[Thespiritexpress] A Poem and Video

[Sue Magoo]

Fabulously expressed!!! Oh if only you were the reverend at my church growing up…I may have attended more often‼️ I agree that the acoustics & holy presence of grace were felt!!

Lead us, oh holy one 🙏💗😘Sue

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On Jun 16, 2023, at 11:00 AM, lee michel alley via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

 Ditto what Ron said. I just love your sense of humor and spirited spirit!!!

On Jun 15, 2023, at 10:29 PM, rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org<mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:

ED~!!!!! This link is FANTASTIC ~~~~~ Wow~! Grace Cathedral no less~!

Thank you for your poetry, humor and all around shinning light of the Life

Current~~!!!!

~~Sing On McDuff ~~~~~~ McEd~!!!

On Jun 15, 2023, at 9:35 PM, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org<mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:

Greetings Beloved Friends,

I'm including the poem I read earlier this week in Pathwork class, via Zoom, called "Give."  Thanks for allowing me to read and that you actually listen to me read, even if it makes ya scratch your head and say, "HuH?!"  It makes me do the same, so thanks again for being tolerant.

So, it's a month later now than when Lyn & I participated in a 12-hour reading of Homer's Iliad at the Grace Cathedral on May 13th - what an event!  I'm embedding a YouTube link of the second part I read/sang about Achilles and the River, and attaching the part I read for you to follow along if you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne7twbq4IAE

Many blessings, one and all...

~ Ed

Give



What can I give the world today
that would help it be a better place?



I wanna hear what others have to say.
I wanna say what others don’t have
to wear here on earth anymore.



My message is no longer clear –
In fact, it’s not my message at all.



If spoken, I would tumble through it
like an elastic gymnast bouncing
on padded mats in full extension.



Instead, I leave my clipboard intact back on
the tracks of some well-worn iron
forged like a truth rammed into the hair of
an Aries man in graphic spasms ground
         down south through Tunisian
love tunnels, dug into
death-trap doors under sea.



But I await an answer with more sense
than this, where terror is turned into bliss;
where simplicity pacifies a soul-saving
solution into a resolution of desire fulfilled,



and I go stumbling breathlessly into Nirvana –
not the grunge band from Seattle – but a
parking garage turned into a palace of
bombastic bliss that I followed here from afar.



“Free all the prisoners!
Past, present, NOW –
not another moment of interment!”



the parking garage attendant yells at me,
and I pay my parking fee, slip through the
up-swung gate and roll down the road,
still wondering –
what can I give the world today
that would help it be a better place?



Edgar Z. Balldinger
   May 2, 2023
     © Nublin’s Pub, 2023

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