<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Beautiful, Scottie! You made a poem for Marc! Well done !<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:-apple-system-body">🩷Roz</span><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 21, 2026, at 5:56 PM, Jima via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank-you Ed for sharing your poem. I
so like it when we each speak from the I and then as the "other
one" of us is listening it may spark something in me or you.<br>
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Carlie<br>
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On 4/21/26 5:02 PM, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress wrote:<br>
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<div>I was moved by some remarks by Rabbi Yasskin in our
Recognition Sutras class today which lead to this
observational poem I wrote from notes and other remarks made
today. <span>It's my intention to read it in class next
Tuesday in the yurt. </span></div>
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<div>Peace and harmony to all, </div>
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<div>~ Ed </div>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><u><span>Simplicity In Tears</span></u></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span>There’s a sutra class</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">on Tuesday in a yurt.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Do I recognize it? </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">There are feelings of love.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">There are feelings that hurt. </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">There is one soul </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">woven so close together </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">it can’t tell itself from </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">the thread of itself </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">in an integrated garment</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">ever wanting to be shed.
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">There is one moment</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">for each breath.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"> </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">There is relief with </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">every kind touch. </p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">There is simplicity </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">in rice and tea – </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">and I cry.*</p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span>Edgar
Z. Balldinger </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><span> April 21, 2026</span> </p>
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© Nublin’s Pub, 2026</span></i></p>
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