<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Riantee…..your poems, always amazing and wonderful have become marvelous and miraculous….so many of these last several ones you have read<div>have brought tears to my eyes and elevated my soul. Thank you for this gift of articulating your experiences with such poetic precision! And so much to be learned</div><div>through your wisdom and revelations. ♥️<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 21, 2025, at 1:36 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">-<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sunset at Dawn<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The rooster triumphally wakes the morning,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">a cupid piercing the heart of the dreamer<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to awaken beauty,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and beauty meets the resident <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">at the center of the heart<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">where there is nothing</span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">. . . but love.<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A rooster has awakened my morning <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to the caring for a body <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">whose manifestation is nearly over,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">a shrunken body that needs help <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">for the shedding of a life well lived<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to dissolve a substance that had solidified.<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">That gentle care requires that I reconcile <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">with whatever is not beautiful in my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I must look again at what was harsh, hard, painful,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">find a new setting for my seeing,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">transform what didn’t measure and make it fit<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">into the heaven that is earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The rooster crowing from over the hill <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">can release the suffering, let it go with the wind.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">On our altar my beloved and I sacrifice all ancient memories,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">all thoughts and beliefs that weighted us down<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">until I there is nothing left but a body releasing its form<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and a love always traveling with beauty.<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">As the penumbra dissipates and the day leisurely blooms,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">your body nurtures my gentleness,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">the birds you always fed sing a new song<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">to the new hand that now feeds them,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">time slows down to twilight, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">your sunset is the dawn of my awakening.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 2in; 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