Book of the Week: yogaku

Terri L. French, who teaches yoga, among other things, gathered poems on the theme from a variety of poet-friends to create this charming little book (self-published, 2013). See if these poems don’t make you breathe a little easier.

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.

morning yoga
unrolling the chill
inside my mat
     — lauren mayhew

water lilies
the weight of sunlight
on my palms
     — seánan forbes

downward dog
from one bad situation
to another
     — sondra j. byrnes

long enough
to grow cherries
tree pose
     — kath abela wilson

beach yoga
until we are
paper boats
     — s m abeles

dolphin pose
I am a fish
out of water
     — terri l french