Posted in Poetry 2010 - present, tagged ascension, birth, burning bush, cosmos, enlightenment, gravity, poem, Poetry, spirituality on March 27, 2018| 37 Comments »
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Beyond the unforgiving core
of gravity
she births herself
through molten rock
and hard-pan crust
into the space that soars
above the rant of tempests,
of burning bushes,
sun, moon,
the spin of stars
and far beyond
the fabled edges
of the universe
no longer up or down
but circling straight
into the riddle
of her Self.
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© 2013, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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A re-post from 2013.
This was rewritten from an old poem, published
in my 1976 chapbook “Living Color”.
Posted in haiku or senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged ascension, cedar, communion, haiku, nature, poem, poet, Tree on May 7, 2013| 8 Comments »
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Melt into its bark –
each loved tree will fold you in,
lift you to the sky.
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(c) 2013 Betty Hayes Albright
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Thanks to everyone who reads my blog, and for your kind comments.
I’ll continue to be scarce for a little while as we are selling our house, packing, cleaning, lamenting…. Hoping to take my elm trees with me.
Will still try to post and read blogs now and then – looking forward to the day when things get back to “normal”!
Posted in Poetry 1970's, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged ascension, freedom, gravity, infinity, poem, Poetry, spirituality on March 24, 2013| 28 Comments »
(Revised from a 1976 poem.)
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Beyond the unforgiving
core of gravity
she births herself
through molten rock
and hard-pan crust
into the atmosphere
above the rant
of storms,
the burning bush,
the moon and sun
and spin of stars
far beyond
the fabled edges
of the universe
no longer up or down
but circling straight
into the riddle
of her Self.
.
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© 2013, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
Posted in Deep Water, Poetry 1990's, tagged ascension, climbing, Love, meaning, mountain, Poetry on May 21, 2012| 22 Comments »
In her long climb
she stumbles on memories,
sends them clattering
to the ravine.
She slips on illusions
melting and dripping
like tiny prisms
in need of a light.
But on the sixth day
her true match is struck
and she finally sees:
nothing in heaven is moot.
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(c) 1995, 2012 Betty Hayes Albright
Posted in Deep Water, Poetry 1990's, tagged ascension, perspective, truth on November 28, 2011| 8 Comments »
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Like truth
you do not sink
into perspective,
rather do you rise.
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(c) 1995, 2012 Betty Hayes Albright
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