<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389926" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Self-Portrait in Shoulder Stand</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old bag of bones<br>upside down,<br>what are you searching for<br>in poetry,<br>in meditation?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mother you never had?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The child in you<br>that you did not conceive?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ease from fear of death?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Revelation?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dwelling in the house of clouds<br>where you imagine<br>you once lived?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Born alone,<br>we depart alone.'<br>Someone said that<br>during meditation<br>& I nearly wept.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh melancholy lady<br>behind your clown face,<br>behind your wisecracks-<br>how heady it is<br>to let the ideas rush to your brain!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But even upside down,<br>you are sad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even upside down,<br>you think of your death.<br>Even upside down,<br>you curse the emptiness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Meditating<br>on the immobile lotus,<br>your mind takes flight<br>like a butterfly<br>& dabbles in bloodred poppies<br>& purple heather.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Defying gravity,<br>defying death,<br>what makes you think<br>the body's riddle<br>is better solved<br>upside down?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blood rushes to your head<br>like images that come too fast<br>to write.<br>After a life held in the double grips<br>of gravity & time,<br>after a headfirst birth<br>out of your mother's bowels<br>& into the earth,<br>you practice for the next.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You make your body light<br>so that in time,<br>feet first,<br>you will be born<br>into the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Erica+Jong">Erica Jong</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=389926" data-title="Self-Portrait in Shoulder Stand de Erica Jong" data-description="Old bag of bones upside down, what are you searching for in poetry, in meditation? The mother you never had? The child in you that you did not conceive? Death? Ease from fear of death? Revelation? Dwelling in the house of clouds where you im..."></div> </div> </div>

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