Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

occupy Monsanto?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Monsanto, maker of agent orange & roundup crafts what’s on our plates strive for 5 poisons a day, make some leafy green– kids, eat your spinach potato beetles dead striped shells clinging to leaves they dared to devour maybe some … Continue reading →

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bliss (haiku chain)

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

find your bliss Campbell used to say; where to look? the bright core inside all of us ecstatic encountered unexpectedly & we leap for more, but cannot capture it bliss finds us

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my mother’s baptism

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my mother’s baptism.

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meteorology

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

late spring snowglazes hyacinthspink to white

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exercise: 3 haiku

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

hands deep in cool earth making room for lily bulbs I am planting spring one more species gone still, the earth is our mother and she will forgive this format does not suit my voice constricting

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earth day #1 — or eating inorganically

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

They say we could feed a nation with food we throw away perhaps the hemisphere with the grain and soy we force-feed cows injected with Prolisac then wonder why 10-year-old girls have breasts their mothers didn’t sprout until 13 still, … Continue reading →

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Still: 3 haiku/senryu

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

like pieces of sky small blue finches still their flight leaves that fly away chattering water circles here and slows, learning the deep still of sleep this praying mantis still on the garden path, knows patience brings bounty

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