Postcard front:
Emily invigorates
My soul with gorgeous poems.
Her slant rhymes and her hymnal verse
Sing out to the whole world.
In dreams we wander down the path
Just wide enough for two.
We converse with our friends, the hills,
And I’m nobody too.
In life she comes alive through words
I revisit each day;
Her remarks full of clever wit
Still create joy today.
To Emily I am in debt
For poems, which changed my life,
For causing in me a desire,
Like her, to read and write.
Postcard verso:
Dear Emily
Your poems speak volumes and
bring such joy to the world that
never wrote to you. Due to your
verse, I have found solace in sorows,
celebrated joys, and attended
Mount Holyoke College. Thank you
for the legacy you left behind in
letters and poems; you’ll never
understand the tremendous
impact they’ve had.
Fondly,
Annie
Postcard verso:
Dear Ms. Em,
I’ll confess that when I 1st met you,
I didn’t like you. Death, flies,
symbolism, spinsterhood…oh how my
high school teachers exalted in the
bleak, the desolate, the alone. But
then one day…30 or 40 years later—
I came upon one of your poems
and found such joy, music,
life. And love. Over and over
again. An the breadth and depth
of you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Jennifer
Postcard front:
I reckon – when I count at all –
First – Poets – Then the Sun –
Then Summer – Then the Heaven of God –
And then – the List is done –
But, looking back – the First so seems –
To Comprehend the whole –
The others look a needless show –
So I write – Poets – All –
Postcard verso:
The Eudora Welty House and Garden
1109 Pinehurst Street
Jackson, MS 39202
Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!
Eudora Welty was a Pulitzer Prize –
winning author and an avid letter
writer and reader. Her correspondence is
house at the Mississippi Department
of Archives and History and her house
and garden are now open to the public, much
like Dickinson’s Homestead. Among Welty’s
5,000 books are a collection of Emily
Dickinson’s poems and a selection of her letters.
From one literary museum to another,
happy 189th, Emily!
Sincerely,
The Eudora Welty House & Garden,
Jackson, MS
-Rachel Lauren Kasey Demia
Postcard Verso:
Dear Emily,
Born in Moscow,
moved to Massachusetts.
Found love and peace (in your books) long before
my new home in Ware.
thank you for the inspiration!
PS find enclosed my photos.
Enclosed photograph:
If it had no pencil,
Would it try mine –
Worn – now – and dull – sweet,
Writing much to thee.
If it had no word –
Would it make the Daisy,
Most as big as I was,
When it plucked me?
This is my letter to the one
Who wrote all her life to Me –
The deepest corners of my heart –
She sounded utterly
To tell Her, there is nothing
Her Message transcends time
For love of Her – Sweet – poetess
I wrote this little rhyme
