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“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

— Matsuo Basho

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The Wanting Space (Revised)

The Wanting Space (Revised)

Miles of trekking above the timberline to stockpile a vision

Tuned me in to the fertile valley of the deep,

Seasoned the endurance of my heart space,

And led me to this blooming meadow

Italy, Sense of Place, Travel, Writingandee sorensonFebruary 16, 2019Traveling Nativewriting, wanting, love, florence, italy, travel, poetry, homeComment

Ognissanti

Ognissanti

I'm not ready for immersion but the feeling of these damp steps beneath me will become a perennial part of my being. I lift heavy hands to mouth thinking only about breaking suddenly into from veganism to vegetarianism. I taste nothing new. The sensation of being relinquished and forgotten here, deep in the fall, will stay with me for years.

Home, Italy, Tuscany, Sense of Place, Travel, Writing, Sienaandee sorensonNovember 1, 2018italy, siena, sense of place, home, arrivalComment

The Salt of You

The Salt of You

Stories that remember your body

are new to me

but memory gravitates and I flirt

with the idea of dipping into you

one toe at a time until

at long last,

I am submerged in the dense salt of you.

Tours, Attraction, Italy, Love, Writing, Travelandee sorensonApril 6, 2018puglia, poetry, fallinginlove, salt, exploreitaly, adriaticseaComment

Two Hips and A Doorframe

Two Hips and A Doorframe

Don’t consider

where the road leads

Just. Let’s. Walk. Together.

Both in and out of time

Your hip is on mine

Barga, Home, Italy, Love, Travel, Tuscany, Writing, Yogaandee sorensonFebruary 14, 2018Traveling NativeTravel, love, friendship, walking, yoga, barga, italy, poetry, unknown, trustComment

Bound for Corrosion

Bound for Corrosion

Fuse me, the magma in my heart,

To the fire core that birthed this rock

Where once upon a time

Lava loved forth like a fluid firework

Like an unreasonable river

Only to eventually cool solid.

Travel, Tuscany, Writing, Garfagnana, Italyandee sorensonJanuary 23, 2018Traveling Nativelove, poetry, Garfagnana, Tuscany, mountains, travel, travelingnative, italyComment

ogni passo

ogni passo

step together

step anyway

step for you

step for her

step for hope

step forward.

Here’s to a year of movement-

Live every step for what it is.

Happy Transition!

Celebration, Sense of Place, Italy, Love, Travel, Yoga, Writing, Homeandee sorensonJanuary 1, 2018Traveling NativeLive, Newyear, Peace, 2018, Transition, Change, Grow, Forward, Believe, Movement, TravelComment

Somewhere Deep: Taking Back The View (Part 3)

Somewhere Deep: Taking Back The View (Part 3)

I’ll be here

When the outskirts of stability blend

with the disorderly flurries at love’s windy precipice.

I will dive again

Writing, Yoga, Travel, Love, Homeandee sorensonDecember 3, 2017Traveling Nativepoetry, travel, love, journey, return, movementComment

Somewhere Deep: Looking Up (Part 2)

Somewhere Deep: Looking Up (Part 2)

I’m gazing up at them now:

the premeditated,

the unplanned,

each one, a unique trajectory.

Oh, the joy of watching the lovers

who resisted

with all their minds’ power

And plunged anyway

Art, Attraction, Firenze, Home, Italy, Love, Renaissance, Travel, Tuscany, Writing, Yogaandee sorensonNovember 24, 2017Traveling Nativetravel, love, landscape, loss, firenze, art, poetry, writingComment

Without you

Without you

As time would have us

There is little of it left in this pose

Where the you to me is overgrown with speculation

And the in between has more to offer than you ever did.

Love, Italy, Travel, Writing, Yoga, Art, Firenze, Renaissanceandee sorensonNovember 20, 2017Traveling Native, LLCpoetry, love, balance, yoga, travel, journeyComment

Somewhere Deep: Overcoming The Edge (Part 1)

Somewhere Deep: Overcoming The Edge (Part 1)

All at once, I was bathing in a thermal breeze,

Warming numbness with newness,

Drunk on the swirling color

That still rises from somewhere deep

Flurries of carnal exhaust took the shape of nothing

And the color of everything

Garfagnana, Love, Italy, Home, Attraction, Writing, Tuscany, Travel, Tours, Sense of Placeandee sorensonNovember 16, 2017poetry, love, falling, deep, altitude, heat, yogaComment

Into the Backdrop

Into the Backdrop

In the partial shade or light we could sit there

Could we sit there? Guarded by the color still hanging on?

In sun-pierced red and yellow:

Me on one side, you on the other.

We could forget about the tightrope and explore the light and dark of in between.

Attraction, Italy, Love, Sense of Place, Travel, Writingandee sorensonNovember 13, 2017Traveling Nativepoetry, Barga, italy, love, dialogue, travelComment

This Wanting Space

This Wanting Space

What exploded in chaotic color

Now has a devoted space on the walls.

Visitors stop to wonder at it,

Connecting with its forms and blushing tone

Italy, Sense of Place, Travel, Writingandee sorensonNovember 9, 2017Traveling Nativewriting, wanting, love, florence, italy, travel, poetry, homeComment