Ivan M. Granger: Earth and Sky

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Earth and Sky

Ivan M. Granger, Ivan M. Granger poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry

by Ivan M. Granger
(1969 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic

Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist

Contemporary

Yogis do not touch

the earth
beneath their feet.

All breath and fire,
they grow thin,
rootless,

reaching only for sky.

Wild-eyed shamans,
earth's children,

pull medicine
from peyote nightmares
and twilight.

Attending to family and village,
rooted,

they do not soar.

Earth — Sky

Neither shamans
nor yogis
find heaven —

everywhere!

2002

Themes

Fire

Garden

Sky

Recommended Books

	For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics, by Roger Housden
	Poems of Awakening: An International Anthology of Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Betsy Small

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