Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Renovation: 3 haiku

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

reinventing joy renovation peels away layers of old pain cherry trees, once bare cover themselves in petals pink renovation in renovation only the surface changes the core is constant

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the raccoon (2 haiku)

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

phantom flash of stripe masked bandit stuffs strawberries into laughing mouth paws counterfit hands shaped for stealing tomatoes prints proof he was here

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Gender Games

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you said, you wear the pants an accusation, as if yielding is female and providing direction strictly male, as if gender holds importance for us tradition has no place here; we are simply 2 people stumbling toward family any way … Continue reading →

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Raising tomatoes and Cain–a meditation

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

“There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral…But I won’t have it. The world is wilder than that … Continue reading →

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April

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I usually lack the discipline to write true haiku, preferring bare-bones free verse I fondly call bastardized haiku, but when I had a 5-syllable image in my mind this morning, I decided to go with it.  Happy spring, all! outside … Continue reading →

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wichien-maat

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

He balances, an unlikely longlegged parakeet on my shoulder rasping threats to his blueeyed reflection; perhaps she is mine or stay on your side of the glass thin question mark tail straightens to snake around my throat for balance (or … Continue reading →

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life begins at menstruation

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

in some states the bloody slough of cells exiting unneeded from the chalice of  this body 14 days before half of the equation adding up to life breaks free & looks for strong-swimming sperm is now the moment life begins legally. … Continue reading →

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