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Siblings

Posted on by Allison Grayhurst

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Siblings

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Her laughter breaks your fold,

wedding you to your primal joy.

Your extremes keep tune with her emotions,

setting them close to yours and your

canvas of sharp colours.

She has no veil. You have no hidden chamber,

just the charm of your sleepers

and your dimpled cheeks.

She loves you like kin should,

dancing for your comfort and crazed

intensity. She makes you

happy, her soft voice connected

to you like a necessary limb.

She is just a small child, and you, have not

even arrived that far, yet already

your steps are locked – each one’s light clearly

helping illuminate the other’s.

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Copyright © 2004 by Allison Grayhurst

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Published in “The Antarctic Journal” September 2017

http://www.antarcticajournal.com/poem-siblings-allison-grayhurst/

http://www.antarcticajournal.com/tag/grayhurst/

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First published in “Poet’s Corner”, June 2017

Siblings

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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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Found

Posted on by Allison Grayhurst

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Found

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While in a century surrendered to

a howling vision that bridged

the Earth to God,

while in the chaos of the self-assured

and beautiful, with obstacles of half-felt focus

and rough charm

dropping like heavy hail along my path,

I found you. I found a mind

that could not join the perpetual

and charred motions of loveless togetherness.

I found someone who held to truth like a child,

thick with depth and a rare sort of intensity.

Someone who hasn’t the wherewithal to deceive,

who is freed by his belief in lasting, evergrowing love,

who faced the terror and turned

to serve the implausible, only possible mercy.

 

I no longer cry from loneliness. The light is in

his body and all around is the labyrinth of his mystery.

My eleven-year lover who still haunts me

with his impassioned creative touch, who loves me like I am,

mostly bare and broken, though sometimes

high with gratitude, glittering,

at peace.

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Copyright © 2002 by Allison Grayhurst

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First published in “Treehouse Arts” July 2017

https://treehousearts.me/2017/07/26/poetry-found-by-allison-grayhurst/

https://treehousearts.me/2017/04/08/poetry-by-allison-grayhurst-no-raft-no-ocean-odie-and-under-the-rib-cage/

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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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We Hold These Persons

Posted on by Allison Grayhurst

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We Hold These Persons

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We hold these persons sacred

because she is larger than herself,

beautiful and simple, and he is the deepest moments

always on the surface.

              Hers is steadfast and tender,

hers is fierce and dignified.

Hers is the kind heart in open view

and the trust of a one so pure.

              His is the intaking soul and the outpouring

of complete vulnerability,

of defiant vulnerability.

His is the heart in someone else’s eyes.

His is a mischievous joy, a gentle hello,

the hug of a million sages,

the hurt of a drunkard’s unspoken truth.

              Hers is the rapture of every bird,

a voyage through a multi-layered atmosphere.

              His is raw and chiming.

              Hers is on pressure while soaring a light blue sky.

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Copyright © 2006 by Allison Grayhurst

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Published in “1947, a literary journal” July 2017

http://1947journal.tumblr.com/post/163350337679/we-hold-these-persons-by-allison-grayhurst

 

Published in “AWS Publishing” July 2017

 

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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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