[Thespiritexpress] Spring Poem

[Doug Smith]

Toni, you have a gift! Such a beautiful, gentle, and incisive reminder. Such a fantastic poem!

 

Doug

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Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2025 12:02 PM
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Subject: [Thespiritexpress] Spring Poem

 

Thank you to those who requested the poem read at The Equinox to be posted……

always and with

only love, T

 

 

SPRING

 

Look. 

Have you seen it?

 

Its beginning 

 

sneaking up from the ground, out from the emptiness, 

peeking from the tips of tiny branches, 

the plum blossoms are covering the trees like snow 

 

the rohdedemdrum is drumming with pink 

the lily’s….!

I had almost forgotten

their long emerald stems unfurling 

caressing the dawn of new light -

the tease of their white shoulders

revealing the curl of a promise

 

Look ……

the bursting bouquet of  trumpets

blowing pearly notes of silent beauty

humming the daffodils awake

singing praises with the tulips

 

Did you inhale

the miracle of fragrance?

 

Or were you too busy -

too hurried….

distracted by your list 

or your screen

maintaining what you think

or defining who you are……

was it the news

or the sound of other humans

brain washing each other,  

that eclipsed the chatter of the quail

and the soulful swoop of the raven’s

wings flying over with a message?

 

Did you miss it? 

 

the flash of inspiration

the igniting of a creative idea

the directive to call that person

of finally forgive that other?

 

were you hooked instead by commentaries 

contradicting

and kid napping arguments

and the conditioned need

to justify a bad mood, there are endless

ways to kick the ground.

 

Look. 

 

This is the time of tenderness.

These are a rare and delicate few days

when the blossoms are so full

and the invitation to return to your true nature

is dotting the landscape like an impressionist painting

 

Did you rsvp…..have you checked the in-box of your heart?

There is a vulnerability calling you

Have you dared to even notice

what is there through

this window of opportunity?

 

Catch it

before the wild wind of the world

or the deluge of radical rain

rips the new petals from their stems

wilted and torn

littered and buried across the tall grass

 

Take a moment -

don’t forget to look in the mirror 

of your own mystery

shiny through the landscape 

of each new dawn. 

 

This is the time of awakening, 

taste the rain on your tongue, 

feel 

yourself

as blossom,

innocent as the presence of a newborn

open as the new light

 

Don’t forget -

splash in the puddles

pick daisies, plant seeds, 

go barefoot and hug a tree.

take down your trombone

follow the wild idea

budding in your heart

 

See how each

season informs the next

how important 

it is to belong -  

to be a part of the next possibility

to make love to this world

just as it is

 

Inseminate your  presence

into the dark cosmic egg

with the fertility of your vision

 

What do you want to begin?

 

What is your yearning 

that only you can birth 

into this NEW WORLD

even 

AS IT IS GIVING BIRTH TO US.  

 

Don’t miss it

 

Don’t let the judgements or opinions

or the gossip

or the fear, or the past, 

or the anger or finger pointing

or the worst case scenario in your mind 

make

you blind

 

Its spring

This has always been the season of promise and awakening 

 

It's happening for us

not to us, 

 

don’t miss it. 

 

 

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