Kellie Elmore

Author. Photographer. Creative Entrepreneur.

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The Most Beautiful Death You’ve Ever Seen

There’s an enchantment in their dying. A last silent bursting of fiery life  before the fade and fall. Whispering a final farewell song  as the cold breath of autumn moves through. And leaves. Stripped down to brittle bones, they take nothing. Baring it all for an emerald crown when they arise on the other side of winter. It is, perhaps, the most beautiful death you’ve ever seen.

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free of all that hurts

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here, there

Dusk lays hazy and heavy 

on lazy fields of muted green 

separated by a wanderers winding

saddle of worn gray

and August presses down 

like a warm cloth

pale blue filter

swallows her color

reminiscent of winter

her heartbeat scattered

flickering sky

here, there

here, there

I grieve—

unknowing

how many more

and dare I think upon

the ones before

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Protected. Loved. Filled.

When I was young, I had a few friends who were siblings, come down the street to my house to play. For the most part, we just did kid stuff, but sometimes we got into a little mischief, as most kids do.

Every evening, when the street lights came on, a sharp whistle could be heard in the distance. It was their fathers way of letting them know it was time to come home. They were never in a big…

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dwell on the lovely things

dwell on the lovely things

Prodigal wandering

Thoughts like

heavy lead

Sinking pulling

My encasing

clenching suffocating

And I push hard a breath

this. is. all. a. lie.

a hail mary

save me

And it floats

toward the surface

chasing the light

and a gasp of freedom

to return my heart to

the race it runs from

And I wait

burning

when he sits down beside me

saying

Dwell on the lovely things

and my bones

begin to rise

  Luke…

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little smudged periods

streetlights

peach speckles

freckles the

damp night

little smudged periods

on whispered conversations

dotted markers

of moments past

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Happy Winter

Hey guys. I’ve been MIA for some time now, I know. My photography business really thrived this year which kept me pretty busy. I considered writing a couple of times, but for those who have followed me, you know I write from my real life experiences and they’re mostly from places of pain or hurt because it always helps me heal. With that said, I am happy to say that I have not been in such a…

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a hidden truth

In the immeasurable vastness of the universe, we are but a speck of dust on a speck of dust on a speck of dust. Yet we have this false awareness of being bigger than we are; Building our little empires, collecting our little fortunes, envying people and titles and placing value and worth on tangible things as though it matters. While we glutton; consume and feed our mind and bodies on “stuff”, in…

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mmm magic because spring is always a little brighter a little bit of mmm magic seems to happen in the spring…

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holding the door

he did it i don’t know when or how but he did it he got through permanant unbreakable fire proof walls yet here he is sitting inside smiling because i opened the door like he said i would but i am still standing here holding the knob because i can’t relax with him just yet

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who do you say that you are

who do you say that you are

de·stroy dəˈstroi/ verb : to reduce (an object) to useless fragments, a useless form, or remains, as by rending, burning, or dissolving; injure beyond repair or renewal; demolish; ruin; annihilate. Destroyed. This was my word. This word was my identity. This word defined me. This word is how I described one of the most tragic things that ever happened in my life. It was my go-to word when I found…

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for Megan

Sweet girl The ones you chase can’t love you It is simply beyond their ability The one who the universe created for you Will be so taken So drawn to you He won’t even understand why But his spirit will His very being will know You were made from the same particles In the same cluster of stars that speckle your freckled face that his eyes can’t turn away That somehow you must have danced together…

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the darker stage of twilight

the darker stage of twilight

He creeps in between the lines on the radio and the highway lingering there carried away by the blurred glow of tail lights. And I wander deep into the shadows tangled inside his memory searching as its darkness holds me. And I to it. Bare as the stripped trees. Emptied as a needle drawing out the light like the fading sky. The only escape is to let go but its comfort its familiarity is the…

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grace in the fall

grace in the fall

i am at times but a leaf drifting and blown by winds of fear and grief and i am bent yet unbroken though i weep as thirsty as the willow but there is grace in the fall when i land when i bow down You step up and i rest my spinning head on your feet and oh the soft soft hand of your presence holds me still and i drink

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encounter It's a sunless winter evening desaturated and mute and as I top the hill overlooking the tiny town…

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He Fights For Me

He Fights For Me

I cried. I spilled it all. Showed my scars and asked for help. He put on the biggest boxing gloves, called my enemy into the ring, and trampled him. My hero. My warrior. My savior. My God.

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God & MLK

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, ‘Love your enemies.’ It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll…

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