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?

Haiku Heights Prompt: Meaning

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

superstitious boy hops across cracks in sidewalks each leap meaning love

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catching something big

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if I write of ants or the movements of the earth or even a dance of planets I can only guess at if I write of you of how one touch flowers me or if I write of deeper love … Continue reading →

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the new gods still have clay feet

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the world is getting terrifyingly small he said, the immediacy of data exchanges & satellited conversations compress it perhaps perhaps, we lessen the planet somehow to our scale when we do not measure distances in miles or kilometers but rather … Continue reading →

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in relation to heaven

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my words are ladders past sky to stars here I stand point to where they spread a burning remote but intimately seen & each named

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the second day of rain

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

light-fingered drums on a tin roof we have missed this music singing dust to earth to an under bare feet yielding we can sink toes in I did not dance to bring this but I will dance inside it while squash … Continue reading →

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XTC–River of Orchids

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

XTC River Of Orchids Hey! I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus I heard the dandelions roar in Piccadilly Circus Take a packet of seeds Take yourself out to play I want to see River of Orchids where we … Continue reading →

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priestess of base matter

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this ritual propitiation speaks to how not everything is God or a god, but those fingerprints of His in celestial swirled particles breathe here & resonate my mother when she found an anthill theoretical or found evidence of touch of … Continue reading →

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