Monthly Archives: April 2012

Zoe’s haiku

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Remember the other day, when I wrote about Zoe and I trying out some haiku together?  She wants to share some with you 🙂 *** its state math test time our pencils tap the answer fingers drumming desks *** bright blue … Continue reading →

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Clarity (Haiku Heights Prompt 4/28)

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

waking, I comb out snarled colors/tangled dreaming groomed to clarity *** pure clarity of one drop of rainwater, poised on a blade of grass *** birdsong, like bright bells such rough, joyous clarity ringing in the day

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poetry swarm

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

words buzz circles in my consciousness, so loud the swarming wakes me at 3 a.m. faster than any alarm clock could so they can spiral desperately to breed & nest formed thought on paper I can’t write them fast enough– catch them, or they … Continue reading →

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Lois (Alzheimer poem #2)

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

she held my son in her lap when he knew 2 words & she had forgotten all hers but they were smiling together love needs no spoken language

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toothsome temptation

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

your lower lip pouts outward sweet lure for biting

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when its over

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

OK, maybe I’m the only one out there that finds inspiration in the oddest places–Facebook, a newspaper article, a thesaurus (!), and now it seems scrolling through the wordpress reader is also a source for that odd quirk that generates … Continue reading →

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Lois (Alzheimer poem #1)

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

It started so simply: first,  she would forget where she put the damned car keys then, gradually she misplaced  her car & forgot how to start it & where to take it & how to get home & then which … Continue reading →

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