I Heard You Sing – Poetry for Lovers

15 Dec
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New Love Poetry for 2011.  To be included in the new “Lovers Loving & Being Loved” eBook collection from Adan Lerma, coming soon.

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i heard you sing – poetry for lovers

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“Poems for Lovers Loving & Being Loved”

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Intro

“i heard you sing” is an original love poem i just wrote today finishing my selections for my next ebook, “Lovers Loving & Being Loved,” due out in a week or so

happily i also received an email from the poetry site dVersepoets, which provides different prompts poets are welcome to, respond and post a link to, on their site

typically, that sort of stuff doesn’t appeal to me, but the initiating essays for each prompt, written by different contributing working poets, are consistently unusually well writ, informative, and sometimes downright entertaining ;-)

so i’m willing to “try” and contribute…

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The Prompt

in this case, the title of the essay is “Form For All – Ballads, Carols, and Lullabyes”

my cue, from the article, for the ok for my own poem, i’ve decided ;-) is :

“Some Carols such as Joseph Was An Old Man were definitely popular belonging to the culture of the ‘folk’; while later ones such as Charles Wesley’s Hark the Herald Angels Sing are the product of more sophisticated literary efforts…”

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Yoga

mine is probably closer to the culture of the folk, though my sentiment is definitely tied to a sense of finding deeper meaning

despite some schools of yoga off-putting human experience, i tend more to the idea that if all is really one, then our experiences here, have value elsewhere, and will be carried forward, however that might be

and yoga’s true gift to me, awareness, is what’s helped clarify that general perception i’ve had, for much of a long time

i hope you enjoy the poem ;-)

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

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I Heard You Sing

and

i found myself

needing a breath

more air

more clarity

more you

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waves of feelings

from your words

formed

with so much

music

music of you

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carrying me

home

where home

is

scented and warm

my heart cooking

baking

with you

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i heard you sing

my eyes to tears

my smiles to miles

yes

i hear you sing

© 2011 adam light creations / adan lerma

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ESL Teacher (beginner’s view) – Poetry for Teachers

15 Dec
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New Teacher Poetry for 2011.  Included in the new “Teachers Students & Education Specialists” eBook collection.

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“esl teacher (beginner’s view)” is a selection from the six dozen poems in the ebook, “teachers students & education specialists“

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ESL Teacher (beginner’s view)

Sometimes

the students don’t

understand you

and you often

don’t understand them!

At least their words -

their faces and eyes

speak their hope.

Your first job

is

teaching survival.

Why the words

for an ambulance

are important.

Why the numbers

where one lives

are important.

In English.

Emergencies are universal

requiring a common language.

Safety for life, is a great place to start.

© 2011 adam light creations / adan lerma


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Final Thoughts

Intro

both my wife Sheila and i taught esl (english as a second language) to adults, after work hours, at their job sites

if anyone ever wants to see what the american dream might’ve looked and felt like, to our founding and early countrymen, immigrants and early generation americans, then we both whole heartedly recommend teaching to adult esl students

American Values and Yoga

in the same way, i believe, that the values of yoga (oneness, awareness, compassion) are already present within us before we are formally taught those constructs, those ideals, so i believe that the core american values of fairness equality and justice for all, are present within peoples all over the world, before there was an america, and before a new american even arrives here

yoga’s general principles are universal, and so are those of freedom

the details are up to us, in our own times, in our own places

Yoga and Freedom

trying to say yoga should be done “a” certain way - is like saying freedom should only be practiced as in ancient greece

adapting to change is our, humanity’s, possibly greatest survival attribute

recognizing the eternal kernels of truth we evolve around and from -

is possibly our most promising survival-salvation…

if true ;-) that’d be very hopeful

namaste´- con dios – god be with you

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