[Thespiritexpress] Esteem Baths

[Riantee Rand]

Oh Ed again the delighgful play on words, the playfulness with words, the whimsical onomatopoeias behind which is hidden the wisdom of purification.
Please continue with the Esteem Baths and bathe us in your wit.
And thanks to John Prine for the big old hearts  dancin' in our eyes


 

> On Aug 16, 2023, at 12:21, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 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:  Shower 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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