Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

if you pay attention to small things

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if you pay attention to small things you don’t have to prove anything with a grand gesture like stopping airplanes or even traffic just answer my words written in sand before waves claim them that’s what i want. the small impossible … Continue reading →

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insecta

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

what happens quietly in front of us cockroaches led by wasps silent crickets mayflies born without mouths how do we sleep in the middle of mindless need?

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please move the deer crossing

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

that sign with the buck leaping over an xing is not a warning for drivers to slow down but an official wildlife-approved crossing zone in our treaty with the deer along with hunting season it should be honored only there … Continue reading →

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reflections–octpowrimo day 14

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the beauty we know simply this dance of light and matter their rainbow game echoing you to me in diffuse spectral reflection spinning colors you are not to dazzle eyes inside snapped angles in all directions unneeded sun you give back unknowing and … Continue reading →

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if the dead do anything underground while they dream they do not learn, but remember

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i do not worship bones or light candles on graves like i saw on all soul’s day after sunset when i was a child. living across the street from the oldest cemetery in town, riding bikes on those quiet drives … Continue reading →

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shroud: haiku heights prompt

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

shroud me in silence the unspoken things you are wrapping me always *** i have bathed my dead with tears, swaddled them gently for their new mother

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prelude to a 30-volume love letter

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

cogito ergo sum carried by blood to the place i hear words not spoken but dropped between the ears before i wake today. Descartes dreamed as eyes open is tricky– i am uncertain these words capture my i-ness the way … Continue reading →

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