Emily's Eyes

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Emily's Eyes

Emily's singing without any music
Emily's flying without any wings
Emily's angels are helping her home
Emily's eyes...full of wonderful things...

Heaven, says Emily, is in the wonder
Paradise lives in the seat of your soul
Out in the flowers with birds to sit under
She knows that treasure's not silver or gold.

Every horizon has something behind it
Great truths reside in the simplest things
Passion and power and God in a flower
And time flies away like a bird on the wing.

Emily shines in the corners and cracks
Finding her rhymes in unusual words
Sometimes they're in color, sometimes they're in black
These poems about beauty and sorrow and birds.

Come to your window, Emily D
Come to your window and talk to me
With your sherry eyes and your chestnut hair
What kind of dreams are you dreaming there?

I rode all night just to talk to you
Hear your poems and walk with you
You hide up there on the second floor
Peering at me through a crack in the door.

Come to your window, Emily D
Come to your window and talk to me
With your sherry eyes and your chestnut hair
What kind of dreams are you dreaming there?

Heaven, says Emily, is in the wonder
Paradise lives in the seat of your soul
Out in the flowers with birds to sit under
She knows that treasure's not silver or gold.

Emily's singing without any music
Emily's flying without any wings
Emily's angels are helping her home
Emily's eyes, full of wonderful things....




unused verse...

She burned white hot, like a shooting star
Alone up there flying bright through the night
Stealing your breath and charging the air
With stardust, wonder and exuberant light.

© copyright Mon Apr 20 04:33:45 UTC 2009 - All Rights Reserved

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Music

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• Emily
• Dickinson

[cbrb40]

That's beautiful! You write some beautiful poetic lyrics Nancy that are inspiring! I love the simplicity of the song which heightens the effect of the words.

You're a wonderful singer songwriter! :))

[nllleonard]

THank you Rick, for your kindness!

I'm very glad you like my song!

~NAncy

[reliablebow]

Sitting in again....:)

[nllleonard]

And I just shared my morning tea with your Emily! What a comfort and joy she is!

;) ~NAncy

[cadwalladee]

Emily's place is pretty close by me... never been there. This just might give me a nudge! Very nice song, very well done!

[nllleonard]

Yes, you should definitely visit Emily's home! I went there...read one of her poems out loud in her bedroom...it was lovely! If you live close, I am envious. Beautiful part of the country! Thanks so much for your wonderful comment!

~NAncy

[nllleonard]

THanks a lot, Anne! ;) Oh, I'm a full-time daydreamer! ;) I'm that person gazing out the window with eyes glazed over, or staring out into a crowd without seeing anything....

Often, I start off with words that I like the sound of, and a song just builds around that. Confederate Jasmine Perfume was like that. ANd yes, I am best at night too. If only I didn't have to sleep! ;)

xox P&L to you! ;) ~NAncy

[nllleonard]

THank you!

~NAncy

[chordster2]

Beautiful....

chordster2

[nllleonard]

Ah, you read the whole thing! ;) Thanks a lot Nick, for that and for your kind words. THey mean a lot to me. You write lovely songs!

~NAncy