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*** Life’s Growing Joy Poem Within a Poem ***

My 70’s may be the decade
For reaching my pathway’s
Ends and Epiphanies: a service of ‘Lessons and Pains’

    — To help my growing….

For example, Truths that I heard repeatedly,
I now believe well enough to take
My spirit from Dreams to Actuality — metaphorically then —

    — I lean into the sky as a noteworthy Gnarly Tree…

Also a lesson such as,  ‘God lives within us,’ although 
It’s hard for me to understand why Our Holy God opts
To be threading through these rickety,

       — These creaking and oddly angling limbs….

Plus, like so many of the eternal, quite externally-wrought necesities 
Are thought to bring to us every happiness: from wealth or friends;
Or, all the sweet, easy hours of comfort soaking in starlight and sun,

    — Ignoring the wildly waving grass underneath…

The knowing of happines raises its cherished supports not from beyond,
But from within hearts treasuring freedom and wonder, 
Focussed on what is Other — in those moments when ego’s set aside —

    — While divinely coaxed roots of Joy, grow deeper, longer 
Through time, betwixt Heaven and Earth to blessedly radiate and thrive…


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(c) 6/22/2023 sally young eslinger
Thanks be to God— 

  * (In the Episcopal Church, just before Christmas, there
is a service called “Lessons and Carols,” telling the story of the birth of Christ.
** Please note! This could be considered an “Experimental” Poem, because, in a 2nd read, following the dashes, there IS to be found a poem-within-a-poem.  Hope you enjoyed them both!  Hugs & blessings,  
sally

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