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The Poetry of Allison Grayhurst – completed works from 1988 to 2017 (Volume 1 of 5)
(2017, Edge Unlimited Publishing; ASIN: B076ZTQNX5; ISBN-13: 978-1978078833; ISBN-10: 1978078838)
(Journey of the Awakening; The Longing To Be; Death and other Possibilities)
Journey of the Awakening
(1997, Edge Unlimited Publishing; ASIN: B00CH6WO5Y; ISBN-10: 1478189339; ISBN-13: 978-1478189336)
Links to read each poem within the book:
The Unfolding
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/03/08/the-unfolding/
As I Sleep
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/02/24/as-i-sleep/
Welcome The Death
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/17/welcome-the-death-2/
Seizing Time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/12/18/seizing-time/
Being Followed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/12/being-followed/
Young Visionary
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/13/young-visionary/
Liquid Grey
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/18/liquid-grey/
Thieves Of Muse
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/04/16/thieves-of-muse/
Through That Day
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/14/through-that-day/
This Is Not To Suffer
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/20/this-is-not-to-suffer/
On Tour
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/06/on-tour/
Adrift
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/12/22/adrift-2/
Truth To Be Told
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/13/truth-to-be-told/
Not Enough
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/27/not-enough/
Desire
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/29/desire-2/
For Waldo
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/15/for-waldo/
When Worlds Collapse
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/16/when-worlds-collapse/
Oldest of Wars Between All Lonely Breasts
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/12/oldest-of-wars-between-all-lonely-breasts/
Placeless
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/27/placeless/
Beach
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/06/12/beach-3/
Beggar Island
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/16/beggar-island/
Shyla
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/28/shyla/
Bless The Fallen
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/05/11/bless-the-fallen/
Dreams Renounced
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/27/dreams-renounced/
Missing You
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/17/missing-you/
So Much Glory Stillborn
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/16/so-much-glory-stillborn/
Bonded
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/06/bonded/
Bed Fellow
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/09/29/bed-fellow/
Shell of a Serpent
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/07/shell-of-a-serpent-2/
It is not like hell
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/07/it-is-not-like-hell-2/
When One Falters
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/14/when-one-falters/
Epitaph
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/06/epitaph/
Two Hundred Years Gone
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/28/two-hundred-years-gone/
If This My Person . . .
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/20/if-this-my-person-2/
With These Things
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/03/01/with-these-things/
When We Spoke Again
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/29/when-we-spoke-again/
After Rejection . . . (if only)
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/19/after-rejection-if-only/
To Die For The Heart’s Illusions
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/23/to-die-for-the-hearts-illusions/
Dancers
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/07/16/dancers/
You came to me
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/23/you-came-to-me/
If You Wait . . .
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/26/if-you-wait/
Blood-red Symphony
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/21/blood-red-symphony/
I Lived an Error
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/28/i-lived-in-error/
This Love We Hold
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/11/04/this-love-we-hold/
I Dream This Shelter, This Precipice
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/30/i-dream-this-shelter-this-precipice/
Country Ride
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/27/country-ride/
Unmasking the Bone
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/22/unmasking-the-bone/
Have Faith In The Fall
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/23/have-faith-in-the-fall/
In a Room With Somebodies
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/10/in-a-room-with-somebodies/
To Walk Without Shape or Sound
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/07/to-walk-without-shape-or-sound/
He of Fear and Hunger
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/24/he-of-fear-and-hunger/
Thin Rope To Hold
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/31/thin-rope-to-hold/
I Watch My Shelter Fall
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/26/i-watch-my-shelter-fall/
No Telling
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/20/no-telling/
In Some Uncertain Future
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/21/in-some-uncertain-future/
As Far As This Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/02/as-far-as-this-light/
Promise
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/09/promise/
The Foliage of Our Music
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/12/19/the-foliage-of-our-music/
Receiving
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/07/18/receiving/
Battleground on the Inside
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/22/battleground-on-the-inside/
Crowned
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/02/05/crowned/
Seeking the Balanced Degree
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/02/21/seeking-the-balanced-degree/
Rain in the morning
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/03/13/rain-in-the-morning/
For This Face Only You Could Alter
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/02/for-this-face-only-you-could-alter/
Love Unknown
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/08/love-unknown/
Christened
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/09/christened/
I Hope Your Dreams Anew
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/10/i-hope-your-dreams-anew/
This Wound, This Reminder
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/11/this-wound-this-reminder/
Because of course
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/21/because-of-course-2/
As My Blindness Burns
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/23/as-my-blindness-burns/
To Learn the Scarlet Vision
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/12/to-learn-the-scarlet-vision/
When This We Feel
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/23/when-this-we-feel/
They told me of
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/24/they-told-me-of/
Which Way Descending?
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/25/which-way-descending/
On Foot
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/26/on-foot/
A World Away
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/18/a-world-away/
Safe In You
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/06/safe-in-you/
My colours would be grey
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/02/my-colours-would-be-grey/
Stung
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/21/stung/
Family
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/12/family/
Journey & Drink
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/14/journey-drink/
The Longing To Be
(1998, Edge Unlimited Publishing; ASIN: B00CH94ZNK; ISBN-10: 1478197684; ISBN-13: 978-1478197683)
Links to read each poem within the book:
The Longing to Be
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/11/26/the-longing-to-be/
These I See
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/19/these-i-see/
Crush This Colour
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/11/01/crush-this-colour/
Together Journeying
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/12/21/together-journeying/
First Snow of Winter
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/11/27/first-snow-of-winter-2/
In His Arms
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/06/in-his-arms/
Jealousy
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/12/jealousy/
With arms stretched,
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/20/with-arms-stretched/
In The Days
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/19/in-the-days/
Swim
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/02/04/swim/
He is
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/03/10/he-is/
Once
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/05/once/
The Stone-frame
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/18/the-stone-frame-2/
Nothing Without You
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/28/nothing-without-you/
Days To Break The Richest Dream
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/11/17/days-to-break-the-richest-dream/
A Month Unthawed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/11/15/a-month-unthawed/
New Lovers
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/27/new-lovers/
Donkey
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/06/donkey/
As The Serpents Scatter
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/03/as-the-serpents-scatter/
Possessive
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/03/possessive/
Party
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/20/party/
The Jesus Fire
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/06/10/the-jesus-fire/
Chosen Kin
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/04/chosen-kin/
Birthright
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/13/birthright/
Lessons at the End of the Rope
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/07/lessons-at-the-end-of-the-rope/
Nights With You
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/05/nights-with-you/
Imprisoned
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/07/imprisoned-2/
In Spite of Vows
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/07/25/in-spite-of-vows/
You are
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/12/27/poem-published-in-the-blue-hour/
Where Gold Is Blood
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/05/where-gold-is-blood-2/
The Storm That Saves
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/06/the-storm-that-saves/
Of Body and Spirit
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/07/of-body-and-spirit/
Wedding
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/08/wedding/
Three Blessings in the Shade
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/04/three-blessings-in-the-shade/
Like the Colour Blue
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/03/like-the-colour-blue/
The Tension and Terror of Being
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/03/the-tension-and-terror-of-being-2/
Without Opportunity
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/05/12/without-opportunity/
Matriarch
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/11/05/matriarch/
What Day?
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/29/what-day/
Dying Sculptor
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/15/dying-sculptor/
Show of Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/10/04/show-of-light-2/
Baptized
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/16/babtized/
By Water
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/09/by-water/
Here, I am lifted
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/10/here-i-am-lifted/
Upon These Hours Sleeping
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/11/upon-these-hours-sleeping/
In Praise of Walt Whitman
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/03/in-praise-of-walt-whitman/
Addiction
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/08/addiction/
This
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/13/this/
Child Unconceived
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/18/child-unconceived/
Animal Sanctuary
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/12/01/animal-sanctuary/
The Last Walk of the Mayor of Casterbridge
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/07/04/the-last-walk-of-the-mayor-of-casterbridge/
The Path I Followed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/14/the-path-i-followed/
Under the Coupling Clouds
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/06/19/under-the-coupling-clouds/
The Aging Artist
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/12/the-aging-artist/
Surrender
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/02/surrender/
The Quenchable Drain Within
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/04/07/the-quenchable-drain-within/
Second Farewell
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/15/second-farewell/
Every Hope Inhaled
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/29/21866/
Heart’s Exchange
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/08/hearts-exchange/
Through This Strand of Time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/30/through-this-strand-of-time/
When I Close My Eyes
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/02/when-i-close-my-eyes/
Unrelenting Groove
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/16/unrelenting-groove/
Walk Low
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/09/13/walk-low/
Blood Spent
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/22/blood-spent/
The Hope of Lovers
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/23/the-hope-of-lovers/
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/20/elizabeth-barrett-browning/
Quebec City
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/06/02/quebec-city/
The leach that reaches
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/17/the-leach-that-reaches/
My Heart Creeps
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/04/my-heart-creeps/
Leaning in the Weeds
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/02/leaning-in-the-weeds/
elegy of this day being
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/12/elegyof-this-day-being/
Heritage
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/24/heritage/
Dream
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/26/dream/
Purest Obedience
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/27/purest-obedience/
Overcoming
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/04/overcoming/
Because of Yesterday
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/07/because-of-yesterday/
Breaking the Circle
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/05/breaking-the-circle/
Once I Cried
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/08/once-i-cried/
Heart-bearing
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/18/heart-bearing/
path
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/01/06/poem-published-in-lit-up-magazine-2/
Of The Same Cloth
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/12/of-the-same-cloth-2/
Face
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/08/face/
After twelve
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/06/28/after-twelve/
Near Daybreak
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/05/near-daybreak/
In a Stillness
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/31/in-a-stillness/
Praying Mantis
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/11/16/praying-mantis/
Nightmare
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/02/25/nightmare/
Out of Poverty
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/03/26/out-of-poverty/
For a Lifetime
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/09/for-a-lifetime/
From the Corner of My Eye
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/03/from-the-corner-of-my-eye/
Everything Happens
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/28/everything-happens-2/
Beyond Instinct or Dreams
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/01/18/beyond-instinct-or-dreams-2/
Death and other Possibilities
(2000, Edge Unlimited Publishing; ASIN: B00CHB8M0K; ISBN-10: 1478208163; ISBN-13: 978-1478208167)
Links to read each poem within the book:
Sheaves of Time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/05/18/sheaves-of-time-2/
Between Two Places
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/19/between-two-places-2/
Change
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/19/change/
In Time
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/27/in-time-2/
Within This Hour
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/28/within-this-hour-2/
Falling
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/05/19/falling/
Replenished
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/05/10/replenished/
The Voice That Calls To Me
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/09/01/the-voice-that-calls-to-me/
You Were There
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/12/03/you-were-there-2/
In The Tomb
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/19/in-the-tomb/
Without Light
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/20/without-light/
To Lie With Luck Again
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/21/to-lie-with-luck-again/
Dark Wave
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/22/dark-wave/
The Ghosts Around My Bed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/23/the-ghosts-around-my-bed/
Home
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/10/home-2/
My Love is Waiting
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/04/my-love-is-waiting/
Without Covers
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2011/10/30/without-covers/
The Gift
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/21/the-gift-2/
Through the thick middle
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/24/through-the-thick-middle/
A Day For My Own
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/05/24/a-day-for-my-own-2/
Whole
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/11/whole/
Morning
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/25/morning/
Things I Must Learn
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/18/things-i-must-learn-3/
New Commitment
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/09/20/new-commitment-2/
Spiral
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/04/17/spiral/
Dad (an eulogy)
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/04/22/dad-an-eulogy/
In the Gully of Things
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/03/31/in-the-gully-of-things/
Open
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/18/open/
Friendship
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/14/friendship/
Like a harmonica
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/12/06/like-a-harmonica/
Pregnant After a Death
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/07/pregnant-after-a-death/
Imagination
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/27/imagination/
Bright
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/15/bright/
Transfigured
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2014/07/22/transfigured/
In My Bones
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/10/in-my-bones/
My Place
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/10/02/my-place/
I Found You Singing
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/17/i-found-you-singing/
Recovered
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/05/09/recovered-2/
Silence
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/14/silence/
Like A Wave
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/11/like-a-wave/
In This Garden
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/10/12/in-this-garden/
before
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/04/before/
The Gentle Seed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/04/01/the-gentle-seed/
As One
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/04/01/as-one/
Of Fears and Thankfulness
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/05/of-fears-and-thankfulness/
On the bed
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/26/on-the-bed/
In The Fire
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/06/in-the-fire/
Eight Months
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/07/eight-months/
BloodsuckerDeath
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/20/bloodsuckerdeath/
Pregnant
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/08/pregnant/
Almost to the Other Side
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/21/almost-to-the-other-side/
When the last tie is broken
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2012/06/23/when-the-last-tie-is-broken/
I still think of you
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/04/19/i-still-think-of-you/
At Sunrise
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/07/at-sunrise/
If We Are So Lucky
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/09/if-we-are-so-lucky/
Seeing Shadows
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/27/seeing-shadows/
Lifted
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/28/lifted/
Anniversary
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/13/anniversary/
A Month Before Birth
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/10/a-month-before-birth/
Autumn
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/11/autumn/
We Walk Again
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/12/we-walk-again/
In Preparation
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/16/in-preparation/
Without Hunger
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/22/without-hunger/
my child
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/17/my-child/
Not a Ghost
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/05/06/not-a-ghost/
Break the Chain
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/21/break-the-chain/
When Sleep Will Not Come
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/02/29/when-sleep-will-not-come/
Spring
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/08/spring/
Our Little Pushkin
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/08/27/our-little-pushkin/
Breaking Through
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/08/09/breaking-through/
Stale Goodbye
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/01/stale-goodbye/
In the centre
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/23/in-the-centre/
Sweet
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/07/18/sweet/
A Moment of Clarity
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/02/a-moment-of-clarity/
Daughter
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/29/daughter/
The Road Chosen
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/03/03/the-road-has-chosen/
Of Manna and God
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/05/30/25434/
It is
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/24/it-is/
What Is Good
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2017/01/25/what-is-good/
A Matter of Risk
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2016/06/01/a-matter-of-risk/
A Day
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2015/01/31/a-day/
An Infant
https://allisongrayhurst.com/2013/08/30/an-infant/