Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

everyone’s a better poet

do we all do this, that gasp of surprise at those words he threads delicate as silk through a pen that must flash like a needle stitching images & the colors she weaves on the screen, light breaking through those … Continue reading

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I went looking

I went looking for visions broken shale bruising soles barefoot, because skin needs to touch earth flatly when you hunt gods at least that is what the trees told me & I believe those roots

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noise

this life is not exciting enough to justify a voiceover or soundtrack I need to listen to quiet things more; the sigh of shadows sliding over glass or how on a hot day standing in one of those fields if I … Continue reading

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I hope your life more wonderfuls a good

I  hope your life more wonderfuls a good that joy sunlights your days & nights moonbeam dreams sweeter than this heaven ***once again, inspiration strikes from spam.

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basic biology

in those health class diagrams gametes (those two halves of a whole) will meet and meld given the chance uncaring of circumstance those eggs & that sperm incapable of consent, & yes, innocent & intent in their division not so us, … Continue reading

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Originally posted on ManicDDaily:
By Any Other Name I want it to hurt,” he said, (meaning, it hurt). Though she did not get pregnant, (meaning, perhaps, that the pain was ‘legitimate,’) even though he had no gun, (if a hard…

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Seduction: A duet

By Noel A. Ihebuzor and Susan L. Daniels seduction is best when done softly, slowly and yes, subtly– to lead entranced an entrancing partner (not necessarily all that innocent – intent and consent in a closet slightly ajar, and ever … Continue reading

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