[Thespiritexpress] Where Am I Going Again?

[Riantee Rand]

Hello Ed
Thank you Ed for posting this, It’s certainly worth waiting to read it on the page, and reading it again to catch the nuances of you very creative meanderings, and the playfulness, the questioning, the onomatopoeias, the play on words, on concepts, the humour. . ..  A true poetic juggling act
I believe I am familiar with those stages of being that lead to the 'slow-going, all-knowing transformative serene being of 
> 
> self-reckoning’
Love
Riantee

> On Mar 23, 2023, at 19:32, Ed Balldinger via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> This is the poem I read before Pathwork Class this past Tuesday.  I'm a little tardy getting it posted, but I don't feel tardy... 
> 
> Where Am I Going Again?
>  
> Here I go –
> into a permanent state of pure love –  
> the erotic gnostic, fading into
> the foreground of some
> backwater embellishment
> where it once dwelt within me in a
> swampland of symbiotic impotency
> with its hickified contempt for everything
> it never knew about anything. 
>  
> How’d I get here?
> Diving into the copperhead troughs
> between spastic paths of narrow demise
> where whippoorwill calls echo off
> pine tree walls that are less dense
> than my own columns of intensity,
> where I inexplicably give way to the   
> chainsaw-hammer-bite poundings
> of my less-conventional wooded ways.
>  
> Here I go –
> sliding across a fresh maple floor
> with my true love in life’s laugh dance –
> making waves in maneuverability’s pool;
> a swim of its own survival, revival,
> tranquility and fate, hastily stroking
> through a waist-high place where
> eros spins into love’s own space,
> racing traces of sexual momentum.
>  
> Easy…settle…open…
> Where am I going again?  Oh, yes,  
> that permanent state of pure love
> behind a purple curtain of my
> disintegrating ego, trailing itself
> through the slow-going, all-knowing
> transformative serene being of
> self-reckoning – a fresh path to you,
> lying in a cool shade of ecstatic poise.   
>  
> Edgar Z. Balldinger <>
> February 7, 2023
>      © Nublin’s Pub, 2023
>  
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