[Thespiritexpress] Equinox Poem

[joan burleigh]

This is a beautiful poem Toni.  Thank you for writing it.
I will think of it when I next walk the Haul Rd Love,
Joan

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 9:29 PM Sue Magoo via Thespiritexpress <
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> 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> 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 <
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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.
>> 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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