[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery

[Judith Edwards]

So beautiful

Thank you 💜 ⚡️


> On Jan 12, 2022, at 10:41 AM, joan burleigh via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Great poem!  I loved it!
> Joan
> 
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:48 AM lee michel alley via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:
> Wow, that really speaks to my heart,
> thank you, Riantee!
> Love,Lee
> 
>> On Jan 11, 2022, at 9:16 PM, rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Thank you Riantee ~~~~ Fantastic poem ~!!!!!! 
>> 
>>> On Jan 11, 2022, at 8:43 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The Dancer
>>>>  
>>>> I am the puppet of the divine,
>>>> I dance,
>>>> movements not really mine,
>>>> sounds my voice modulates
>>>> not from me but from that other one
>>>> far away and yet so close,
>>>> so foreign and intimate
>>>> I barely recognize him
>>>> muffled as he has been,
>>>> until I danced.
>>>>  
>>>> I move to the music of the galaxies,
>>>> elliptical motion in infinite space,
>>>> eminently full emptiness.
>>>> I slip into the void,
>>>> I arrive,
>>>> I am nothingness,
>>>> I am here,
>>>> I am.
>>>>  
>>>> With a lascivious roll of my pelvis,
>>>> one imperceptible caress of my hand
>>>> on your invisible waist
>>>> I balance the world perfectly,
>>>> I am whole
>>>> I am all
>>>> I am not.
>>>>  
>>>> When the wet grass bristle
>>>> with eloquence,
>>>> I dance along the trail well traveled
>>>> and suddenly,
>>>> the thousand bells of incarnation ring all at once.
>>>> I’m not sure I want to know that much,
>>>> so I dance.
>>>>  
>>>> I have traveled those paths with you my love
>>>> many times,
>>>> but now,
>>>> on the verge of making the big jump,
>>>> I hesitate,
>>>> It might sever the cords that keep me here,
>>>> with you,
>>>> so I dance.
>>>>  
>>>> Those cords held me down,
>>>> tied me to the ones I loved,
>>>> but if I take that leap
>>>> my attention might split,
>>>> and as I pass through
>>>> innumerable sensory experiences
>>>> I might dissipate into wonder
>>>> and would not return to you
>>>> my love,
>>>> so I dance.
>>>>  
>>>> I am afraid
>>>> of that dazed exhaustion
>>>> as my feet follow the spiral evolution
>>>> of human consciousness,
>>>> but when I dance
>>>> I know fear to be the fuel
>>>> that moves me to love’s wisdom.
>>>>  
>>>> I can burn all my bridges,
>>>> throw caution to the wind,
>>>> plunge into the unknown,
>>>> and still come back to my lover,
>>>> when I dance.
>>>>  
>>>> When I dance
>>>> I entrust the strings to my master,
>>>> I am the puppet of the divine.
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