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A World Away
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Your nights were cradled
in the boiling anguish
of knowing nothing, not
of your purpose and not
of the tide that brought
you from behind.
Your summers were jaded
by the men who beheld you
as one ripened, but luckily
robbed of suffering, and by the women
who left you, unable to withstand
your scissored breast, and spirit of
stubborn morbidity.
Take the gospel of your blessing
and of your balancing.
Take today what restores
yesterday’s hollow ache and cursing.
Take these days in your hands and feast
until every sour doubt dies and
you mourn their passing
no more.
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Copyright © 1997 by Allison Grayhurst
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First published in “Ygdrasil – A Journal of the Poetic Arts, VOL XXV, Issue 4, Number 288” April 2017
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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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