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?

temptation

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

there are kisses that never taste skin but, once dreamed brush across lips a stinging emptiness of air ***we are writing about temptation over at dVerse today.

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Spinning

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

slap-happy I own no mysticism even though so often I turn that other cheek set in permanent spin– darvesh one hand directed to heaven but this is no ecstasy the center dictating my direction skewed (pa)inward.

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bereavement (2 short poems)

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

1. We have a word for loss: a formal time to reel inside grief: bereavement. More civilized than burlap and ashes in the hair it never gets old though we grow used to it, spooning skeletons in the closet: feeding peanuts … Continue reading →

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Birthday Poem

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I never sent you print birthday wishes, Preferred telephone calls or jotted notes, But today marks eighteen years, my sister; Eighteen unsent happys, full of frilled quotes And cured cursive, unabashedly winked Across a rainbowed river of milled hope Meant … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Gilliam

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Need to share this.  My mentor from ‘way back has gone digital with a few of her pieces.  

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what it isn’t

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Before you envision an us, before you stroke emotions further in a masturbation without release, a frictioned fictioned state of caging behind bars you gilt edge and name unrequited, I should tell you loves-me/loves-me-not outcomes are fixed before beginning: petals plucked honestly come … Continue reading →

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timing

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I  wrote you a poem once about salmon fighting currents, tire sandals, and Kenyan dust it was less about you and more about that pacing wild you owned the thing I never understood I wrote it after you left me without … Continue reading →

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