Awake: Poems for a World Emerging
A collection of poems from the soul for the soul by Dawn Richerson for this time of great transformation within and without. Includes three movements: PAST: tense, PRESENT: out come, and FUTURE: in sight plus a Prologue and Epilogue.
This poetry collection was originally published by Autumn Zephyr Press, a Creative Revolutions imprint publishing passion-powered poetry, in 2012. ISBN 978-0-9827692-7-0 Download cover and manuscript from this page or order the paperback here.
Poems from the Soul for the Soul
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CONTENTS
- A Time Out of Time
- Becoming the Poem
- Within the Story
- Breaking Open
- A Fire Burns
- Wider, Clearer Sea
- Afraid of Deep Waters
- Into the Fields
- Crash
- Bird of Paradise
- Electrical Storm
- Into Another Fall
- But a Dream
- Buoyed by Life's Seas
- Flickered and Faded Flames
- Crossing My I's
- Long Road to a Lonely Call
- Willing
- Splinter
- Love Refused to Release Me
- Blind Fish
- SOS
- In Absentia
- Inner Sanctum
- Storms Suspended
- In the Space Between
- Creation Re-imagined
- Elephant Toes
- A Lesson on Living and Dying
- Seasonal Affect
- No Place to Go
- Savage in the Sanctuary
- The Knowing
- Is It Really Peace We Want
- I Lost It Last Night
- I Did Not Expect
- Flutter
- In-Flight Perspectives
- One Lost Whale to Another
- Healing with You
- Touches Invisible
- Shot Through
- You Are a Pulsing Star
- Buoyed by Spring Wind
- Lucky Stars
- Small Movement of a Great Love
- Your Spirit Is Catching
- Not of This World, They Come
- MIA
- Prophetic Discontent
- Quest for Poetry
- Prince of Peace, I Pray
- Rupture
- The World Is Opening Up
- The Whole Creation
- Reflections in the Water
- Third World War in Hearts of Man
- Wild Hunger
- Within the Void
- To See the World
- Safe Passage
- You Already Are
- Train Wreck
- Shaken
- God, Who Covers Us in Shadow
- In My River Dream
- Re: Creation
- What the Future Saw in Me
- When I'm Home Again
- Spirit Streams in Desert Dry
- Rumbles
- Reading the Map
- Set Aright
- Circling Thoughts
- Exploration Into All
- 3D Thinking, Amplified: On Divine Time
- We of the Light Still Shine
- Whisper Your Wisdom
- Where the River Bends
- Were We Dolphins Once?
- Marked by Time
- We See What Lies Within Us
- We Were Walking in a World
- First You Will Think You Are Dreaming
- Force of Grace
- Resplendent One
- We Are One Doorway
- Watered Down
- To Be the Change
- Tonight, a Restoration
- Natural Appreciation
- I Am the Soil, I Am the Love
- Wise Woman Within
- November Morning
- In the Fullness of the Light
- Ideas Come and Go
- All That Is Good, Holy
- Cosmic Communication
- A World, A Drum, A Child
- From Beyond
- Forward Flow
- Tuning Fork
- Vessels
- Finding My Shape
- Meet Me in the Middle
- Gift of Sleep
- Morning Song
- To Begin Again: One Poet's Pledge
SAMPLE POEM
Re:Creation
Shedding my skin, I begin with surrender
to beauty that would emerge in me.
First: the vast letting go of illusion
that has bound me, fixed me to a flaming star--
that which once appeared so glorious
and the culmination of all
I had ever hoped for.
I let it go, and this unbinding is no
easy task, no act of certainty.
Next: a balancing, uncomfortable
place where I am uncertain, vulnerable, exposed
to a truth far brighter than that star
to which I willingly hitched myself.
Truth, now unveiled, shakes me.
Comes a time without rhyme or eloquent words,
riddled with pain and infinite grace.
This childbirth of soul self requires
sacrifice. Tears are shed, rising up and pouring
forth from the endless ache of humanity
And my own humble expression
of what that means to me.
Soul whispers that Love is found beyond the loss,
down long corridor of becoming.
And so I am reborn to soul, self
discovered through bold exploration, essential
extravagance. This day I pause
along the way to celebrate unexpected
gift of recreation.