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Spring Too
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In this year when lovers lay
fossilized in engulfing anger
when only the born-rich thrive in the noonday air,
is the same year of leavened kindness,
when parents scatter the goods from their pockets
to teach the lesson of surrender.
The mountain is rejoicing as it merges
with the rising flood. The cornfields
are trembling with fire like a beacon in
miles of darkness. Heaven is a tale that never ends,
is a lifelong pilgrimage, is the tongue
of a fattened snake.
Spinning, the sun, the quenching breeze.
Spinning, the crow on the chapel tower
and the woman digging in her yard.
It is nice to feel sand between fingers,
to kiss the cheeks of a loving child.
Home is an autographed prize,
is starlight swirling like a kaleidoscope
in the folds of my mouth.
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Copyright © 2002 by Allison Grayhurst
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First published in “Mount Parable Poetry Forum” November 2015
http://mountparable.blogspot.ca/2015/11/spring-too-poem-by-allison-grayhurst.html
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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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