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If I Get There – Poems of Faith and Doubt, a collection: The poetry of Allison Grayhurst
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Book 11
If I Get There – Poems of Faith and Doubt, a collection
(2012, Edge Unlimited Publishing; ASIN: B00CIZQGI0; ISBN-10: 1479348740; ISBN-13: 978-1479348749)
Links to read each poem within the book:
Bless The Fallen
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/05/11/bless-the-fallen/
Receiving
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/07/18/receiving/
For This Face Only You Could Alter
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/02/for-this-face-only-you-could-alter/
Nothing Without You
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/28/nothing-without-you/
Safe In You
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/06/safe-in-you/
The Jesus Fire
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/10/the-jesus-fire/
Lessons at the End of the Rope
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/07/lessons-at-the-end-of-the-rope/
Baptized
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/16/babtized/
This
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/13/this/
The Quenchable Drain Within
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/04/07/the-quenchable-drain-within/
When I Close My Eyes
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/02/when-i-close-my-eyes/
Walk Low
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/09/13/walk-low/
Purest Obedience
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/27/purest-obedience/
Near Daybreak
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/05/near-daybreak/
In A Stillness
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/31/in-a-stillness/
Sheaves of Time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/05/18/sheaves-of-time-2/
Within This Hour
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/28/within-this-hour-2/
Falling
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/19/falling/
You Were There
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/12/03/you-were-there-2/
The Gift
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/21/the-gift-2/
New Commitment
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/20/new-commitment-2/
Bright
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/15/bright/
Recovered
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/05/09/recovered-2/
A Moment of Clarity
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/02/a-moment-of-clarity/
The Voice We Love
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/13/the-voice-we-love/
Because of You
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/04/because-of-you/
The God I Follow
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/20/the-god-i-follow/
On Edge
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/02/on-edge/
The Last One
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/13/the-last-one/
As Mad As Mine
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/24/as-mad-as-mine/
It is not new
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/06/it-is-not-new/
Bellythroes of God
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/30/bellythroes-of-god/
At Last
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/16/at-last/
This Love
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/26/this-love/
Call Me By Name
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/19/call-me-by-name/
In The Name
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/22/in-the-name/
Pulled from the Lifeless Waters
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/24/pulled-from-the-lifeless-waters/
I Know That
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/06/i-know-that/
Until The Ladder Shows
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/02/06/until-the-ladder-shows/
Always There
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/05/13/always-there/
One Grain
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/29/one-grain/
Slice the pony
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/03/21/slice-the-pony/
Jesus in the Counter-Stream
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/29/jesus-in-the-counter-stream/
Turned
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/28/turned/
Friend
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/06/friend/
The Hand That Came
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/22/the-hand-that-came/
The Flood
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/06/26/the-flood-2/
One Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/05/one-light/
The bough breaks
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/14/the-bough-breaks/
Another Level
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/14/another-level/
My Flower
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/05/my-flower/
We Ask For Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/01/07/we-ask-for-light/
Faith
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/20/faith/
The Luminous Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/25/the-luminous-light/
Where Love Draws The Line
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/29/where-love-draws-the-line/
In The Thighs
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/03/21/in-the-thighs/
Blind Spot
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/13/blind-spot/
Easter Faith
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/09/02/easter-faith/
Choice.
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/28/choice/
Nothing
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/27/nothing/
Tomorrow
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/25/tomorrow/
On My Belly
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/07/06/on-my-belly/
I Was Soothed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/29/i-was-soothed/
I Try To Breathe
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/09/i-try-to-breathe/
Drove Me Down
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/03/drove-me-down/
Listening
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/24/listening/
Letting it out
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/17/letting-it-out/
Let the wound not win
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/16/let-the-wound-not-win/
Jesus in my basement
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/15/jesus-in-my-basement/
deeper layer of love
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/25/deeper-layer-of-love/
The Long Pitstop
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/08/the-long-pitstop/
Heaven must be active
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/02/21/heaven-must-be-active-not-innate/
Renaissance
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/11/26/renaissance-2/
This Hope
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/05/07/new-poem-not-a-poem/
Eagle
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/12/eagle/
This spirit is speaking
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/15/this-spirit-is-speaking-2/
Impossible, Only Possible Way
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/17/impossible-only-possible-way/
Speak
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/15/speak/
Covenant
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/18/covenant/
I have to push deep,
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/11/i-have-to-push-deep/
A Way To Joy
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/13/a-way-to-joy/
Hell is High
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/22/hell-is-high/
If I Get There
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/19/26016/
No Ground
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/16/no-ground/
I let go
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/28/i-let-go/
Bare Essentials
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/05/bare-essentials/
On Solid Ground
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/31/on-solid-ground/
Lament
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/12/10/lament/
Fidelity
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/02/18/fidelity/
Edified
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/23/edified/
Will you keep me
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/17/will-you-keep-me/
Grace mightier than Natural Law
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/16/grace-mightier-than-natural-law/
Structures I pretend to own
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/18/structures-i-pretend-to-own/
Rapture When Walking
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/01/31/rapture-when-walking-2/
Emptied
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/02/16/emptied/
I heard a poet say
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/03/09/i-heard-a-poet-say/
Back of the book quotes
“A river is in Allison Grayhurst’s poems. Sometimes it rages over boulders hidden beneath rapids. Sometimes it is as calm and placid as a summer day reflecting skies so blue they are as unusual as a Stellar Jay’s wings. Sometimes it is as unpredictable as the rhythm of clouds gathering before a storm. Made up of words, emotions, thoughts, thoughts crystallized into ideas, this river, like most rivers, is unforgettable. One poem cascades after another into a flood of poetry. As in the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Allison Grayhurst’s work can be dense with meanings hidden beneath the flowing surface of words. The emotions in her poems sear with the power of Sylvia Plath. One layer reflects light over another layer of thought and emotion that leads to yet another layer. This is as serious a poet as is writing poetry today. For those adventurous enough to venture into a river wild, deep, calm, beautiful, shadowed, light, filled with moods and emotions of both an inner and the earth’s landscape, then this is a journey worth taking. It leads to experiences that have the texture and substance of life,” Thomas Davis, poet, educator, scholar, playwright, and novelist.
“When I read Allison Grayhurst’s poetry, I am compelled by the intensity and strength of her spirituality. Her personal experience of God drives her poetry. With honesty and vulnerability, she fleshes out the profound mystery of knowing at once both the beauty and terror of God’s love, both freedom and obedience, deep joy and sorrow, both being deeply rooted in but also apart from the world, and lastly, both life and death. Her poems undulate through these paradoxes with much feeling and often leave me breathless, shaken. Allison Grayhurst’s poems are both beautiful and difficult to behold,” Anna Mark, poet and teacher.