[Thespiritexpress] Poem read Tuesday - Sunset at Dawn

[Richard Rasmussen]

Magnificent!
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> On Mar 21, 2025, at 14:36, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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>> Sunset at Dawn
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>> The rooster triumphally wakes the morning,
>> a cupid piercing the heart of the dreamer
>> to awaken beauty,
>> and beauty meets the resident 
>> at the center of the heart
>> where there is nothing
>> . . . but love.
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>> A rooster has awakened my morning 
>> to the caring for a body 
>> whose manifestation is nearly over,
>> a shrunken body that needs help 
>> for the shedding of a life well lived
>> to dissolve a substance that had solidified.
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>> That gentle care requires that I reconcile 
>> with whatever is not beautiful in my life.
>> I must look again at what was harsh, hard, painful,
>> find a new setting for my seeing,
>> transform what didn’t measure and make it fit
>> into the heaven that is earth.
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>> The rooster crowing from over the hill 
>> can release the suffering, let it go with the wind.
>> On our altar my beloved and I sacrifice all ancient memories,
>> all thoughts and beliefs that weighted us down
>> until I there is nothing left but a body releasing its form
>> and a love always traveling with beauty.
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>> As the penumbra dissipates and the day leisurely blooms,
>> your body nurtures my gentleness,
>> the birds you always fed sing a new song
>> to the new hand that now feeds them,
>> time slows down to twilight, 
>> your sunset is the dawn of my awakening.
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