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Twilight

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There is a beat in the darkening air

that whispers of love and laughter

 

There is song in the rippling wind

so moving

so unmeasured

that even dreams

cannot meet its glory

 

There is colour

There is more than power

in one stroke

in one fallen ray

that gives rhythm

to a discordant day

 

They say

Night comes

like death comes

                   eventually

 

But there,

Oh there!   The first star . . .

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Copyright © 1989 by Allison Grayhurst

Before the Dawn was published  in 1989 by The Plowman, written by Allison Grayhurst under the pseudonym of Jocelyn Kain.

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Published in “The Peregrine Muse” July 2017

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First published in “The Plowman: A Journal of International Poetry” 1989

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Reviews below of Allison Grayhurst’s chapbook “Before the Dawn” were published in the “The Plowman – A Journal of International Poetry” 1989:

“Throughout these 54 poems there is a ring of truth, an honesty few poets inject into their writing. I hope there is a follow-up to the book, because it leaves one with the desire to hear more, to know what will happen next, to discover the net result of the woven pattern of emotion and intensity that will come from the pen of this stirring author,” poet C.F. Kennedy

“Jocelyn Kain’s chapbook Before The Dawn, is thick with mixed images of rain, smoking cigarettes, the sea – images that appear in other poems, but in Kain’s poetry, the images come alive in a melancholic dance of the soul. This book is fresh, emotional, quality poetry. If Kain’s talents continue to improve, she will someday prove to be a noteworthy literary figure,” poet Davy Wood.

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