Poetry Page (September 2000)

TCC Teacher Training

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 2000

(Observations and experiences from an auditing teacher)

Excitement building
It does show.
Serious concentration
Begins to grow.
Movements feel awkward
It is so!
Yinning and yanging
To and fro’.
Posture upright
No more leaning.
Stack those coins
They are gleaming.
Shifting weight fully
I am beaming.
Focused awareness
It is streaming.
The key point of this move…
Do I remember?
Mirroring movements
Will I learn this technique before September!
Softened knees
Can I let them go?
Strength and softness
Does it show?
Sinking into the t’an t’ien
Arms are lighter and they flow.
Joy and sadness flow thro’ me
Surrender, trust, let it be.
All is right,
Just as intended for me.
Joy thru movement
It is so.
Joy thru movement
It will grow.

– Chery Ann Hoffmeyer

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Rejoice, Rejoice Grow Deeper Still

Listen and look within.
The answers are there. Go deeper still.
Within the dark recesses
Be patient, kind too.
What is not rushed is what is gained.
The road is long complete with guides
If within I listen and look.

Rejoice, Rejoice grow deeper still.
Joy abounds unknown, captured within the still.
Unleash the pain and sorrow along the way.
That is why the road is long.
It cannot be rushed or hurried.
It must be traveled.
If within I look and listen.

The choice is mine and mine alone.
I can go far, deep, short, or wide.
What is pleasure? pain? can only be
Determined on the inside.
Seek and find.

The answers are there. Go deeper still.
Look, listen, seek, and find.
In the stillness within
Learn to trust. Learn to rely.
Rejoice, rejoice grow deeper still.

This journey, this adventure, this odyssey
is traversed
knowingly and unknowingly.
The stillness brings the answers.
Grow deeper still.
Submerge into the depths, fly into the sky,
Rejoice, rejoice grow deeper still.

– Linda Skuta

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Surrender
the mind
quiet the spirit
meditation points the way
to deeper peace
sweet serenity
Joy!

– Jean Krumboltz
(Student of Pat Huseby)

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Watching TCC stones
drop in my garden of Chi.

– Donna McElhose

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J.S. BBQ

I watch him light the burner
and get out his spatula —
time to cook a burger
to well-done!

– Noel Altman