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Monthly Archives: December 2012
details (making dinner)
I am thinking of Venus transits in passing, something deleted from junk e-mail unread this morning, but somehow relevant as I break rosemary into sage to tease the nose in green-scented olive oil. My pestle is innocent of stars & their charting & … Continue reading
Posted in New Free Verse
Tagged Condiments, details, dverse prompt, Krishna, Olive oil, poetry, Venus
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God weeps
flags are half-staff at the capitol & everywhere red stripes tell blood; today not of revolutionaries but children, ours, because they are all our children, just learning letters & numbers, sight words, how to run & today how to die all we had to learn was how to … Continue reading
Posted in New Free Verse
Tagged Child, Connecticut, Elementary school, Gun Control, loss, poetry, Right to keep and bear arms, School shooting, United States
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HH prompt: Wish
empty of wishes at the end of a red day but full of prayers
Originally posted on words on life and other strange experiences:
Dear fellow WP-ers, lets do a writing prompt. Lets write about freedom, about freeing oneself. For various reasons, and also because of a blog post of a fellow writer http://www.kseniaanske.com…
Posted in New Free Verse
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body bags
18 of them, small for bodies under 4 feet lined up with 6 full-size bags how we tidy up loss so neatly & lifted easy but only the flesh is light not the arms that lift it you can’t cart … Continue reading
Originally posted on Bart Wolffe:
THE END OF GOSSIP, PLEASE The world’s babble of so many mouths popping With empty baubles, the chatter that monkeys make With mouths grinning, God, I’m so tired of speech That doesn’t cast spells or…
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how to catch what won’t stay still
don’t try to define what by nature is mutable, not fixed, quicksilver & led by Mercury these feet slip traps (even your careful ones) easier to run with or a little ahead of me, a game of tag or a race … Continue reading
Susan Daniels Poetry 