Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

it is october mostly fallen

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

it is october, mostly fallen & still falling and i already see the after the anticipation of spring but before that first step climbing March is dreamed, i rake leaves before wind takes them where empty things go what falls now nourishes later & … Continue reading →

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fast talk

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the flips & turns those tongues curl to shape words/hit a spin leave me reeling & dazzled– that’s why talk is cheap. it is fast & shiny & does not wear well; quickly-sewn  seams  split under pressure. rhetoric twists perception … Continue reading →

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tannins

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i love the tannins of october, how they shade air sepia with the blandness of oak leaves always the last to fall and seeping beige into everything the way my grandmother dyed doilies in coffee or tea, soaked just long … Continue reading →

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immortality

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

when you taste sap from such a tree as this, rooted in myth sap whiter than the milk your mother made & sweet there will be no banishment– it does not fruit that promise the serpent tempted with when you … Continue reading →

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when trees grow in us, anything can happen

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

when fir trees branch inside us anything can happen like the feeling when seeing you that this happiness could breathe out 100 butterflies from the center of my chest fluttering winged feeling is something no longer charming but alarmingly possible ***inspired … Continue reading →

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what we eat

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Hi, all.  This piece sprang from a conversation I had with a friend about food/lifestyle choices.  I do not judge anyone for their choices–this is just an exploration.  I will try very hard to offend everyone equally in this poem. there is … Continue reading →

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flow (surrender)

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there is that current you go willingly with or it takes you anyway in riffs and rips better to slide into it than fight, drowning in crocodile rolls hard to teach that flow but when we learn it easier to … Continue reading →

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