<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="">That really speaks to me! Thank you, Toni!<div class="">With love, Lee<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 28, 2022, at 8:02 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">My poem read by Toni at Mastery<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">The Tulips from Toni – <span style="font-size: 10pt;" class="">To Be or not to Be</span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">All the tulips on my table have lost their heads<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">but their bare arms still reach upwards<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">in an act of worship</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">that carries me to farther horizons,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">opening new paths, claiming my higher self.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">An elated melting of all my senses</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">merges all in the All.</div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">The early morning light streams on petals</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">scattered in gentle surrender</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">like colorful wings ready for flight. <span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I am filled with the bliss of knowing<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">it’s all perfectly as it should be.<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">The perfect headless tulips are there<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">to impart reverence.</div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Then I forget and go about my day,<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">but when I look for my list<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I can’t find it anywhere.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">It was right by the vase of tulips,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I suspect them to have swallowed it!</div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Could it be why they lost their heads? </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Too big a load, I guess,<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">they surely must have felt the need to download! </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Downloading however requires a receiver</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">with space enough to accept the burden.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Who might that be?<span style="font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">And I find myself becoming </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the voice of the headless tulips.</div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Don’t worry, it says,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">your list was hard to digest,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">but the tulips easily dealt with it.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">You better lighten up next time though,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">don’t try to do so much,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">don’t pile up duties, responsibilities,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">and don’t take yourself so seriously,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">but mostly,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">don’t pass on your burden to anyone else,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">allow the trail be revealed </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">that takes you back </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">to that place you never left,</div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">let the merging happen, </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">our voice is your voice</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">your voice is everybody’s voice </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">in this moment of ecstasy.</div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Tulips that talk, headless or not,</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">I must be out of my mind!</div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </p><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">That’s right, the voices answer in unison.</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">Out of your mind </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">is </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">the only way </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">for you </div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">to</div><div style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">BE!</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Thespiritexpress mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>