[Thespiritexpress] Equinox Poem

[SerafinArts]

Oh so lovely to read your poem Toni. It does awaken the Spring within us 
so beautifully!


On 3/20/2023 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
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> open the heart of my golden cup to fill
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> with new light of my own being.
>
> I am all at once again encouraged
>
> to renew my vow
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> to greet again each day,
>
> 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
>
> from this love…..blossoming
>
>  as me.
>
>
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