Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

my sister’s birthday

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Your eyes opened 47 years ago, May 9, the perfect Mother’s Day present born a month early. I knew this story before I had words to tell it myself, heard it repeated by our mother in the litany of births … Continue reading →

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Eden

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

We are no first man & first woman in an ideal garden– no, you & I have fallen several times; this last, we fell together with eyes open, aware of the price of love & willing to pay it. We knew … Continue reading →

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what’s for dinner

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you would think a poet & a musician would have more to say to each other at the end of the day than this: I am making lentils & rice for dinner, unless you had something else planned? Yes, at … Continue reading →

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2 summer haiku

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I wrote these in 2010, on Gardenweb, so I guess those 17 years weren’t completely dry.  Marie’s poems regarding Japanese beetles tripped my memory, and I went and dug them up to share…. It’s a little early for both pole … Continue reading →

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Music Lessons

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I.  Piano My parents paid for lessons for both girls on the baby grand; my sister was the artist who caressed the keys & the piano played for her as if in a fever dream, notes dancing beneath her fingertips, … Continue reading →

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Duet: A Poem in 2 Voices

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

By Noel Ihebuzor and Susan L. Daniels Susan: Can I write this or is this you breathing in my poetry & exhaling constellations as I do yours Let us write a truth together that resonates across 2 continents: of ogene and … Continue reading →

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messy poem

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

let’s avoid allusions illusions & pretentiousness I want to write poetry that rolls in the mud & is happy sleeping in sun on the windowsill or drinking in rain like the thirsty dirt I so want to make pies of yes, let’s … Continue reading →

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