Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

My Occupy Monsanto poem (haiku chain) is now published on Project Agent Orange

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Thank you, Michael Brownstein!  You can see it here.  

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trilliums

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

beauty surprises us sometimes when we stumble over it in the middle of a woods instead of a manicured garden three-petaled whiteness a spontaneous gift taking 10 years from when that ant found the seed & brought it back to the … Continue reading →

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that damned, dirty ape (apologies to Pierre Boulle): a rant

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

some people think they’re cute & some are, but not this one with long yellow teeth & nonstop howling for attention yes, the monkey on your back I thought was gone forever is playing with & popping ideas like fat fleas … Continue reading →

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right (more stones)

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we should not throw truths at each other like stones aimed to hurt, or scar forever; use the knives our tongues can become to hamstring each other yes, words can join & they can build a bridge between us or we … Continue reading →

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how to fall

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Our waterfall (movie by Zoe) I have learned the ease & acceptance of water how it flows where other matter will resist & fracture on impact; its downhill shift to fit the earth a sighing expression of its true nature as … Continue reading →

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why we love

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

because I and you melt & diffuse into an us of limitless joy; your you & my I ourselves blend & abandon all other possible we(s).

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If I throw stones

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

If I throw stones they will not be at you as I am not without sin in this & we are already so practiced in the best ways to hurt each other why invent new ones? But perhaps together we … Continue reading →

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