Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Not a Ruth and Naomi Story (a sonnet)

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I never promised to go where you led With the blind belief of a burdened beast, My feet following any path you made. We are not a fated twining, our threads Spun and woven to oneness, west and east Meeting … Continue reading →

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behemoth (rework)

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

They are what swim, what fly, what run; they are the eyes holding firelight in fear-touched hunger. They are the plural as single and the one as many; striped and spotted, feathered and furred, scaled or catching hair against brambles. … Continue reading →

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Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Tinker me pink because I will never wear serious red because my hair is tangerine some days cotton-candy blue others to draw  your mouth happy I am spun sugar stuck to your tongue, sweet that never grows up or out completely … Continue reading →

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budding

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

For Nelle Under February under snow like sap climbing up, up, up in a sweet we need to boil down spring is a verb happening first in crocuses

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the people are starving

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

and she said let them eat cake and now we feed them french fries not sprung from any revolution but rising up freer than the range of chickens ready for plucking

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she writes moons

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

for Mari she triangulates the moons love wears breaks mirrors of rape for seven years’ worth of splintered luck she knows death prisms to rainbows when held to the light and god is more breathed than felt but known by … Continue reading →

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“Alone”

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

so much up I am a bubble in champagne unpopped rising drunk and redder than sunset somewhere far, far d o w n a palm tugged my string but here I am playmate to clouds

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