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"Poetry is a life-cherishing force.
For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the gold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." - Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
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Tenderness
When you were a girl,
you loved a kitten
with such fierceness
that you ground your
teeth telling her how
cute she was. It took . . .

Celeste Boudreaux
Jun 2, 20242 min read
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The Mother Tree
I came to the forest pondering the source of insight and generosity how to be loving and life-giving in a season of culminations and...

Celeste Boudreaux
May 4, 20241 min read
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Multiplicity
I used to think I was alone
here within myself
alone in my struggle to be
who
I thought
I ought
to be

Celeste Boudreaux
May 6, 20231 min read
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Labyrinth Song
How can I walk unhurried through the buzz-clang-flash of a pinball world Take a calming breath in anger’s face and spy the fear beneath...

Celeste Boudreaux
Mar 25, 20231 min read
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Queen of the Night
Born on the fourth day of God's great goodness Your Creator crowned you to govern the night You haunt my earliest memories waking me in...

Celeste Boudreaux
Aug 13, 20221 min read
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The Egg
I am one who waits within the midnight of this shell I feel my own fragility all the possibilities for disaster cracked exterior and...

Celeste Boudreaux
Oct 23, 20211 min read
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I AM
I AM the radiant sunburst, the painted skyscape behind the power lines and strip malls I AM the roiling storm clouds of deep blue gray...

Celeste Boudreaux
Sep 11, 20211 min read
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Cast Out into the Deep
Listen to the quiet voice: Cast out into the deep... deep... DEEP... Leave your striving on the surface hurry and stress worry and...

Celeste Boudreaux
Jul 31, 20212 min read
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The Stray Kitten
When I was a girl I found a stray kitten Feral and frightened it ran and hid and would not come to my kitty-kitty calls But my love was...

Celeste Boudreaux
May 29, 20211 min read
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Yahweh, Breath of Life
Tell me your name, murmured Moses Yahweh, came the answer I AM So you taught us your name an inhale: Yahhh exhale: Wehhh O God who blew...

Celeste Boudreaux
Apr 18, 20201 min read
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Beginnings, Part 1
For Celeste I see you, though you try to hide Blending into the wall Daughter of a defective mother (Whose empty eyes betray her lipstick...

Celeste Boudreaux
Jan 1, 20201 min read
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