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One Little Heart
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One little heart
graced with purity.
Yellow hair and happy eyes
and all the dreams of a child’s mind
like the shape of a butterfly in the drain,
or elephants in mushroom soup.
One little girl
dancing to sunshine
making eccentric faces
and laughing outloud.
One little child
painting pictures with her hands,
crying hard for babyhood
and spilling her fears on the ground.
One little heart
unknowing of all the gifts she gives,
of how much love she allows to live
and change this place called home.
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Copyright © 2004 by Allison Grayhurst
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First published in “Chicago Record Magazine”, July 2017
http://magazine-record.blogspot.ca/2017/07/
http://magazine-record.blogspot.ca/2017/07/eagle-bound-by-evil-kind-that-hasno.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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