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?

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on jmgoyder:
Are you asleep yet, my beautiful husband? Midnight approaches me with dark, unfamiliar claws, so I go outside to find some moonlight but it is pitch black out there and, when I can’t find the moon, I…

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silence

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

it echoes– this pause before words weighted breath

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burst

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

accept this prayer inked on the page or expressed by fingers tapping faith but knuckle under what spans the storm’s eye prismed– there are rainbows here & promise

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11 types of pain

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there are 11 types of pain classified by tissue, type & frequency but I find nowhere written 1 that equals the knife twist of your absence

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November turns

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

november turns our sauterne sweet to stern grayness   At Dverse we are trying our hands at Than-Bauk, a Burmese climbing rhyme poem.  Each line has four syllables. The rhyme is on the fourth syllable of the first line, the … Continue reading →

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waking up with a poem (2)

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i need to write these down, these words kissing the backs of my eyes– dream language loops lightly across cortical ridges; these visions sand shaped casually by god’s finger pointing to truth taken back in waves did you know inside … Continue reading →

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we the people

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this is a line not to cross, but to stand in & circles to shade with ink interesting how all this acid this mud we have been ducking or throwing how all this shouting leads to one moment of speech … Continue reading →

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