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?

spirit of the forest

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the green man hides face carved in church corners protecting or appeased large god of growing things father and groom his eternal dying cycles ripen to john barleycorn harvests if I were wild and old as this wisdom I would … Continue reading →

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my worship

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

1. so, you would gamble with God as your ante of desperation you would put God in a book, in a box filed in a place in your life you take out and put away at your convenience only speak … Continue reading →

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silence without the vow

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

beyond words, I have echoed the pulse of this planet, felt shifts in heat and magnetism drift from pole to pole in worship, sometimes there is a vow of silence or a moment of it wordlessness begins a knowing, an essential … Continue reading →

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baking and breaking bread

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  this flour comes from living seed ground to texture of fine sand I know how many hands full will make two loaves, measured by height on my board not cups; how much water & honey to revive yeast something … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

This is how you write through pain. WOW.

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growing through a block

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

a 17-year silence can shout if anyone listens speak to how broken in the middle you can hollow out a heart like a cored apple or scooped melon to not listen to pain & falsify living until you almost persuade … Continue reading →

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The Land of the White Man

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

The Land of the White Man. Feeling a little nostalgic–this is the poem that broke my writer’s block…

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