Monthly Archives: April 2012

Thom #1

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

it is easy to love you while you sleep, arms wide in careless abandon small smile curving your lower lip so much easier than when you wake, yesterday’s anger still framing your eyes do not forget it is our differences … Continue reading →

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occupy Monsanto?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Monsanto, maker of agent orange & roundup crafts what’s on our plates strive for 5 poisons a day, make some leafy green– kids, eat your spinach potato beetles dead striped shells clinging to leaves they dared to devour maybe some … Continue reading →

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bliss (haiku chain)

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

find your bliss Campbell used to say; where to look? the bright core inside all of us ecstatic encountered unexpectedly & we leap for more, but cannot capture it bliss finds us

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Amateur poets

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we  Sunday drivers take hard turns along curves of language hit potholes of preaching spin tires in mud of our own making when we go offroad but hear us sing & sometimes watch us fly.

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my mother’s baptism

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my mother’s baptism.

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meteorology

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

late spring snowglazes hyacinthspink to white

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exercise: 3 haiku

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

hands deep in cool earth making room for lily bulbs I am planting spring one more species gone still, the earth is our mother and she will forgive this format does not suit my voice constricting

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