[Thespiritexpress] On the Subject of Love...

[Riantee Rand]

I am a bit tardy myself in responding to your post but I deeply absorbed your ‘Subject of Love’ as I travelled barefoot through your it. . .
and a poem is forming in response.
Love and only love
Riantee 

> On Apr 8, 2022, at 07:08, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello friends! 
> 
> I'm a bit tardy posting this from last Tuesday's Mastery class, but here's the poem I read.  
> 
> Peace, love and harmony...
> 
> On the Subject of Love…
>  
> Somewhere in waking space –
> Somewhere between Blue Tara and Green Hercules –
> Grace drips over soul-longing edges –
>           those soft and gentle shoulders
>           stronger than any god;
>  
> that swirl in a circle’s eye –
> that beam of essential radiance,
> that love ray on target among all targets;
> that surge of energy in love’s formlessness,
> that source of urgency focused on oneness.
>  
> Where has forgiveness gone? 
> Do you think it is waiting to come back
> to open arms full of love and acceptance?
> How have these arms become so numb?
>  
> If this is a road that calls us to travel,
> will each step be as stable as the last?
> When will love’s open toe resist the sandal?
> It won’t, for it remains ever open.
> There is no sandal, save the sole of the foot.
>  
> If this is love’s subject,
> It rejects no part of the story.
> It respects every scratch on every surface,
>           every part of the whole;
> it reflects source on every shore;
> it lives without regret.
>  
> Somewhere on a terrace –
> Somewhere, between a holy stone and a run-down ritual –
> awareness resumes its own worship of everything –  
> the divine within, the divine without;
> the subject of love is absorbed.   
>  
>  
> Edgar Z. Balldinger <>
>    March 22, 2022
>      © Nublin’s Pub, 2022
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