The Rustle of a Thousand Leaves
Written in response to war
What is it that saves humanity from itself? The God messages speaking the faith to listen. The little child growing a long beard far from where he grew up. Singing that long song for others. About faith and loss. About love and hope. About our conscience. I saw the trees forming a river of tears as they were sawed down. Pieces of the wrong human puzzle we put together. I see the weary eyes that stay closed and vacant. Casualties of mankind’s decisions. I know the greyed sky was blue once with white clouds that held galloping horses and brave young men. The clouds have vanished and all that remains are thousands upon thousands of death bomb pictures. Unbearable scars. One, a mother holding tightly to her sobbing child. Many more too difficult to view. We are not saved. We are not saved. We never will be this way. Copyright - Susy Kamber All Rights Reserved Song Selection - War - Edwin Starr
2026
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Painted Feeling
In the garden with my sleeveless dress on hoping it comes off. Sounding rather risqué, but it’s more just to feel the air touching nothing in between myself and the air now. Maybe women take their dresses off for that reason. In the garden, with my sleeveless dress off, in there by myself, regardless if someone sees. I suppose laying down on top of my discarded dress, looking upwards, feeling so natural is why I went there. Undoing, unknowing, painted feeling. Copyright © Susy Kamber Song Selection - Out In The Country - Three Dog Night
2025
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The Rustle of a Thousand Leaves
I kept myself still in the forest, Listening. The rustle of a thousand leaves, Moving. The wind carried their sounds to me by the happenstance way their branches held them. Everything attached to something else. The lingering smell of bark and grass as if rubbed together. Heady I am inside thinking to become a tree or a leaf kept still in the forest, So still I stayed. When it came time to leave I never really did. For I am wet leaves in a black sea now. Floating amongst the waves. Copyright - Susy Kamber All rights reserved - Song Selections - Livets Ånde (lyric video + english translation) - Judah Earl & Hannah Yoo
2025
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