Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

if I am intimate with

If I am intimate with the movements of the earth and do not share her secrets it is because I leap up from her flesh suddenly, a quake-spawned mountain spewing ash and steam or a weed, growing overnight wild and … Continue reading

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Originally posted on Reflections:
By Noel Ihebuzor Life as lived unity Life lives, breathes and shimmers as one straddling frames and fields defying puny encapsulation and attempts to frame it in packets and pockets of disparate silos by all knowing…

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Originally posted on the poet's billow:
Tina Chang, Brooklyn’s new poet laureate, breaks down her creative process. Watch it here at the New York Times Website.

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lessons learned in the morning, on the way there

this oiled gravel path twists and climbs, and sinks again to show us what we have forgotten on the way how sun fills valleys empty of anything but trees, dances on leaf tips like light brushstrokes and how these same … Continue reading

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Fizzy feelings and fuzzy physics: Friction

By Noel A. Ihebuzor and Susan L. Daniels In every straight and curving path of life the interaction of opposites flows, friction, its opposition a delicate assurance of traction, resistance and grip, always present allows us to stand and move same … Continue reading

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so you have found it (for NPS)

so you have found joy when you were not looking as most of us do you move through your days smiling, because now you know how fast a sigh can burn through your veins like Everclear 190 without the hangover still, … Continue reading

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eternal flame falls: a reflection

its all about contrasts: the water fine as threads strung over shale not deep enough or strong enough to stop that burning I used to see this fire and water fusion as opposites in a balanced dance a lesson for … Continue reading

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