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Poetry 2012

HH prompt: Wish

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

empty of wishes at the end of a red day but full of prayers

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Posted on December 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on words on life and other strange experiences:
Dear fellow WP-ers, lets do a writing prompt. Lets write about freedom, about freeing oneself. For various reasons, and also because of a blog post of a fellow writer http://www.kseniaanske.com…

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body bags

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

18 of them, small for bodies under 4 feet lined up with 6 full-size bags how we tidy up loss so neatly & lifted easy but only the flesh is light not the arms that lift it you can’t cart … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Bart Wolffe:
THE END OF GOSSIP, PLEASE The world’s babble of so many mouths popping With empty baubles, the chatter that monkeys make With mouths grinning, God, I’m so tired of speech That doesn’t cast spells or…

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how to catch what won’t stay still

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

don’t try to define what by nature is mutable, not fixed, quicksilver & led by Mercury these feet slip traps (even your careful ones) easier to run with or a little ahead of me, a game of tag or a race … Continue reading →

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muses

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

those 9 muses the Greeks drew in precise divisions of practice never moved me, coy & lolling at Apollo’s feet in those pictures, too busy flirting to grant a whisper in my ear no, if art is breathed, in spired like cathedrals pointing to sun … Continue reading →

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melting truths (the advent hymn)

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this is a moment of palpable faith– heavy-woven in silk intricate and darkly bright like a 12th-century advent hymn carolling loomed yearning past promise & only satisfied with birth veni, veni Emmanuel Latin fills my house heavy, scented with hope & … Continue reading →

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