emera

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emera
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I love to fly fish. Retired, widowed, mother, and grandmother. Medical background career. I love to write stories, poetry and dabble in photography, gardening, feeding a special squirrel and taking it easy. Last, but certainly not least, I Love the Lord. All of life's journey above has inspired my poetry. I write what I feel.

  August 2021     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 4 total

Fly-Fishing

I watched while you effortlessly cast your fly-line upon the calmer water of the river, presenting your imitation delicacy to the eager yet unsuspecting trout. The colored line flowing back and forth over your head caught the sun's light dancing...

by emera

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added 1 year ago
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Chained Laments

A dark yet penetrating stare, ice like, freezing glare.
Gargoyles supposedly made of stone.
A lonely moan answers to the unknown.
Moaning inside, growling outside, chained to cold, dead stone.
Hear it? Another sad and piteous moan.

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by (Emera) Pat Hellekson

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added 1 year ago
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Midnight Sky Dreams

Once upon a time under the midnight sky
I dreamed of wondrous places to run
reaching high into the sky never thinking...

by emera

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added 2 years ago
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The Gill-netter

As the old Troller heads back into harbor its barnacled hull cuts through the rippling waves, steady as she goes, casting shadows deep into the water from her starboard bow. The slow rhythmic chug of her engine shouts out across the sea, her mighty...

by Emera

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added 2 years ago
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Easy to read, important message, good rhyming and verses connected and flowed pleasantly. Well written.and it touched me as I read through it.

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