Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

just get over it already

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there is no alternate ending where instead of offering up our palms in a mudra of helplessness or surrender we get the love back watching you piece this broken us together, like a jigsaw but with sharp edges and pieces … Continue reading →

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woman with two faces

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Those 2 first women Eve and Pandora if they had met after the fruit was bitten and the jar opened what would they say to each other sisters in shame betrayed by inner natures so similar one engineered from dust … Continue reading →

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mind over mind

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

not mind over matter that mind mastering flesh that is subject to it anyway with its quiet cravings but mind over mind in a wrestling match limbic system shouting over the reasonable cortex its wants and self jumping between poles … Continue reading →

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how?

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you must have learned this somewhere, this means of understanding an idiot savant who jabbers words into poetry past the point of “getting” it and somehow tiptoed into knowing how it begins, your finger on the pulse of my process

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if you listened you would know forgiveness

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if you would listen to my voice and not the tape hissing in your head from a thousand conversations and none of them with me if you would hear my words and not talk over them before my mouth opens arguing … Continue reading →

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love it

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

joy bubbles up as it does when we touch even briefly yes, no word for it but joy, large and breaking with satisfied pops spattering condensing and preserving sweetness like boiling fruit and sugar for jam because you bring me bouquets of happy … Continue reading →

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Haiku Heights Prompt: Vital

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

necessary joy I thirst for you like water and breathe you, my air  

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