Morning Meditation
Sprawled
beneath drifting
clouds, I shutter my lids
and simply breathe. I levitate,
off the floor, weightless. My fingers
begin to feel fuzzy as the ambiguous border
between Earth and outer space. My toes float
into the void, and my body succumbs to blissful
darkness until I am only my breath, pulsating like sun’s
steady heartbeat. I relish the simplicity of breath, my troubles
and to-dos heliocentric to my chest’s rise and fall. Oblivion pierced
by a single light. Serenity. Sensation seeps into my limbs as I list
back to Earth’s atmosphere, to tumult and toil, my existence
once again bracketed by sky and solid ground,
but gravity is forgiving now, and if I leap
high enough, I can
almost stroke
sunrise.
10 thoughts on "Morning Meditation"
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Wow, this is a travel-to-the-void meditation. It’s actually very comforting. The ending is quite good!
Thank you!
love the verb in “stroke / sunrise,” love the way the shape of the poem simulates the expansion and retraction of the lungs
Thank you so much!
This is beautiful, Katrina. I especially love the description of returning to Earth – the bumps but also what has been gained in the levitation experience.
Thank you so much, Nancy, I appreciate your kindness!
Katrina – How lovely this is! The form works well expanding as you meditate and travel to the void where you are only breath and then condenses as you return to earth/body.
I can
almost stroke
sunrise. a wow ending!!
Thank you so much!! 🙂
You really captured the feeling of being in that bubble, like you were slowly expanding out. And lovely word choice, as always!
Thank you so much, as always!😉