Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

cicada warnings

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

cicada warnings in continual sharp songs July is ending

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Koi no yokan

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Koi no yokan, how a language that even when exhaled in whispers brings to mind lightly breathed scolding with tight consonants and tense-strung vowels buzzing and stinging ears with razored half notes that this language can speak gently such recognition … Continue reading →

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shades

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

any ghosts I have are my own mourned, buried & walked away from no one asked me to cover a voice with the earth of my grieving before you bury me forever, really bury me you have to dig me up … Continue reading →

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breaking the cage

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

something so live cannot stay still or pace in prescribed patterns indefinitely though it is almost civilized into submission I remember wildness roaring or purring through my blood wisdom that dream-talks and says I am made to hunt to gather … Continue reading →

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HH Prompt: forget-me-not

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

today’s sky glows with flawless forget-me-not blue I will remember

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bad relationship poem #550

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

once you get past 100 in this series you know it’s far past time to run just look down once in a while because the celestial sense of humor that put us together in the first place & the second … Continue reading →

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we don’t know we are waiting

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

crocuses after the winter softens we don’t know we are waiting until we grow until we open and opening begin to sing sweetness

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