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Monthly Archives: October 2012
going carrie nation
some days i want to be so sure of rightness, carried strong by riptide conscience & not drowning hatchet swinging must be freeing: a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus turning tables at the temple calling wrong things wrong … Continue reading
Posted in activism, New Free Verse
Tagged Carrie Nation, going carrie nation, poetry, poetry with footnotes
15 Comments
International Day of the Girl–calling all my writing buds…
Morning, guys. As you noticed, Zoe, myself, and Noel have started writing poetry about child marriage (in particular, child brides). I am hoping that there are others of you who have something to say poetically on this issue that you … Continue reading
Posted in child marriage, Uncategorized
Tagged Child, HIV, Human rights, marriage, Reproductive health
50 Comments
a lesson about mehndi (laundromat poem)
henna flowers cover her fingers to the tips; brown & red climbing cinnamon skin as she sorts clothes; darks in the machine next to mine; lights one machine over i gasp at the patterns on her hands & she tells me … Continue reading
Posted in Art, child bride, New Free Verse
Tagged Bodyart, Bodypainting, laundromat, mehndi
24 Comments
A 12-year-old girl’s reaction to child marriage: A Collage
Zoe L. Daniels
Posted in New Free Verse
25 Comments
Originally posted on Reflections:
By Noel A. Ihebuzor the child as mother smothers childhood the murdered mind weeps when torture is garbed as culture, a deadening deaf culture deaf to pleas and protests pleas of despair the despair of the innocent,…
Posted in New Free Verse
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bride price
when she was 7 my daughter started second grade her bedroom purple & pink with Barbies & plush. she kept a dollhouse & not very well how is a girl as young as 7 a wife, except to play house with … Continue reading
Posted in child marriage, New Free Verse
Tagged bride price, day of the girl child, dverse prompt, hunger, poetry, world
72 Comments
rewind
life moves faster in rewind– the extraneous peeled off the essential things but perhaps it cannot erase how your kisses tasted like wild strawberries, sweet with a little sting
Susan Daniels Poetry 