[stylist] Member has Poems published in Breath and Shadow

[jack and bakey]

Truly!
Jack


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>From: Brad Dunse' <lists at braddunsemusic.com
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>Date sent: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:11:39 -0500
>Subject: Re: [stylist] Member has Poems published in Breath and 
Shadow

>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)

>>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):

>>http://www.abilitymaine.org/breath/spr11e.html  The Troubadour's 
Song



>>By Kerry Elizabeth Thompson


>>  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.

>>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

>>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.

>>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.

>>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

>>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.

>>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.


>>The Lady's Song



>>By Kerry Elizabeth Thompson





>>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.

>>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.

>>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.

>>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

>>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

>>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.

>>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.




>>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.

>>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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