<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Beautiful! Congratulations to your family. I see you in her face. <br><br><div dir="ltr">Blessings,<div>Anne Marie</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jan 30, 2023, at 4:32 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div class="">Poem to my grand-daughter on the day she was born. (I can’t read it tomorrow because I will be flying back home.)</div><div class="">Her name came to the parents the day after her birth.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Aya Ray</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you child of the new day</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">for being born<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and drawing out from within all of us</p><p class="MsoNormal">the wholehearted fairy tale princess,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">uncovering the heroin of myths and legends,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and revealing the magical land<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">where the new born without a name <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">swims back to the wombs of father and mother<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">through the dispelled amniotic fluid<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">through the dissolving of generations<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">through all the disincarnate beings<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">that make up her stellar cluster<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">to retrieve her true name <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">never forgotten<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">but escaping enunciation.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">As sparkling drops of rain <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">pause expectantly <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">waiting for the sun to warm them up <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">until they let go <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">of their frozen hold on branches<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and with a last sparkle <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">gently fall onto the dark earth<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">into a mysterious world full of life possibilities, <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">her ever-flowing fount appeases the thirst<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">of millions minuscule sentient beings<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sauntering, swaying, dancing,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">to welcome and embrace the new-comer,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">that dawn spirit, goddess of light<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">that ray of sunshine<o:p class=""></o:p></p><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aya.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><IMG_4636.jpeg></div><div><IMG_4642.jpeg></div><div><IMG_4621.jpeg></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress mailing list</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</span><br><span>http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</span><br></div></body></html>