Emma B: Favorites

Jul 2013 Emma B

Lily Gabrielle

Olivia,
each day
I pray
yellow flowers
flood heaven
and dance
beside you
in the light of day,
and rub your back
through nightfall.

Jul 2013 Emma B

i'd live with you, only to die

Jul 2013 Emma B

maybella snow

i'd live with you, only to die

if your arms were a destination
             i'd fly to it
if your lips were the sky
        i'd bask in it
if your hair was sea ****
                i'd get lost in it
if your eyes were the trees
     i'd live in them
if your heart was an ocean
           i'd die in it

Jul 2013 Emma B

The Numbers and Bodies of Things in Nature

Jul 2013 Emma B

Kinyo

The Numbers and Bodies of Things in Nature

That single leaf

looks as if it has some grey in it's green

because the clouds in the sky are obscuring the sun

overcast days polish the sun white

and the dusty leaf hangs

looking like it will last

it would be cool to the touch

and bitter on the tongue

it's transpiration

those sweaty lungs

there are a thousand

a few bunches orange

a few brown still hanging from the branches

there are four thousand fallen

crunchy like baked chips

breathing no more

leaves number 997, 998, 999

hang from branch number 8

during the 4th hour of a day in the second millennium of man

a dark night spins dreams simultaneously

and a single dream leaf contains a record of eternity past

like an old friend who suddenly knows magic

and reads shakespeare

leaf 998 is a streak of ink

on the pages of life

like a glorious ray of sunshine

peeking it's head

into the future, heaven

like slipping between the curtains of the present

breathing for tree 700,237,112

http://kinyopoetry.com/poems/2013/7/12/the-numbers-and-bodies-of-things-in-nature

Jul 2013 Emma B

Self-portrait

Jul 2013 Emma B

pandemonium

Self-portrait

I am that girl you often see in the library
her glasses left on one side,
eyebrows furrowed
you always see her writing something-
so focused on her little notebook and pen
you'd think she didn't see you
as you look away, she lifts her head
her eyesight isn't very good but you'll see
she looks rather out of character and you'll think
she didn't see you, not without glasses on
but she did and little did you know
she's writing about you now.

Jul 2013 Emma B

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Jul 2013 Emma B

maybella snow

, r ; ` . a ; ' ` i : ´n ;

i'd like to think
     that when it's raining here
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                                                                    the sun's out where you are

Jul 2013 Emma B

a little inside... joke?

Jul 2013 Emma B

maybella snow

a little inside... joke?

at home we have
i guess you could call it a joke
involving a plastic spider
about the size of my palm
this spider
a red-back i believe
is placed somewhere
on top of a door
so it'll fall on the next person
who opens it
and the whole thing
is a bit of a competition
of who can not be scared
when it falls unexpectedly
onto them, then put it somewhere
where it'll fall on someone else

right now
i believe its perched
on the shower head
i didn't put it there
i spotted it out of
the corner of my eye
i hope i don't
forget it's there
when it topples onto me

Jul 2013 Emma B

Purpose

Jul 2013 Emma B

Julia Mullin

Purpose

The purpose of life is to discover there is no purpose
The goal of life is death
The universe is not the center of all that exists
The soul is just a breath

I search for answers that someday I will forget
And I will be forgotten
All I know is that I’ll know nothing at all
When my flesh is rotten

I hope that life exists beyond the grave
Hope is all I have
To wake up in the cradle of eternity
Hope the soothing salve

Jul 2013 Emma B

Haiku ( specter )

Jul 2013 Emma B

Seán Mac Falls

Haiku ( specter )

With ominous eyes—
Her face spoke a word unknown,
. . . Then she walked away.

Jul 2013 Emma B

messages & replies

Jul 2013 Emma B

maybella snow

messages & replies

i got the messages you sent                                                                      i replied to all of them
                                                     now i'm just waiting for your reply

                                                                                                                               will you actually send one?
                                                                                                                                              i hope so
because the last thing i sent was
                             *"i love you"