(front cover photo © by Allison Grayhurst)

“The poems included in Allison Grayhurst’s poetry collection Running, lightwave riding reveal an impressive artistic perfection and creative energy. The poems are full of lyrical force and show freshness of style. No doubt, this is a significant work. The poems have great power of observation and originality of imagination,” Dr. Karunesh Kumar Agarwal publisher Cyberwit.net

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Running, lightwave riding

(2023, Cyberwit; ISBN-10: ‎8196316127; ISBN-13: ‎978-8196316129; ISBN-10‏: ‎8182539870; ISBN-13: ‎978-8182539877)

Links to read each poem within the book:

The Letting Go

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2021/03/15/the-letting-go-a-five-part-poem/

Egg

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2022/07/23/egg/

Child

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2022/04/15/child-2/

Cage of Many Pockets and Layers

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2021/04/03/cage-of-many-pockets-and-layers/

No grief, No madness

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2021/03/24/no-grief-no-madness/

Poet

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2022/06/29/poet/

Monarchs

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2022/07/13/monarchs/

My love

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2022/06/04/my-love/

Stand

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2022/07/14/stand/

Visceral

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2022/08/01/visceral/

Sparrow

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2022/08/07/sparrow/

Blackout

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/07/blackout/

I Stand Up

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/26/i-stand-up/

Veiled

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/09/veiled/

Useless

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/06/useless/

Interchange – warm running

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/05/interchange-warm-running/

The Spell was a Shield

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/17/the-spell-was-a-shield/

Slap

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/15/slap/

Crack the Exterior, Interior Resonance

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/14/crack-the-exterior-interior-resonance/

A King

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/16/a-king/

Marsh

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/10/marsh/

Maple Syrup

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/11/maple-syrup/

Gift

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/12/gift/

Rabbit

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/20/rabbit/

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/30/if/

You Heard Me

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/28/you-heard-me/

Zen Virgin

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/27/zen-virgin/

Mark it down

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/22/mark-it-down/

Pasture

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/24/pasture/

Learning

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/04/learning/

Immersed

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/25/immersed/

Outline

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/21/outline/

Footsteps

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/18/footsteps/

Jesus in the Marrow

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/23/jesus-in-the-marrow/

Intertwined

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/13/intertwined/

This end

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/06/02/this-end/

Homecoming II

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/06/01/homecoming-2/

Jesus Holds

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/31/jesus-holds/

Not a Mirage

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/19/not-a-mirage/

Against Gravity

https://allisongrayhurst.com/2023/05/03/against-gravity/

Back of book quotes

“Allison Grayhurst’s poetry is a translucent, ethereal dream in which words push through the fog, always searching, struggling, and reaching for the powerful soul at its heart. Her work is vibrant and shockingly original,” Beach Holme Publishers.

“When I read Allison Grayhurst’s poetry, I am compelled by the intensity and strength of her spirituality. Her poems undulate through paradoxes with much feeling and often leave me breathless, shaken. Grayhurst’s poems are both beautiful and difficult to behold,” Anna Mark, poet and teacher.

“Allison Grayhurst’s poetic prose is insightful, enwrapping, illuminating and brutally truthful. It probes the nature of the human spirit, relationships, spirituality and God. It is sung as the clearest song is sung within a cathedral by choir. It is whispered as faintly as a heartbroken goodbye. It is alive with the life of a thousand birds in flight within the first glint of morning sun. It is as solemn as the sad-sung ballad of a noble death. Read at your peril. You will never look at this world in quite the same way again. Your eye will instinctively search the sky for eagles and scan the dark earth for the slightest movement of smallest ant, your heart will reach for tall mountains, bathe in the most intimate of passions and in the grain and grit of our earth. Such is Allison Grayhurst. Such is her poetry,” Eric M. Vogt, poet and author.

Review of Running, lightwave riding

Karunesh Kumar Agrawal

This poem evoke a sense of weariness and longing for something better.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2023

This shelter is threadbare
like a low-battery flashlight,
barely making a dark corner visible.
I sang to find an easeful slumber.
I left my empty bin by the road,
begging for a refill.
Summer is behind me.
The grass is torn
from tiny claws and pecking.
I live below the breathing line
and there is no way to rise higher
or join a harmony to unfasten my chains.
This poem evoke a sense of weariness and longing for something better. It seems like we’re expressing a feeling of being trapped or confined in a less than ideal situation, both physically and emotionally. The imagery of a threadbare shelter, a low-battery flashlight, and an empty bin all convey a sense of lack and depletion.The line about singing to find easeful slumber suggests that we may be seeking solace or comfort through self-expression, using music or singing as a form of escape or release. However, the mention of the empty bin by the road, begging for a refill, implies a longing for sustenance or fulfillment that remains unmet.