Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

why i stop at two

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i learned once (or twice) judgment can be rolled into a ball & slipped into a back pocket ignored for the time being & for me teeters on a balance between that third glass of wine & the fourth before … Continue reading →

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September Heights: Meadow

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the woods brush field edges threaded with cornstalks–no room for meadows here.

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Posted on September 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Trent Lewin:
  I don’t wish to offend with this bit, but anger is as anger sees it.  I respect people’s right to speak.  I respect my own to respond.  This is written in response to a…

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I feel your words

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I feel your words shaking as the world did when it was made shaping mountains and valleys oceans cooling to a simmer with then the unexpected gentleness of rain

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mist fills the shadow of the earth

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this deep shading heavy with singing crickets and scents of summer drying coriander crushed under feet though they walk gently and I whisper sing of simple things the ordinary stretched across the longing universe resonating and echoing it and somehow … Continue reading →

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dying men can’t swallow speeches

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

dying men can’t swallow speeches or drink hope and your words will not bandage their bleeding– they need something real

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September heights–grass

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my braided grass hair will dry and snap to its roots– no warmth under snow

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