Chakra Poems 2014

MULADHARA

why so easily capsized?

where is the depth of your keel,

the anchor of your capacious pelvic basin?

break through the concrete of muladhara

to send roots down

through the trunks of your legs

and meet earth through your soles

you say i abandoned you

but i only sidestepped

to give you fuller contact

with thawed april soil

spongy and fecund

SVADISTHANA

where uterus meets sacred bone

and sacrum broadens its warm orange palm

oxytocin-induced empathy

prevails over muladhara’s fear of survival

from the intuition of my ovaries

come my best ideas and my three children

where quads and adductors meet abdominals

while intestines churn

convergence of process with action

like the mangos 3 for 1 on the 99 cent shelf

ripe for whatever the day may bring

MANIPURAKA

cable to the navel pulls

upper plank of the abdomen up

to raise the sun above the horizon

golden beam from your solar plexus 

enters the room first

seat of asmita:

who do you think you are?

how far will you go to be that self?

the guts to show up and speak up

be your yellow magnificence

no apologies

let others adjust to your brilliance

ANAHATA

unhurt

unstruck

unbeaten

in the prana-filled cave of the heart

atman sits

like a thumb drive

carrying the archives of my unhurt self

already the green of healing

has generated new tissue

merge of eternal purusha

and the constant change of prakrti

cardiovascular chakra

a bell not to be struck

i contain a celestial song

ringing without touch

i rise above karma

beyond circumstances and history

my ancestors deliver me here

unbeaten and whole

to remind me

i am free to choose

VISHUDDHI

what does the white elephant of your throat

long to utter?

what untold story lies in your larynx?

from the pit of your throat

sweet nectar amrita drips

into life juice or poison

you choose

croak or keen or croon

it doesn’t matter

only that the smoky petals unfurl

into necessary ululations

to transform brutality into wisdom

AJNA

may your pineal perceive what your eyes cannot

in melatonin-laden lucid dreams

join the cardinal in the dawn chorus

heralding the morning even before the sun appears

you contain knowledge without information

certainty beyond physical evidence

as yet unmanifest

shiva and shakti 

ida and pingala

seer and seen

converge 

transcend

transform

SAHASRARA

as you balance on your head

in the center of a bare room

you belong to no caste

evolved as you’ll ever be

you wrap your earthbound self

around the polestar of the eternal

you’ve forgotten all your reasons

to argue with reality

here you remain undisturbed

ecstatic in equanimity

hair standing on end

get ready for the big bang

of instant enlightenment

but come back to tell us all about it