[Thespiritexpress] Spring Poem

[Shawn Carolan-Abell]

Good morning,
Oh Toni thank you for this!
Captures spring and these times as only you can do.
It's wonderful.
love,
Shawn


On 2025-03-27 12:02 pm, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress wrote:
> 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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