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?

subliminal pop

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I wake up humming a song from 1984 I sing later in the shower flashback to Lauper’s orange hair & brilliant eyeshadow rasping my ears like a happy raucous parrot girls just wanna have fun I guess I still do … Continue reading →

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How I Got Here

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Maybe the title should be “Confessions of a Poet Stalker.”  You’ll have to let me know.  Many years ago, I used to hang out occasionally with a very talented poet and activist, Brian Brown-Cashdollar. After I started writing again in … Continue reading →

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Zoe, dancing

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

turning cartwheels in the church garden (mercifully on the grass) dark chocolate eyes blaze joy yes, she is the breath of God resuscitating life

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Thom #1

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

it is easy to love you while you sleep, arms wide in careless abandon small smile curving your lower lip so much easier than when you wake, yesterday’s anger still framing your eyes do not forget it is our differences … Continue reading →

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occupy Monsanto?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Monsanto, maker of agent orange & roundup crafts what’s on our plates strive for 5 poisons a day, make some leafy green– kids, eat your spinach potato beetles dead striped shells clinging to leaves they dared to devour maybe some … Continue reading →

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bliss (haiku chain)

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

find your bliss Campbell used to say; where to look? the bright core inside all of us ecstatic encountered unexpectedly & we leap for more, but cannot capture it bliss finds us

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Amateur poets

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we  Sunday drivers take hard turns along curves of language hit potholes of preaching spin tires in mud of our own making when we go offroad but hear us sing & sometimes watch us fly.

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