[Thespiritexpress] Esteem Baths

[Ed Balldinger]

Dearest Pathwork Lovers,

It was so good to be in the Pathwork circle with everyone yesterday.  It's
always such a pleasure to be in direct communion with everyone doing this
work.  It's uplifting, encouraging, promising and hopeful.  I enjoyed
reading my "esteem bath" poetry and am posting it here publicly for anybody
who'd like to take a gander at 'em in tandem.

(Warning:  S*hower curtain NOT included..*.)

Blessings to everyone on your journey,

~ Ed Balldinger

*Esteem Bath *



It was an accidental time warp

that claimed our indentured adventure.

Somewhere in a silicone sky,

color whistles white clouds sideways

winding winds of change around

azure captions written in true teal script.

I wanna read your unwritten words

in some incomprehensible accent,



words that make angels whisper,
*“We’re not the only ones watching you…”*



while you slip insistently into your

own self esteem bath to wash away



the distant dirt I made you crawl through

when I never realized how bad off I was.



Edgar Z. Balldinger

   January 7, 2019

*     © Nublin’s Pub, 2019*




*Another Esteem Bath*





This bath couldn’t have come at

a more mystifying time in my life –



it opens my implorable pores to more

possible potentiality than I ever



considered before I came to these

crossroads in my crisscrossing life.



I’m embracing new inevitabilities

with some of those long released



inklings and all of these vanquished

inabilities I’ve kept for so long on the table.



Hell, if this just ain’t the best way to

soak in a tub as the Big Door Prize



plays in the background, then I don’t

know how we’re gonna see the big old

hearts dancin’ in our eyes.



           *(with a big nod to John Prine and Iris Dement)*



Edgar Z. Balldinger

   August 8, 2023

*     © Nublin’s Pub, 2023*
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