Poems from "A Night Without Armour"

One of my favorite poetry books, well, really one of the very few poetry books I own, is Jewel Kilcher's "A night without armour"..... I've had some friends say they're 'immature' poems, but yeah, I say phooey on that. I really loved this book & read it while wandering through Ireland... Anyhow, found a selection of her poems that I'd copied out & figured I'd post some here. (Buy the book it's lovely...

As a Child I Walked

As a child I walked
with noisy fingers
along the hemline
of so many meadows
back home

Green fabric
stretched out
shy earth
shock of sky

I’d sit on logs like pulpits
listen to the sermon
of sparrows
and find god in Simplicity,
there amongst the dandelion
and thorn

"You Tell Me"

It cannot be so
you say
simple hands
cannot change
the fate of humanity.
I say
Humanity is
a boundless,
absorbing heart
transcending
death & generations
and centuries
absorbing bullets
and stitches
and tear gas
enduring humiliation
and illegal abortions
and thankless jobs
I say to you
the heart of Humanity
has not
and will not
be broken
And let us raise ourselves
like lanterns
with the millions of others—
with the mad
and the forgotten
and the strong of heart
to shine

"Too Many Nights"

It’s been
too many nights

to now be suddenly
without

"So Just Kiss Me"

So just kiss me and let my hair
messy itself in your fingers

tell me nothing needs to be done—
no clocks need winding

There is no bell without a voice
needing to borrow my own

instead, let me steady myself
in the arms

of a man who won’t ask me to be
what he needs, but lets me exist

as I am

a blond flame
a hurricane

wrapped up
in a tiny body

that will come to his arms
like the safest harbor

for mending