"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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Celeste Boudreaux

May 6, 20231 min read

Multiplicity

I used to think I was alone here within myself alone in my struggle to be who I thought I ought to be

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Celeste Boudreaux

Mar 25, 20231 min read

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...

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Celeste Boudreaux

Aug 12, 20221 min read

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...

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Celeste Boudreaux

Nov 13, 20213 min read

Perception

It's still dark when I open the back door to let in the cat, but something calls me to step out into the cool stillness. At the edge of...

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Celeste Boudreaux

Oct 22, 20211 min read

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...

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Celeste Boudreaux

Sep 10, 20211 min read

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...

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Celeste Boudreaux

Jul 30, 20212 min read

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...

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Celeste Boudreaux

May 28, 20211 min read

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...

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Celeste Boudreaux

Apr 17, 20201 min read

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...

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Celeste Boudreaux

Jan 2, 20203 min read

Beginnings, Part 2

I wrote that " For Celeste " poem in 2012 when I was in the middle of a health crisis that had set me on a path of desperately seeking a...

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