Emily Wolf

Biography

Investment banker type masquerading as a hippie. New to exploring my writing passion.

Samples

Build me a city on broken dreams Use the concrete of weaponry and the filling of blood Trace rivers and shores with the tears of a thousand lost sailors Build crosswalks at the intersection of emptiness Place traffic lights to guide motorized souls Build bridges to nowhere And walls around collective thought Carbon capture technology to prevent idea exhaust From the factories that process differences Through boilers that generate sameness steam Build industry laboring for the machinery and architect Let it be a magnet for migrating segments of the whole Then erase, redraw, redesign and reshuffle the cards New rules make the pieces move and new bones crumble The dust particles of life Pompeii the old way But new cities rise and fall above it, forgotten New structures,, more fallen, no change We wander up and down layers alone, Marching in time, in perfect step Army boots heeding a commander He does not need to see to believe in With a brigade unknowingly separated by nothing But the sequence of layers in time Each uniform glides through broken dreams alone Climbs hills built with the lives of others By victors that have long since perished and become new bones In old machinery that rises only by pushing surrounding land down Each wanders the banks of once flowing rivers Admiring the grief of those whose pain has long since been forgotten Contemplating poems that seem handed down from the sky Put in my a new city The soldiers who trudged through constantly perishing cities alone, carrying supplies Artists who tried to capture the essence of what was with a sketch The neighbors who warned each other that the landscape was changing And the gardeners that tried to resculpt the earth I envision a city where everything intersects with everything else A people fully encompassed

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Blog entries by Emily Wolf

Power (25/05/2017)

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