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He’s no musician.
He doesn't make melodies through violin and guitar strings.
Yet he composed, haunting ballads in dramatic tempos,
Rhyming every lyric,
Harmonizing, making it dance in a musical euphony.

He’s no seamster.
Yet he cuts and he traces,
plain words and printed phrases;
Then he sews and he weaves it skilfully,
into a lovely concrete poetry.

He’s no painter.
He just has a palette of pigmented letters,
splashing colorful lines on his blank canvass.
A blast of contained evocative memories,
Streaking and shading mixtures of kaleidoscopic imagery.

He’s no storyteller.
Yet from him, I heard the most romantic tales-
One, of the moon and its lover sea.
Reciprocating shy glances, whispering I love you’s,
while kissing behind the sprawling mountains.
Though the dawn will come, they do not fear.
For after the majestic tribal sun leaves his stage,
There’ll the lovers be once again reunited.

He's no poet.**
Yet he writes--
stanzas and verses.
And oh! it revives,
every strand of emotion,
every sense of intuition,
Inside me.
A lyrical perception,
Sheer perfection,
Arousing perpetual reactions,
From me.
I am not good at this. I just want to express my pure gratitude, appreciation and awe for you.

"I am no poet. Never thought of myself as one. Just a guy dabbling clumsily in words"
Yet even, everything you do amaze me.


Thank you all wonderful people on Hello Poetry. I just realized this moment that this poem was featured as Daily poem yesterday.  I have never imagined any of my work will be posted as daily. Thank you all for the hearts, re-post,share, comments and messages. You really made my heart and soul so happy. :)
And most of all, thanks to the man who inspire me to write this one. :)
(04.14.2015)
Emilia Rose Mar 2015
Who ever said giving out flowers on valentines day was cliche are wrong, because to me they were our world
A metaphor on what love really is
because it starts off small
a seed waiting to be touched by the skies tear and lifted buy the suns rays
that's how our love formed
you met me when I was still just a small seed
the day came when you felt comfortable touching me, and saw that i was waiting for someone like you
two months passed by and nothing had grown, until something happened to make the sky cry for me, but you lifted me up with your rays of sun
and we grew
into a flower with its own unique color
and we were strong too
Emilia Rose Mar 2015
I was born with the biggest eye sockets the nurses had ever seen, but unfortunately my eyelids weren't even
Because of genetics, or from a Hispanic superstition my mother told me, I have uneven eyelids that make me take pictures with my left side because society told me to find my good side since my whole face wasn't good enough
Wasn't pleasing enough
or wasn't beautiful enough
That lasted about the first 11 years of my life
Then I met a boy in California who said my eyes were so big and so brown that my eyelashes reminded him of spider legs because of all the coats of mascara and black eyeliner I used to compensate for the lack of evenness, and how the color of my eyes reminded him of brown sugar cookies his grandma use to make him when he was sad
That's when I fell in love with myself
In love with the fact that my eyes were described to be the size of the moon with or without make up
How the brownness in them turned darker with rage,  jade when calm, and a honeysuckle color when in love
I fell in love with the way my eyelashes touched my eyebrows on a daily bases
And even whenever I cry, I still love the way my eyes can tell someone how I feel better than words do
To this day I don't know what that boys name was, but I thank him
For reminding me that my faults, even the slightest ones make me unique
make me beautiful
Emilia Rose Mar 2015
Its really hard trying to go to bed when your mind in constantly reminding you of last nights dream, but at least it wasn't a bad dream. It was just something unexpected. I dreamt about him again. I've dreamt about about him at least five different times. All in different places, doing different things. In one dream he didn't even acknowledge me, but I know he knew i was there. I felt him angry with me. Upset to see me, as if he hated me. He just ignored me, and walked passed me like i was always a stranger. In another...i dreamt about our first time that never happened. It was going just the way I wanted our first time to go. Sweet, gentle, scared, nervous, hesitant, but most of all..in love. I remember him stoping because he thought he was hurting me, and i remember laughing at him, bringing him closer to me in an embrace. Only to wake up half way through to an empty bed, & disappointed heart...i don't have these dreams in repeated patterns, i actually don't know when i'm even going to have them at all..I guess they just come when life wants to remind me of him. Its not like I'm ever going to forget, even though I do. I actually don't believe in the whole "its better to have love & lost than to have never loved at all". People really don't know how painful it is. Like last night, when I dreamt of him again. He actually approached ME. And it felt as if he was trying to get us to be like how we once were. I remember being confused, and scared. But i went along with it, and at the end...he just left.  In the middle of us talking he left me..again. Thats how they always end. He sees me, approaches, then leaves..even in my dreams he has a way of toying with me. And honestly, i don't know if it's worth even being able to dream about him. I mean, what would be the point if when I start to have us fall in love again, he leaves, and i wake up remembering that my dreams are the closest thing I get to even be around him.
  Feb 2015 Emilia Rose
Jack
~

There will come a time when you say, "no more,
this weight is much too heavy to bear,
these thoughts of you dancing through my mind are now painful
and seeing that far ahead is nothing more than a blur"

There will come a time when you say, "it’s over,
I do love you more than anything but I can not any longer,
you will always reside deep in my heart
though telling you will not be an option"

There will come a time when you say, "good bye,
I wish I didn’t have to leave but I must,
I will not look back even though I want to
because this hurts so badly"

There will come a time when I say "I understand",
and that will be the time that I don’t
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