The Lion

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Rio de Janeiro, 2006: "Solar Meninos de Luz", Yoga-&-Poetry Class
with Lucas Melo, Matheus Silva & Alan Gomes -- the only three children that kept attending to this class, after we getting it to no be obligatory anymore. And the class have never been so good, because these three were really interested in the Union that Poetry is able to manifest. To express this idea of Unity, we decided to practice communitarian poems, inspired in some yoga poses related to the natural elements.

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Thus, came the idea of using Haikais, tradicional forms of Japanese poetry, through which the lyric-self tried to summarize its life according to the main lesson Nature has taught him/her. Hence, Haikais according to Basho's Poetics, are tradicionally related to a Natural scene, never philosophically abstruse, but staring even a clear season of the year... But our Haikais at "Solar Meninos de Luz" were a little bit more free, because of our method of composition: one of us four would practice a yoga pose (ásana), inspired in one of the four natural elements, FIRE in the present case, represented by the "Roaring Lion Pose" (simhagarjanásana). The other three would, each one, compose a instantaneous sentence, inspired in the ásana.

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The Lion King has fire hair

Roaring til burns down itself

So wanting to keep his throne.