I’ve been diving deeper into taijiquan and re-reading the classics. It’s been so long I’ve forgotten most of what I read. One reason being I’m coming at them from a translation, in a different time period and culture. So the meaning doesn’t stay with me. There’s one in particular that I was reading over the weekend, “Songs of The Eight Postures” attributed to T’an Meng-hsien and translated by Lee N. Scheele. It’s a series of short instructional poems on the eight energies. I was inspired to try my hand at making some myself, that are more intuitive to me personally so they might stick with me a bit longer. I decided the series would be in pairs haikus. One speaking to the internal/personal feel and one speaking to the external/opponents perspective. I want to keep the meaning of classics apparent (as my understanding of them allows) while adding in my own imagery. I hope to revisit these haiku’s as I progress, making changes as needed. My poem is in no way meant to speak like the…
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