Emily Epler's Writings
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Poem
Nov.27.2009
For The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel - Challenge From Julia to Write a Sonnet
The Natives watch you cross indigo skies.
Your waxing crescent milks the sated sun,
On beaming Heaven's torch through darkness comes,
Your gibbous planet's zeal refects how wise
Her face, full circle by 24 hours,
Unleashing spiritus, invokes, inspires
Beyond the dusk by night, with stars conspires,
Unadulterated acts her will gives powers.
No person speaks the...
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Poem
Nov.20.2009
For The Almost Uptown Poetry Cartel - Challenge From Julia to Write a Sonnet
Moon Song
The Natives watch you cross indigo skies.
Your waxing crescent milks the sated sun,
On beaming Heaven's torch through darkness comes.
Your gibbous planet's zeal reflects how wise
Her face, full circle by 24 hours,
Unleashing spiritus - invokes, inspires.
Beyond the dusk by night with stars conspires
Unadulterated acts her will gives powers.
No...
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Poem
Mar.09.2009
Quicksilver and Suede
A Certain Southern Exposure
Jessie Helms and the Moral Majority
Preaching to the procreants
Those people who need a little
Punishment with their morning coffee
Politics bedfellows religion
Like a bayonet fits on the end
Of a rifle...some sort of bloody afterthought
Designed to maximize the weapon
I hear the hatred in your sermon, brothers
No...
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Connections
Emily’s Favorite Books
Gems of Tennyson (poetry), Instructions to the Double (poetry), Sula, Blue Diary, The Three Junes, The Kite Runner, The Lover, The Bell Jar,
Fates Worse Than...