[Thespiritexpress] Equinox Poem

[Judy Haun]

Lovely Toni,

Thank you for such a gift. Ditto to what everyone has said .

Love and hugs,
Judy

On 3/20/2023 10:15 PM, Jima via Thespiritexpress wrote:
> Dear Toni,...your writing is so accessible to my heart and mind.  
> Thank-you for being one of my portals to the opening of Spring.
>
> Blessings and love to you.
>
> Carlie
>
>
>
> On 3/20/23 9:49 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> With love and all blessings, Toni
>>
>>
>> *SPRING AT MY TOES ON THE HAUL ROAD*
>>
>> I saw my first snake of the season
>>
>> out walking with bright air along the ocean,
>>
>> searching for whale spouts
>>
>> and answers to deep questions
>>
>> but instead, here
>>
>> at my feet, the long rope
>>
>> of a slender shape
>>
>> lays quiet and still,
>>
>> though slightly coiled
>>
>> enough to quicken my heart
>>
>> in the mystery of its presence.
>>
>> And I knew, even as it wiggled into the grass
>>
>> and disappeared
>>
>> as if it never gave me its gift,
>>
>> that it did.   As it has every year,
>>
>> when the snake shows herself to me,
>>
>> like the shock of sudden snowy plum blossoms
>>
>> in our back yard,
>>
>> spring has officially awakened
>>
>> beneath my skin,
>>
>> quivering with the bend of longer days
>>
>>  I am reminded again
>>
>> of the mystery of things,
>>
>> the cycles of how seasons change
>>
>> and the remembering of spring,
>>
>> to be the open invitation,
>>
>> to be wild again
>>
>> renewed and bursting
>>
>>  like the earth herself.
>>
>> After this long wet winter of forgetting,
>>
>> Out I wiggle, breaking the egg of old lazy habits,
>>
>> I rise with the daffodils
>>
>> open the heart of my golden cup to fill
>>
>> with new light of my own being.
>>
>> I am all at once again encouraged
>>
>> to renew my vow
>>
>> to greet again each day,
>>
>> the promise of birthing
>>
>> holy precious possibilities,
>>
>> to meet the greeting of the loyal dawn
>>
>> blessed by its renewal
>>
>> curious and excited as to what might emerge
>>
>> from this love…..blossoming
>>
>>  as me.
>>
>>
>>
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