My Mother’s Sky
(2024, Edge Unlimited Publishing; ISBN: 9798329439182; ASIN: B0D81NNRMJ; ISBN: 9798329462050)
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Tag Archives: palliative care
What is
What is
What is the end
but a decision made
on a balcony, in a storm,
in solitude – evoking the
eternal and finite as one, in one
swift movement?
What is peace
but a landscape
with satellite trees and a warm moon
caressing the grasslands and the river
beside the grasslands humming
the electric-nerve sound
of its existence?
What is the beginning
but emptiness
after a flood or a fire, giving back
to God what has always been God’s
and then standing, maybe stepping,
free and unprotected from gravity
and from time?
What is it now
to watch my mother changing,
deteriorating, needing more and more,
hurting more and more?
To be privileged to love her, to be
her sun and star and the daughter
her great soul deserves as it readies
to depart, as it takes this journey –
pitching clear one minute and confused
the next, underlining the creases in books,
reading out loud the words of our Jesus –
grace so grand and divine, it is terrifying
for both of us, knowing what is ahead,
trusting that great love to carry her
mercifully, and even tenderly,
through that final door.
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Copyright © 2024 by Allison Grayhurst
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Published in “International Web Post” (in Italian and in English) February 2025
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Published in “Jeju The Pen Literature” (translation in Korean) October 2024
https://allisongrayhurst.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Jeju-The-Pen-Literature.pdf
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Published in “Saturno Magazine” (translation in Italian) November 2024
https://www.saturnomagazine.com/dettagli-articolo.php?id=594
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Published in “Gazeta Destinacioni” (translation in Albanian) October 2024
https://gazetadestinacioni.al/poetja-allison-grayhurst-perktheu-irma-kurti/
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Published in “Orfeu.AL” (translation in Albanian) October 2024
https://orfeu.al/allison-grayhurst-shqiperoi-irma-kurti
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Published in “Italia News Media – Alessandria Today” (in English and in Italian) September 2024
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First published in “Raven Cage Zine” March 2024
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KziCD-bCLEHpu7HuqF-ipNutR-5Bf_Gx/view?pli=1
https://allisongrayhurst.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/RavenCageZine88.pdf
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“International Award “Golden Eagle”
4th EDITION – Section -D – FOREIGN POETRY TRANSLATED INTO
INTALIAN
Awarded to
ALLISON GRAYHURST
THIRD PLACE EX AEQUO
“WHAT IS” (CANADA)
A beautiful and moving poem, built on rhetorical questions that reveal to readers the painful and tormented soul of the author in the long and eternal but equally limited path of life. The verses gain strength and guide towards change and transformation, especially of the human being. And this is how affliction is born like a wild gem, while a daughter looks with the clear eyes of the soul at a person as dear as her mother who transforms and becomes more fragile. A daughter who despite everything feels she has the privilege of loving her mother, of being her sun and her star. As the days go by, both understand where this slow but unstoppable journey leads, with the awareness that the end is not far away and with the daughter’s wish that this great love accompanies her mother on a serene journey towards the last door. IRMA KURTI
President of the jury AQUILA D’ORO
Arianna Miorelli
Aubrell
Rovereto, 14.12.2024
The President of the AQUILA D’ORO International Award
Klaudio Findiku”
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You can listen to the poem by clicking below:
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