NEGOTIATIONS by Janavi Held

This poem is a search of the physical body, as my mind seeks to discover the location of the spirit, which dwells in the body…

In the Bhagavad-Gita chapter thirteen there is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna which discuses this inquiry. Krishna speaks to Arjuna of the nature of the body, the mind, the intelligence and the location of the soul and the supreme soul who accompanies every living being remaining always in the space of the heart.

Negotiations

(Body & Soul)

by Janavi Held

Skin lifts

essence shows

talking stops in veins

they keep, tenderly,  on.

Spiraling fascia 

winds longing,

over well-kept muscles

as the negotiator of breath

stands in judgment

researching wasteful directions

for a well-bred aristocrat.

Shy skin,

oblique, yet puzzled

animates purpose

hidden in self-hood

while hidden shame 

depreciates relative value,

severing shadows

loitering in the plunge.

Redundant reflections

echo mirrors

improving willful arbiter

of time's grace,

immortality tricks secular flesh,

as the imponderable animator

gives a spirited response

to the hostility 

of the corporeal temperament.

Last column, back bone,

pinnacle of motion

reduces favor

with psychic soulful indifference.

Janavi Held started writing poetry and wandering around with her father’s camera as a child.  At the age of nineteen, she began practicing Bhakti yoga. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Goddard College where she studied poetry, photography, and media studies.  She is on the verge of releasing her first book Letters to my Oldest Friend: A Book of Poetry and Photography.

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with psychic soulful indifference.