1.
When we thought
the earth was flat, science could be
a matter of opinion; the solar system
plotted as we know it a dangerous heresy.
We thought we evolved.
We thought we moved through
our darker ages, but the shadow seeps
over the edges of softened polar ice, less
planetary accusation and more
UN agenda to control consumption,
as if weather lies, as if dry summers
and flooding are rhetoric
to be argued. Debate truth
with a tornado and see who wins.
My money’s on the planet.
2.
This is my government, she said,
in Texas, where they keep fences
electrified, tall, strung tight
to keep threat from cattle
and fear deep and shepherded.
Sometimes out of that hot mess
politicians stew like okra,
a voice reminds us
speech is still free.
Yes, speech is free.
Free to be spoken over
when it forgets it’s place,
takes off the high heels,
rubs away the lipstick and spits.
Free to be shouted down
when the truth gets uncomfortable,
and free to be gaveled and struck
from the record when it shifts
to the emperor’s new clothes
all over again and no-one
wants to be called out naked,
the pointing child duct-taped quiet
in a point of order.
Susan Daniels Poetry 
Brilliant! A very unique and creative turn with politics and deception.
Who is really telling the truth?
We all make mistakes, but does that make us less human? less of what the actual truth really is?
I miss reading your work. I’m back! and Starting Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, I shall be posting up new blog poems. 🙂
Oh, good! Heh, I was just wondering what the heck happened to you, as I found myself defining flarf for someone yesterday. Glad to see you!
It’s so great to hear from you. 🙂
I’ve been writing a lot and flarfing as well. 🙂 Experimenting with words. 🙂 Tomorrow I will post my first new poem in a long while. Stay tune. 🙂
Will do!
Check it out here, under his reblog:
http://trentlewin.com/
I checked it out. Did he write this? It’s really good and creative. I love this…I hope he understands what flarf really is about. 🙂
No–he reblogged it. Multiplemichael wrote it, but Trent, you’ll like, a lot.
Tell trent that I will be following his work. and that other person multiplemichael. 🙂
Oh, you will not be sorry one bit!
Cool. I hope we all have something in common. 🙂
🙂
oh….I’ve gotten better at flarf and started blending Flarf with surrealism etc…
You were already great at flarf, can’t wait to see the new work.
oh…and more cyberpunk poetry. and all that great stuff.
Say, have you ever heard of (Spam-poetry)?
No, not as a type, though I have from time to time found some great stuff in my spam folder which I then used as found poetry. Please tell me more!
You pretty much got the idea of it.
here’s more info and poem writings on spam.
http://poemsmadefromspam.blogspot.com/
My new flarf poem is up. hahaha!!! check it out. 🙂
Susan I especially loved the first one. The thought behind it powerful. But I’m a bit lost in the second one, it seems somewhat cryptic to me as if there were more information needed.>KB
Hmmm. I was trying to avoid hammering my readers with current events, but I will revisit. Thanks, as always, for the assessment. I think more is needed, as well.
try it now.
This is much better and I think there is no problem in just how much you said about current events in bogging your points down. Very good. Have you hacked me yet?>KB
No luck whatsoever. Might just have to wait until Sunday….
It will be on Saturday morning at 12:30 AM I will see if there isn’t some way I can send it to you.
there is a way (on the post) you can request feedback and send it to me in e-mail. No worries either way–I will see it Early Say morning if we can’t figure something out.
issues may divide us but your poetic gifts make your convictions a joyful noise to my bullshit weary ears
Thanks, Paul. I adore people past their politics, which are after all just more bullshit to be dealt with when we need to see one another as people. Issues cannot nor should ever divide us. They should bring us together to discuss our differences and hammer out a compromise. I refuse to believe that is no longer possible for us as a nation. We as people are better than that. We’d have some great conversations over my kitchen table, you and I, given the opportunity.
thanks for more reasons to love you
Likewise, Paul.
Lovely poems Susan. And I would say the tornado. Though they have their own form of truth. Twisted as it may be. (Okay, pardon the terrible pun. I was spinning out if control. That one too.)
Love your puns. NEVER apologize for them.
And thank you!
Thank you for putting it into good words. It feels like an accusation of witchcraft is now within reach of the elephant party.
It just might, Nelle. Not holding my breath for it–but it will happen.
The palm cannot block out or blot out the rays of the moon! (Igbo proverb). Thanks for saying this so elegantly.
Thank you, Noel! Perhaps the palm cannot block the moon, but the owner of the palm can call the moon a lie. Insane.
and the moon would smile at his/her lunacy! Truth is erection. It can only be concealed with great discomfort.
Hahaha–quite true! We must have some very uncomfortable politicians here…
“stew like okra!” dear gawd I loved this! Thank You for writing and sharing this – I’ve been letting the news get to me lately!
Thanks! It has been bugging the hell out of me too (obviously).
Thanks, especially for the second poem. I have felt the acute loss of the constitutional right to freedom of speech in our country in recent years. There is too much “patriotism” going around and too little truth. From Oprah WInfrey’s hamburger “gag order” to Edward Snowden search for political asylum to a woman brave enough to speak her piece in Texas. Who will be be carted away (or black-balled from employment) next for the crime of speaking freely in the U.S.? Really, Susan. Thanks for speaking up.
Thank you, Alice. What is happening here is making me alternately angry, sad, and frightened.
You’ve summed up my feelings pretty accurately, Susan.