Scrape scrape
and the skin bleeds
paints the sidewalk
drips over pastel chalk
drawings of two girls
stick bodied and
skirted with triangles.
Three-fingered hands
clasped together like braids
and music notes dance
above curly mopped heads.
Afternoon clouds shift,
hopscotch spent, and now
the game is dotted,
bespecked and spotted
droplets–broken dreams.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eklektikos/ / CC BY 2.0
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Angel dust slapped against the sky
clouded memoir to the moon
whispered words echo on the wind,
“Goodbye, Mother. Goodbye.”
Pass across wan, gibbous face
shadow leaking tears like tar,
but fear and sorrow slowly wane
in slender, silver grace.
On the hillside perches child
in headstrong reverence,
wings wrapped ’round his nakedness
face painted blue with light.
Golden morning rises into grey
mist swirled life, the child [...]
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Crash against the crag
and chip away
piece by piece
day by day
tiny bits of
stone disintegrate
turn to sand
carried far away
by the constant
churning of the sea
forever carving
until the soul is free.
Disintegrate by Jennifer Hudock is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Since I started podcasting Goblin Market, I have seriously slacked off in my poetry writing. Boo, but not all has been lost. I still pen the occasional verse and rhyme, but I’ve been keeping them to myself to spare you all from vomiting. For the last two months, I’ve been wanting to dive back into [...]
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It’s been awhile since I had a poem I felt comfortable sharing publicly. This last week has been a little tense, as I watched my fourteen year old wish she was older, want to behave like an adult, but feel confused by the responsibilities that come with adult behavior. As a mother, I [...]
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It’s been awhile since I had a moment to record an audio poem to share, so tonight I thought I’d share a brutal little piece inspired by a walk I took recently during a thunderstorm. The mind roams free quite often, especially while I’m walking. I tend to have about 75% of my [...]
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I am really excited, as we are on the cusp of the latest edition of eMuse, and it is our most awesome issue yet. There is so much stuff packed into this tiny little zine, that you’re going to have entertainment for weeks to come.
This edition, eMuse welcomes new contributors, podcast author, James [...]
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That said, just like yesterday, today is a big, important day. It is the first day of the rest of my awesometacular life and I’m going to do everything I can to make it the best one [...]
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I don’t know about you, but I want to be a warrior, and the only way to do that is to battle against uncertainty with ferocity. To get out there every single day and Kill that bastard Bill, who would take away everything you want and know inside that you deserve just to see you squirm like a worm under his thumb. [...]
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While I was in college, I took every English Literature course I could get my hands on. Not because I was an English major, that was obvious, but because I would have taken nothing but English Literature courses in college if they hadn’t insisted that mathematics, science and that other stuff were equally important [...]
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