tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67334548163929831862024-03-05T00:05:03.965-05:00April's ExpressionsPersonal artistic expressions on nature, living, ascension and spirituality April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-79726635963621622792018-02-22T13:33:00.001-05:002018-02-22T13:33:13.837-05:00The Dark Goddess<br />
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an opportunity to view self through an observer's eyes.</div>
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Today I was humbled and dismayed to find,</div>
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that I cannot harness the Dark Goddess's ride.<br />
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While I like to pretend to have total control,</div>
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She is part of my wild side, part of my soul.</div>
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I prefer the inner Angel all calm and sweet,</div>
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While the Dark Goddess I wish none to meet.<br />
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She fills me with guilt and unbearable shame,</div>
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If only somehow her f<strong>ire</strong> could be tamed.</div>
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My Angel tells me that Dark Goddess shouldn't exist,</div>
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Yet in the end, it's the Angel who's dismissed.<br />
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Why is it so hard to admit imperfection?</div>
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To see all parts of self in my own reflection?</div>
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To love even the unlovable parts of me,</div>
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In that I am uncertain and yet I know it is key.<br />
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How can you accept her when I myself cannot?</div>
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What makes me deny her a conscious dwelling spot?</div>
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If she's a valid and natural part of me,</div>
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then I must figure out how to set her free.<br />
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by April Bender</div>
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Mood audio: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzHXaG3uCps" target="_blank">Ember Island - Creep</a></div>
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April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-19391125122815930562017-12-03T08:13:00.000-05:002017-12-03T12:17:30.481-05:00In Loving Memory - Grandma Corky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Grandma, you were a sun in my world</div>
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a loving radiance shining on a little girl.</div>
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You nurtured and nourished me in wonderful ways,</div>
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you taught me of adventure, curiosity, and play.</div>
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When life became dark you illuminated my night,</div>
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you loved me, you pushed me, and fought for what was right.</div>
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You showed me what will and determination can do,</div>
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and to myself you taught me to always be true.</div>
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There are so many memories flowing into my heart,</div>
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it pains me to know that for now we must part.</div>
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But the seeds that you planted deep inside of me,</div>
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have helped me to blossom into a mighty oak tree.</div>
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(<a href="https://www.lifestorynet.com/obituaries/cora-corky-greenburg.119599" target="_blank">Cora Lee Greenburg September 21, 1935 - November 25, 2017</a>)<br />
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by April Bender<br />
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Audio - <a href="https://youtu.be/dzNvk80XY9s" target="_blank">Sleeping at Last: Saturn</a><br />
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Dance across a quiet room.</div>
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Curtains sway, kissed by the wind,</div>
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Carrying expressions of a gentle afternoon.</div>
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Its breath is ripe, fragrantly sweet,</div>
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From wildflower blooms nearby.</div>
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Earthen woods frame the view,</div>
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While birds sail high in the sky.</div>
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The air, it hums, teeming with life,</div>
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Of a wild and subtle kind.</div>
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As the sun's rays beckon eyes to close,</div>
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I exhale a contented s i g h.</div>
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by April Bender</div>
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Mood Audio: <a href="https://youtu.be/BiqlZZddZEo" target="_blank">Relaxing Celtic Music</a></div>
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<br />April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-29498728509031233272017-05-24T15:52:00.002-04:002017-05-24T15:52:17.816-04:00Defragmentation<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Clumsily they coalesce,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These orphans that Spirit exhumed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I would have preferred they remain dead,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These vagabonds of perplexity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They wreak only havoc inside of me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They simply don’t fit any of my frames,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Neither in belief or memory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And yet I know that I must integrate them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If I wish ascendancy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh outliers of the deep?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Since Spirit has resurrected you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a purpose for you indeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Come let me examine you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And reveal the mystery to behold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I know you have a story to tell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That hasn’t yet been told.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So let us uncover your wisdom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Even if it hurts to look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We can restore what ego took.</span></div>
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Mood Audio: <a href="https://youtu.be/OIT56_Y3knQ" target="_blank">Chasing Dreams - Departures</a></div>
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your perceived
failings and misery.</div>
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for the house of
choices that YOU built.</div>
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<br /></div>
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No longer will you <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">weigh</b> me down,</div>
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with the wearing of
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tally the scorecard, or
count the cost.</div>
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because I have all I
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<br /></div>
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by April Bender</div>
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Mood audio: <a href="https://youtu.be/IhP3J0j9JmY?list=PLvU4xa8VAdC8YALHN7Wn4M7L9Kf1s4msK" target="_blank">Imagine Dragons - Believe</a> <br />
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(This poem was written as an expression of inner releasing and clearing around issues of multi-generational childhood trauma and abuse. These are meant to be declarations to Self in the main as a form of release and empowerment, not a reflection of my love and compassion for family members.)</div>
April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-52279773434472318292017-04-17T06:37:00.001-04:002017-04-17T09:51:27.203-04:00Daffodil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An ancient wall comes crumbling down,</div>
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ivy snaps...cascades to the ground.</div>
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The protected garden behind the wall,</div>
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grew an idea of love too small.</div>
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<br /></div>
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It could not sustain our love within,</div>
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it was time to reflect...to start over again.</div>
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So I took a deep breath and let in the light,</div>
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that destroyed the wall and expanded my sight.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Within that new field I planted to grow,</div>
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a deeper understanding of our love to know.</div>
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And just today, not a moment too soon,</div>
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I spied our first flower, a Daffodil bloom.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
by April Bender</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Mood audio: <a href="https://youtu.be/BEUjeRmDslY?list=PLvU4xa8VAdC89hEvjHVuE6d3Lk7oXtUJD" target="_blank">Most Wonderful Music - Between Worlds</a></div>
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Synchronicity: Daffodils are symbolic of spring - of birth and new beginnings. </div>
April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-54429963157083875582017-04-06T16:07:00.001-04:002017-04-06T17:10:32.437-04:00Blessed Submersion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Peace. . .</div>
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Flow. . .</div>
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Silent hum. . .</div>
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Suspended in a watery womb</div>
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Cooling. . . </div>
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Soothing. . .</div>
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Serene lullaby. . .</div>
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Sinking down into Wisdom’s pool</div>
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Reflecting. . .</div>
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Deflecting. . .</div>
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Re-remembering. . .</div>
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Conscious and sub-conscious collide</div>
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Reaching. . .</div>
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Seeking. . .</div>
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New patterning. . .</div>
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Weaving higher impulses inside</div>
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Elevation. . .</div>
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Color. . .</div>
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Vibrant awareness. . .</div>
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Crest as new landscapes within</div>
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Elation. . .</div>
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Sensation. . .</div>
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Quickening rebirth. . .</div>
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Out of the depths I rise </div>
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<br /></div>
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by April Bender<br />
Mood audio: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbtel9K6fVY&list=PLvU4xa8VAdC89hEvjHVuE6d3Lk7oXtUJD&index=13" target="_blank">Mattia Cupelli - Waves </a></div>
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April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-18553605291190084332017-04-01T21:37:00.001-04:002017-04-02T18:02:28.894-04:00Sun Prayer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
Caress me soft, caress me true,</div>
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Oh essence of Light in shimmering hues.</div>
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Show me your secrets, come let us play,</div>
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Together we'll dance, letting cares melt away.</div>
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Penetrate all . . .cell, blood, and spirit,</div>
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Imbuing, activiting, expanding my limits.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Teach me of beauty and things not yet seen,</div>
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Illuminate the mind, revitalize my being.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Warm Mother Earth so green shoots grow,</div>
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Allowing blossoms to bloom, and life to flow.</div>
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<br /></div>
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And as you beam cosmic codes to the ground,</div>
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May we seek out their soft tinkling sound.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
by April Bender</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Mood Audio: Most Emotional Music Ever: <a href="https://youtu.be/5k0Hk32v0KQ" target="_blank">Awakening</a></div>
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<br /></div>
April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-48439748169840986932017-03-30T05:45:00.000-04:002017-03-30T19:26:10.889-04:00Sensing Grace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sacred words, their spoken resonance,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
fill a now sanctified room.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I wonder if the others here realize,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
they now bathe in a Divine Light womb?</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
The subtlety of such powerful Grace,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
is sensed by the listening heart.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
But in a state of inner turmoil,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
you reside several frequencies apart.</div>
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<br /></div>
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One must be still, centered in Self,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
to detect these realms of awe.</div>
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You must shed to match their vibration,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
a tenant of Universal Law.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Yet Divine Grace, seen or unseen,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
works subtle magic in all.</div>
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However working with It consciously,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
was our birthright before the Fall.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
In essence a metamorphic return, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
lies at the heart of your quest.</div>
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You are the key to unlocking the secret,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
and in this task You Are Blessed.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
by April Bender</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Mood audio: Yiruma - <a href="https://youtu.be/7maJOI3QMu0?list=PLvU4xa8VAdC89hEvjHVuE6d3Lk7oXtUJD" target="_blank">River Flows in You</a></div>
April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-37508137888523892052017-03-27T21:50:00.001-04:002017-03-30T19:33:34.683-04:00Twilight Revealed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rain swept winds dampen the air,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Twilight pervades,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
like a mystical prayer.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Primal memory slowly stirs within,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Psyche yawns, </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
...the immersion begins.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Carried along the watery flow,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Chronos sleeps,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
images rise from below.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Forgotten forms take shape anew,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Underworld unlocked,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
you now confront your taboos.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Shadow and light to rejoin as One,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Twilight sustained,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
your sense of duality undone.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
by April Bender</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Mood audio: Peter Gundry - <a href="https://youtu.be/ABn1vPwpwug?list=PLvU4xa8VAdC_D2OZrCh_C5rKS7nazxOqB" target="_blank">Lady of the Dawn</a></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-77171565608120424492017-03-23T19:54:00.001-04:002017-03-30T16:18:58.428-04:00Spring Cleaning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: center;">
Flying low and soaring high,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
it is during the budding Spring,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
we often say goodbye.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Goodbye to beings and things most dear,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
we must grieve and let go,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
to make room for the new year.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
In the East we observe this annual dawn,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
a time of birth, beginnings,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
cleaning, planting, and song.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Inhaling deeply fresh Air flowing in,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
will move and clear out,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
remnants of what might have been.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
By letting go of what ails the mind,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
we can plant new seeds of thought,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
that help us heal and refine.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Sun-kissed blue skies inspire a new day,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
bestowing precious optimism,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
and a completely blank slate.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
By April Bender</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Mood Audio: <a href="https://youtu.be/fPYxUa1ZVAY" target="_blank">Hiromi Motomiya - Breath</a></div>
April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-65936698146411228772017-03-16T12:48:00.002-04:002017-03-30T19:27:54.338-04:00Transcendent Dawn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />
Strange these days of novelty,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
That seem to permeate the land.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
McKenna theorized that when this happened,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
The end of our “time” was at hand.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
How long is it we’ve waited,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
As each season and cycle passed?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Healing, transmuting, trailblazing,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Reading every ascension forecast?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
We came from many places,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Our origins cosmologically diverse.</div>
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Our purpose…to help uplift this planet,</div>
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As well as the greater multiverse.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
At last we have succeeded,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Greater light has finally pierced through.</div>
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While the masses reel to and fro,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
We know exactly what to do.</div>
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<br /></div>
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We hold the light, we tend ley-lines,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
We send out the energy of love.</div>
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We stand in our height,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
Filled with the light and power from above.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
We witness the shift, we use our gifts,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
To help birth everything anew.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
We’re breaking the bonds placed over this world, </div>
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WE THE WARRIORS AND DIVINE GROUND CREW!</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
by April Bender<br />
<br />
Mood Audio: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCMXO9sBIcU&list=PLvU4xa8VAdC89hEvjHVuE6d3Lk7oXtUJD&index=11" target="_blank">Epic Sound Dream - Everdream</a><br />
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April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-11606187400662888892017-03-12T10:32:00.001-04:002017-03-30T19:30:08.512-04:00Merging<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Often we sit at the Sun's final hour,</div>
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sprinkled by golden tones,</div>
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a most magnificent shower.</div>
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My head in your lap as the Sun turns to Stars,</div>
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the sweet intimacy we share,</div>
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is never really that far.</div>
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Stories of old and stories of new,</div>
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float silently...suspended,</div>
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between us two.</div>
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The fire is kindled deep down inside,</div>
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you can see its glowing embers,</div>
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mirrored in my eyes.</div>
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A touch, a sigh, a whisper, soft moans,</div>
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to know you so intimately,</div>
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is to return Home.</div>
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Gently you rest your soul inside mine,</div>
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and together up through,</div>
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the starry heavens we climb.</div>
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by April Bender</div>
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Mood Audio: <a href="https://youtu.be/VWhJi2roJTw" target="_blank">And They Have Escaped the Darkness</a></div>
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April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-43522179370028348762017-03-11T19:36:00.001-05:002017-03-30T19:30:37.596-04:00Initiation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The dawn of light breaks open,</div>
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The most secured of hearts.</div>
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Casting fear’s dark shadow,</div>
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Across secret corridors.</div>
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Will you come walk with me,</div>
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Through this stark twilight?</div>
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Won’t you stand beside me,</div>
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To hold my small hand tight?</div>
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Forms coalesce, take shape, dance and hide,</div>
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Worlds once forgotten born anew.</div>
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Angels and demons are raised and play,</div>
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In a mind questioning its view.</div>
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Will you come walk with me,</div>
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Through this stark twilight?</div>
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Won’t you share your arm with me,</div>
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To keep my footsteps light?</div>
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Vulnerability rises...silent in repose,</div>
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Caution at this time is key.</div>
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Will It be wrapped in the light of love,</div>
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Or consuming anxiety?</div>
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Will you come walk with me,</div>
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Won’t you come and sing to me,</div>
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Waves of surrender gently roll in,</div>
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As a new inner threshold is breached.</div>
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Will you reach out and bathe in its wisdom,</div>
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Won’t you sit down and rest with me,</div>
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To explore this deep insight?</div>
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by April Bender</div>
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<a href="https://youtu.be/H5oRkNSHn-Y" target="_blank">Sarah McLachlan and Delerium: Silence</a></div>
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April Benderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02914201022869839401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733454816392983186.post-43123653344866970992017-03-11T16:32:00.000-05:002017-03-30T19:31:13.627-04:00If Only You'd Simply Believe<div style="text-align: left;">
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You do not yet know, just how beautiful you are,<br />
How the light of your soul draws one near.</div>
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The sun may blaze brightly in the noon hour sky,</div>
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And still there is no comparison to you.</div>
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You do not yet know, just how vast you are,</div>
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There are oceans...whole worlds stored inside.</div>
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You stand a giant outside physical form,</div>
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Feet on earth...your hands touching sky!</div>
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You do not yet know, just how loved you are,</div>
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How many families you are truly a part.</div>
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All of creation flows out from the One,</div>
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And beats in your radiant heart.</div>
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You do not yet know, just how powerful you are,</div>
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With the potential of great divine being.</div>
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A molder, a shaper of reality,</div>
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<i>If only you’d simply believe.</i><br />
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<i> </i> by April Bender</div>
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