“Simplicity”

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn’t care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity. — Emily Dickinson (b. 1830 – d. 1886)

“If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking”

Photo Credit  If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. — Emily Dickinson  (b.1830-d.1886)

Poetry Post #5 : Forty-Five Pearls

If you let me, I’d like to clutch your forty-five pearls. A flawed, blinding foreignness and if it’s possible— the descendant of Emily Dickinson. In the entrails of the Aokigahara forest, Death is not a forty-five letter word and I can’t find the extra birthday candles because they don’t exist.