[Thespiritexpress] Poem read Tuesday - Sunset at Dawn

[Toni Bernbaum]

Riantee…..your poems, always amazing and wonderful have become marvelous and miraculous….so many of these last several ones you have read
have brought tears to my eyes and elevated my soul.  Thank you for this gift of articulating your experiences with such poetic precision!  And so much to be learned
through your wisdom and revelations.   ♥️

> On Mar 21, 2025, at 1:36 PM, 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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