Emma McBean
@emma-mcbean.bsky.social
Words, watercolor, ink, plants, creative cohorts, community convergences. MD-born, VT-at-heart, MA-living. Support 2 refugee-led orgs in Uganda: 🎨NYTC (art/music ed center) & 🍄GoGreen (sustainable ag/mushroom lab). ✍️➡️ substack.com/@emilykaminsky
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Emma McBean
@emma-mcbean.bsky.social
· Mar 24
It was not til now
Her body splayed,
In Shapes of Perfection,
Her breath too shallow,
Her fields gone fallow,
That she fused
With H, 2, & O,
Emit sunrise mist and moth wing glow.
At last it was now,
The final transpiration.
When it long last arrived:
Infinite #inspiration.
#vss365 #poem #myart
Her body splayed,
In Shapes of Perfection,
Her breath too shallow,
Her fields gone fallow,
That she fused
With H, 2, & O,
Emit sunrise mist and moth wing glow.
At last it was now,
The final transpiration.
When it long last arrived:
Infinite #inspiration.
#vss365 #poem #myart
Reposted by Emma McBean
Check out Rob Walker's latest post about #writeout! We're thrilled to have Rob as a Write Out Ambassador for this year's event (Oct 12-26): bit.ly/45nKAwd
Get Out
TAoN No. 192: Some place-based writing prompts from Write Out. Plus a new Icebreaker, and more.
bit.ly
August 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Check out Rob Walker's latest post about #writeout! We're thrilled to have Rob as a Write Out Ambassador for this year's event (Oct 12-26): bit.ly/45nKAwd
She keeps
#Selcouth sundries
Shelved in sight.
Sinew & skull
In shells & nests,
Jaws & feathers
Relishing rest.
Rescued reminders of
Ferality & fragility,
They appear at her feet
Begging for shelter
To add to her keep.
Only a woman
Could hold such mystery.
#vss365
For my mom, reposted w/her "keep"
#Selcouth sundries
Shelved in sight.
Sinew & skull
In shells & nests,
Jaws & feathers
Relishing rest.
Rescued reminders of
Ferality & fragility,
They appear at her feet
Begging for shelter
To add to her keep.
Only a woman
Could hold such mystery.
#vss365
For my mom, reposted w/her "keep"
May 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
HEADBANGER HAIKU #3
Hell's bronze bell descends
Cast in rock's high voltage hearth.
We all air guitar.
#dailyhaikuprompt
#ACDC
#hearth
#Boston
Hell's bronze bell descends
Cast in rock's high voltage hearth.
We all air guitar.
#dailyhaikuprompt
#ACDC
#hearth
#Boston
May 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
HEADBANGER HAIKU #3
Hell's bronze bell descends
Cast in rock's high voltage hearth.
We all air guitar.
#dailyhaikuprompt
#ACDC
#hearth
#Boston
Hell's bronze bell descends
Cast in rock's high voltage hearth.
We all air guitar.
#dailyhaikuprompt
#ACDC
#hearth
#Boston
HEADBANGER HAIKU #2
One clean cut fella
Hawk's eye view, salutes Angus.
Mullet long since gone
#dailyhaikuprompt
#hawk
#ACDC
#Boston
One clean cut fella
Hawk's eye view, salutes Angus.
Mullet long since gone
#dailyhaikuprompt
#hawk
#ACDC
#Boston
May 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
HEADBANGER HAIKU #2
One clean cut fella
Hawk's eye view, salutes Angus.
Mullet long since gone
#dailyhaikuprompt
#hawk
#ACDC
#Boston
One clean cut fella
Hawk's eye view, salutes Angus.
Mullet long since gone
#dailyhaikuprompt
#hawk
#ACDC
#Boston
Reposted by Emma McBean
The music program at the Refugee Art Education Center I sponsor in Uganda (serving 80+ refugee kids, mostly from Congo) has a half dozen guitars now, all made locally by young skilled luthiers. Hit me up if you'd like to sponsor a guitar. $25 each.
#refugees #guitars #musiceducation
#refugees #guitars #musiceducation
May 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
The music program at the Refugee Art Education Center I sponsor in Uganda (serving 80+ refugee kids, mostly from Congo) has a half dozen guitars now, all made locally by young skilled luthiers. Hit me up if you'd like to sponsor a guitar. $25 each.
#refugees #guitars #musiceducation
#refugees #guitars #musiceducation
HEADBANGER HAIKU
Blinking red-horned fans
Carpet the floor like ants,
Thunderstruck as one.
#dailyhaikuprompt #ants
#ACDC #Boston
Blinking red-horned fans
Carpet the floor like ants,
Thunderstruck as one.
#dailyhaikuprompt #ants
#ACDC #Boston
May 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
HEADBANGER HAIKU
Blinking red-horned fans
Carpet the floor like ants,
Thunderstruck as one.
#dailyhaikuprompt #ants
#ACDC #Boston
Blinking red-horned fans
Carpet the floor like ants,
Thunderstruck as one.
#dailyhaikuprompt #ants
#ACDC #Boston
May 3, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"What's more punk than an existential crisis? Everything." (Working title for my self-indulgent comic).
No 1: "I carry this bag of steaming crap around full of rotted future dreams. My collection of unlived lives. Someone else's fulfilled dream delights and disgusts."
#comics
#existentialcrisis
No 1: "I carry this bag of steaming crap around full of rotted future dreams. My collection of unlived lives. Someone else's fulfilled dream delights and disgusts."
#comics
#existentialcrisis
May 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"What's more punk than an existential crisis? Everything." (Working title for my self-indulgent comic).
No 1: "I carry this bag of steaming crap around full of rotted future dreams. My collection of unlived lives. Someone else's fulfilled dream delights and disgusts."
#comics
#existentialcrisis
No 1: "I carry this bag of steaming crap around full of rotted future dreams. My collection of unlived lives. Someone else's fulfilled dream delights and disgusts."
#comics
#existentialcrisis
On the Hop Brook Trail
At Garden In The Woods
I baby-step the descent.
An American Lady
With caramel-amber wings,
Pulses atop
Viridescent vegetation.
She is #Nirvana embodied,
Exhumed and triumphant.
Kin to but separate from
Brittle toast-hued leaves,
She lifts above
Yesteryear's hope.
#vss365
At Garden In The Woods
I baby-step the descent.
An American Lady
With caramel-amber wings,
Pulses atop
Viridescent vegetation.
She is #Nirvana embodied,
Exhumed and triumphant.
Kin to but separate from
Brittle toast-hued leaves,
She lifts above
Yesteryear's hope.
#vss365
May 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Dawn breaks, I awake
Brief mono no aware
Firmly plants me here
***********
"Mono no aware" (物の哀れ) is a Japanese concept that translates to "the pathos of things" or "sensitivity of things."
I felt it deeply in Kentucky.
#dailyhaikuprompt
#sunrise
#kentucky
#mononoaware
#brief
Brief mono no aware
Firmly plants me here
***********
"Mono no aware" (物の哀れ) is a Japanese concept that translates to "the pathos of things" or "sensitivity of things."
I felt it deeply in Kentucky.
#dailyhaikuprompt
#sunrise
#kentucky
#mononoaware
#brief
May 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Dawn breaks, I awake
Brief mono no aware
Firmly plants me here
***********
"Mono no aware" (物の哀れ) is a Japanese concept that translates to "the pathos of things" or "sensitivity of things."
I felt it deeply in Kentucky.
#dailyhaikuprompt
#sunrise
#kentucky
#mononoaware
#brief
Brief mono no aware
Firmly plants me here
***********
"Mono no aware" (物の哀れ) is a Japanese concept that translates to "the pathos of things" or "sensitivity of things."
I felt it deeply in Kentucky.
#dailyhaikuprompt
#sunrise
#kentucky
#mononoaware
#brief
Reposted by Emma McBean
Nibbled here and there
Withered trillium -
Pale ephemera
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
#dailyhaikuprompt
#trillium
#kentucky
#flowers
My first ever trillium sighting!
Withered trillium -
Pale ephemera
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
#dailyhaikuprompt
#trillium
#kentucky
#flowers
My first ever trillium sighting!
April 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Nibbled here and there
Withered trillium -
Pale ephemera
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
#dailyhaikuprompt
#trillium
#kentucky
#flowers
My first ever trillium sighting!
Withered trillium -
Pale ephemera
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
#dailyhaikuprompt
#trillium
#kentucky
#flowers
My first ever trillium sighting!
Our ears strain in vain
On slivered moon evening
For coyote howls
------------
#dailyhaikuprompt
#evening
#kentucky
Darkened pond harbors
Only deafening peepers
Singing their love songs
On slivered moon evening
For coyote howls
------------
#dailyhaikuprompt
#evening
#kentucky
Darkened pond harbors
Only deafening peepers
Singing their love songs
April 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Our ears strain in vain
On slivered moon evening
For coyote howls
------------
#dailyhaikuprompt
#evening
#kentucky
Darkened pond harbors
Only deafening peepers
Singing their love songs
On slivered moon evening
For coyote howls
------------
#dailyhaikuprompt
#evening
#kentucky
Darkened pond harbors
Only deafening peepers
Singing their love songs
Shy mayapple blossoms
Under leaf and sandstone arch -
A hiker's surprise.
+++++++++
#dailyhaikuprompt #naturalstonebridge
#haiku
#mayapple
#blossom
#kentucky
Under leaf and sandstone arch -
A hiker's surprise.
+++++++++
#dailyhaikuprompt #naturalstonebridge
#haiku
#mayapple
#blossom
#kentucky
April 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Shy mayapple blossoms
Under leaf and sandstone arch -
A hiker's surprise.
+++++++++
#dailyhaikuprompt #naturalstonebridge
#haiku
#mayapple
#blossom
#kentucky
Under leaf and sandstone arch -
A hiker's surprise.
+++++++++
#dailyhaikuprompt #naturalstonebridge
#haiku
#mayapple
#blossom
#kentucky
Red wing blackbird squawks
Attacks the window, seeing -
His own reflection
#haiku
#Redwingblackbird
They call him their "rooster"
Attacks the window, seeing -
His own reflection
#haiku
#Redwingblackbird
They call him their "rooster"
April 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Red wing blackbird squawks
Attacks the window, seeing -
His own reflection
#haiku
#Redwingblackbird
They call him their "rooster"
Attacks the window, seeing -
His own reflection
#haiku
#Redwingblackbird
They call him their "rooster"
Lingering late breeze
Shakes Eastern black walnut leaves
Moments fly away
#dailyhaikuprompt
#lingering
#kentucky
Shakes Eastern black walnut leaves
Moments fly away
#dailyhaikuprompt
#lingering
#kentucky
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Lingering late breeze
Shakes Eastern black walnut leaves
Moments fly away
#dailyhaikuprompt
#lingering
#kentucky
Shakes Eastern black walnut leaves
Moments fly away
#dailyhaikuprompt
#lingering
#kentucky
April 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Bulrushes whisper
Fresh breeze tickles rocketcress
Dragonfly alights
#dailyhaikuprompt #kentucky #spring #breeze
Fresh breeze tickles rocketcress
Dragonfly alights
#dailyhaikuprompt #kentucky #spring #breeze
April 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Bulrushes whisper
Fresh breeze tickles rocketcress
Dragonfly alights
#dailyhaikuprompt #kentucky #spring #breeze
Fresh breeze tickles rocketcress
Dragonfly alights
#dailyhaikuprompt #kentucky #spring #breeze
Recharging my whole self with family in Kentucky under big skies with scrappy goats.
Poetry is everywhere.
Poetry is everywhere.
April 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Recharging my whole self with family in Kentucky under big skies with scrappy goats.
Poetry is everywhere.
Poetry is everywhere.
