Why I Write Poetry

Why I Write Poetry

by | Feb 1, 2021 | Poems

Why I Write Poetry by Susie Whelehan | The Sky Laughs At Borders https://susiewhelehan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Why-I-write-Poetry.mp3 Why I Write Poetry                                                     After Major Jackson   Because words and rhythm are...
Homesickness

Homesickness

by | Feb 1, 2021 | Poems

Homesickness by Susie Whelehan | The Sky Laughs At Borders https://susiewhelehan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Homesickness.mp3 Homesickness When I think about my childhood home Mom is hanging the laundry in the back, Dad is mowing the lawn in the front, my brothers...
Ode to the Onion

Ode to the Onion

by | Jan 31, 2021 | Poems

Ode to the Onion I open the front doorand walk headlong into the scentof onions sautéing on the stove.Growing up we would have said “frying”but onions speak all languages.The aroma is the sameand the groundedness is the same.It is the subfloorupon which the precious...
Semantics

Semantics

by | Jan 30, 2021 | Poems

Semantics In the beginning was the Word— an exhalation of divine love, imagination, wholeness, grace. It echoed over windswept deserts, savannahs, ice fields, open waters, encircled mountains thundered through valleys and made itself utterly at home in silence. Still...
Namaste is Easier Said than Done

Namaste is Easier Said than Done

by | Jan 29, 2021 | Poems

Namaste is easier said than done by Susie Whelehan | The Sky Laughs At Borders https://susiewhelehan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Nameste-is-easier-said-than-done.mp3 Namaste is Easier Said than Done The light that shines inside youis the light that shines inside...