Thursday, February 24, 2011

To Swami Vishnu Devananda

It took some imagination even in the 1970's
to fly across borders in a psychedelic plane
repainted every stop, with a passport to match
as a self-proclaimed International Ambassador for Peace
interviewed in Belfast in front of blond yogis
performing in lime green leotards and white tights
throwing flowers at Israeli fighter jets
preferring the Egyptian jail to the bellydance club

Nowadays you would be shot
not chanting your doderage away
in a Quebec hammock

The swamis drum alongside the procession
bathing your orange-robed statue in the lake

All these young people passionate about yoga
how will their dedication to inner peace bring peace?

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