[stylist] Member has Poems published in Breath and Shadow

Fri Apr 29 20:11:39 UTC 2011

Another congrats. Awesome.

Brad

On 4/29/2011  01:41 PM Robert Leslie Newman said...
>Congratulations to Kerry Thompson! (Chris Kuell is the editor of this
>on-line magazine)
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>The online journal Breath and Shadow has published two of Kerry's poems in
>the Spring 2011 issue. Here is the direct link to her poems (And I have
>pasted them into the lower half of this message):
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>http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/spr11e.html  The Troubadour's Song
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>By Kerry Elizabeth Thompson
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>  From the South the Summer brings a star
>That sings within my soul, blithe as a bird,
>Lifting the light of her loveliness through the dark
>That lay unknown and heavy on my heart;
>Until her smile awoke the driving thirst
>To find a haven in her love's deep harbor.
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>Unpolluted and boundless is that harbor,
>Where burns the crystal fountain of a star,
>At whose flowing love I'll slake the thirst
>Of one long pent in sorrow, like a bird
>With beating, bloodied wings that bursts its heart
>And, with its failing sight, sees only dark
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>Beyond the close-set bars; till, through the dark,
>A lighted way falls open to a harbor.
>And then he sees, the light beats from a heart,
>Whose gentle love-pulse beacons like a star
>To which, unerring, constant as a bird
>He flies, till in the light, he drowns his thirst.
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>Ever drowning, never sated is that thirst
>For love's sweet flowing light that turns the dark
>Into a vaulted rainbow, where a bird
>Sings, calm and joyful, come at last to harbor,
>Warm and sweet as kisses of a star
>That fall as soft as sea-foam on the heart.
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>And what long sorrow could defend a heart
> >From the gentle importuning of such thirst,
>By drinking deep, that can renew a star
>Reclaim it, soul and body, from the dark
>And bring both star and gazer to safe harbor -
>There to nestle softly as a bird
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>That's found her mate. Then happy sings that bird,
>For having, though two bodies, but one heart,
>Since each in other finds a tranquil harbor
>And endless drink to slake their starless thirst.
>Till, from the dark, their love returns to dark,
>Unfearing, in the shadow of a star.
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>And so, my star, come to, and be, my harbor
>With heart enclosed and closing from the dark,
>And drink, sweet bird, to quench my aching thirst.
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>The Lady's Song
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>By Kerry Elizabeth Thompson
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>My timid, restless soul sings in the dark
>The while it seeks a sure, protecting harbor
>Where drinking deep at fountains of a star
>At last it will relieve its deepest thirst
>And close its wings within the sheltering heart
>That guides and guards it homeward like a bird.
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>Traversing pathless night, sure as a bird,
>Undaunted by the markless, changeless dark,
>My soul holds true and singing toward that heart
>Whose lode-song guides it safe into the harbor,
>Clear and deep, the end of all our thirst,
>At last to taste the pulse beat of a star.
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>For long my soul has sought that blazing star,
>Tremulous and certain as a bird
>That follows, swift, the call of love's long thirst
>Until at last it soars above the dark
>And there, beyond despair or hope, it finds its harbor
>To rest forever safe in one true heart.
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>But what avails the anguish of a heart
>Before the blazing blindness of a star
>For such a light can guide it to no harbor
>But dazzle it, bewilder like a bird
>Who seeking for its mate, lost in the dark,
>Can find no song to slake its soul's long thirst
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>Until, despairing, driven by long thirst,
>It plunges back upon its bleeding heart
>And groping, listless, aimless in the dark
>Finds in its hand a living, throbbing star
>And flutters tremulous as if a bird,
>Long tossed by storms, should find a sunlit harbor
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>And riding gentle waves safe in the harbor
>Should find them sweet to slake an unthought thirst
>With love that, singing, soars up like a bird
>To welcome from long exile home a heart
>That, following love's instinct, found the star
>That evermore would shield it from the dark.
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>So, safe within my harbor like a bird
>I'll nestle in the dark of my love-star
>Whose quenching fans my thirst for your sweet heart.
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>Kerry Elizabeth Thompson is a writer and amateur web designer. She has been
>legally blind and physically disabled since a medical accident in 1970, when
>she was six. Largely home schooled, she briefly attended a secondary school
>for blind girls while living in England in the early '80s. She holds a B.A.
>in English Literature from the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee,
>Massachusetts and an M.A. in Medieval Literature from the University of
>Connecticut.
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>A longtime member of the National Federation of the Blind Writers Division,
>Miss Thompson has had poetry, fiction and nonfiction published in the
>Division's magazine, Slate and Style, as well as in other small press
>periodicals and anthologies. Her interests include Catholic Theology and
>Hagiography (the lives of the saints), Space Science and songwriting. She
>writes on a Windows XP system using Word 2000 and Window-eyes 7. She lives
>in Springfield, Massachusetts with her family, which includes nine rescued
>cats.
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