<div dir="auto">Thank you for re-sharing!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 5:14 PM Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">
<p class="MsoNormal">Smoking on the Equinox<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">In the silence of the forest<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">my smoke rises<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">blurring the edges<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">softening shapes, lines, colors,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">enticing the formless to remain undefined<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">unspoken, <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">unnamed.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is no grounding to the vision floating by,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I can load <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">whoever wants to go on this ride with me<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">without adding any heaviness<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">for in vision weight does not exist,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">and in this lightness of being <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I breathe a sight of relief.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Equal night and day, <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">days and nights. . . <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Equanimity ascertained<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am free from comparing:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">every one<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">every thing <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">perfect for its own purpose,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">no waste<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">no sins<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">no mistakes<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">no more decision, <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">no more opinion.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I leave no trace on anyone<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">or anything.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I go up in smoke.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Smoke is pleasure I have been told<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">and pleasure is smoke,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">when I blow this smoke into my silence<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">and offer it to the universes <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">as a blessing to our
deepest humanity<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">to my brothers and sisters,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">to all my relations,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">the ‘otherness’ is gone, <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I dissipate with the smoke.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am all pleasure.<u></u><u></u></p>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">I am smoke. . .</span></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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