Today I share my reading of the poem ‘Growth’ with all of you.
‘Growth’ is one of the 36 poems in my new poetry collection, ‘Words of Weight’. Now available at Amazon as an ebook and paperback book. Or barrow it with the Kindle Unlimited program.
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I have been waiting with great anticipation to be able to share this publication. Heart of Flesh Literary journal is a publication I have been following since the beginning of my writing career, and they have been a dream publication for me.
This last week Issue Seven went live! My poems “Omnipresent” and “Things Made” have been included in this issue and I pray they bless you. They are available to read for free, accompanied by audio readings.
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Mary Grace van der Kroed
– Feature art by Veronica McDonald, Heart of Flesh Literary Magazine. –
Found in simple spaces
when lights have dimmed to ease
weariness of day from shoulders prone.
In the morning beams
where radiance sings
reserving stage for feathered accompaniment notes.
Shimmers in the shadows
like the fuzziness of heat,
but greats in bells that chime with chirping mirth.
Often hid amid
wide open space
blending with a magic you can not trace.
Given to the few
who look beyond circumstance
to find the lines God painted beneath.
Even when awash,
paying untold cost,
finding treasure hid and hold relief.
©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef
Warmth of oneness all our own,
a wealth neither has ever known.
Together in a permanent
state under the firmament.
A oneness more than touch alone.
A choice made as love we hone.
Cultivate sustainable,
believing it attainable.
Our oneness growing, building, on,
as closer, we are being drawn.
Uniquely us, yet made to fit
together as our lives are knit.
As with knots, it’s never straight.
Oneness is our guarding gate.
No other two could ever be
quite like this oneness of you and me.
©Mary Grace van der Kroef 2020
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