[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery- by Toni

[lee michel alley]

Thank you so much, it is truly delicious!
<3 Lee

> On Nov 18, 2021, at 5:30 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
>                      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 <mailto: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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