In your not-speaking
that shout
twists in your throat.
Speak the snake
before you choke on it.
I am willing to sacrifice silence
for eventual peace.
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Susan Daniels Poetry 
nice….your title could be a poem to peace itself…your poem though has great grit…and sometimes you have to go into the fight to get to the peace…that i do know….very nice…
Thanks, Brian. Yes, that’s it–talk it out to get to the point of peace, and not a state of constant readiness for its opposite 😉
Susan, I like this! To me, this sounds like some of the times I was dealing with teen-aged daughters!
LOL, that’s what I have 😉
speak that snake before you choke on it. wow. i love this.
here’s to peace.
Raising my glass to clink with yours! Thanks much!
Love it!
Thanks so much! Also thanks for the follow!
Ain’t this the truth ~ I like the idea of snake (words of hate) choking our throats ~ Well done Susan ~
Thanks, Grace. Much better to let it out…
So true and sparingly shown. Nice work Susan.
I died of a cardiac having grown fat on all the words I chocked back shielding my heart-sac!
Oh, now there’s a poem in that too, Panda!
I am willing to sacrifice silence
for eventual peace…love this…it’s so true and sometimes such a hard way to go…but worth it..
thank you, Claudia.
Loving that second stanza 🙂
Love the word choices throughout and how this sounds read aloud.
Thank you, Laurie.
Amen to that!
😉 I much prefer getting it all out there…
..oh, this brought a feeling of having a cold war within that home…in which i think already very common… In silence we find peace the same way as we find trouble or complications we can really never tell until one party decide to lose out and open up… Being humble enough is another issue that is always being questioned & misinterpreted… smiles..
Oh, that’s so true too. Cold wars can go on indefinitely–I think it is better for one person to eventually say–hey, I love you and need to hear what’s wrong, no matter what. Is usually worth the anger and tears to get back to that place.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
~William Shakespeare
I love your short piece of poem. 🙂
Say, check out what I just posted. (Update news 2013)
will do–nice quote too, Charlie!
Thanks…I’m back to blogging again…and I am ready to read you all. 🙂
Nice!! Especially liked the last two lines!!
Katie, thank you.
Absolutely 🙂
Thanks, C.
Yes…sometimes you need to sacrifice silence for peace.
We certainly do, and it is worth it.
I learn years ago. Silence is very good. Negative statements will be used against you in the near future. I like the poem.
Hi John!
I agree, communication has its own risks, but if we can’t name our feelings and express them, then we will eventually choke on them. I take the risk knowing I am opening myself up to further hurt by doing so. Makes the environment less toxic 😉
YES! silence speaks. I love the final stanza.
Thanks so much. It does. Sometimes it shouts.
How succinctly you illustrate passive aggression. Terrific, Susan!
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Thanks, Kim.
I can relate to choosing to be quiet to keep the peace. Nice job
🙂 I have, and have found it is better to speak than choke. We can really hurt someone (and each other) both ways.
“Speak the snake before you choke on it”… ah yes… I do agree. Get it out so we may move forth…
Yes, Dana. Best to do that!
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Thank you and will do.
If we can only know peace through hiding our thoughts and feelings, through refusing to say what’s on our hearts and minds, then the peace we are rewarded with is a poor thing indeed. Much better to go through the struggles to find real peace, I think. And you said all that so much better than I have, in many fewer words 🙂
Thanks, Tony 😉
How so succintly and yet so powerfully you convey the dangers and corrosive effects of bottling things up, keeping emotions down and allowing all of this to slowly eat one up from inside!
Thank you, Noel–I think holding things in, holding back, is one of the deadliest things we can do to ourselves and our relationships, whatever they may be. Better to let it out and deal with it directly, IMHO.
Hope you are rested after your travelling.
Can I just add that in speaking out, one’s primary motive should be to free onseself and not to tie up and hurt the other. Easier said than done, though!
Perfectly said, Noel. Yes, truth should always be spoken without an agenda. The challenge is gentleness, as always.
Susan,
Again. You pull up deep feelings with simple words. I shall speak the snake from my throat. There is so much to say.
Alice
Alice, thank you. When I wrote it I was thinking of something constricting the voice of the person the speaker was addressing, but it can means so much more than that. I love poetry.
“that shout twists in your throat” is a brilliant, evocative phrase. Thanks for you kind words over at my blog. I’ve missed reading your work as I’ve barely had/got internet at the moment: I plan to sort that as a resolution for the new year, so hopefully I’ll become more active again soon. 🙂
Oh, I hope to see more of you–in the meantime, you are back in my reader–I don’t want to miss more of your work.
I like this one a lot. Conversation and silence have their places; know when to use each.
Yes–knowing when/what to share is so crucial.
Wonderful choice of words (all).
“Speak the snake
before you choke on it.” (brilliant.)
Excellent write Susan
Anna :o]
Thanks, Anna.
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