[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery

[lee michel alley]

I enjoyed reading this again, so much!

> On Mar 31, 2021, at 11:22 PM, cathy fantulin via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> Thank you for re-sharing!
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> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 5:14 PM Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:
> Smoking on the Equinox
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>  
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> In the silence of the forest
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> my smoke rises
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> blurring the edges
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> softening shapes, lines, colors,
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> enticing the formless to remain undefined
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> unspoken,
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> unnamed.
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>  
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> There is no grounding to the vision floating by,
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> I can load
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> whoever wants to go on this ride with me
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> without adding any heaviness
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> for in vision weight does not exist,
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> and in this lightness of being
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> I breathe a sight of relief.
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>  
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> Equal night and day,
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> days and nights. . .
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> Equanimity ascertained
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> I am free from comparing:
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> every one
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> every thing
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> perfect for its own purpose,
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> no waste
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> no sins
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> no mistakes
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> no more decision,
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> no more opinion.
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> I leave no trace on anyone
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> or anything.
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> I go up in smoke.
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>  
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> Smoke is pleasure I have been told
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> and  pleasure is smoke,
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> when I blow this smoke into my silence
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> and offer it to the universes
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> as a blessing  to our deepest humanity
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> to my brothers and sisters,
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> to all my relations,
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> the ‘otherness’ is gone,
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> I dissipate with the smoke.
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>  
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> I am all pleasure.
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> I am smoke. . .
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