If you saw me
and not my colors peacocked
on a page
if you saw the thin mouth
the flat feet
you would say this woman
knows more about bread baking
and when to plant seeds
than that precise moment
before the crocus blooms
before the swallows
nest under eaves
you would say this woman
knows nothing of how air softens to spring
the riot we call running of sap,
and little about opening
but she does, I do
Susan Daniels Poetry 
Oh yes… you do and you tell it through your words.
Perception is a fickle thing and so varied from here to there it can be that a person may get lost in the maze of all what others have perceived about him. But if he knows and clutches to his knowledge about self, it is wonderful.
Fine writing. 🙂
Thank you, HA. Lovely comment =)
none of us are what we look like – except for the whores and the politicians
Good point. At least the whores are honest about who they are. Can’t say the same for our politicians 😉
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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YES…you do. Beautiful
Thank you, SFAM!
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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🙂 Yes, you do. Apparent from our first meeting.:)
-Jennifer
Aw, thank you, Jen 😉
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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Fabulous–kind of reminds me of a Van Gogh painting.
Oh, WB, now you’ve made me blush! Thank you!
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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I’m sure the blush looks well on you.
you do indeed, you are a powerful and insightful woman with an incredible gift of expression.
Aw, shucks, thank you!
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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This is my kind of woman. She can come live with me any day. 🙂 Alice
Thanks, Alice. Feeling better, I hope?
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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I’m home. This is VERY good. I have acquired four abdominal wounds and a minor cardiac arrhythmia in the process of unloading the bad belly beanie baby. You’ll be glad to know my alliteration lobe is working fine. 😉
It certainly is. Hope the arrhythmia will be a transient thing. We poets need to keep a steady beat 😉
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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Steadier all the time. I don’t know… poetry needs to jump sometimes. 🙂
As long as you are mostly steady then 😉
🙂
I love the first 3 stanzas. Reminds me of something from Lorine Niedecker’s North Central. I would really like to see some further delineation between the 2 or 3 roles of artist, homesteader (for lack of a better word) and observer perhaps. Very intriguing.
Thanks, Brian. It is unfinished, and you have given me possible a direction to go in. Thanks much!
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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smiles…we are more than meets the eye…
what you see will limit you to truly understanding me…
Yes, exactly!
Sometimes people who think they know something know very little at all. I like the way you have gotten that message apart.
gotten that message ACROSS is what I meant.
THank, you, Mary.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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Oh the packaging is not an accurate reflection of what is inside. And we judge, far too much, based on the book’s cover. A very insightful poem, the sentiments of which we shouldn’t ignore.
Thanks, Freya. And yes, we do judge.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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oh you surely do… it’s in our genes – isn’t it – even though it’s not so obviously visible…
Oh, I so agree, Claudia.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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Susan – this struck home – lately having a conversation/conversion with myself – making the exterior closer to the interior – thanks for this today – K
Oh, thank you. Feeling that way myself lately 😉
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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We should never judge a book by its cover…somehow that color always manges to bleed through….. I see you.
Perfect comment, Kelly 😉
Loved this – it creeps up on you – deftly done… With Best Wishes Scott http://www.scotthastie.com
Thank you so much, Scott.
It is all about perception… love the ending.
Thank you, Laurie!
We must never “judge a book by its cover” nor a person by how we first perceive them to be. We each are much deeper and more complicated than we appear. Well captured.
THank you, Ginny. Yes, we are more than our surface would suggest.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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Lovely, lovely, lovely words.
Strange it is, others perceptions of us and I really think we present a different ‘us’ to different people, adapt ourselves a little to be what they need us to be…
Anna :o]
Anna, that is so true. Thank you for the kind comment.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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it’s who we are on the inside that matters, and we cant really tell that from looking at the wrapping we come in.
How perception of what a person looks can be something entirely different.. Really lovely words Susan, the blooms are there for all of us… But many never look deep inside the flowers to really see them.
Oh, so true, Bjorn.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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perception made at the onset of sight can be hard to counteract if they set someone off from delving deeper. and pushing past someone’s ignorance can be tough. this has quite a poignant message.
Thank you for this deeply thought out and felt response.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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This was suddenly sensual – so like a Georgia O’Keefe painting – another woman one would wonder at the things she knew – like cowboys and Indians and cactus at sunset and all about beginnings, endings and especially openings and closings. Love the aha at the end.
Gay, thank you. Wow–you are the second person that mentioned paintings. Really appreciate the feedback!
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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Wonderful writing. This definitely makes me wish you were my neighbor! We are all such a bundle of apparent contradictions, but isn’t it duality that makes us whole?
Yes! Duality just scratches the surface, doesn’t it?
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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proof of what most men learn young…. every woman is a surprise !
That too. Most men have a few surprises in store, as well.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Susan Daniels Poetry wrote:
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very beautiful! i loved the close …how you chose to integrate them
Oh, thank you!
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