Monthly Archives: November 2012

Arms and voices for peace: A duet

by Noel Ihebuzor and Susan Daniels there are arms we lay down & others we hold open there are tongues we must still and others we loose; the barbed tongue that howls like a howitzer we have to leash and … Continue reading

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what’s coming

Maybe our talk should be shaped of small things, nothing as large as hope, but perhaps small as love that starts within a seed. Before growth, there is potential– color & scent folded into code only roses know & tell … Continue reading

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tarot (let me tell your story backward)

i can tell this you in pictures– here,  flashed & thrown in the movements of wands the hope of cups the sing & sting of swords & the shine of coins where the empress embraces the fool at the foot of … Continue reading

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silence–haiku triptych

a haiku chain by Susan Daniels & Noel Ihebuzor it echoes– this pause before words weighted breath It speaks loud the empty spaces between words those moments minds falter before sharing truth ***My friend Noel and I had a haiku conversation in the comments … Continue reading

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Originally posted on jmgoyder:
Are you asleep yet, my beautiful husband? Midnight approaches me with dark, unfamiliar claws, so I go outside to find some moonlight but it is pitch black out there and, when I can’t find the moon, I…

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silence

it echoes– this pause before words weighted breath

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burst

accept this prayer inked on the page or expressed by fingers tapping faith but knuckle under what spans the storm’s eye prismed– there are rainbows here & promise

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