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A New Destiny

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Like a love I cannot speak,

this feeling coils around as a whip,

scorching my skin with its disease.

Break now, like the tense are broken

by gentleness

or the weak are consumed by

merciless rage, raging in waters

terrorizing and sleepless.

Proud of the years spent feasting

on turmoil and prophetic visions. Proud

to savour the call of despair, to have kissed that

face that drove the dream into the heavens.

 

Inertia. On my back, the rolling passions of

frustration and labour, the illness of mourning

and re-mourning the mortal end. Sing like an animal

that feels her offspring warm against her limbs.

Sing for the chance to tremble with surrender,

and live like this – a body

sown in time.

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Copyright © 2002 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “Bursting Plethora of Rainbow Colors”, 2012

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You can listen to the poem by clicking below:

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“Allison Grayhurst intertwines a potent spirituality throughout her work so that each poem is not simply a statement or observation, but a revelation that demands the reader’s personal involvement. Grayhurst’s poetic genius is profound and evident. Her voice is uniquely authentic, undeniable in its dignified vulnerability as it is in its significance,” Kyp Harness, singer/songwriter, author.

“Allison Grayhurst’s poems are like cathedrals witnessing and articulating in unflinching graphic detail the gritty angst and grief of life, while taking it to rare clarity, calm and comfort. Grayhurst’s work is haunting, majestic and cleansing, often leaving one breathless in the wake of its intelligence, hope, faith and love amidst the muck of life. Many of Allison Grayhurst’s poems are simply masterpieces. Grayhurst’s poetry is a lighthouse of intelligent honour… indeed, intelligence rips through her work like white water,” Taylor Jane Green, Registered Spiritual Psychotherapist and author.

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