Author Archives: Susan L Daniels

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About Susan L Daniels

I am a firm believer that politics are personal, that faith is expressed through action, and that life is something that must be loved and lived authentically--or why bother with any of it?

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on createdavidt:
Someone I know Finds the big in the small Others wearily drift through the mundane and banal Everyday moments Just life passing by But my friend is an alchemist of thought and word She pulls on…

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Lois (a love poem)

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

it was simply her for him, and he hers when they let themselves scale all their losses piled up & sealed in that stone mountain between them how easy they made it look, that climb to reach each other without … Continue reading →

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Zoe’s spinet

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  gotten for the cost of hauling it here & feeding four friends who heave it through my sliding glass door is the instrument I said she could learn as it will not decay in that jungle she calls her … Continue reading →

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if he shouts his silence (for R)

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if he shouts his silence you will hear it quietly & your eyes will whisper truth making way for words

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Posted on August 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on eulonia country:
shannon is turning to gold in a bathtub in texas while i fold laundry in my room alone. i think of the steps leading into the river how i would have followed you until we…

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artistry (2 poems)

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

1. her voice over violins or guitar always knows far more than it sings; songs with secrets throbbing against glass like hummingbird wings or luna moths at night whisper-humming through moonlight 2. she never just sits. she arranges herself the only place in … Continue reading →

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Language, Suzanne Vega

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I was in the mood for a little Suzanne V tonight…This one seemed apropos. “Language” If language were liquid It would be rushing in Instead here we are In a silence more eloquent Than any word could ever beThese words … Continue reading →

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