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?

apocalypse poem #4 (it’s temporary)

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

asteroids, floods, & eruptions might sweep this face clean of what crawls or walks on it occasionally, a few seconds in hours of geologic time erasing almost everything but she’s not telling the how of it or the when except … Continue reading →

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games

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

everyone wants the same thing he said to me once, desperately we want it & it’s what sells mascara & fat-free cookies not to mention aftershave & fashion but none of those answers this need no matter how wide our … Continue reading →

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yarn

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this is how life happens, unspooling smooth in front of us until we grab it up into needles or hooks to make some(one)thing of it, but I don’t crochet or knit.  those disciplines of ordered tangling are beyond me, so I … Continue reading →

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Why I hate school but love education/spoken word

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Love it when Facebook friends forward me something this good.  Enjoy.

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apocalypse poem #3 (daily faith)

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my grandmother’s eschatology was from Daniel & John, quoted or read with my mother in the afternoons, slow ones after tomatoes were put up, windows washed & the dusting done, the jam jarred & herbs strung & drying between rafters in the … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Rule of Stupid:
This is a themed poem inspired by Susan Daniels (if you don’t know her, you should).   No Second Sun We wait for an apocalypse Swear or curse or pray at it   In this…

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apocalypse poem #2 (longing for apocalypse)

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the Millerites, tired of waiting for the second Advent, said Christ needed to be persuaded, prayed down from the clouds– their faith a ladder for His descent, a new Jacob’s if you listen hard, over 100 years later you can still … Continue reading →

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