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Eva Rushton Jul 2019
Dance, swirl, laugh
Let  go,
Close your eyes
See with your heart
Dance a prance
Let all be beautiful
That only a dance
Can do
I see you tapping
I hear your music
Just do
The unprepared
DANCE
Eva Rushton Jun 2019
Cold winters night
Angry wind bites
Crisp snow crunches
The fiery beast strikes

Siren blare loud and clear
Flashing lights blind
House in golfed  in an orange glare
The fight is on , as hose unwind

Waters my friend and my foe
As I am Slipping and sliding
No matter I go
Deep within my fear I am hiding

Hours of work, the fire is drowned
I’m cold to the bone
Saving the house , we were bound
Gear put away , I’m headed home

With chill in the room
I invite the beast in
Black metal box , coals do loom
I light the match , resuscitate again

The beast I fought
And drown to death
I can’t live without
Yet I suffocate it’s breath

Written by E.M.Rushton
June 21 2019
Eva Rushton Jun 2019
One of Our own
Passed a month ago
No warning was known
Of our woe

Tonight we received
His 15 year award
It’s hard to believe
Our volunteer firefighter, to heaven he scored
My heart is heavy tonight. I’m just so sad.
Eva Rushton Aug 2018
As I sit under the tree , it’s leaves canapy above
As if a spy blue sky peeks through the gaps
The song of breeze takes me away to places I love
In distance I hear ,maybe birds I think perhaps

The old dog lays at my side, snaping at Flies
I try read his mind, and he blinks as if to hide
Then with a moan he shuts his eyes
And into dreams he’s gone with pride

Below the hill I hear the stream trickle past
And I imagine all of life’s upsets
On a line and out I cast
Away they go, no more to feel or to fret

Written by E. M. Rushton
Aug 16th 2018
Eva Rushton Jul 2015
With hands of love
At work or play
They go above
To help each day

Mouths they've fed
Tears they've wiped
Sometimes they've bled
But they never gripe

Like lead in pencil
Creating beauty
With out a stencil
And always on duty

A child they raised
With love they gave
A firefighter today
A life they saved

Written by E.M.Rushton
I had a medical call and it was a cardiac arrest. We brought this person back to life 7 times and now she alive today and doing well. this gave me the idea for this poem.
Eva Rushton Jun 2019
Hidden thoughts seep
out through my keyboard
Into the unknown universe
They surprise even me

Written by E.M. Rushton
Eva Rushton Aug 2019
With broken wings
I will fly
Because my heart still sings
Despite my cry

I may be tossed
By wind and storms
May even get lost
But broken wings will preform

Written by E.M..Rushton
August 2019
I have got where I am by falling and not get back up.
Eva Rushton Jun 2019
When I think of hope
The symbol of a heart crosses my mind.
But I’m realizing as I question the heart symbol
Hope is something that is not meant  to be uncontrolled  
Yet the lines of heart ❤️ symbol meet in the Centre at the top and that’s the end.
Should hope be the symbol of any kind of unending line, and then hope would go on and on uncontrolled.
Eva Rushton Jun 2019
Upon my cheek sat a tear of thy death
A dove flew in and gently plucked it
Flying away with it
Landing on a wilted rose
The tear was released upon the rose and behold
The flower birthed and a bushel of
Beautiful red pedals ignited a fragrance that penetrated my heart  and tenderly placed a smile within my lips

Written by E.M. Rushton
June 16 th 2019
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Eva Rushton Jun 2019
My fellow poets your all I have today
My mind is crazy with anger and sorrow
I have no hope but wish to proceed
Please come and lift me from these darken waters
Tell me I am a poet
I’m going to carve my way past this day of locked memories eating at my being
I am a poet
I am a firefighter
I am , I am.
The strangest thing is if my pager went off right now
I’d be the firefighter with in me and save someone
While drowning within my own mind.
Now it’s out and not within
Thank you for allowing me to rescue myself through words.
I love words.
Eva Rushton Aug 2018
On the wings of butterfly
I rest my soul
In it I trust
With all I have
My mind is weary
It needs a break
Reality is harsh
As I enter insanity
I know no worries
Everything is right
And normal to me
You may laugh
But the laugh is on you
For I am at peace
Something you don’t know
So I think I will stay
On the wings of my butterfly
And be happy in my world
Unlike you in yours

Written by E. M. Rushton
Eva Rushton Jul 2019
Flock a **** a doodle doo
I said to someone how are you
They looked at me and have a grin
And ask me why the state I’m in

You see I said , my teeth fell out
All because my feet had gout
They looked me up , they looked me down
I then start rolling on the ground
Eva Rushton Jul 2015
The heat was intense, The inferno had crowned
The tress were black sticks, alone in the ground
the men and women .who fought the blaze
Knows all to well ,what in it does lays

there the little fawn does lie
with no trees , it try's to hide
And momma coyote, who's young are gone
paces blindly into the dawn

The nest of birds, that did survive
lays the young, that couldn't fly
and in the soot ,a dead fox lays
where it use, to run and play

the moss and plants, that here they grew
Until the fire, raged on through
the homes of many, now destroyed
and many hearts ,there is a void

A fire fighter ,who fought today
in a hospital bed, there she lays
you lit the fire, and had your fun
You can’t undo what’s already been done .

Written by E.M.Rushton
As a wild land fire fighter I see the results of people setting fires in the woods  way to often.  Sooo much  needlessly destroyed.
Eva Rushton Sep 2015
I have been there for a first breath
I have been there for the last breath
I have been there to save lives
I have been there to make lives better
I have been there for tears
I have been there for joy
I have been there in the light
I have been there in darkness
I have been there , when there was nothing I could do, But be there.
Today I cant be there, because Upon awakening this morning, although my eyes opened ,I was blind
The awful creature of darkness crept in through the night and stole my vision, my happiness, my being. This creature is called depression, I am Still me , but not myself.
I have been there, will you be there
Eva Rushton Aug 2018
May I sing with onlymy heart
While my voice stays silently still
With my eyes open
By closing my ears

May I dance with only my eyes
While my body stays still
And open my mind
By stilling my thoughts

May I smile with actions alone
With my back to your face
See with your heart
While closing your eyes

Written by E. M. Rushton
Aug 8th 2018
Eva Rushton Jul 2015
Asleep I am, Yet awake
In fields of wheat my mind does make
Rich I am in all this gold
All the beauty it beholds

Not a street within my eyes
Where yellow meets clear blue skies
I stand alone as I am one
In fields of gold under the sun

To my dismay I am returned
My skin is pink , like a burn
My fields of gold I see no more
I was rich but again I'm poor

Written by E.Rushton
In this poem I was rich with nothing more than my dream. When I stopped dreaming I became poor. Keep your dreams alive !!
Eva Rushton Jun 2019
When I die I want to be buried upon a page with my heart being the ink of my life

Written by E.M.Rushton
June 2019
All ©️ Copyrights reserved 2019 by E. M. Rushton
Love be of writing
Eva Rushton Aug 2018
When I was just a bitty baby
My momma said, I think she's crazy
When I was 20 and acted cool
People said she" just a fool
Now I'm older and nothing changed
Now people say , she's insane
I live my life and have some fun
so if you see me , please don't run
Come with me , and be my friend
we'll laugh and joke till the end

Written by E.M. Rushton
Eva Rushton Jun 2019
33 years ago a child was born
33 years ago a woman’s life was saved by the birth of the child
The pathway was change
Direction was given by an infant
Eva Rushton Aug 2018
The fear of failure is the cause of my failure.

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Eva Rushton Aug 2018
Im crying inside for my friend
Yet write beautiful with paper and pen
Am I of one or two or three
Sometimes not sure of Who I be
The fear of letting you see me
Doesn’t allow me to be free
Some day I hope I Of how I feel
And I can show and be me for real

Written by E.M.Rushton
August 16 th 2018
So many times I’m scared to let people know just how I feel so I pretend to be what they want of me..
Eva Rushton Sep 2018
Life is good for a once in a lifetime experience.

Written by E. M. Rushton
Eva Rushton Aug 2018
I really don’t know what to say.
She is going to tell me is dying
My words are  stuck in my throat
And my tongue is tied in knots
I really don’t know what to say

ALS has grabbed her body
To the point of no return
She’s my buddy, she’s my friend
The only one I chose to trust
I really don’t know what to say
Eva Rushton Oct 2019
In all I know for certain, uncertainties reside, while looking for something never to be known.

Written by E.M.Rushton
October 5 , 2019
Eva Rushton Jul 2019
The petal of a flower
Blew up and kissed me on the cheek.
Then on the ground it lay, wilting in the sunshine
While I am renewed , as I smile
The movement of my cheek muscles releases sparkling dust
Which falls upon the silky leaflet
absorbing it
The wind then picks the dust and takes it.
The petal’s last kiss is Is now upon the wings of butterflies no longer wilting.
Eva Rushton Aug 2018
I live my life like
A fish out of water
I see through eyes that are blind
I speak words I do not know

I take to give
I awaken to sleep
I crawl to run
I laugh to cry

I think not to know
I seek not to find
I hurt to be happy
I live to die

written by E.M.Rushton
Eva Rushton Aug 2018
The moon sits high
So full of light
In the darken sky
On the clearest night

Like a king on his thrown
It reigns its land
What it sees isn’t known
But in the sky ,it takes command

As I walk it follows me
Giveing light to my way
Never alone I will be
With its light as good as day

Written by E. M.Rushton
August 16th 2018
Eva Rushton Jun 2019
Love me like
The scorched earth needs
The warm summer rain

Love me like
The stars need the
Clear midnight to shine

Love me like
Bees need to
Pollinate for honey

Love me like
The river needs water
For the fish to swim in

                 Or

Love me just
For who I am
Like the breath you need

just
       Love
                Me

Written By E.M.Rushton
June 7 2019
Eva Rushton Aug 2018
I want to talk
But Only in thought
I want to be there
But no where near

I want to see
But not all that I should
I want to feel
But not right now

I want to give
But hide it away
I want to receive
But say no each time

I want to be free
But pass you cuffs
I want live
But live to want

Written by E.  M. Rushton
August 7th 2018
Eva Rushton Jul 2015
My heart is my shield
Through life as I go
To love is my art
And hope to bestow

My hands are to give
When nothing is there
To reach to forgive
And lift from despair

My eyes are to see
Your light from with in
Through storms they will lead
And shed tears when you win

written by E.M.Rushton
Eva Rushton Jul 2019
I wear soot  like a clown wears makeup .
Eva Rushton Jun 2019
Laying upon my berth
In the darkness of a glow
With flame crackling of the hearth
Mr Moon came to my window

He must have known my sadness
Asking me if I wanted to walk
But my mind was saddled with   heaviness
As I rolled over not wanting to talk

Oh but Mr moon was beautiful and bright
He tugged at my thought
Walking with him would be a wonderful sight
Finally my attention he caught

So up I get and grab a coat
The air is refreshing crisp
He takes lead and up high floats
He breaks the silence with a lisp

Eva it’s ok , not to be ok
I look up surprise but amused
Then bow my head unsure what to say
To many thoughts , so confused

The moon then ask me
Why I feel so alone
Everyone I say leaves me you see
The moon sighs and I hear a moan

He said he sees all things from high
Alone your not ,he said ,never
Even though I'm up in the sky
I’m here with you forever

That made a smile form on my face
And I looked upward
The clouds part and I see all space
With Mr moon as it’s guard

Written by E. M . Rushton
June 15th 2019 ©️
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