Celeste Boudreaux
How to Start Your Butterfly Life
First, you have to get sick of being a caterpillar. Weary of never-ending consumption, outgrowing your clothes, eyes trained on . . .
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Celeste Boudreaux
- Jul 11
- 1 min
Shelter
When a storm overtakes you / the kind that satellites see / as a massive, swirling spiral / its curved arms knocking down . . .
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Celeste Boudreaux
- Jul 5
- 1 min
I Dissent, a Prayer for Our Nation
Give us leaders with principles loftier than self-interest.
Give us leaders who speak the language of truth,
not lies, distortions . . .
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Celeste Boudreaux
- Jun 2
- 2 min
Tenderness
When you were a girl,
you loved a kitten
with such fierceness
that you ground your
teeth telling her how
cute she was. It took . . .
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Celeste Boudreaux
- May 4
- 1 min
The Mother Tree
I came to the forest pondering the source of insight and generosity how to be loving and life-giving in a season of culminations and...
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Celeste Boudreaux
- Mar 25, 2023
- 1 min
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 13, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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 23, 2021
- 1 min
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 11, 2021
- 1 min
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 31, 2021
- 2 min
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 29, 2021
- 1 min
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 18, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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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