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<p>Lovely Toni, <br>
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<p>Thank you for such a gift. Ditto to what everyone has said .</p>
<p>Love and hugs, <br>
Judy<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/20/2023 10:15 PM, Jima via
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Toni,...your writing is so
accessible to my heart and mind. Thank-you for being one of my
portals to the opening of Spring.<br>
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Blessings and love to you.<br>
<br>
Carlie<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks to those who requested another
look/see at the poem I read at the Equinox Ceremony. Thank
you ALL who were able to attend. What a sweet night it was.</p>
<div class="">With love and all blessings, Toni</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b class="">SPRING AT MY TOES ON THE HAUL
ROAD</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> </span><span class="">I saw
my first snake of the season</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">out walking with bright air
along the ocean,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">searching for whale spouts</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">and answers to deep
questions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">but instead, here </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">at my feet, the long rope </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">of a slender shape </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">lays quiet and still, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">though slightly coiled</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">enough to quicken my heart</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">in the mystery of its
presence. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">And I knew, even as it
wiggled into the grass</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">and disappeared</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">as if it never gave me its
gift,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">that it did. As it has
every year,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">when the snake shows herself
to me, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">like the shock of sudden
snowy plum blossoms</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">in our back yard, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">spring has officially
awakened</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">beneath my skin, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">quivering with the bend of
longer days </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> I am reminded again</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">of the mystery of things, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">the cycles of how seasons
change </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">and the remembering of
spring,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">to be the open invitation,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">to be wild again</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">renewed and bursting</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> like the earth herself.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">After this long wet winter
of forgetting,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">Out I wiggle, breaking the
egg of old lazy habits, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">I rise with the daffodils</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">open the heart of my golden
cup to fill</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">with new light of my own
being.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">I am all at once again
encouraged </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">to renew my vow</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">to greet again each day, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">the promise of birthing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">holy precious possibilities,
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">to meet the greeting of the
loyal dawn </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">blessed by its renewal</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">curious and excited as to
what might emerge </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="">from this love…..blossoming</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""> as me. </span></p>
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