<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">So beautiful<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you 💜 ⚡️</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 12, 2022, at 10:41 AM, joan burleigh 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 dir="ltr" class="">Great poem! I loved it!<div class="">Joan</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:48 AM lee michel alley via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Wow, that really speaks to my heart,<div class="">thank you, Riantee!</div><div class="">Love,Lee<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 11, 2022, at 9:16 PM, rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Thank you Riantee ~~~~ Fantastic poem ~!!!!!! <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 11, 2022, at 8:43 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">The Dancer</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class=""><i class=""> </i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I am the puppet of the divine,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I dance,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">movements not really mine,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">sounds my voice modulates</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">not from me but from that other one</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">far away and yet so close,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">so foreign and intimate</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I barely recognize him</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">muffled as he has been,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">until I danced.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class=""><i class=""> </i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I move to the music of the galaxies,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">elliptical motion in infinite space,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">eminently full emptiness.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I slip into the void,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I arrive,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I am nothingness,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I am here,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I am.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">With a lascivious roll of my pelvis,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">one imperceptible caress of my hand</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">on your invisible waist</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I balance the world perfectly,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I am whole</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I am all</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I am not.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">When the wet grass bristle</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">with eloquence,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I dance along the trail well traveled</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">and suddenly,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">the thousand bells of incarnation ring all at once.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I’m not sure I want to know that much,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">so I dance.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class=""><i class=""> </i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I have traveled those paths with you my love</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">many times,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">but now,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">on the verge of making the big jump<i class="">,</i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I hesitate,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">It might sever the cords that keep me here,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">with you,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">so I dance.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">Those cords held me down,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">tied me to the ones I loved,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">but if I take that leap</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">my attention might split,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">and as I pass through </div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">innumerable sensory experiences</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I might dissipate into wonder</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">and would not return to you</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">my love,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">so I dance.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class=""><i class=""> </i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I am afraid</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">of that dazed exhaustion</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">as my feet follow the spiral evolution</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">of human consciousness,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">but when I dance</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I know fear to be the fuel</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">that moves me to love’s wisdom.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class=""><i class=""> </i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I can burn all my bridges,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">throw caution to the wind,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">plunge into the unknown,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">and still come back to my lover,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">when I dance.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">When I dance</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I entrust the strings to my master,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'" class="">I am the puppet of the divine.</div></div>
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