[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery- by Toni

[Toni Bernbaum]

                     Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks

By Jane Kenyon <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-kenyon>
I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .

I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper....

When the young girl who starves
sits down to a table
she will sit beside me. . . .

I am food on the prisoner's plate. . . .

I am water rushing to the wellhead,
filling the pitcher until it spills. . . .

I am the patient gardener
of the dry and weedy garden. . . .

I am the stone step,
the latch, and the working hinge. . . .

I am the heart contracted by joy. . . .
the longest hair, white
before the rest. . . .

I am there in the basket of fruit
presented to the widow. . . .

I am the musk rose opening
unattended, the fern on the boggy summit. . . .

I am the one whose love
overcomes you, already with you
when you think to call my name. . . .


Thanks for asking……these poems are so delicious they are meant to be served again and again….to feed our souls
and delight our tongues……read them again, outloud……thank you Riante for your yummy plate of incredible poems!
Love to all……Toni


> On Nov 18, 2021, at 12:10 PM, Lydia Ruby Shepard via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Yes, yes, I would like to drink it in too  
> Lydia
> From: thespiritexpress-bounces at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress-bounces at lists.mcn.org> <thespiritexpress-bounces at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress-bounces at lists.mcn.org>> on behalf of Viktoria Zaita via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>>
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2021 10:50 AM
> To: thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>>
> Subject: [Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery- by Toni
>  
> Dear Ones,
> 
> could we please publish the poem read by Toni too...
> I forgot the name of the poet... anybody remembers her?
> It really touched me deeply.
> 
> Thank you,
> V.
> 
> 
> 
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