EMALISA ROSE - POEMS

Emalisa Rose is a poet, dollmaker, animal rescue volunteer.  Growing up in a shore town has inspired her poetry and her art.
She is a grandmother of five and she strives to lead the young ones through the path to the arts in the beauty of its diversity.

​I wish I could write like her

​storms were the sermon for Sunday 
shedding deep scarlet, sycamores
freestyle a river-dance, leaves twirl in
tapestry winging with hummingbirds
i blinked twice in your twilight, wishing
a willow of water words to enrapt me
in rhymes of your rainbows and the way
that your heart births a sparrow (each time)

wishing your wrote words were mine.

​Rococo

​chronically captivating
reeling me into your raptures'
rococo to your den of
debauchery...i lay tethered
you..my fix..my  addiction
me..your albatross acrobat
lured in your wander whirl in
the lush of your lyrical, making
me do 'those" kinds of things
but I'm gonna stay here a while in
our volcano of vodka, singed sheets
sheets and contortions of crosswording
having tired of Clorox and wash and
dry spin cycles that won't render
me clean again since i tossed out
those smiley face surrogates
seizing my poetry with their
sugar high cloud collage carnivals


(perhaps I'll go back there some
 other day)

​Forever your flower

​daffodils Saturday
but you missed the
reception

i took the river road
climbing the trellis
flash dancing the
skyway expecting to
trace you

and I'm missing your
wonder whirl

its forget me not colors
the cloud collage carousel
my segue of synergy


much later that morning
i collapsed off the hire wire
overrun by the obvious

you were simply an annual
i'm forever perennial


blooming with butterflies
I'll cradle our petals, and
scatter our seedlings where
the heart meets the arrow


on the way to the water flowers