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No More Tears

~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 32 Comments

Do your eyes remain dry

cried out from
tears for the one
and one
and one
another one
and years of the countless

ones?

Those ones that were the most precious one
to someone.

My heart beats in you this day as tears run down my face.

Grief’s hand must change
what hope will never be able to.

Before all eyes have run dry.

– Ali Grimshaw 2018

Words are inadequate after another US school shooting. Still I try in the honor of those who fight for change and the grief that countless others must bare.

 

Locked up

~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 13 Comments

 

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Locked up, but not away

cherished in a closed loop.

Desire for the everlasting

secured with full disclosure

of our imperfections. Rusty

raw, real acceptance.

The very charged electrical

zing between our eyes that

speak across the loud crowd

like a room gone silent just for us.

Our eyes say, we are forever.

© Ali Grimshaw 2018

Photo take in Vernazza, Italy – Beloved

 

I hear it.

~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 24 Comments

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among the fallen plaster

disrepair, wrinkles of error

some may think irredeemable

 

not broken beyond salvage

surrendered in thick layers

your heart lies beating.

 

I hear it.

© Ali Grimshaw 2018

 

 

Heart wide open

~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 12 Comments

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Today I wrote a gift for you

my pen pulled my hand along, (it is braver than I)

it knows how to lay my heart wide open,

like a prairie to the sky

nowhere to hide, expansive and still

miles from adequate for what I wish to give.

© Ali Grimshaw

Originally shared February 2017

 

 

Taking the lid off.

~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 10 Comments

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Some see your failures

knocked down times in the dirt

I see your bravery for again and again

clear knowing of the cost to living

with your box lid on tight.

Determination to make your own view

a horizon few reach.

© Ali Grimshaw 2018

Photo by the talented Awar Meman. See his work on Instagram at pdxphotographer

Dependable

~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 14 Comments

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Upright they stand

(weathered and disregarded)

thinking themselves powerful.

Vulnerable to elements and eyes

yet never losing their dignity.

It is clarity of purpose that

leaves them self assured

while the landscape

is transformed around them.

They will forever remain

side by side, dependable

a community of stone.

 

© Ali Grimshaw 2017

Portugal 2017

 

Almost Tangible

~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 13 Comments

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He made the plain and simple

a view of miraculous. With just

a touch. All became encased overnight

by a spell of magic.

A landscape of tiny glass castles.

Her damp feet, nourished soul

left her with a wondering, as if

it almost never happened.

Had winter sun

melted her glass slippers away?

© Ali Grimshaw 2017

ALMOST

 

Cherish the light

~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 16 Comments

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When the crack widens

to an unknown view.

Fear seeks this space

between rough edges

quickly slides in

expanding like a balloon

a barricade of shadow to

seal the sides solid.

Yet seekers of light

will never be blinded

by such tricks of perspective.

When eyes look with love

illumination is present and

forgiveness sets another place

at the table.

© Ali Grimshaw 2017

Dedicated to the shortest day of the year, the miraculous world we live in and all of those who make the world a better place by giving their light.

Miraculous

Forgiving Fridays 

Winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere was at 8:28 AM today.