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A Poem by Aehr
Oh the broken walls,
The fallen bricks,
The creepers and wildflowers coiling the heart.
Oh the dying sun, burning through leaves,
Hanging from ..
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A Poem by Aehr
She is silver.
She is drops of water hanging from the web of a spider.
She is the eye of a hurricane.
She is sonorous winds chimes and the breeze..
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A Poem by Aehr
Mama told me, "Dance."
Dada told me, "Don't."
Mama told me, "Fly."
Dada said, "You won't."
Mama said, "Be strong."
Dada said, "Begone."
Mama to..
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A Poem by Aehr
There was once a branch on a litchi tree,
Greener than emeralds, as green as could be.
It stayed, its leaves soft, smooth and true
Until a storm it..
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A Poem by Aehr
She wore her brokenness like antique jewellery,Like something fragile and old, too precious to lose. Like rubies burning - a thousand souls churning,G..
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A Poem by Aehr
I feel an ache in my breast,
A sob trapped inside my chest.
Memories rotting inside my head,
I'm forgetting things I did and said.
Like sheets of ..
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A Poem by Aehr
"Fear me," I hear,
The words make me shiver.
Like a lone leaf on a lone tree
By a fast rain-fed river.
The spray of the spring,
The swiftness in..
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A Poem by Aehr
His eyes were a colour I couldn't quite determine
Blue like midnight, intoxicating like wine.
Stelliferous skies merged and weaved
Into each othe..
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A Poem by Aehr
"Dance with me," said he, holding out his hand,
"Oh dear but I am weary," said she, her feet in the sand.
"The moon- ah the moon, it shines down so ..
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A Poem by Aehr
Lovers die entangled
In fond loveliness,
Stories that I read-
My tears dampen the emptiness
Of the white pages
Of the notebook I fill
Ere I slu..
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