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love is love

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Love is love, full of thirst and suffering

but stronger still than

the devil’s lyre. Once

my world was a wound of sleepwalking

and intangible thoughts.

Today, there is a voice under the sheets

that has learned the language of my private choir.

God seems distant, farther than imagination can conjure,

but I know it is only a fossil for tomorrow’s hands

and a new facet of a living faith.

Sometimes my ribs are drowning in foreign blood

and my hopes like colouring books

are torn. Sometimes I want to feel the light touch of a finger

and catch the nectar of kind breath.

Love is love, longing for more, longing

to know its kiss has reached another’s heart,

and then to have it returned

like never before.

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Copyright © 2002 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “Poet’s Corner” May 2017

love is love

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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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