Category Archives: Health

I think I might have balanced overlongon my left leg (I wobble since the dayI misstepped on my stairs – I’m not as strongon port as starboard), for it’s with dismayI sense an ache in hip, a twinge that’s wrongin … Continue reading →

My mother can’t get down upon the floor,and up again is even harder still.She’s 98 – you’re 70 plus 4 –the exercise is not a test of skill.It takes exertion that needs more of willthan sinew. Don’t surrender easily.Make up-and-down … Continue reading →

Reviewing poems I wrote 2 years ago,recording state of muscles, vigor, skin,and skeleton, those iambs did bestowa roster of impressions on my age.I never guessed, so little did I know,the benefits from yoga every day.At home, at ease, I regain … Continue reading →

This daily yoga works like medicine –it makes me heed the status of my headand heart; it eases aches in skeleton,and limbers me for all the moves ahead.It seems to fuel me more than any bread.I wish the folks I … Continue reading →

It doesn’t bother me, that nights are splitby aging into sleeps of brevity.It seems among all change appropriate.It doesn’t bother me. I won’t take melatonin, herbal tea,or drugs my peers consider requisite.I don’t use exercise as remedy. But management of … Continue reading →

I’m limbered now and ready for this phase.I sit, knees out, feet meeting sole to sole.I morning-took the mat eleven days –the constancy my one and only goal –and lately it is redefining whole.Massaging arch to joints to toes, my … Continue reading →

As if the sabbath happened one day late,last Tuesday was the yoga day of rest.We breathed and stretched so slowly on Day 8,twelve hundred seconds wasn’t any testof stamina. But time to sense the stateof sinew, bone, and muscle was … Continue reading →

It’s going well, although there’s one small testahead, which will not discommode or smell.The phrase that captures life this week the best?It’s going well. I love my work, my kids, the place I dwell.I don’t sleep long at night, but … Continue reading →

Attending to the guidelines, quantitiesand measurements, screening protocol,for 40 minutes I gave historiesand answers. I posed questions after all,about the aging symptoms – phlegm and sneezeand ready bruising, breath and ethanol.I left relieved, unchanged, with nothing wincing,resolved to increase daily … Continue reading →

She took her time committing to the work,but now she’s gym-bound twice a week or more.She learned the benefits – she’s not a jerk –but won’t apply the lesson. I’d imploreabout home yoga, but she’ll just ignoreat best; or worse, … Continue reading →