Lean on me
When you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on...
For it won't be long
Till I'm gonna need somebody to lean on
You just call on me brother ...
2023-07-25 20:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post
City of the angels, spread your wings for me
I've been other places looking for my dream
Eastern cities move too fast
Southern ones too slow
I can't go back to my past
And I need som...
Inga doing a scorpion yoga pose, and making it look easy. Called Vrischikasana in Sanskrit, it combines a forearm balance and backbend. It takes strength to get into the pose, but it is finding a s...
2023-07-25 20:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Daily yoga can transform our life. It is as much a mental exercise, as it is a physical one. Vinyasa is the most popular form, combining rhythmic repetitive yoga with breath and movement. After a w...
2023-07-25 20:23:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Karina had just come from a workout when she arrived at my studio. She wanted to shower before we started our shoot.
We were conversing through the open bathroom door as she rinsed off,...
2023-07-25 20:20:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Sounds of the seas grow fainter,
Sounds of the sands have sped;
The sweep of gales,
The far white sails,
Are silent, spent and dead.
Sounds of the days of summer
Murmur and die...
I had been invited to exhibit my “The Body as Temple” art nudes at a Pilates Conference. I met Leah at that conference. She came to the show and told me how much she loved seeing art nudes of a...
2023-07-01 15:14:53 +0000 UTC View Post
THOUGH the day of my destiny’s over,
And the star of my fate hath declined,
Thy soft heart refused to discover
The faults which so many could find.
Though thy soul with my gri...
2023-05-28 20:11:05 +0000 UTC View Post
She was a Phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment's torment
– from a poem by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
2023-05-28 20:09:26 +0000 UTC View Post
“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
– Pablo Neruda
PHOTO: Another image that celebrates the supple back of a dancer.
2023-05-28 20:06:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Vasisthasana, or Side Plank, provides a wonderful side stretch, but it is a challenging yoga asana. It requires strength and balance. Most yogis need to build up to it, by doing variations that pro...
2023-05-28 20:05:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Could I from this valley drear,
Where the mist hangs heavily,
Soar to some more blissful sphere,
Ah! how happy should I be!
Distant hills enchant my sight,
Ever young and ever...
When in the morning’s misty hour,
When the sun beams gently o’er each flower;
When thou dost cease to smile benign,
And think each heart responds with thine,
When seeking rest among...
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to ...
And suddenly my thoughts then turned to you
Who came to me upon a winter’s night,
When snow-sprites round my attic window flew,
Your hair disheveled, eyes aglow with light.
My ...
2023-05-20 19:03:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Desire naked, linked with Passion,
Goes trutting by in brazen fashion;
From playhouse, cabaret and inn
The rainbow lights of Broadway blaze
All gay without, all glad within;
As in a ...
Sometimes I wonder, sweetest love, if you
Were a mere dream in a long winter night,
A dream of spring-days, and of golden light
Which sheds its rays upon a frozen heart;
A dream of wine...
Tonight the night
brings no sleep
tossing and turning
mind churning
visions of you
filling my sight
Allow me some rest
I pray to my heart
give up your pining
give up y...
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart
For the joys of the multitude.
And I would not have the tears that sadness makes
To flow from my every part turn into laughter.
I would t...
2023-05-04 23:04:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies.
What is this world's delight?
Lightning that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright...
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divin...
Was she of spirit race, or was she one
Of earth's least earthly daughters, one to whom
A gift of loveliness and soul is given,
Only to make them wretched?
O lute of mine, that I shal...
2023-05-04 22:56:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Come now, and let me dream it truth,
And part my hair, and kiss my brow,
And say, My love why sufferest thou?
Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so t...
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast,
Warm breath, light whisper, tender semi-tone,
Bright eyes, accomplish’d shape, and la...
When you and I behind the veil are past,
Oh, but a long, long while the world shall last,
Which of our coming and departure heeds
As the sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
–...
2023-04-30 19:16:28 +0000 UTC View Post
When its hard to rise from slumber
think of the love that awaits
think of the sunlight
and the butterflies that yearn for nectar
think of the roots that thirst for water
think of the...
Like sunlight kissing a flower
your selfless love
your unwavering faith in me
unfurls my soul
–– Pardesi Pyara
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PHOTO: From an old shoot with Silvia. Ballerina...
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day<...
“Pull the thorns from your heart. Then you will see the rose gardens within you.”
— Rumi
PHOTO: Grace was stretching and warming up before our shoot, and I lov...
2023-04-22 23:09:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Never forget who you are
Little star
Shining brighter than all the stars in the sky
Never forget how to dream
Butterfly
Never forget where you come from
From love
– Ly...
2023-04-22 23:07:08 +0000 UTC View Post