[Thespiritexpress] Tulips....

[Amanda Zabel]

Oh!  Exquisite. Thank you. 🙏❤️❤️



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> On Apr 21, 2022, at 3:02 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Tulips
>  
> On the  shiny red marble counter, 
> The burgandy tulips are dying. 
> Floating from the round glass vase 
> into the middle world of our kitchen,
> their pale green stems, once tall, emerald  and erect
> have lowered 
> their necks like swans,  skim the surface
> of a life’s reflection.  
>  Their velvet  petals 
> are worn and thin, stretched open
> like palms in a mudra, as if to extend and receive a last blessing
> before they fall.
>  
> Each flower 
> navigates the angle of light
> content to drift, one petal at a time, 
> scattering a design 
>  when they drop.
>  
>  I contemplate
> the shaft of dust particles dancing in the skylight
>  of sun framing us 
>  in a still life by Rembrant
> when suddenly 
> the sound of a rain begins to ping from inside my head
> and the once blue sky fades to grey 
> changing the hue on the canvas of the kitchen.  
>  Stunned with sound and color 
> startled like a newborn 
> I don’t know what is happening
> in this blazing quiet
>  explosion of  beauty,
>  this impulse  of ecstacy 
>  coursing throug my body,
> guides my arm to reach 
> for this and tells my hand to do that.
> Witnessing this
> effortless alignment unfolding
> the perfect order of every detail
> I am 
> experiencing, always belonging to this, 
> culminating since the beginning 
> (when there was no beginning)
> bringing me inside the pulse of the tulips 
> how we are joined
> how they are gazing back 
> enchanted by the mystery of this recognition of each other.
>  
> So many years of  seeking….learning about things,
> How they work and what they mean,
> Who am I and what is the meaning,
> and now the answer comes to this.
> To float in the vase of my body like a tulip
> extending love, beauty and fragrance
> following the compass of light
> allowing  each notion to drop gently
>  in the end
> (without end)
> as time and separation 
> simply fade away. 
>  
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