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Growing Up
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Walk and find
the courage to continue on,
wading in the stream before you.
Walk and blend with people
who are not like you, who contain
their nightmares in a jar and hold them out only
to project on to countless others.
Walk and rise from the bloodwind,
a little to the left, a little to the right,
rise from the blinding grief of heartache,
from the dull and nameless faces surrounding
your golden aura, rise and find kindness where there was
once disconnection, rise and find appreciation
in the pockets of the sad and confused.
Walk this day
like you always do, driven by a higher calling,
affected, but not overcome, sleeping little
in this holiest of holy lands.
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Copyright © 2010 by Allison Grayhurst
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First published in “Now Then Manchester – Word Life, Issue 45” August 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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