Emma Lou Thayne

Emma Lou Warner Thayne was a poet and novelist. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and counted as one of the 75 most significant Mormon poets. Thayne graduated from the University of Utah in 1945. She would later return there to coach tennis and teach English

Kill the Poets

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Bedouin Lullaby

Articles/Essays – Volume 12, No. 2

Here at my breast, my dark-eyed child, 
Taste of your worth and sleep a while. 
Under the tent of the black goat’s wool 
Safe from the cold and the wind, be full. 

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To the Bedouin Woman

Articles/Essays – Volume 12, No. 2

Let me bring home your dark eyes 
and the secret of their holiness, 
your quick fingers and your fine 
pride in the black tent they weave. 

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The Dancer and I

Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 4

As I watch, astonished, 

what I hunger for 
is not what I know I 
cannot do

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Old Woman Driving

Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 4

She lives on a street of white haired men 
with time for hosing the cracks. 

She goes to funerals amid people 
whose names she cannot remember,

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Hold

Articles/Essays – Volume 15, No. 4

Gray day with a brown leaf refusing 
at the end of a wind to drop, 
why is the crabbed clinging 
so intricate a part of the dance? 

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How Much for the Earth? A Suite of Poems: About Time for Considering

Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 4

The peril of extinction brings us up against this reality, this simple basic fact: Before there can be good or evil, service or harm, lamenting or rejoicing, there must be life.[1] About Considering Consider is…

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Meditations on the Heavens

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 2

On the night of 16 November 1985, Halley’s Comet was said to be visible just to the right of the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades, in the eastern sky. That night, ten of us from the…

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You Heal

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 2

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Things Happen

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 2

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Secrets under the Surface: Crazy for Living: Poems by Linda Sillitoe

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 2

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The Greening

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 3

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Awake to the Ineffable: Some Would Call It Kundalini

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 4

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To Sleep with the Ineffable: Inviting My Sweet Informants

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 4

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Silver Footprints

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 4

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On the Death by Cancer of Someone Too Young

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 3

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Out of the Night: Childness

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 4

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Night Thunder at the Cabin

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 2

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Grandma Comes for Me

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 3

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Trajectory at the End of Winter

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 4

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Emma’s Anguish

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 1

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Joseph to Emma

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 1

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Plenty

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 1

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The Handing

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 1

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The Rose Jar

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 1

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Without Question

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 2

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On a Morning After New Snow and a Winter of Healing Inside

Articles/Essays – Volume 35, No. 4

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The Woman of Christlike Love

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

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Aladdin’s Lamp, March 4, 2003 on the eve of first strike in Iraq

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 1

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Where Can I Turn for Peace?

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 3

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The Rose Jar

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 2

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Plenty: A Morning Poem at 75

Articles/Essays – Volume 48, No. 2

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