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  • “stability” – The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 062 – Poetry

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    stability //

    he told me stability
    was like gold: the most important
    thing one could own,
    like love:
    the most important thing one could know

    she asked me the other day
    if I was still on the path
    to leadership there
    & I lied & said yes

    I briefly wished that I was,
    to still be on a clear-cut pathway
    with clear-cut milestones
    & a clear-cut plan for getting there
    where I could know & depend upon
    security & stability
    & of always knowing what was next
    what to expect
    I know this isn’t what I really want:
    it is me being afraid of where I am now
    & of the necessity of waiting until
    the next step I need to take becomes clear
    I hate waiting
    & not knowing what I should do
    uncertainty is yet to be a friend of mine

    but remember: the stability
    is all a lie the prices all drop
    & the people you trust might
    let you down if it’s in their better interest

    besides, who wants to be a slave
    of their robot society
    when you can be free
    in the open world?

  • THE CLEAR COOL STARS WERE RADIANT – The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 040 – Poetry

    I read a poem from “A Ship Onto a Sea of Hope” in Episode 040, titled “THE CLEAR COOL STARS WERE RADIANT”.

    A SHIP ONTO A SEA OF HOPE
    A SHIP ONTO A SEA OF HOPE SAMPLE

     

    THE CLEAR COOL STARS WERE RADIANT

    I stepped off into the clear cool stars
    walking on them. They called out to
    me. They felt the same way it does
    stepping off barefoot into dewy grass
    at 1 AM. The decisions you make are the
    rope leading you either to the edge of
    the bridge or the safe green pastures. They are
    what compels you.

    She looked at me with sea-green
    eyes. I saw aqua & turquoise rain
    clouds flourishing in the distance.
    They whispered to me by the tide-pool
    room rock ledges &
    familiar evocative songs on the
    radio. “You are going to be
    okay.”

  • A Ship Onto a Sea of Hope – NEW RELEASE

    A Ship Onto a Sea of Hope by Ashlee CraftFrom the book –

    opening lines

    I took the leap & the Universe followed.
    I made a decision & the Universe rose up to meet me.

    The bold steps I took? Spending money to get my music out there,
    to start selling the things I knew I should be selling,
    the bold moves in which the Universe saw
    that I was exactly what I needed
    & my actions proved I was ready
    for greater, better things to be bestowed upon me

    the bold move towards the things I’d always wanted to have?
    I asked him for the keys, tentative for fear of revoking
    but he willingly handed me them without argument,
    & even when it seemed as though nothing would work out with it,
    & I was faced with the option of losing half –
    love came through & I found the love was multiplied

    I took the bright step, the bold leap towards the kind of
    person I always wanted to be; I showed up, & that stood for
    something – & when I reached my hand out to touch the largest
    beam of sunlight, it did not burn me like I feared it would,
    but rather, warmed me deeply from the inside out,

    exactly what I needed

    —

    A Ship Onto a Sea of Hope contains 57 poems by Ashlee Craft.

    Publish Date :: December 12, 2017
    Paperback 90 Pages
    Genre :: Poetry