[Thespiritexpress] Equinox Poem

[Roz]

Thanks for sharing this gorgeous poem, Toni!  It gladdens my heart and welcomes Spring so well!
Love,  Roz 

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> On Mar 20, 2023, at 9:49 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> 
> Thanks to those who requested another look/see at the poem I read at the Equinox Ceremony.  Thank you ALL who were able to attend.  What a sweet night it was.
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> With love and all blessings, Toni
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> SPRING AT MY TOES ON THE HAUL ROAD
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>  I saw my first snake of the season
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> out walking with bright air along the ocean,
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> searching for whale spouts
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> and answers to deep questions
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> but instead, here
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> at my feet, the long rope
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> of a slender shape 
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> lays quiet and still,
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> though slightly coiled
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> enough to quicken my heart
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> in the mystery of its presence.
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>  
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> And I knew, even as it wiggled into the grass
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> and disappeared
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> as if it never gave me its gift,
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> that it did.   As it has every year,
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> when the snake shows herself to me,
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> like the shock of sudden snowy plum blossoms
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> in our back yard, 
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> spring has officially awakened
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> beneath my skin, 
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> quivering with the bend of longer days 
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>  I am reminded again
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> of the mystery of things,
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> the cycles of how seasons change
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> and the remembering of spring,
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> to be the open invitation,
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> to be wild again
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> renewed and bursting
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>  like the earth herself.
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>  
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> After this long wet winter of forgetting,
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> Out I wiggle, breaking the egg of old lazy habits,
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> I rise with the daffodils
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> open the heart of my golden cup to fill
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> with new light of my own being.
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> I am all at once again encouraged
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> to renew my vow
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> to greet again each day,
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> the promise of birthing
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> holy precious possibilities,
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> to meet the greeting of the loyal dawn
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> blessed by its renewal
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> curious and excited as to what might emerge
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> from this love…..blossoming
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>  as me. 
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