Beauty for Ashes Poetry Review

Kathleen Adcock

The Non-Preaching Order Of Outdoor Poets
Troubadours
of a true calling
strive to lift listeners
just above the clouds
still visible with sun
after some rains.
Hunger rallies
the impassioned word
if an ear is turned
instinctively
from the shelter
of like trees, the tongue
a temple, wide as the sky's
embrace, crying
for what chums
in the breast
where eyes meet eyes
between branches.
In silent drizzle, a rainbow
may reconfigure
into a mosaic
of cut stones, reflecting
the possibilities
of every sphere
gnashing teeth
to crack the truths.

Kathleen Adcock is a former recreation therapist with psychietric patients. She has received an Honorable Mention at York's Riverwalk. Her chapbook The Edge-Dwellers was published in 1998. Other work has been published in Digges' Choice, Psychopoetica and the anthology Function at the Junction.

Isaiah 61:1-3

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