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Safe In You

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          In you, mystery is masked

by no one’s hood, has grown

away from the tyranny

of world and the gloom

of nations betrayed by

their gods.

 

          In you the inexplicable

takes a womb, a rhyme

from your sweet blood

flowing.

 

          And love, once pale and clay-like-cold,

selected you to partner my hope,

to resemble visions vacant of sentiment

and teach me to abandon

death and ill-nourished joys.

 

          Your love wraps around like a melody

undulating out from your exceeding

intensity, it wraps,

until I surrender, unable, unwilling

to move.

 

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Copyright © 1997 by Allison Grayhurst

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Published in “Asian Signature, Vol. 5, No. 1” July 2018

http://asiansignature.com/world-poetry/allison-grayhurst-2/

http://asiansignature.com/2018/06/page/3/

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First published in “Bewildering Stories, Issue 716” May 2017

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue716/blurb.html

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue716/safe_you.html

http://www.bewilderingstories.com/bios/grayhurst_allison_bio.html

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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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