[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Mastery: Ecstasy

[Susan McNeil]

Beautiful💙

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> On May 20, 2022, at 9:51 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> Ecstasy
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> ‘Poems are rough notations for the music we are’ Rumi
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> The fire roars, flames leap in the fireplace,
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> I sip my fragrant tea from a celadon cup,
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> the couch, soft and fluffy
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> receives my grateful body,
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> my cat curls around my feet and purrs,
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> I lay my head down on the fleecy pillow,
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> wrap the fuzziest of blankets around my shoulders
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> and read the love poems of Rumi
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> while caressing the silky fur of my warm little familiar,
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> my body in utmost sensual ecstasy. . .
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> The body reclines on the soft couch next to the fire,
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> the steam rises from the tea cup
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> the woman wraps a blanket of forgiveness
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> around the shoulders,
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> her head surrenders to the down pillow,
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> a purring cat curls around the feet,
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> the hands caresses the accepting fur of the velvety creature. . .
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> The dream dissolves,
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> the veil tears.
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> I am the fire, the tea, the couch, the cat. the pillow, the blanket,
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> the poems, Rumi, the fur, the body.
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> I am this, I am that,
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> I am that I am,
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> the one in the faces of the many.
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> I receive,
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> accept
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> the love broadcasted from everything,
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> everywhere,
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> at all time.
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> I return it
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> in the eternal
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> where giving and receiving are one.
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> Life offers a shell
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> it’s up to me to fill it
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> in anyway I choose.
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> Only awareness
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> meeting with awareness
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> in every moment.
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