Radiant Retreat Yoga Schelter Tulum, Mexico

We experienced much joy and discovery in this retreat.  My poem written in the writing workshop is being published in June, in a journal in Philadelphia. 

Kitsie and Jennifer, Mother and daughter

Janet and Jennifer my yoga teacher

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Jennifer and Janet in yoga pose


My poem written on Tulum published in the Schuykill Journal, Philadelphia, PA June 2014. All rights reserved to the author upon publication.

“Radiant Retreat”  Music

--in Maya  Tulum, Yucatan

There is the music of
the melodious blackbird’s  song
piping in the dawn
 

There is the music of the swishing of palm fronds,

 across the cabana reed roof.

There is music in the sun playing over the surfaces
of  palms  in the  shadows of light
falling on a white sand path.  

There is the music of  sea waves

 rising and falling, washing
 over limestone craters.

There is the music  in brown pelicans

swooping , diving from black obsidian boulders
into azure waves, and rising.

There is music in turning the corner of the cove

and hearing the silver alto flute’s notes
floating in the sea breeze.

 There is music in burnished driftwood,

and delicate sea fans,
on the slate of white sand 

My own shadow falling in front of me.

 There is music in dogs romping,

a child and his father  sculpting sand castles,

There is music in the para sailors gliding over the waves,

in lovers strolling  hand in hand   

There is music in the clouds painted

on the sky, the clear blue notes of the sea
meeting the diminuendo of the surf,

There is music in the the tide’s  last erasure

of our footprints in the sand.
--copyright Janet Roberts 2014

published Schuylkill Valley Journal Spring 2014 Vol. 38   Available on line:  www.svjlit.com