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GOOD READS: POETRY
EFGRACE: WORD CAFE: POETRY

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Some of my most intense slices of life handpicked from past years. I hope you enjoy what you see and feel. Check back for updated featured selections.

IN THE WORKS: Coffeetable book featuring a comprehensive collection of poetry set to beautiful e. f. grace imagery.

featured moments:

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Until Tomorrow...

There he left me,
standing in pools of fluid emotion
filled with love that aches...
The night wrapped around us 
and we spoke to each other
with only a gaze...
His kiss, it lingered
on my lips
as I watched `til he vanished
into the mist
and his voice
echoes through my soul:
"A manana"...
c. 1999
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Fool Me Twice

Like love,
It's hard to trust the spring,
Smiling sweetly, 
Beckoning

I must say I've been fooled before
My skin left unprotected
And in the sudden shifting winds,
I was frozen and  rejected

But wearing too much blocks the touch
Of Love's caressing breath
Summer's promise is on Spring's lips
But it's not quite here just yet.

In the meantime, still I realize
I just have to take that chance
Spring's sun is irresistible,
Love's breeze is like a dance.

But I've been fooled by both before,
Those two experienced players
So I use an old New England trick:
Always dress in layers!

c. 2004.






...And You Wait for the Storm

It's always hottest
Just before the storm--
Oppressive skies of passions' fire
Glow oragnge with warning
Air so thick, so tense,
So inescapably dense
The film lies upon you...

...And you wait for the storm
To crash in release...
Thunder calls out in the collision of opposite  forces...!
Lightning its silent scream of friction...!
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The sky breaks,
A flood of release
that subsides
To soft weeping
Under shades of misty gray sky...

It pouts
As it heals,
Quietly reflecting on the chaos,
Cooling off
Under the dewy dampness of spent tears...

c. 2000




Intoxication

City lights
Reflect in the raindrops
Sprinkled across panes of glass...
Night song pulsed through me,
Shimmering into the first shades of morning.
I delight in the silvery euphoria
Of liquid voices,
Bassy beats that tremble my body,
And electronic melodies
That echo a post-modern reality.
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I sway into the throbbing crowd,
Feeling the passions of a  generation:
Love, agony, lust, tragedy--
We crave release,
Thrashing about in a moment of dance.
Surreal lights flash to hypnotic rhythms,
Glowing colors illuminate
Beads of sweat sizzling on skin,
And I surrender to the night,
Relishing in its sweet intoxication.
c. 1999.
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The Cab Ride

Pulling myself from his warm, wet arms
was hard enough...
Out into the sunny snow-glared street--
 the slick rush of noonday traffic
 as I kiss the man who confuses me,
 my toy toying with me,
 playfully unsure...

Rumbling around in the backseat--
almost there...
 Fumbling around my purse for cab fare
--see, I've missed the bus again--
Too busy wrapped in his body, 
unfolding his mind...

He wants to know what I tell them.
Hell, people hear what they want to,
especially when you're not sure what to say...
Damn, I don't even have time before work
to have my "calming cigarette"--
those cabs always come so quick...
Meanwhile,
love leaves you waiting...

C. 2003
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good reads: poetry

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Though my writings are from my understanding, the meaning of the message can vary for everyone.
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Feel free to embrace and explore this flexibility. I hope you find your own personal truths in my words and apply them to your lives.

Calamity and Rebirth

​Forged in power, forged in pain,
Windswept with the might of change
She continues on,
Sure and strong. 

Crowned in wisdom, crowned in fire
Born to love and to inspire
She pours rebirth
On wounded earth.

The barren, no longer left to cope
Now fertile, awake, she breathes in hope.
With faith she proves
That mountains CAN move.
​ - ef grace, 2018

moodswings, a reprise 
a collection of classic ef grace poetry

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Today was like a magical place
Of soft sunlight and warm waves of skin
Pulsing tides and carefree smiles
Laughter and song
​ef grace, 2017.

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