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I Am Cold Lightning

I am God's experience, I wonder how my poetry breathes into you... I hear souls scream like diamonds breaking, I see bodies move slowly into smooth suffering, I want life to love my sorrow, I am a victory alive in volatile grace... I pretend that fatality is a warm mercy, I feel that I have a right to express my pain, I touch the heartbeats of hope with hesitant eyes, I cry blood of sensitive awareness, I am alive in the heat of paused death... J.A.B. 2022

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Alesia Leach

Date: 4/17/2025 1:46:00 PM

J.A.B., this is electric and devastating--like a soul caught mid-transformation. “I am God's experience” stopped me cold. What a line. What a truth. And the way you frame each stanza with “I”--not as ego, but as essence, as witness to pain and power--is deeply moving. You don’t just write poetry. You bleed it into being. This piece hums with divine contradiction--hope and sorrow, mercy and fire. You are cold lightning, indeed. And your words strike with purpose. --Alesia

Justin Bordner
Date: 4/17/2025 3:13:00 PM

The cusp of a crossover, the edge between All and no more, a testing of depth Poetess. I appreciate what you say "I" not as ego, rather as essence. Your analysis' of my work is profound, and very accurate...J.A.B.

Laura Breidenthal

Date: 12/3/2022 11:12:00 PM

Gloriously powerful piece! “I want life to love my sorrow”.. speaks to me.” I touch the heartbeats of hope with hesitant eyes” such a candid line, so lovely. Always, Laura

Justin Bordner
Date: 4/17/2025 2:59:00 PM

Yes beautiful Poetess, we convert sorrow into strength!...J.A.B.