Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Jimmie Gilliam

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Need to share this.  My mentor from ‘way back has gone digital with a few of her pieces.  

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what it isn’t

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Before you envision an us, before you stroke emotions further in a masturbation without release, a frictioned fictioned state of caging behind bars you gilt edge and name unrequited, I should tell you loves-me/loves-me-not outcomes are fixed before beginning: petals plucked honestly come … Continue reading →

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timing

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I  wrote you a poem once about salmon fighting currents, tire sandals, and Kenyan dust it was less about you and more about that pacing wild you owned the thing I never understood I wrote it after you left me without … Continue reading →

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mx

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Remember the 20-year poem? Here’s its 30-year-old brother.

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dawn

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

For a feeling that breaks into blossom where dreams seed there are no adequate words but there are colors that tell it and those I would paint over sunrise, backlit if I had the right brush

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readying

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I am no lady, weeding deep as soil goes, elbows in and eager to seed, stopping to wave at my neighbor who says my kneeling is more a predictor of spring than inconsistent robins, but she’s not a dirt person, forgets … Continue reading →

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Jackalope Tastes Like Lobster

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Jackalope tastes a lot like lobster hard headed mythic conceived in thunder and born in hail though it is difficult to chew with a tongue in your cheek

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