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
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
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
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.
This doesn't do your glowing fireball of a sunrise justice but I wanted to give it a shot... Probably won't be the last time either. Also was reading Self-Reliance today thanks to @intjohn.bsky.social and therefore the quote...
April 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This doesn't do your glowing fireball of a sunrise justice but I wanted to give it a shot... Probably won't be the last time either. Also was reading Self-Reliance today thanks to @intjohn.bsky.social and therefore the quote...
Love, except the thread was red!
(AI art fails Greek myth test)
Ariadne shakes her head.
#7SyllableSentence x 3
(AI art fails Greek myth test)
Ariadne shakes her head.
#7SyllableSentence x 3
April 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Love, except the thread was red!
(AI art fails Greek myth test)
Ariadne shakes her head.
#7SyllableSentence x 3
(AI art fails Greek myth test)
Ariadne shakes her head.
#7SyllableSentence x 3
Soggy swamp, clear sky
Mottled spathes birth bud balls -
A bug's warm refuge.
#dailyhaikuprompt #skunkcabbage #clear #sky
The skunk cabbage spathe is a protective cover for a ball of dozens of flowers called a spadix. The spathe emits heat and shelter for pollinators in early spring. Wonder full!
Mottled spathes birth bud balls -
A bug's warm refuge.
#dailyhaikuprompt #skunkcabbage #clear #sky
The skunk cabbage spathe is a protective cover for a ball of dozens of flowers called a spadix. The spathe emits heat and shelter for pollinators in early spring. Wonder full!
April 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Soggy swamp, clear sky
Mottled spathes birth bud balls -
A bug's warm refuge.
#dailyhaikuprompt #skunkcabbage #clear #sky
The skunk cabbage spathe is a protective cover for a ball of dozens of flowers called a spadix. The spathe emits heat and shelter for pollinators in early spring. Wonder full!
Mottled spathes birth bud balls -
A bug's warm refuge.
#dailyhaikuprompt #skunkcabbage #clear #sky
The skunk cabbage spathe is a protective cover for a ball of dozens of flowers called a spadix. The spathe emits heat and shelter for pollinators in early spring. Wonder full!
We suffer from
Blood relation
#Segmentation.
Our Nuclear family
First hewn in 2,
Then cleaved into 4.
Our youngest
Little Bear,
Suffers the most.
His North Star
Lost forever,
He floats
In space
Untethered.
Forever forced
To choose
With whom
To celebrate
Life's
Magical
Moments.
#vss365 #poem
Blood relation
#Segmentation.
Our Nuclear family
First hewn in 2,
Then cleaved into 4.
Our youngest
Little Bear,
Suffers the most.
His North Star
Lost forever,
He floats
In space
Untethered.
Forever forced
To choose
With whom
To celebrate
Life's
Magical
Moments.
#vss365 #poem
April 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We suffer from
Blood relation
#Segmentation.
Our Nuclear family
First hewn in 2,
Then cleaved into 4.
Our youngest
Little Bear,
Suffers the most.
His North Star
Lost forever,
He floats
In space
Untethered.
Forever forced
To choose
With whom
To celebrate
Life's
Magical
Moments.
#vss365 #poem
Blood relation
#Segmentation.
Our Nuclear family
First hewn in 2,
Then cleaved into 4.
Our youngest
Little Bear,
Suffers the most.
His North Star
Lost forever,
He floats
In space
Untethered.
Forever forced
To choose
With whom
To celebrate
Life's
Magical
Moments.
#vss365 #poem