{"post":"Holidays always make me feel some type of way they come with a heaviness in my heart, mostly it was because my family had drifted so far apart after my mother and my grandfather died, but 2021 and 2022 have come and will go and with it half of my family. I'm angry and sad, at a loss but grateful that my 2 brothers and my nephew will no longer suffer with the day to day struggles that come with life. I'm an Empath I feel everything but it is a blessing and a curse. To have the connections that i have and the energy it takes to feel empathy for others but most specifically to my family and then to lose them is immensely emotionally draining to me. I can play back the memories of us playing as kids and hear that childrens laughter in my head like if i was reliving those moments action for action and word for word... it's beautiful and deafening at the same time because it hurts so much that i cannot hug them again... laugh with them again, or remind each other of the silliness we grew up with and shared. I don't want to say when my brother was alive... or when my nephew was alive, i want to call them invite them to my home for christmas and share gifts and stories... and i don't know how to come to terms with the fact that they are no longer available for me to do that... Lord How do I move on 2023 is coming, i can't go back to when they were here and I can't freeze time to prevent anymore losses... there is only the inevitable life!


Happy Holidays to you all...

Embrace and Love on your family like it is your last day on earth, the moments and memories you create today are the very thing you will hold on to tomorrow...

Peace and Love always...

Poet Emissary"}

{"post":"This is a Poetic Recovery Event @ WSU for Dan-Ski's Memorial Created by Maurice \"Soulfighter\" Taylor... Have to Appreciate the work Maurice has put into our Communities in Support of his friends and the Culture... HIP HOP 4EVA

This is not a poem

It's another reminder that we are just puppets in a play called life.

Prince has died in an elevator, i'm sure if he had a choice
it would not have gone down like that.

I want to think that with all his success, the positive influence, the caliber of his artistic gift
and the ability to reach the masses through his life that its not how he would
have chosen to leave us.

I'd like to think that he simply hung his white guitar on his shoulder walked down a purple runway roped off in purple velvet ropes, with purple flower peddles laid along the way, the doves flying around him, their tears hidden in the purple rain, we watch him as he walks away wishing he could have our extra time but instead sending him off with a kiss...

He influenced my life in so many ways, through his music and his movie
he spoke for me through his lyrics as if he was reading my mind
I connected with him, loved his music his work moved me, touched me, taught me, he read me as if he knew me.

The same goes for anyone who influenced my life personally, I have to add someone else that we also lost recently, DJ Outlaw who I had the honor of working with personally, I had the pleasure of meeting him and working shoulder to shoulder with him at events at Westfield State University's History of Hip Hop, where he was present along with Dj Tony Crush and other great Hip Hop Pioneers, at Dan-Ski's Celebration of life event in Holyoke and also at Dan-Ski's 1st year anniversary memorial event at WSU.

Growing up in the streets of the Bronx, The Cold Crush Brothers were a part of my life, I live for the music the dance the streets is where it all went down, where u could go to a block party and forget about your problems and just show what you had, the streets were our stage, I was a part of that, and he was a part of that and although back then we never directly met we finally did meet and side by side Dj Outlaw, Dj Tony Crush, Dan-Ski, Maurice “Soulfighter” Taylor and a host of others, got to sit down and talk about something that we all knew as part of our lives and loved, something that we all had in common, we talked about The History of Hip Hop and the influence it had on each and every one of us.

It was at that point that I realized how Dj Outlaw had been a part of my life someone that I respected and now a friend. Never forget that white dude wearing the Backwards Cango I guess we could say it was his trademark... Cold Crush Brother for life!

these are just a few words to remind us
about how sometimes we take things for granted and put eachother on the shelf
we forget that people exist until something likes this happens and its too late
we forget that we have expiration dates and that life is determined by fate
we are not in control no matter who we are
commonly we forget who is really in control its a simple mistake

today we are reminded that we are just people each a piece of a puzzle that creates a picture
too big for us to see in a life time."}

Gettin 2Da Gritty! Let’s talk … Tomorrow 7-8

{"post":"life is fast
Emotions are lost in the essence of time
if im lost in its essence am i living in the present
or did time harvest the emotions of my past
life is vast
time passes fast
so i ask, am I living in the essence of reality
or have I expired my time
is my spirit second guessing my presence
or am i just reliving the life that i had…
life is funny like that…
i have to ask myself was my time a check I already cashed!

Liz “ D_Emissary” Filomeno
ⓒ"}

It’s that time again…

{"post":"Im a poet and words are like rain
they hydrate me soak me and enlighten me
like a sponge i soak them in
let them brighten my days
like sun up in the early morning
lighting up the sky and giving birth to a new day
a new play of words to spread
like seeds planted in our day to day
let the scrabble games begin
lets get down and dirty
roll up your sleeves
we about to slay each other down
using word play...

Liz “D Emissary” Filomeno
Ⓒ copyright

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