[Thespiritexpress] Equinox Poem

[Sue Magoo]

So many of the other beloved‘s have expressed what I felt both witnessing, and hearing this poem, recited live at the equinox. Not to mention having the opportunity to read it again.

 I am so moved by your gift to paint a canvas of imagery for the mind’s eye of what the soul and spirit is experiencing in form, in the moment…

Especially loved your confession of thinking you were going to start a poem with a certain tone and intention…

 Appreciate your honesty and authenticity around the truth of being present in the moment to what is unfolding, what it takes to catch these poems of yours 👏🏽🥳

  🙏🏼😘🫶Sue

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 22, 2023, at 3:40 PM, lee michel alley via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

 Toni,
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful poem ! I would have loved to hear you read it, but I “hear” you speak through your written words and am glad to start the season with them dancing through my thoughts!
With love,
Lee

On Mar 21, 2023, at 7:11 PM, D. Sangraal via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org<mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:

Such hope, beauty and love.  I am fed and nurtured by your expressions Toni.
Thank you.
D.

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 9:49 PM Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org<mailto: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,
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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