Category Archives: haiku

effervescence

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

behind shut eyelids bubbles effervescing dreams break sleep’s surface

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shroud: haiku heights prompt

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

shroud me in silence the unspoken things you are wrapping me always *** i have bathed my dead with tears, swaddled them gently for their new mother

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day of the girl (the sun goddesses remembered)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I am tired of differences– tell me again how this body is pulled by the moon in its tides, hormones alternately softening minds and sharpening tongues as if somehow female minds are less because ovaries steep thoughts in estrogen until they … Continue reading →

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Haiku Heights: Home

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

after flight your arms nest me safely home  

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haiku heights: September heights–DAY 30!!!!!!

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

escaped balloons climb sometimes miles before they drift– several shades of free

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braid battlefield

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

no cornrows with beads for her & no threaded hair but the long coiled twists those twists are rasta fingercombed to sleek ripples– war over, we twist

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haiku heights: waltz

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this dance of planets is more reel than waltz, tumbling orbits spun dizzy

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