Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

games

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

everyone wants the same thing he said to me once, desperately we want it & it’s what sells mascara & fat-free cookies not to mention aftershave & fashion but none of those answers this need no matter how wide our … Continue reading →

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yarn

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this is how life happens, unspooling smooth in front of us until we grab it up into needles or hooks to make some(one)thing of it, but I don’t crochet or knit.  those disciplines of ordered tangling are beyond me, so I … Continue reading →

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apocalypse poem #3 (daily faith)

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my grandmother’s eschatology was from Daniel & John, quoted or read with my mother in the afternoons, slow ones after tomatoes were put up, windows washed & the dusting done, the jam jarred & herbs strung & drying between rafters in the … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Rule of Stupid:
This is a themed poem inspired by Susan Daniels (if you don’t know her, you should).   No Second Sun We wait for an apocalypse Swear or curse or pray at it   In this…

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apocalypse poem #2 (longing for apocalypse)

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the Millerites, tired of waiting for the second Advent, said Christ needed to be persuaded, prayed down from the clouds– their faith a ladder for His descent, a new Jacob’s if you listen hard, over 100 years later you can still … Continue reading →

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apocalypse poem #1

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

sorry I have no lengthy to-do list to complete days before the apocalypse & plan to do nothing apart from the usual business of living though I  might make love to you with more urgency than usual, straining to imprint some hint … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on createdavidt:
The melt is on Great swathes of glacial freeze coming unstuck Flowing downhill to destiny Many drops For even all the seven oceans to swallow Making the deep blue sea deeper still Mixing up global chemistry…

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