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Heart-bearing

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              Here our lover’s seed

speaks secretly from its shoots of giving rays.

              Here there is no drug-red hurt,

no drowning in the juices of jealousy.

              Here no lightning permeates our veins,

no kiss is given for convenience’s

sake, but all is like a wild lily that

brightens with its orange bud the eye

that rests and observes.

              Gentle is the itch of my restlessness.

Gentle is the way you hold my hand.

I am raised, I am the first fulfilled.

Flood your breath around me

and together in life we will shape

our possible world.

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Copyright © 1998 by Allison Grayhurst

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.Published in “Lunar Lit Poetry Page” November 2015

http://lunarlit.blogspot.ca/2015/11/heart-bearing-poem-by-allison-grayhurst.html

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Published in “Wizards of Words, Poetrydig” January 2016

http://poetrydig.com/poems/poem.read.php?id=686

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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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Review of The Longing To Be: 

“The contents of Allison Grayhurst’s book The Longing To Be are both personal and universal and are described in such thematic and golden terms that one can see that a lot of thought has gone into each line. The poems are written mostly in free verse throughout, with both rhythm and soul weaved into them. For some poems, the layout seems experimental, and there is definitely a playfulness in the way that the words and verses fall onto the page. Others do conform to a “norm”, whatever that is. All are dramatic and thoughtful. These are layered poems with new horizons presented to the reader in every re-read. The effect is to keep things fresh with poems that constantly surprise in spite, and because of, the number of times being read. I thoroughly recommend The Longing To Be as a poetry book to study carefully and cherish far into the future,” poet Brian Shirra.

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By Water

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As flesh pours into flesh,

at once gentle, then convulsing,

she burdens onto him

her conscious mouth to let it be

a mouth of primal need, needing his

fingers and belly, his lips of perfect

artistry. She burdens onto him

her womanhood, to be

voicelessly living like long ago,

before shame and analysis was known.

Finding death in such miraculous merging,

finding immortality in the immediacy

of loving without symbol, they hold together

like a long-sung note,

delivered.

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Copyright © 1998 by Allison Grayhurst

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.Published in “Temporary Lunatic Literary Zine” November 2015

http://lunaticlitpage.blogspot.ca/2015/11/by-water-poem-by-allison-grayhurst.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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Review of The Longing To Be: 

“The contents of Allison Grayhurst’s book The Longing To Be are both personal and universal and are described in such thematic and golden terms that one can see that a lot of thought has gone into each line. The poems are written mostly in free verse throughout, with both rhythm and soul weaved into them. For some poems, the layout seems experimental, and there is definitely a playfulness in the way that the words and verses fall onto the page. Others do conform to a “norm”, whatever that is. All are dramatic and thoughtful. These are layered poems with new horizons presented to the reader in every re-read. The effect is to keep things fresh with poems that constantly surprise in spite, and because of, the number of times being read. I thoroughly recommend The Longing To Be as a poetry book to study carefully and cherish far into the future,” poet Brian Shirra.

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Wedding

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Wake the house, the ants and dandelions too!

              His eyes are bright as candy,

they warm my earth and sky.

              His hands deliver comfort

like a child’s, they bud with open hunger

and reach with the strength of a grail.

              His arms are sails bounded

for adventure.

              His legs dash the firmament

into many stars.

One day, this day he vows his everlasting to me.

Wake the music from each lung and finger!

Wake the oyster from its shell!

Time yields to our togetherness.

Time quenches our blood in Spring.

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Copyright © 1998 by Allison Grayhurst

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.Published in “Profiles in Poetry Literary Zine” November 2015

http://profilesinpoetry.blogspot.ca/2015/11/wedding-poem-by-allison-grayhurst.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.

.

Review of The Longing To Be: 

“The contents of Allison Grayhurst’s book The Longing To Be are both personal and universal and are described in such thematic and golden terms that one can see that a lot of thought has gone into each line. The poems are written mostly in free verse throughout, with both rhythm and soul weaved into them. For some poems, the layout seems experimental, and there is definitely a playfulness in the way that the words and verses fall onto the page. Others do conform to a “norm”, whatever that is. All are dramatic and thoughtful. These are layered poems with new horizons presented to the reader in every re-read. The effect is to keep things fresh with poems that constantly surprise in spite, and because of, the number of times being read. I thoroughly recommend The Longing To Be as a poetry book to study carefully and cherish far into the future,” poet Brian Shirra.

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