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Original Poetry By Jessie Yeh
 

 

Shattered Rainbows
By Jessie Yeh

It’s the fourth of July, didn’t you know?
A time for sitting under speckled skies,
Watching shattered rainbows.
When sitting close to them
they’re loud as horns,
But a brilliant spectacle to see.
Each individual shard sparkles
Like stained glass in the sunlight.

Once its center detonates,
The confetti drops burst out and scatter
Iridescent, expanding across the heavens.
The booms reverberate the few houses nearby
And cause several car alarms to go off.
One after another, they shoot towards the sky,
Their magnitude increasing slowly
Until the final dish of the meal is served
And only mini-explosions are left
And the shattered rainbows cease to reappear.



Picture Perfect
 By Jessie Yeh
 
A second of eternity,
projected onto a piece of paper.
 
I may only be a simple picture,
sitting lonely in my frame,
But my life’s purpose
is worth so much more.
 
A depiction of a small girl.
a father she faintly remembers,
Who existed in her world long ago.

Days go by, even years,
back and forth the people pass,
stopping occasionally
to remember or admire.
But I will never change.

 By some, I am valued more than gold.
I hold more than a mere 1000 words,
Because I’ve been given the task of storing
Someone’s memory captured in time.



I am a result of man’s creation
the camera, made by one so clever.
I was once but a few centimeters
tall and wide on a small square of film,
 
Now a brilliant image,
full of color, life, and meaning.