Category: Tai Chi
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Broken Womb, Shattered Soul: Living with Infertility (part 3)
The final section of my article on infertility is up on Phoebe,MD: Medicine + Poetry. Links to the other sections are provided. I am grateful to Phoebe and her beautiful site for being a major part of my journey with memoir writing. HEALTH | INSPIRATION By Barbara Leonhard | Featured Contributor [Click…
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Podcast The Art of War: Enter the Dragon
I have a new podcast up to commemorate International Women’s Day, which is March 8, 2020. https://meelosmom.podbean.com/e/the-art-of-war-enter-the-dragon/ This memoir is dedicated to victims of sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, incest, and sex trafficking, and murdered and missing indigenous women. I apply the teachings of Sun Tzu in the ancient Chinese…
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Tao Play
When they come to the temple, they are but broken warriors, seeking redemption in Tao play. They enter the temple gates out of the shadows of their lives in the light of the sun rising on the horizon. They are vessels receiving and giving sustenance from the…
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The Art of War: Enter the Dragon
The Art of War: Enter the Dragon He sees me at a distance from the Salvation Army. The soft glow of my white hair, my short stature and square hips, a slight limp, a slow stride, I am an easy mark to a desperate bully. Mam! Mam! Come here! Come…
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The Death of a Farm
I submitted this poem to the July 2019 Ekphrastic Challenge, but it wasn’t chosen. I don’t have permission to use the image here, but you can check out Ekphrastic Challenge on Rattle.com for the exact scene. For this post, I chose some free images on pixabay to illustrate the poem.…
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Pain, The Poet
I’ve been releasing a lot of old pain lately, so suddenly today I wondered what I would write about! Poetry is so healing. Is pain the poet? Out of Darkness, Light emerges.
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Entwined Spirit: Me, Myself, and I
Entwined Spirit: Me, Myself, and I Let me introduce myself This poem is about me Inspired by my sister’s art She created from a photo of me. She calls it “Entwined Spirit” I am an entwined spirit A composite of hues Swirled to create a kaleidoscope of soul…
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Uphill on Walnuts with a Weak Leg
Walking the Bagua circle, I move like a snake Slithering on patchy grass Or a path etched by other warriors On dry soil, as they are Space holders and guardians Of the world in this vortex, This circle of yin and yang. But uphill On walnuts With a weak leg, …
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Be As Water
Be as water, Flowing from falls into silt, Creating pools and streams, Moving around rocks And through openings in Masses of reeds. Be as water, Flowing without obstruction. Finding its course Over the embankments, and Finding stillness In pools fed by streams. Be as water, Earth’s pulse, Flexible,…
Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver 