<div dir="ltr">Great poem! I loved it!<div>Joan</div></div><br><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">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></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">Wow, that really speaks to my heart,<div>thank you, Riantee!</div><div>Love,Lee<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 11, 2022, at 9:16 PM, rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Thank you Riantee ~~~~ Fantastic poem ~!!!!!! <br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 11, 2022, at 8:43 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">The Dancer</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><i> </i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I am the puppet of the divine,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I dance,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">movements not really mine,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">sounds my voice modulates</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">not from me but from that other one</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">far away and yet so close,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">so foreign and intimate</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I barely recognize him</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">muffled as he has been,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">until I danced.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><i> </i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I move to the music of the galaxies,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">elliptical motion in infinite space,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">eminently full emptiness.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I slip into the void,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I arrive,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I am nothingness,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I am here,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">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'">With a lascivious roll of my pelvis,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">one imperceptible caress of my hand</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">on your invisible waist</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I balance the world perfectly,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I am whole</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I am all</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">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'">When the wet grass bristle</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">with eloquence,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I dance along the trail well traveled</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">and suddenly,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">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'">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'">so I dance.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><i> </i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">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'">many times,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">but now,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">on the verge of making the big jump<i>,</i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I hesitate,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">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'">with you,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">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'">Those cords held me down,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">tied me to the ones I loved,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">but if I take that leap</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">my attention might split,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">and as I pass through </div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">innumerable sensory experiences</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I might dissipate into wonder</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">and would not return to you</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">my love,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">so I dance.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><i> </i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I am afraid</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">of that dazed exhaustion</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">as my feet follow the spiral evolution</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">of human consciousness,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">but when I dance</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I know fear to be the fuel</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">that moves me to love’s wisdom.</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"><i> </i></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I can burn all my bridges,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">throw caution to the wind,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">plunge into the unknown,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">and still come back to my lover,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">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'">When I dance</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I entrust the strings to my master,</div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">I am the puppet of the divine.</div></div>
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