[Thespiritexpress] Spring Poem

[D. Sangraal]

Dear Toni and all,
Words on my part seem to fall short of how your poem resonated with me. Joy
Joy Joy. As you know, I love the rainbows and the daffodils❣
Dyana

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025, 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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>
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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.
>
>
> 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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>
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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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