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<h1 class="c-hdgSans_2 c-mix-hdgSans_inline c-hdgSans"> Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks</h1>
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By <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-kenyon" class="">Jane Kenyon</a>
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<div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">I am the blossom pressed in a book,<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
found again after two hundred years. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper....<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
When the young girl who starves<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
sits down to a table<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
she will sit beside me. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
I am food on the prisoner's plate. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
I am water rushing to the wellhead,<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
filling the pitcher until it spills. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
I am the patient gardener<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
of the dry and weedy garden. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
I am the stone step,<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
the latch, and the working hinge. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
I am the heart contracted by joy. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
the longest hair, white<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
before the rest. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
I am there in the basket of fruit<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
presented to the widow. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
I am the musk rose opening<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
unattended, the fern on the boggy summit. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
I am the one whose love<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
overcomes you, already with you<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">
when you think to call my name. . . .<br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">Thanks for asking……these poems are so delicious they are meant to be served again and again….to feed our souls</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">and delight our tongues……read them again, outloud……thank you Riante for your yummy plate of incredible poems!</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class="">Love to all……Toni</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;" class=""><br class=""></div>
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</div></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 18, 2021, at 12:10 PM, Lydia Ruby Shepard via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" class="">Yes, yes, I would like to drink it in too <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class="">Lydia<br class=""></div></div><div id="appendonsend" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline-block; width: 941.765625px;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""></span><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:thespiritexpress-bounces@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress-bounces@lists.mcn.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress-bounces@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress-bounces@lists.mcn.org</a>> on behalf of Viktoria Zaita via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, November 18, 2021 10:50 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery- by Toni</font><div class=""> </div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div class="">Dear Ones,</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">could we please publish the poem read by Toni too...</div><div class="">I forgot the name of the poet... anybody remembers her?</div><div class="">It really touched me deeply.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">V.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div style="font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="x_yqt3534111510" id="x_yqtfd66851"><br clear="none" class=""></div></div></font></div></div></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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