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Dec 2023 · 260
Solstice
Emily Starr Dec 2023
Did Earth feel slighted
For Her credit due
She turns our lives so carefully
For praises sparse and few
Dec 2023 · 61
IQ
Emily Starr Dec 2023
IQ
Every body's
Brilliant
Because before
We weren't
And now
We're everything
Dec 2023 · 40
Insides
Emily Starr Dec 2023
I spilled my guts
Filleted the heart

Spun my brain
And killed the lark

You turned away
Said
"How Obscene"
Nov 2023 · 74
Glow
Emily Starr Nov 2023
When snow falls
The world slows
And doesn't shun
The reminisce
Nov 2023 · 212
Youth
Emily Starr Nov 2023
For when the world was
My first and only love
And all the rest
A mystery

For when my time
Was infinite
And Destiny
A distant dream
Nov 2023 · 244
Dawn
Emily Starr Nov 2023
Imagine you a bird
That dared to fly the dark
Just to see the sun
Before it's fated spark
Nov 2023 · 180
Esteem
Emily Starr Nov 2023
Beaten and bruised
My lovely muse
Nov 2023 · 247
Alchemy
Emily Starr Nov 2023
I cried for joy
That wasn't mine
I found the tears
In love sublimed
Nov 2023 · 330
Coven
Emily Starr Nov 2023
No need to ******
Came a willing lamb
Snap your unused lures
And paint my empty wool
Nov 2023 · 51
Ballad
Emily Starr Nov 2023
Black sticky balm
Percussions drum
It's flaming calm

Sweet icy chips
Sharp notes *****
Metallic lit

Red velvet voice
Seductress nice
What relished vice
Oct 2023 · 244
Phoenix
Emily Starr Oct 2023
My chest of ash
And hopeless dreams
In anger burned
In spite of meat

My flaming heart
And heated head
Defiance fed
A sparking wish
Oct 2023 · 42
Trust
Emily Starr Oct 2023
It started small
Like filigree

It bound the heart
A slushing sea

A pebble thrown
And contents poured

It filled again
And it was stone
Sep 2023 · 65
Right
Emily Starr Sep 2023
The south is fading
And grasses grey
The thistles pale
All minds they stay
Sep 2023 · 163
Era
Emily Starr Sep 2023
Era
One for wonder
And one for dust
One inspires
The other tires
One is nearer
Yet less dearer
All are timeless
None to stay
Sep 2023 · 39
One
Emily Starr Sep 2023
One
In youth
It was
A hopeful

Plot

For all
That was
To be

In aged
It is
Regretful

Thoughts

That fill
The gap
Of me
Sep 2023 · 46
Author
Emily Starr Sep 2023
When a good soul
Writes the Lovely
It is lovely

But a dark heart
Tells of Beauty
And it's Wonder
Sep 2023 · 48
Choose
Emily Starr Sep 2023
I'm in the murky place
Between two warring worlds
Blind to the beauty blurred
By swirling milky words

I see your catacombs
Cemented single minds
Feel crumbling rockiness
As cracks create the ground
Aug 2023 · 151
Reincarnation
Emily Starr Aug 2023
Recalled a certain thrill          
At hate for a hypocrisy        
A smirk for sacrilege          

And wonder all along            
It's just the pluck of memory
A thread of this in me            

A narrow path is mine  
In rows of dolls, they string in line
No righteous face in time
Jul 2023 · 80
Citronella
Emily Starr Jul 2023
Winter's sky
In green July
Quite the con-
trasting delight
Jul 2023 · 52
Happy 4th
Emily Starr Jul 2023
Let there be noise
Explosions bled
Great cocophony
Inside my head

Drown the voice
Blissful hush!
Timorous absence
Muffled drums

For fear! It's pause...
Unpresent thoughts
They're rushing back
They crush and clot
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