[Thespiritexpress] Poems

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>I love the Jan Richardson poem, so poignant and real..and hopeful despite
the sadness.

And I love the cat poem, loving cats, it feels so true and fun!
Thanks Riantee!



 At Toni’s request a poem by Jan Richardson read to the Mastery group on
> Tuesday
>
> Look
>
>
>
> Look, the world
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> is always ending
>
> somewhere.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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
>
> with a tenderness
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> that will break
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> your heart.
>
> But, listen,
>
> this blessing means
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> to be anything
>
> but morose.
>
> 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
>
> is better suited for
>
> 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
>
> sit itself beside you
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> among the shards
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> and gently turn your face
>
> toward the direction
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> from which the light
>
> will come,
>
> gathering itself
>
> about you
>
> as the world begins
>
> again.
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>
>
> And here is the playful one I intended to read before I found ‘Look'
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>
>
> Curiosity Killed the Cat
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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
>
> 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
>
> and best ‘as is,’
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> and why this, and why that. . .
>
>
> That excess of curiosity killed the cat
>
> and turned it into a human.
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> The human cat couldn’t help inquire more and more,
>
> into the nature of things,
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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,
>
> 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,
>
> 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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