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Journey & Drink
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There I sang and there I knew
my heart in all its wanderings.
Night fled from my shoulders,
travelled to where the saddened
watchers waited. It left me in my mousetrap,
chasing phantoms I never spun.
And there, the one thing
that was certain was the silence,
the ways of shrouds and sleepers.
Sinking from heights into sublime slavery,
I turned my back on choice.
I walked with spiders spiderlike, out
from my heavy tomb.
But it was not enough, to escape and then to
conform, but to be a brighter thing
than before the years swept my youth asunder.
To be where hardness is deserted
for the “yes, yes, I know.”
And between the extremes, a patient
acceptance and making ready.
Yesterday I knew my bread,
I knew of boredom hounding
with full and ruthless speed.
Today, I swallow
(away from envy and ambition)
holding close
my one and lasting
treasure.
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Copyright © 1997 by Allison Grayhurst
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.First published in “Nazar Look, Year Five, Issue 44” September 2015
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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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