[Thespiritexpress] Spring Poem

[Cornelia Gerken]

I wanted to say that I love and feel this explosion of poetry in our
community with so many of you at the center of it. It is just beautiful and
inspires through the ether, the shared e-mails, the readings anounced.
Thank you all
Cornelia

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <
thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:

> Thank you to those who requested the poem read at The Equinox to be
> posted……
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> always and with
>
> only love, T
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> SPRING
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>
> Look.
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> Have you seen it?
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> Its beginning
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> sneaking up from the ground, out from the emptiness,
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> peeking from the tips of tiny branches,
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> the plum blossoms are covering the trees like snow
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> the rohdedemdrum is drumming with pink
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> the lily’s….!
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> I had almost forgotten
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> their long emerald stems unfurling
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> caressing the dawn of new light -
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> the tease of their white shoulders
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> revealing the curl of a promise
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> Look ……
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> the bursting bouquet of  trumpets
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> blowing pearly notes of silent beauty
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> humming the daffodils awake
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> singing praises with the tulips
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> Did you inhale
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> the miracle of fragrance?
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> Or were you too busy -
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> too hurried….
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> distracted by your list
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> or your screen
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> maintaining what you think
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> or defining who you are……
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> was it the news
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> or the sound of other humans
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> brain washing each other,
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> that eclipsed the chatter of the quail
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> and the soulful swoop of the raven’s
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> wings flying over with a message?
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> Did you miss it?
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> the flash of inspiration
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> the igniting of a creative idea
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> the directive to call that person
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> of finally forgive that other?
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> were you hooked instead by commentaries
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> contradicting
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> and kid napping arguments
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> and the conditioned need
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> to justify a bad mood, there are endless
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> ways to kick the ground.
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>
> Look.
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> This is the time of tenderness.
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> These are a rare and delicate few days
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> when the blossoms are so full
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> and the invitation to return to *your *true nature
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> is dotting the landscape like an impressionist painting
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> Did you rsvp…..have you checked the in-box of your heart?
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> There is a vulnerability calling you
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> Have you dared to even notice
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> what is there through
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> this window of opportunity?
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> Catch it
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> before the wild wind of the world
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> or the deluge of radical rain
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> rips the new petals from their stems
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> wilted and torn
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> littered and buried across the tall grass
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> Take a moment -
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> don’t forget to look in the mirror
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> of your own mystery
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> shiny through the landscape
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> of each new dawn.
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> This is the time of awakening,
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> taste the rain on your tongue,
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> feel
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> yourself
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> as blossom,
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> innocent as the presence of a newborn
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> open as the new light
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> Don’t forget -
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> splash in the puddles
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> pick daisies, plant seeds,
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> go barefoot and hug a tree.
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> take down your trombone
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> follow the wild idea
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> budding in your heart
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> See how each
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> season informs the next
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> how important
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> it is to belong -
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> to be a part of the next possibility
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> to make love to this world
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> just as it is
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> Inseminate your  presence
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> into the dark cosmic egg
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> with the fertility of your vision
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> What do you want to begin?
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> What is your yearning
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> that only you can birth
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> into this NEW WORLD
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> even
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> AS IT IS GIVING BIRTH TO US.
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>
> Don’t miss it
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> Don’t let the judgements or opinions
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> or the gossip
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> or the fear, or the past,
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> or the anger or finger pointing
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> or the worst case scenario in your mind
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> make
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> you blind
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> Its spring
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> This has always been the season of promise and awakening
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> It's happening for us
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> not to us,
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> don’t miss it.
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>
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