Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

i go hunting to kill what is left of you in me

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the trails are cold & dead but i will find the traces wipe that last kiss from my lips because it stings

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Haiku Heights September Heights: Hummingbird (haiku chain)

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

hummingbirds love red– scarlet runner beans call them sweetly, with bright tongues red stutters their flight i had dark red curtains once & watched one hover outside my window desire in hummingbird form– expressed in pauses

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what pigs can tell us about kindness

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this is one of those things you read about, like a dolphin helping to push a whale out to open ocean, working next to two-legged things without fins we learn of dogs nursing kittens or even tiger pups because they too … Continue reading →

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fall comes to the valley in whispers

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

cornfields left dry and standing in late september whisper urgency the harvest gods are impatient for everything to be gathered in, dried, or ground to flour, so they can dance with light on water before it freezes, or sleep in leaf-piles. yes, early fall … Continue reading →

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(im)permanence: what i learned in elementary school

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there was always sun & the rhythm of seasons in shortening & lengthening light falling & rising temperature patterns set as days, the stubborn optimism of each sunrise; the slow showy fade into twilight at its setting.  the insistence of spring … Continue reading →

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haiku heights: birth

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

equinox, mabon the wheel balances & turns from birth to fading there is evenness between light and dark today, the birth of autumn

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Urban Jungle Blues

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

By Noel A. Ihebuzor and Susan L. Daniels Another wandering day finds worn out minds worrying on a wavering road wound tightly around anxious feet lost and soles tired, tiring, endless stomping, souls emptying, core eroding trapped penniless in hard … Continue reading →

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