Sincerely, Emily

🫀🌸🐇🍓꩜ 25 year old teenage poetry girl pouring my heart out about mother earth and love and hope and healing

[sincerely--emily]

girl crush

we hugged and my heart began to burst

little pomegranate seeds popped on my skin like precious gemstones between our bellies

I think you held on a moment longer—warm like fresh cinnamon

[sincerely--emily]

On Healing Old Wounds

Actually, maybe I do

Have to let it bleed out of me

Pour good in

Let it overflow until the water runs clear

Drown myself in it for awhile

Until I can drink it clean, come up for air

[sincerely--emily]

The Same Wind (Hers and Mine)

I am twenty-five

And suddenly

I am fourteen

And twelve

And seven with a scraped knee

I walk now with each of her

Together as one

Our feet atop the same stones

Warmed from the August sun

Noses twitching in unison

Hair twisting as we watch the same bee

Fly away

I am twenty five now

And suddenly

I am everything I never wanted to be

And it is so much sweeter and so much better than what I thought would happen

I am twenty five now but I am

Also sixteen

Same wind in the same hair

With the same windows rolled down

Just for a moment

I see the same sunset over different trees

New lines in the same skin

Warmer days

Summer started sooner

I am twenty five now but

I am also nineteen

Same eyes but they’re so much brighter now

These eyes see different things for the future

Than hers did

But we are still the same

The same hand stirs a new pot with the

same spoon I had at twenty one

I was once eleven

And nine

And two

And twenty one

And soon enough

I will be twenty nine

And thirty

And forty two

And sixty eight

And I will hold hands with her too

And walk the same stone path

Water the same roses

Harvest from the same garden

But for now I am twenty five

And I will hold her hand awhile

[sincerely--emily]

Storm’s Coming

Warning bells across the water I

Sailed home then planted daisies

Gifted yesterday by neighbor Ginny

Sun cast a halo on the garden

Threw my denim knees

To the earth let the rain

Soak through—sighed in relief

Thrust my bare hands under the soil

Felt the thunder yet to rumble

There’s a storm coming—thank God

Sat on the front porch

Eyed new dark clouds

I’m ready let it come

Home just in time

Trees started swaying

Sky growls softly

Felt that shit in my chest

Hail starting small

Open your sky

I’m ready let it come

[sincerely--emily]

Untitled

The snake oil I’ve swallowed sits swollen on my dresser—some other kind of altar. It was inside me the whole time; this healing, this answer. Me, the oracle.

[sincerely--emily]

It’s spring, the lilacs

are blooming, I’m in love

with every little thing,

my heart cannot contain

such ecstasy.

Here, hold some of it, please.

Let me pour a bit of this

wild joy into your hands

like water cupped

from a stream,

share this sip

so I don’t drink it

all myself

and drown.

—Never have I known such unmanageable pleasure

[sincerely--emily]

Sea Girl Caught in Land Storm

Salt on the breeze she whips

through the bay, trees in a dance

They bend to her will

churning and churning and

churning it goes

Oh, watchman, shine your lantern

through this briny night

Tie down the ropes,

snap the shutters closed

for this storm I’ll weather alone

Leave me to hold the house

together between trembling arms

No I will not let it go, no matter

how hard she blows

yes this is my seaward home

[sincerely--emily]

I’m tired of being a work in progress

Worn down to the nub

A cracked case of caring

About everything

Too much

[sincerely--emily]

This body, This earthly body

Let me live my life in the soil

my toenails will turn to bark

my hair the pale green lichen

Let my skin be soft as the moss

and move around your fingers

when you press it

[sincerely--emily]

Holy Water

She evades me—

tongue tied down

in the wind

elusive as holy water

[sincerely--emily]

Untitled

Excuse me while I pause awhile and weep in my garden, life bursting forth so beautiful in spring it breaks my heart.

[sincerely--emily]

Moon Song Version 2

Moon take me home

Silver light sing the way

Fawn stride beside me

Pick your way through apple cores

Moon I beg you lead me there

To higher hopes and clover pastures

Star studded sky

Burn holes in my bedlinens

Shine through pin pricks

Wake me up

Rain me down

Pluck my freckles

One by one

Take them home

[sincerely--emily]

The Only Altar

The only altar

I worship at is that of

The earth

And my lover

Our marriage is my religion

And Gaia is the temple

To love—in the sunlight,

In the rain

dripping on skin

under the moonlight

on faces,

By the sea

with hands in hair,

Beneath the trees,

Held by the mountains

and him—

Is how I pray