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Permalink Reply by Tangled Macrame on February 15, 2011 at 5:57pm

A poem I wrote about hooping:

 

"The sunlight streamed brighter that day,
The leaves shimmered green in a dazzling way,
As I spun my hoop in an arc through the air,
Till it dropped with a clattered against the leg of a chair. 
The girl learned forward, preparing to stand,
Dangling the hoop, like a wand, in her hand,
Then passed it back. I read in her glance,
That in motion or still we both form the dance."

 

The last stanza of Alfonsina Storni's "Departure" reminds me of hooping

 

"I grow light:
the flesh falls from my bones. 
Now. 
The sea rises through the channels 
of my spine. 
Now. 
The sky rolls through the bed 
of my veins. 
Now. 
The sun! The sun! 
Its last rays 
envelop me, 
push me: 
I am a spindle 
I spin, spin, spin, spin!"

 

Folks in the on-line hooping community quote a verse by Rumi about spiraling into the stars, but I've never been able to find it in print. Still, it's something to look for. 

 

I'm an English major too and will be doing my student teaching semester next spring. Good luck!!

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Permalink Reply by Cookie Hoops on February 15, 2011 at 6:48pm

Beautiful!! I was very surprised and delighted to see my hoop poem on hooping.org

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I'm very new to writing, and I think I love it!! This poem was about what is like for me to perform with hoops. :)

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Permalink Reply by Contralto on February 15, 2011 at 5:57pm

I have written a few, actually.

 

 

 

 

A few lines from a famous poem by Rumi is pretty well known within the hooping community:

 

"We come spinning out of nothingness,
scattering stars like dust.
The stars form a circle,
and in the center we dance."

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Permalink Reply by Tangled Macrame on February 15, 2011 at 6:23pm

That's the one I was talking about! Where's it from? As in, what page of which edition/translation of his works could I find it in PRINT?

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Permalink Reply by Caroleeena of Circles of Joy on February 16, 2011 at 1:09am

Hoop Bliss

 

stepping into the circle
I
exchange hopelessness for
hoop blissness
center myself
in a symbol without beginning
without end
both limitless embrace
and halo.

We are an atom,
I
the nucleus,
centered,
the axis
creating
balance

O

holistic and all encompassing

O

including every possibility
and
ineffable Oneness

O

her very aspect transcends linear reality

centered
I
tune in, tone up, turn round and round and round
as things go round and round
and what goes around comes around, all things
connected inextricably
indivisibly, profoundly
consummately perfectly

O

reminding me --
all that orbits me
is pulled to me
by me
again
and again
and again
and again ...
as surely as the planets
revolve
around the center
of the galaxy


Carolyn L Mabry (aka Caroleeena)
April 30, 2006

 

My friend Sass put this one to music and made it into a song AND video! Here is a link:

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Caroleeena of Circles of Joy on February 16, 2011 at 1:09am

Size Matters

 

I am a total size queen

There I said it

I like 'em big

Big as I can get 'em

Big as I can manage

High as my nipples

So fat

I can just close my fingers

barely

Hold 'em

comfortably

Big as I can get 'em

and still manage my favorite moves

 

Yeah

I said it

I'm a size queen

and I ain't ashamed.

 

I like my hoops big.

 

- Carolyn Mabry (aka Caroleeena)
November 25, 2010

 

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Permalink Reply by SpinintheSpark-Bryana on February 16, 2011 at 11:54pm

That is a delightfully saucy poem :) I love it.

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Permalink Reply by Natalie McAnulla on February 16, 2011 at 1:25am

oo def check the poetry forum on here! there are several talented poets on here that just might have something that fits the bill!

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