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Emmitt Owens

About Me

  • 50 Days and Forever

       50 Days and Foreverfor the one Providence cast toward me… Day One · The Water   Before I knew you, I knew the river …the hush of current, the patience of the line,how a man learns to wait on something greaterthan himself. Then you stood at the water’s edgeand I forgot I was waiting at… Read more

  • Fourteen Days

    — I’m posting this here as a hidden post and it’ll be made public the minute we sign these papers. Reason for doing this? To keep anyone from changing my mind, changing our minds. To keep the faithless away, like garlic to a vampire. Our minds are made up and they will not change. ….… Read more

  • Babel in Relationships: How Communication Breakdowns Mirror the Tower of Pride

    Babel in Relationships: How Communication Breakdowns Mirror the Tower of Pride (A Blunt Bible Commentary Essay by Emmitt Owens)(Index #10192025-B)Written: October 19th 2025 Version Two  Author’s Note The Tower of Babel isn’t just about architecture — it’s about communication. And if you’ve ever tried to love someone and found yourself talking circles around the same fight,… Read more

  • A Fish Story: The One that Didn’t Get Away

    The One That Didn’t Get AwayA Fish Story (index #0420-04222026)    Every fisherman has a story about the one that got away.     This is not that story.    In Genesis 24, there is a love story that begins the way the best ones do… not with planning, not with strategy, but with a well, and… Read more

  • The Unmasked Self

       Last week, I took my daughter and my friend’s son fishing to what the locals call Quarter Creek, a small sandy beach with a dock, a connection of Bear Creek Reservoir, in Haleyville Alabama . It was my first day of vacation from work. No agenda, no obligations… just the kids, the water, and… Read more

  • The Box

    Elio lives in a box, feeling isolated despite helping others who visit him for support. He provides comfort but longs for genuine connection and acknowledgment beyond his role as a fixer. Elio grapples with loneliness and self-awareness, yearning for someone to understand and engage with him personally. Read more

  • I’d… Backup Plan: Full Mission

    I’d… Backup Plan: Full MissionBackup Plans — The Real KindBy: Emmitt Owens(Index: #02232026)      Let’s talk about backup plans, because a lot of asshats out there have their whole system thought out. “I’ll keep him/her around if this doesn’t work out.” That’s asshat ideology. It’s selfish, it’s cowardly, and it guarantees you’ll never fully show… Read more

  • Cocaine Caroline

    Cocaine CarolineBy: Emmitt Owens—Buzzard Dust, 2012(Index #2012) We all knewWhat it’d doWhen I took those shots with you…We both passed out onto the floor. And I didn’t know what to sayWhen you said your love or my cocaineSo I said “what the hell”And began to drink away. When I took that blow up my noseI… Read more

  • Growth: How We Turned Forever Into Something Better

    Growth: How We Turned Forever into Something BetterBy Emmitt Owens(2480 Roasting Words of Celebration, 29 Years After the Marriage… the 17th Year of Divorce.) Index #0213226 Seesha,I love that we could orchestrate this whole roast week together – celebrating what would’ve been our 29th wedding anniversary and our 17th year of divorce at the same… Read more

  • The Fuzzy Headed X’s

    The Fuzzy-Headed X’sBy: Emmitt Owens[A Whimsy Poem Inspired by my own ADHD](Index #12022025) In the Land-of-Wait-What-Was-I-Doing-Again,Lived a Fuzzy-Head X (they’ve forgotten since when).Each morning they wake with their goals burning bright:“Today I’ll stay focused! I’ll get it all right!” They’ll start buttering toast—but the toaster looks dusty—so, they search for a cloth—but the cloth is… Read more