Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

simple is sometimes sugar in six-carbon rings but we are far more complex– the bite of lemon on the tongue, a kissing bitterness only sweet in the remembering

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remembering animal

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

If life is motion, then we are the tellers of it, that primal spin in the pit of the pelvis a purposed flutter more tangible than a plus on an EPT or circled days on the Monet calendar.  So much … Continue reading →

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occasional poem

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

an occasional poem for no reason says simply thanks for being

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life before cable

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

we are snow after the anthem and test pattern licked blue on the walls after midnight, those old antennaed ghosts, doubled and hissing prayer to a bandwidthed god

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Two Fibonacci poems from my spam folder

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Please check the spare shoelaces, recognizable across earth for their welcome woosh. We will often defend a misunderstanding that always trusts what the stars said.

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My sun is coming up

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

If this is how you love, lover in a dance of steel and teeth, feathering pain across unwilling skin, take your need somewhere else, because your kisses leave me bloodless and I am no admirer of vampires, even those with metaphorical fangs.

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Posted on August 14, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

water lifts up those leaves floating seasonal teases on a platter of color.  gifts that touch us briefly– a butterfly kissing game flame-brushed & gone as fast as it is felt

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