[Thespiritexpress] Spring Poem

[Roz]

Toni, this is such a very gorgeous poem and reminds me to notice and appreciate all the little details of spring that is upon us and the delicacy of the changing moment!

Bravo!

Love, Roz🙏🏼🩷
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> On Mar 28, 2025, at 7:54 AM, Judy Mayhan via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
>  Breath taking!   Just wonderful from beginning to end Toni....Had to read it twice and out loud for sure...
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> 
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> 
> At 12:02 PM 3/27/2025, you wrote:
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>> Thank you to those who requested the poem read at The Equinox to be posted……
>> 
>> always and with
>> 
>> only love, T
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> SPRING
>> 
>> 
>> Look.
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>> Have you seen it?
>> 
>> 
>> Its beginning
>> 
>> 
>> sneaking up from the ground, out from the emptiness,
>> 
>> peeking from the tips of tiny branches,
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>> the plum blossoms are covering the trees like snow
>> 
>> 
>> 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 ……
>> >
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> Did you inhale
>> 
>> the miracle of fragrance?
>> 
>> 
>> Or were you too busy -
>> 
>> too hurried….
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>> distracted by your list
>> 
>> or your screen
>> 
>> maintaining what you think
>> 
>> or defining who you are…â…
>> 
>> was it the news
>> 
>> or the sound of other humans
>> 
>> brain washing each other, 
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> Did you miss it?
>> 
>> 
>> the flash of inspiration
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> were you hooked instead by commentaries
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 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
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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
>> 
>> 
>> Did you rsvp…..have you checked the in-box of your heart?
>> 
>> There is a vulnerability calling you
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>> Have you dared to even notice
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>> what is there through
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> littered and buried across the tall grass
>> 
>> 
>> Take a moment -
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Don’t forget -
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>> splash in the puddles
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>> pick daisies, plant seeds,
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> See how each
>> 
>> season informs the next
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>> how important
>> 
>> it is to belong - 
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>> to be a part of the next possibility
>> 
>> to make love to this world
>> 
>> just as it is
>> 
>> 
>> Inseminate your  presence
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>> into the dark cosmic egg
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>> with the fertility of your vision
>> 
>> 
>> What do you want to begin?
>> 
>> 
>> What is your yearning
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>> that only you can birth
>> 
>> into this NEW WORLD
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>> even
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>> AS IT IS GIVING BIRTH TO US. 
>> 
>> 
>> Don’t miss it
>> 
>> 
>> Don’t let the judgements or opinions
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>> or the gossip
>> 
>> or the fear, or the past,
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>> 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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