Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Fizzy feelings and fuzzy physics #7: Energy

by Noel Ihebuzor and Susan Daniels Raw or refined, Raging or reclining, Coiled, uncoiling, recoiled force and power, taming and untamed , kinetic and potential constant in final summation never lost Eternal borrowed magic forged once and never destroyed; only … Continue reading

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alternative anatomy

the heart has an eye that can be opened, to see joy in all its colors and the eyes are mouths hungry for beauty but the mouth is just a mouth that is most beautiful closed and smiling

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the great lake

waves beckon an altar call but wordless come we are water and resonate with blood and tears we will bear yours too, and you, who are mostly water, can dissolve into shifting sameness and surface tension, a layer of gray … Continue reading

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Fizzy feelings and fuzzy physics #6: Time

by Noel Ihebuzor and Susan Daniels Monosyllable rich in polysemy endless, stretching fabric enfolding layers of meanings, deeper than the infinite finite, endless, far and near seamless unity, past, present, future merged was, is and will, history and hope defiant … Continue reading

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I am on no island

not sitting but curved against stone smoothed to skin smoothness by stroking water my hands mirror that caress marvel at that sleek shape patience has carved over eons

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play

play is first learning to taste the is of all that can be touched by small hands hows and whys will come later after words which are my toys and I taste and turn these over and over in my hands abandon … Continue reading

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parachute wedding dresses

my mother told me of women, young women who loved the soldiers of WWII or Korea engagement rings sparking diamond hope on all those left hands who promised to sew their wedding dresses from parachutes museum pieces now, those dresses … Continue reading

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