<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="">Hello Ed<div class="">Thank you Ed for posting this, It’s certainly worth waiting to read it on the page, and reading it again to catch the nuances of you very creative meanderings, and the playfulness, the questioning, the onomatopoeias, the play on words, on concepts, the humour. . .. A true poetic juggling act<div class="">I believe I am familiar with those stages of being that lead to the '<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">slow-going, all-knowing </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">transformative serene being of</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0in;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><font color="#000000" class="">self-reckoning</font></span><font color="#000000" face="Arial, sans-serif" size="4" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">’</span></font></div></div></div></blockquote>Love</div><div class="">Riantee<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 23, 2023, at 19:32, Ed Balldinger 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=""><font size="4" class="">This is the poem I read before Pathwork Class this past Tuesday. I'm a little tardy getting it posted, but I don't feel tardy... </font><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><u class=""><span style="font-size:18pt" class="">Where Am I Going Again?</span></u></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Here
I go – </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">into a permanent state of
pure love – </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">the erotic gnostic, fading
into </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">the foreground of some</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">backwater embellishment </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">where it once dwelt within
me in a </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">swampland of symbiotic
impotency </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">with its hickified
contempt for everything </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">it never knew about anything. </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">How’d
I get here?</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Diving into the copperhead
troughs</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">between spastic paths of narrow
demise </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">where whippoorwill calls echo
off </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">pine tree walls that are
less dense </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">than my own columns of intensity,
</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">where I inexplicably give way
to the </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">chainsaw-hammer-bite poundings
</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">of my less-conventional wooded
ways. </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Here
I go – </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">sliding across a fresh maple
floor </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">with my true love in life’s
laugh dance – </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">making waves in maneuverability’s
pool; </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">a swim of its own
survival, revival, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">tranquility and fate,
hastily stroking </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">through a waist-high place
where </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">eros spins into love’s own
space, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">racing traces of sexual momentum.
</span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="text-indent: 0.5in; margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Easy…settle…open…
</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">Where am I going
again? Oh, yes, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">that permanent state of
pure love </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">behind a purple curtain of
my </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">disintegrating ego,
trailing itself </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">through the slow-going, all-knowing
</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">transformative serene
being of </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">self-reckoning – a fresh
path to you, </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size:14pt" class="">lying in a cool shade of ecstatic
poise. </span></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a name="_Hlk37055206" class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class="">Edgar Z. Balldinger </span></a></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class="">February
7, 2023</span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class=""> ©
Nublin’s Pub, 202</span></i><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class="">3</span></i><i class=""><span style="font-family:"Monotype Corsiva"" class=""></span></i></div><p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing" style="margin:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt" class=""> </span></p></div></div>
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