Poems on Emily Dickinson by Top Critiquers

Emily Dickinson, 415 Christian Era  
Alexandria, Egypt  
    
eschewed religion    
  despite horrific consequences;      
crucified footsteps    
  along Via Dolorosa;      
     
questioned theology;    
     but, wisely    
         outlining acceptable worship    
beyond prayer beads, books    
  charting astrology;    
     
welcomed all regardless    
    for who they were;    
   
mathematical language    
   calculated fibrous anomalies      
   within her Neoplatonist...

The times are changing
As I grow old with grays
I’m busy rearranging
Closer to my last days –

The years go by faster
As I move a little slow
Not yet out to pasture
But I hear the wind blow –

The words escape me
As I write the truth
For all that shaped me
Withered away in youth –

I count every wrinkle
Claiming each as mine
But also see a twinkle
In the life I still define –

Then I begin to smile
I still have time
It might be a while
It may be my prime –

Nothing is...