Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

rising

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

sun should heel this unteachable sky shamelessly blooming into pinks anticipating heat but waits until birds shout it all the way awake singing it day with flow into dark flocking glyphs their winged smile shapes in flying a name unpronounceable to these lips of … Continue reading →

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conjoined

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we are not twins cut from the same womb sharing a heart so, yes we can live apart without surgical separation we can both walk away from this tangled mess and no one need die from it

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water: three movements (a meditation)

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

become like water clear, still, a moving mirror rippling soft and shallow become like water fall downhill in long steep steps of yielding water-ness become a wave and roar, angry force for change tear away all but the essential become … Continue reading →

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leaning evergreen (haiku chain)

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

roots could be fingers grasping the eroding bank– me, I think she bows and pauses to smile in the slow mirrored water, her branches preening

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habit breaking (cycles)

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

1.  I crave so baldly yes, crave that death-giving killer of feeling cigarette that until yesterday was what saved everyone from random floating bitchiness that poisoned air as much as second-hand smoke 2.  It is not so difficult not so long … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Reflections:
Amicabe duel of giving and taking lines,  ideas, voices colliding and colluding, sometime skipping along gaily sometime contrasting,  sometime complementing always enriching, wafting and walzing with mounting additionality, perfuming the sky with rhythm!

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a letter from my father

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this one, from Asia, 1963 he writes to her locations blackened out by censors but they left enough of his yearning to lie next to her his hand covering her newly-swollen belly feeling for that first small kick no one … Continue reading →

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