Among the Birches: Poems of a Love Unspoken

A collection of poems from the soul for the soul by Dawn Richerson. The poems, written beginning in the late 1980s stretching through the mid 1990s, explore the experience of a love unspoken, one that would not let me go. 

This poetry collection was originally published by Autumn Zephyr Press, a Creative Revolutions imprint publishing passion-powered poetry, in 1997. ISBN 0-9715073-5-X  Download cover and manuscript from this page or order the paperback here

Poems from the Soul for the Soul
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CONTENTS

• Among the Birches
  
• Birth of Love Unspoken
  
• In the Shadow of Dreams
  
• Opposites Attract
  
• Coyote and Wolf
  
• In Misty, Morning Hours
  
• Still Space Between
  
• Owl's Cry
  
• I Took My Leave
  
• In Love, Alone
  
• Death at Daybreak
  
• Two Streams Inseparable
  
• Where the River Bends
  
• Gentle Comfort
  
• Home with You
  
• I Could Rage Against You
  
• Even Knowing That
  
• She's Come Undone
  
• System Failure
  
• While Drinking Iced Tea
  
• Recollections of Innocence
  
• In Your Eyes I See the Past
  
• What We Really Want
  
• It Is for You I Weep
  
• Present Passage
  
• Rhapsody
  
• Were We Dolphins Once?
  
• My Heart, Beat
  
• Orion Overhead
  
• Me That Was
  
• Across Dry Desert
  
• To Look Again
  
• One Day
  
• Season of Stillness
  
• Will I Look into Those Eyes?
  
• Leaving Wildacres
  
• A Leaf Fell in My Lap Today
  
• Something in Me Has Lived Before
  
• If It Is the Last Time
  
• Where You Are I Am
  
• Shades of Blue
  
• In Dreams You Live
  

SAMPLE POEM

Were We Dolphins Once?

Were we dolphins once?
Did we glide through glassy waters
too deep to fathom?

Did we turn to speed heavenward

watch laughter bubble up
as our joyful hearts
overflowed with love,

abundance?

Were we dolphins once?
Did we dive, surface, dive again
without invention of words?

Were we held together
in perfect union,
by sacred beauty

that spoke of
who we really were?

Were we dolphins once?
My soul remembers you and longs
to know love again,

To frolic in endless ocean, because
it's where we're meant to be.
Come... swim, submerge,
emerge to shatter
earthbound barriers.

Remember now.
We were dolphins once.


DAWN RICHERSON POETRY