[Thespiritexpress] Poem: Tulips from Toni

[lee michel alley]

That really speaks to me! Thank you, Toni!
With love, Lee

> On Apr 28, 2022, at 8:02 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> My poem read by Toni at Mastery
>> 
>> .
>> The Tulips from Toni – To Be or not to Be
>>  
>> All the tulips on my table have lost their heads 
>> but their bare arms still reach upwards 
>> in an act of worship
>> that carries me to farther horizons,
>> opening new paths, claiming my higher self.
>> An elated melting of all my senses
>> merges all in the All.
>>  
>> The early morning light streams on petals
>> scattered in gentle surrender
>> like colorful wings ready for flight.  
>> I am filled with the bliss of knowing 
>> it’s all perfectly as it should be. 
>> The perfect headless tulips are there 
>> to impart reverence.
>>  
>> Then I forget and go about my day, 
>> but when I look for my list 
>> I can’t find it anywhere.
>> It was right by the vase of tulips,
>> I suspect them to have swallowed it!
>>  
>> Could it be why they lost their heads? 
>> Too big a load, I guess, 
>> they surely must have felt the need to download! 
>> Downloading however requires a receiver
>> with space enough to accept the burden.
>> Who might that be? 
>> And I find myself becoming 
>> the voice of the headless tulips.
>>  
>> Don’t worry, it says,
>> your list was hard to digest,
>> but the tulips easily dealt with it.
>> 
>> You better lighten up next time though,
>> don’t try to do so much,
>> don’t pile up duties, responsibilities,
>> and don’t take yourself so seriously,
>> but mostly,
>> don’t pass on your burden to anyone else,
>> allow the trail be revealed 
>> that takes you back 
>> to that place you never left,
>>  
>> let the merging happen, 
>> our voice is your voice
>> your voice is everybody’s voice 
>> in this moment of ecstasy.
>>  
>> Tulips that talk, headless or not,
>> I must be out of my mind!
>>  
>> That’s right, the voices answer in unison.
>> Out of your mind 
>> is 
>> the only way 
>> for you 
>> to
>> BE!
> 
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