[Thespiritexpress] Poems

[Susan]

Riantee, the Cat poem set me to laughing A lot . I totally love it.
Blessings. With love, Susan

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 6, 2021, at 4:42 PM, Mary Melkonian via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> DeLIGHTful, Riantee
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> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> On Mar 6, 2021, at 2:33 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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>> 
>> At Toni’s request a poem by Jan Richardson read to the Mastery group on Tuesday 
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>> Look
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>> Look, the world
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>> is always ending
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>> somewhere.
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>> Somewhere
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>> the sun has come
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>> crashing down.
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>> Somewhere
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>> it has gone
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>> completely dark.
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>> Somewhere
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>> it has ended
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>> with the gun
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>> the knife
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>> the fist.
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>> Somewhere
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>> it has ended
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>> with the slammed door
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>> the shattered hope.
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>> Somewhere
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>> it has ended
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>> with the utter quiet
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>> that follows the news
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>> from the phone
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>> the television
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>> the hospital room.
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>> Somewhere
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>> it has ended
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>> with a tenderness
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>> that will break
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>> your heart.
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>> But, listen,
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>> this blessing means
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>> to be anything
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>> but morose.
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>> It has not come
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>> to cause despair.
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>> It is simply here
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>> because there is nothing
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>> a blessing
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>> is better suited for
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>> than an ending,
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>> nothing that cries out more
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>> for a blessing
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>> than when a world
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>> is falling apart.
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>> This blessing
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>> will not fix you
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>> will not mend you
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>> will not give you
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>> false comfort;
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>> it will not talk to you
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>> about one door opening
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>> when another one closes.
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>> It will simply
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>> sit itself beside you
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>> among the shards
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>> and gently turn your face
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>> toward the direction
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>> from which the light
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>> will come,
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>> gathering itself
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>> about you
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>> as the world begins
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>> again.
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>> 
>> And here is the playful one I intended to read before I found ‘Look' 
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>>  
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>> Curiosity Killed the Cat
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>>  
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>> A cat became very curious
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>> and inquired
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>> about why humans needed special sounds to describe
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>> what was so obvious,
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>> about why they transformed food 
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>> when a meal came all prepared as one caught it 
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>> and best ‘as is,’
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>> and why this, and why that. . .
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>> 
>> That excess of curiosity killed the cat
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>> and turned it into a human.
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>> The human cat couldn’t help inquire more and more,
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>> into the nature of things,
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>> the nature of reality,
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>> and this inquiry
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>> brought on the question
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>> of identity
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>> and the true nature of Self.
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>>  
>> 
>> Being aware of cat consciousness
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>> the human cat recognized its own curiosity
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>> as the curiosity of everything present in everything,
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>> that unending curiosity
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>> that brought on
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>> the curiosity
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>> of being a human creating its own unfortunate reality,
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>> but also of being a cat
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>> killed by the sudden awareness
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>> of having a feline body
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>> in space and time
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>> a body that could transform into human form
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>> in-forming the cat
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>> about its power to create
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>> whatever it desired
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>> and the curiosity to try it out.
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>>  
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>> And that was the beginning of heaven of earth.
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