[Thespiritexpress] Poem Read at the Equinox Celebration

[Kelly Barrett]

Much gratitude Toni 🌸🌷 Spring Tidings !
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On Mar 26, 2026, at 4:19 PM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:



There were a few requests to post this poem from the Spring Equinox Celebration…..its a long read …offered

with gratitude…….and love



Don’t Miss It

(Spring Equinox @ Spirit House 2026)

Tonijean Bernbaum

Look.

Have you seen it?


It’s 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 a passion for pink


the lilies….

I had almost forgotten -

the congregation of long emerald stems

caressing the dawn

the tease of their white shoulders

unfurling the curl of a promise

revealing the golden rod inside.


Listen ……

the bursting bouquet of  trumpets

blowing pearly notes of silent beauty

humming the daffodils awake

singing praises with the tulips

in a kirtan of celebration


Did you smell the miracle of fragrance?

Did you remember to breath?

let the heady aroma

make you swoon

and drop to your knees?


Or were you too busy

too hurried….

distracted by your list

or your screen

maintaining what you believe

or defining the limits of who you think 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 their message?


did you miss it?

the flash of inspiration

alone out on the trail

the long eared rabbit romping?

the ballet of honking geese

the igniting of a creative idea

the directive to call that person


or 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, newborns

and renewal.

These are rare and delicate days

when the blossoms are so full

and the invitation to return to your true nature

is dotting the landscape like a painting by Renoir


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 staring at you through

this mirror of opportunity?



catch it

before the wild wind of the world

or the deluge of radical rain

rips the new growth from their potential

wilted and torn

littered and buried

and forgotten.


take a moment

right here

right now

look in the still pond reflecting the mystery of your impermanent life

discover the eternal canvas of clear water

in the depth of you

on which every image floats in and out of view

This is the moment of awakening,


taste the sun on your tongue,

feel yourself as blossom,

innocent as the touch of a baby’s skin

open as the night sky, glistening like a star.



splash in the puddles

pick daisies, plant seeds,

go barefoot, hug a tree.

take down your trombone

follow the wild ideas

swelling in your heart


See how each

season informs the next

and what its like

to belong to each progression

to claim your part in 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 yours to do?


What is yearning to be nourished in your soul

that only you can birth into this NEW WORLD

AS IT IS GIVING BIRTH TO US.


don’t miss it

stop complaining

don’t let the judgements or opinions

or the gossip

or the fear

infect you


don’t let the past,

or the anger or finger pointing

or the worst case scenario made up in your mind

make you blind

or disappear

everyone’s gifts are needed here


Its spring

the season of renewal

awakening the divine spark

within you!



its happening for us

not to us,


Don’t miss it.



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