- PEACE -
Friday, July 11, 2014
All Western New York Music Awards [I am asking for your help]
OK people, I am asking for your help:
Please vote above. I am nominated for Public Relations.
Thank you in advance!
Peace,
Sue
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Jharna झरना [Waterfall]
i watched you sleep
like angels
birthed
from the golden eyes
of heaven
i watched you sleep
as the rain
fell
peaceful and calming
to me
my soul
watched you sleep
and your spirit,
spoke
and i watched you sleep
as rivers raged
and oceans roared
and Mother Nature quaked and came
then bellowed
from the very depths
of the crusts of caves
that this time is precious
like diamonds buried deep within the snow
and sand
as it falls from the palm of one's hand
and every solitary tear
never wasted in vain
like every smile
a song of hope
and i watched you sleep
like angels
birthed
from the golden eyes
of heaven
© Susan Marie
[Jharna means "waterfall" in Hindi]
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Three poems from April Glaser of "Wildy Open"
© Alison Mayor
The Wind
This life is not yours to keep,
She says.
And in love,
learn to give it all away.
and hobbling forward,
like the wretched inheritance
our parents deny passing on to us -
learn to open.
And breathe
drowning in shallow waters -
tearing through the trees.
Screaming.
and deeper than the ocean-
of gifting it all away.
* * *
© Alison Mayor
The Fighter
crashing into one another
then sinking back
into ourselves.
with your ridge back beauty
and immoveable strength,
where they have thoroughly forgotten
the weight of your name.
Teach me how to be a silent force;
so loud, so enormous,
all deaf hearts tune
to the choir of your truth.
Help me to soften
around the things I hate,
and have no control
to possibly change.
Or break me in two,
three, four hundred distant ways
until I am as imperfect as you -
with shadows I can call home
and learn to crawl up into.
flowering over narrow passages,
intoxicated by life, and everything
becomes more beautiful with time.
have never felt more precious,
as we look out across this unlit season
and wonder how you’ll possibly survive.
* * *
© Alison Mayor
All Things Real
Sorrow is the door
by which my inheritance
showers gifts of sustenance
into my outstretched heart.
square of buzzing sensation,
until I come face to face
with the tanned and toned
silhouette of solitude
aroused by the seduction
of springtime’s end.
casting shadows atop
our instinctual bodies,
so I inch towards my aloneness
as this exquisite one takes bold
steps back towards me.
into the deep set eyes
of intimacy
and the understanding
of all things real.
eager faces turn East.
But I greet the sun
in a different way
with the pulse of the Earth
and revealing parts of myself
that I’ve been told to keep covered;
exposed skin, caught between the teeth
of warmth and wind. And the lingering shyness
of being witnessed in my wilderness.
* * *
April Glaser is extra-ordinarily sensitive to the environment - to the steady flow of energy and emotion bubbling below
the surface of everything. Writing is the artistic expression she utilizes to channel life's immensity. She visualizes artistry and profound beauty in this mysterious way of being.
It is her birthright. It is what makes her fully alive. This is what her poetry is made of. After all, she was born into the dark hands of
night. Visit [and subscribe to] April HERE
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
M O L O T O V H E A R T by Randy Welch
M O L O T O V H E A R T
Companions Of This Farce
Color Me Boldly
For All Lovers I Know Are Lunatics
How We've Come To Regard The Heart
In Paradoxes Of Redemption & Pursuit
I Have Worn The Madstone Smooth To The Crust
& Recorded Molten Madrigals To The Sun
Where The Lunacy Of Love
Presumes An Ecstatic Moan
I Have Forced Myself To Swallow
The Juju Of Liquescent Moons
And Sought To Spill Pale Light
In Pools Of Cool Blue Irony
All These Princely Cousins Of Narcissus
Think Of Me Mouthless
Make Of Me Thoughtless
Forget That Where Revolution Begins
It All Ends In The Language
Of Gasoline & Matches . . .
-randini-
*Randy Welch is a multifaceted artist in Denver, Colorado, USA. He can be reached HERE
Randy is the first to submit to my global request of inviting all forms of creativity to be displayed and promoted here and to the world. I invite all of you on this journey.
M O L O T O V H E A R T is a dynamic stream of consciousness and I am honored to bring fresh, enlightening and diverse trains of thought your way.
Friday, May 23, 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
She Rose
she rose
again
like ashes imprinted
on each foot raised
on the pads of aboriginals
before her
she rose
like the sun does daily
like the moon when she is full
like the coming of the fresh pure breath
of summer
she rose
like the wind
whipping leaves
autumnal
dashing and dangling the smell of Earth into the air
October
she rose
again
like the water
rising
and the ice princess
lifted
she rose
like an altar
looming before her
as a chalice is lifted
hands shaking
solemn
holding to her lips
pursed
she rose that cup
poisons of ages
of murder
and she rose
above the fires
the stakes
the burning pit
the executioners block
she rose
like spirit
above it all
above those beneath her
she rose
like a bird
taking flight
she rose
and the clouds
embraced her
gently.
© Susan Marie
Monday, April 28, 2014
Twitter & Facebook Thunderclap for Amina Masood Janjua : Please Support Human Rights!
A twitter & FB thunderclap will start May 1, 2014 at 12 am. It is in support for Amina Masood Janjua and aggrieved families and for their release and that of others and continued support in the struggle for peace.
You will see it come from my twitter account @SusanMarie_NY, everyone needs to become a part of this. https://www.thunderclap.it/my/overview?locale=en#pending_thunderclaps
See below:
PRESS RELEASE: Amina Masood Janjua, leading human rights campaigner arrested amid police violence in Pakistan
28 April 2014
(London, UK) CAGE has received reports that leading human rights campaigner Amina Masood Janjua has been arrested, for the second time, by Pakistani security forces. In what appears to have been a heavy handed-police response to a peaceful protest, Mrs Janjua was recorded being forced into a vehicle by several journalists, who were then themselves the targets of police attacks.
The wife of Masood Janjua, who was disappeared in Pakistan in 2006, Amina rose to prominence after founding The Defence of Human Rights Trust where she has investigated her husband’s disappearance, as well as those of many others.
Amina has worked tirelessly for many years in partnership with many individuals and organisations, in the hope that she will gain justice not only for her family, but the 700 families that she assists.
Asim Qureshi, Research Director of CAGE, said:
"I remember Nawaz Sharif (President of Pakistan) going out of his way to support Amina during his election campaign. That she has now been arrested under Mr Nawaz’s watch is not only cause for concern, but a major breach of the trust he was given. All people of conscience should call on the Pakistan authorities to immediately release her."
[ENDS]
NOTES:
1. CAGE
(formerly known as CagePrisoners) is an independent advocacy
organisation that works to empower communities affected by the War on
Terror and to highlight abuses of prisoners’ rights.
2. To learn more about Amina Masood Janjua and the cases that she has represented, please read the following:
- Contact: Mr Amandla Thomas-Johnson
- Phone: +(44) 207 377 6700
- Email: press@
cageuk.org - Web: www.cageuk.org
CAGE
27 Old Gloucester Street
London
WC1N 3XX
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Wheels of Transformation at The Analytical Psychology Society of Western New York [The C.G.Jung Center]
Wheels of Transformation
Poets, Ann Goldsmith, Karen Lee Lewis, Gunilla Kester, Celeste Lawson, Susan Marie, Kathy Tussing, Jane Sadowsky and Geoffrey Gatza read from a new anthology, A Celebration of WNY Poets, edited by Patricia Tansey.
Each poet shares how words, images, and metaphors of poetry contribute to a transforming of consciousness and experience, and lead to personal and collective discovery.
- Patricia Tansey click here
- Karen Lee Lewis click here
- Geoffrey Gatza click here
- Celeste Lawson click here
- Jane Sadowsky click here
- Kathy Tussing click here
- Susan Marie click here
- Gunilla Kester click here
- Ann Goldsmith click here
- Live Classical Guitar by Gunilla Kester & Christine Derby-Cuadrado
- [The C&G Duo] click here
Thursday, April 17, 2014
So, You Wanna Get High? [420: A Radio Interview]
420, 4:20, or 4/20 is a 'code' used when referring to the consumption of cannabis [pot, smoke, weed, marijuana] and/or to associate oneself with cannabis. All current forms of "420" refer to date and/or time when one smokes pot, or many gather to get high.
In North America, this day has a political identity attached to it, namely, the legalization of marijuana. 4/20 is somewhat of a celebrated holiday to weed smoking subcultures. In America, it is currently illegal under Federal Law to use, sell or possess marijuana. Recently, a few states have legalized marijuana for medical use only. In Colorado and Washington, medical and non medical use of marijuana is legal.
Regardless of the reason as to why one decides to get high, the Federal government still has the right to regulate and criminalize cannabis.
Below is a radio interview with myself and Ruthann Amarteifio of Air Amarteifio out of Chicago. Ruthann raises extremely essential questions to me, one who is undecided about the ethical ramifications behind the general public, non medical legalization of marijuana.
In this interview, we present to you various scenarios that already exist in society, as well as possible outcomes of the legalization of marijuana for public use. This is indeed, a complex issue.
In the first 15 minutes, we speak of Palestine, Spirituality and The Human Condition. After 16:20, we focus solely on 420.
Click HERE for Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act
Click HERE for factual medical data on Cannabis Sativa
Click HERE for NORML [National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws]
The Controlled Substances Act reschedules controlled substances by petitioning the Drug Enforcement Administration. The first petition was filed in 1972 but denied after 22 years of court challenges.
A pill form of cannabis' active ingredient, THC, was rescheduled in 1985 for prescription under schedule II. In 2002, advocates for use again petitioned, yet were denied by the DEA in 2011. Americans for Safe Access filed an appeal in 2012 with the D.C. Circuit.
As of August 2013, 20 states and Washington D.C. have legalized the use of medical marijuana.
Images © Fox 31, AP, Deviant Art, Huffington Post
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