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Poems • L.L. Barkat • International Arts Movement

29.12.09

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Milkweed bursts with silken seed. Crushed almonds scatter like spilled cinnamon. A child clips basil at the tender neck, after a family friend passes away. Love is swallowed in moondust, bared in cherry rose. Across the landscape of human experience, can inside really be disentangled from out? See what you think, in this new collection of poems...

InsideOut: poems


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    You can also find me at Seedlings in Stone. Or check out my book Stone Crossings: Finding Grace in Hard and Hidden Places ...


    Stone Crossings on Amazon

    Here are some thoughts on it, if you like...


    Scot McKnight, of Jesus Creed

    The only writer I know quite like Barkat is Eugene Peterson. That probably tells you all you need to know.


    Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds Books

    I want to write about something else, one of the best books I've read in a while…This glorious book is thoughtful without being laborious, literate without being self-conscious. She has a great eye for details, and a luminous style that revels in God's presence in the day-to-day….I had to fight back tears on Good Friday and Holy Saturday as I sat with this, dropping the book to my knees as I looked to the heavens to whisper a thanks to God for her fine work…


    Ann Voskamp, of Holy Experience, Finding Grace in Hard Places

    Some books offer bullet points, sterile checklists, action plans. Well and good, even needful. Some books wax eloquently, poetic and lyrical, but leave us hungry for something meaty and filling. Rare is the read that serves up something deeply soul and mind satisfying that is, too, lush and rich and worth savoring. Stone Crossings is that rare read.


    CPYU Bookshelf Best Books 2008

    I read it devotionally during a summer family vacation. I seemed to be always reading paragraphs to anyone who would listen.


    Deb, in her post Unearth

    Such dignity and integrity and smooth glistening poetry. Easing into me and softening my bitterness with bread…I will revisit the book again and again, that I know...


    Joy, in her post Thoughts Gathered

    The work is so suffused with a graceful thinking out loud ... You'll need a hot pot of tea or coffee and a quiet hour for this...you'll not want to leave when it is over either.


    Glynn, in his post Broken Ribs and Stone Crossings

    It's like you've been lost in a forest looking for water, holding on to the compass you've owned for years but thinking it's not doing you much good, and then suddenly you stumble into a small clearing with a spring-fed pool. Stone Crossings is that pool.


    Take a poem (or excerpt) with you perhaps...


    air is silk


    lines without


    snow sifts



    Roses broken




    Pearl button




    InsideOut "prayer"





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    I was the flame





    no moon nights





    Nice






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    L.L. Barkat
    Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice, and I will tell you a story. I will give you the treasures of darkness and riches hidden in secret places. (F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Crack-Up; God, in Isaiah 45:3)
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