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May 15, 2023

Tossing Seeds and Bread

Writing by Deborah Kaplan

By Member of The Mystery School

The Spontaneous Writing Circle is a peer-led group in The Mystery School. In timed sessions, a member will read a poem or excerpt of prose after which the group write what's present to each of them, unedited and uncensored. The intention is to have the words appear while any effort to create them is surrendered. Each person then reads their writing to each other, and no critique is offered. This absence of distinctions and value judgments has created an open and lively space of ease, appreciation and creativity and a constant experience of wonder. This piece was written in one of these circles.

Flustered
How can I share this beauty that runs ahead of me.
The me, that is apt to the sidelines and feels the discomfort
of any kind of stage.
It’s when the personal is on it.
The way a person
Me
the person
senses the eyes.
In that I have to stand for something
But I am mist
I am see through
Its chaotic, swirling winds
rise like torrents.
Thoughts –
feelings calm in the center
And everything swirling where it matters
Now.
Imagine , me in the wings , feeding myself the lines…
showering me in grace of ease –
the exchange as natural as speaking to my dog
or the birds that gather on my terrace.
I have created the great show by tossing seeds and bread.
No-one…
Not one bird would come without me setting the stage.
The Circle is the stage I’ve created and it will be a living entity.
I am off to the sides
breathing into it.
It needs only what it already is.
My breath and the seeds.

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