Based in Northern vignia, embwrites is a blog by poet Em. Her works explore themes surrounding self exploration and emotional expression.  

turning leaves.

the wind has begun to whisper
the opening notes
of autumn’s hymn –

the stale summer green
giving way to a fervent  
red that burns
with such reckless ferocity.

ignited in beauty kindled
with haste –  
infinitely enchanting
in all of its
impassioned impermanence.

falling leaves bask
in the beauty of
letting go,
trusting in the wind to
blow them right where
they need to be –

bare branches extend
a perhaps hand;
open to the
precarious breeze of
novel possibility.

the trees don’t fear
to fall
as our ignorant minds
are apt to do –

for they never learned
a reason to mistrust
their roots.

There Is No Beauty in Madness

If Only They Knew