Category Archives: Excerpts from Book 3 “Death and Other Possibilities” Edge Unlimited Publishing (2000)

Of Fears and Thankfulness

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Of Fears and Thankfulness

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Lines of dreams.

Inside the dream

I hold us close

though fear the passing

of our smiles.

Soon it will be like yesterday

never was, like all our

waiting and despair will be only

a mild memory left behind.

Soon you will be proud of your life

and know the taste of mercy in all

its natural splendour.

And I myself, with child, with you,

want us only to remain as close as

these nine years have brought us,

blending as a black cat with the darkness.

And though we both have lost irreplaceable loves,

both have felt the thunderbolt of death, on our knees,

beneath God’s greatness, there will be only sunshine

for a while, a coming out with sorrow in one hand

and beautiful faith in the other. I see the plan:

 

We will welcome in

the good change and move into the future

like two inseparable fireflies, each dependent

on the other’s flickering light.

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Copyright © 2000 by Allison Grayhurst

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Published in “Eskimo Pie” May 2017

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http://www.eskimopie.net/grayhurstmay17.htm

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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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before

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This child will come

like the spinning of a maypole –

strong colours entwined

and all her blood in unison

with the sun.

She will be a glorious bird,

sure of her place on this earth,

sure of the love that moves from

each breathing lung to the unseen stars,

tied to it all like water is to the shore,

like a night breeze coming to soothe

the summer day’s scorch.

She will be set free by her heart’s

irregular beat, unique in her beauty and

in her strength.

This child will come, welcomed

like a prayed-for dream.

We will hold her and know her –

our highest visions united then separated

into an infant being.

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.Copyright © 2000 by Allison Grayhurst

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Published in “Scarlet Leaf Review” June 2017

http://www.scarletleafreview.com/june-2017

http://www.scarletleafreview.com/poems9

http://www.scarletleafreview.com/poems9/allison-grayhurst-poems

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Published in “Eskimo Pie” May 2017

http://www.eskimopie.net/

http://www.eskimopie.net/grayhurstmay17.htm

.

You can listen to the poem by clicking below:

.

“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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Friendship

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Friendship

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With the loyal blood of friendship

I sing of one who has not betrayed.

I am wrapped in the distance of time

and space, but talk through

telephone wires to her brave

mind. We speak of things that

challenge our blindness and deepest core.

We throw light down the chimney

and braid the strings of our attachment.

In tragic bodily curse she discovers

the way to see. She knocks self-pity

to its knees and praises the mosquitoes going by.

She embraces her trials as good gifts,

though hurting like a simple child.

We have held the flag that divides

the foreigner from the native. We have let go.

These are things we have learned like a dandelion

stretches naturally towards the sun, like a fledgling

knows its mother’s private tune.

I am happy to call this blessing mine, to know

so strong a seed sprout and bloom in spite

of our incompatible roots.

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Copyright © 2000 by Allison Grayhurst

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Published in “New Mystics” April 2017

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.You can listen to the poem by clicking below:

 

“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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