Your Favorite Poems

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My poetry has the audacious goal to take your breath away
that you might stop, even for that moment,
taking it for granted and want it back.

My poetry has
the audacious goal to stop you in the tracks of your busy life,
even briefly,
and help you fall
from the unstable worship of celebrial gods
back into the soft bed of your heart.

My poetry has the audacious goal to remind you,
if only for a breath that there's loveliness built into you
that's more intimate and essential than even your DNA
and my poetry has the audacious goal of inviting itself into you
to ring the bell of remembrance.


My poetry desires to be a sacred interruption!
To remove the veil if only for a glimpse that you may consider
how perfectly set the jewel of our Earth is
in relation to the golden amulet of the sun
and the similar relationship between our hearts and God .

My poetry has the audacious goal to grab a handful of God
and if only for an instant give that back to your heart.

Chelan Harkin