Emmy Jenkins
Gunpowder
I have been lucky enough to hear Emmy performing
a handful of times and I’ve always
found her words powerful, raw, honest.
But more than that.
Beautiful.
They reach into that part
of your soul that is aching
to find understanding,
The part that is craving for love
when the person that says they love you
is holding you down and making you forget
what love ever actually felt like.
So obviously I was excited to read this book.
And my excitement was not diffused
once I opened the first page.
It started to tick like the timer
on an explosive device that was buried
somewhere deep in my heart.
So, as I sat reading.
No that's not right.
Savouring
the words I felt a spark
And the fuse was lit.
This was a hit.
I was hooked. Like I'd injected
every emotion into my veins at once,
I felt warmth, love, passion, rage.
Every page dripped with so much.
Beauty.
The sort of beauty that comes
from finding who you are
after years lost in the dark,
The beauty that turns on the light
on your darkest nights
And shows that the fears you had
were just the curtains
blowing in the breeze,
and the monster under your bed
was just a bunch of boxes
and some lost memories.
And whilst we look in
through the window of words,
We find so many emotions
so perfectly tangled together
in ribbons of metaphor and bows of simile.
The almost conversational tone of some pieces
Flows like a dream
into the vivid hallucinatory way
that the words play
with each other to create images
that dance across the air
like skyborne children
of another world,
And I’m there gasping
at how intricate
and perfectly
it all melts together.
So, in conclusion,
if there is any confusion,
I absolutely loved this book.
I read it in one sitting,
and will be going over it again and again.
Just buy it is all I can say.
You will not regret it.
you can find the book here
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gunpowder-Emmy-Jenkins/dp/B0DJZDWCHT
and follow her work on instagram @emmyjenks_poetry
Peace, Love and Poetry
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