Poetic musician? Here I am!

"Definitions are like passport photos; metaphors are like watercolor portraits."

I'm a poet and a song-writer. I love language and music. This online article from Worship Musician about the metaphors in Christian songs is so apt, including the quote above from it.

--Ellen H.

Starry-eyed girl - a poem.

[Experimenting with more poetic styles and voices, and unearthing old ones. I found a short fiction story I wrote at a writing workshop years ago, and distilled a poetic version from bits of lines within it. I prefer poetry and real life over fictional stories, but this little series was fun to piece together.]

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Young couple strolling in the quiet street outside,

cool air dimly lit by gentle white of stars

mingled with warm amber of street lamps—

It was then that she broke up with him.

Ending this teenage tryst made him slump

and his eyes no longer hold their glow,

she could almost hear him breaking.
He squeezed her hand; she let go.

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Racing home, her heart now out of reach

for a casual fisher. Soon she’d be
casting in the constellations
for her dreams of ambition and adventure.

The partner was an optional,

interchangeable role, fading
into her greater heroine tale.

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Despite the chill of spring,
she left her bedroom window ajar.

Through leaves of the elm outside,
she glimpsed Orion and forgave herself
for missing him. Because of tonight,
she perceived more clearly who she would be

in years to come. For rivers may change course

from season to season, but constellations

keep their shape for eons.

--Ellen H.