Written in the Stars: Poems of a Love Eternal
A collection of poems from the soul for the soul by Dawn Richerson that includes poems written between 1995 and 2015. Many are conversational in nature and are a direct engagement with a complex set of circumstances that was and is both here and now and tapped within me the deep "remembrance" of lifetimes beyond this life. They are raw and real, from the heart, and tell the story of a life that was, as all our lives are, written in the stars.
This poetry collection was originally published by Autumn Zephyr Press, a Creative Revolutions imprint publishing passion-powered poetry, in 2017. ISBN 978-1-942969-53-2 Download cover and manuscript from this page or order the paperback here.
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CONTENTS
- Exile
- I Am This Tree
- Egypt's Child
- Exodus
- Back There
- Call to Glory
- Finding My Shape
- What the Sand Dollar Has to Say
- Rotation
- Venom
- To the Puppetmaster
- In a Favorable Light
- Soul Sentry
- On a Lighter Note
- Feathered Promise
- Adrift Again (Eons That Elude Me)
- Always the Sea
- What the Ocean Had to Say
- And Yet
- In Your Words, My Heart
- That You Might See the Whole
- Orwellian Dream
- From Here I Can See
- The Heart Has But Two Choices
- Yes
- Born Again to Who We Are
- In-Flight Perspectives
- How Is It Possible?
- Shutting Down
- Navigators, We
- Happy Children in a Dream
- Mainstream
- Destination Undisclosed
- Theory of Everything
- The Child That Was
- Precious Stones of Night
- Wonder: Born of a Starless Night
- Held Within This Sphere, Alive
- Vantage Point
- Gossamer
- Fastidiousness
- Splinter
- Touch of Madness
- A Rose in Three Dimensions
- Choosing You
- Do You Know What You Know?
- Dying, Love
- Salutation
- Shot Through
- Are We Not the Same?
- Call for the Curtain
- Through Tunnels Dark
- Soul of My Soul
- Coyote's Tale
- Why Can't You Make the Connection?
- After the Echo
- Shadow Side
- Vultures, a Lark
- We Glide Angelic
- We Are Two Riders
- Wind and Rain
- First Sight
- For You These Heavens Swirl
- Forgotten Rhapsody
- Capacity
- Certain Summer Rain
- Stars Are Falling
- We Shall Dance as Stars Again
- In the End, We Begin
- The Time of Remembering Again
- Summer Friend
- Oasis
- Tears and This Undying Flame
- Meet Me in the Middle
- Time Betrays You and I
- Love Lives in Me
- Because You Loved Me Enough
- Reconciliation: A Ministry of Grace
- We Have Arrived
- At Night the Angels Come
- Starlight: Here on Earth
- It Was Written in the Stars
- I Will Speak
- I Am Water, Liquid Dream
- Watery Underworld Welcomes Me
- Marco Polo
- In Your Judas Eyes
- Thorn in Your Flesh
- The Middle Way: Where We Meet Again
- Standing at the Bow
- Last Prayer (My Love Song)
- The Moment After
- Comes a Time
SAMPLE POEM
What the Sand Dollar Had to Say
In the sound of surf, that shared memory
which echoes endlessly for the both of us,
you strain to hear my voice, swallowed
it seems by the tidal wave that washed me
away from you and also from myself.
I am no more those carefree grains of sand
slipping through your hands, molded
into a sandcastle masterpiece. I appear
worn and thin, frail, brittle, rough
'round the edges, etched with ripples.
Look at me. Hold me and discover
who I am. You will see the smooth holes,
missing pieces you miss in the me you remember,
loved perhaps. But God, who rules the seas
in mystery, works through suffering.
Every day I feel those absent parts of me;
but they have become a compass, pointing
me always back to Source of all I am
and ever hoped to be. If you look closely
and hold me ever so gently, you'll find
The imprint of a feathered flower, fragile
petals emanating from a star-shaped center.
It is not perfect, and you must look past
the uneven surface into the soul of me
to see God's mark of beauty; nevertheless,
It's there - majestic mark of grace, bold pattern
of purpose, proof of my belonging to eternity.
Before you go, listen to the rush of my heart's river,
forged anew from the largest hole which points
true north and sings of the sea and you.