[Thespiritexpress] A Poem and Video

[Riantee Rand]

I love how your poems always take me through a journey, often a bewildering journey, with unexpected turns and meanders of the mind through love tunnels --Tunisian mind you— the mind always curious about where you will take it next, what gymnastic it will have to go through, until it finally finds solace in a palace of bombastic bliss . . . still wondering! 
Are you an Aries???
Your reading/singing of Homer’s Iliad was inspired, inspiring!
Thank you
Riantee

> On Jun 15, 2023, at 21:35, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <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 <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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