Category: Issue 95

95 FEATURED POET

ALLISON GRAYHURST is a member of the League of Canadian Poets and resides in Toronto with her family. Three times nominated for Sundress Publications “Best of the Net” 2015, she has over 1050 poems published in over 425 international journals. She has sixteen published books of poetry, seven collections and nine chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Parabola (Alone & Together print issue summer 2012); Elephant Journal; Literary Orphans; Blue Fifth Review; The American Aesthetic; Agave Magazine; JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, Drunk Monkeys; Gris-Gris; The Muse—An International Journal of Poetry, and many others.

95 FEATURED ARTIST

TADAO ANDO, a Japanese self-taught architect, is one of Japan’s pioneers in contemporary architecture. He established Tadao Ando Architect & Associates in 1969. His major works include the Church of the Light, 1989-1990 Osaka, the Modern Art Museum, 1997-2003 Fort Worth, Texas, and Tokyo Skytree, 2009, Tokyo. Ando’s awards include the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995, Praemium Imperiale prize for archtecture in 1996, John F. Kennedy Center Gold Medal in the Arts in 2010, Commander of the Order of Art and Letters (France) in 2013, Grand Officer of the Order of Merit (Italy) in 2015, and Isamu Noguchi Award in 2016, and many others. He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo.

95 Only One God

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Only One God

[wcm_restrict plans="Sufi Journal Digital Edition, Sufi Journal Digital Edition old"]In you I place
the hope of centuries,
a hope beginning before
the pounding of water on rock.
For you I sang the anthem
of my ancient race and
waited to hear a reply.
Before you, I stand
revealed, lonely, in need of change.
Against you, I lean
like a child who has never known parents
or any connection for so so long.
Because of you, I remember
the gifts in my hands, the core of my striving
and the reasons I have
to stay
      with you
      in you
      where I place
      my will and means
            to be restored.
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ALLISON GRAYHURST

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