[Thespiritexpress] Equinox Poem

[Riantee Rand]

Thank you Toni, it was so good after hearing it in your wonderful voice, to read it, to have it, and to read again this holy welcome to snake medicine and to the promises of Spring.
Blessings
Riantee

> On Mar 20, 2023, at 21:49, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> 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,
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> searching for whale spouts
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> and answers to deep questions
> 
> but instead, here
> 
> 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.
> 
>  
> 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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>  
> 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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