Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

if hate has a voice

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if hate has a voice it starts quiet as steam escaping through cracks in rock until the hissing amplifies to volcanic roars that no words can shout over or stop.

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i don’t want to down your up

Posted on September 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i don’t want to down your up but it’s october tomorrow & everything’s falling & i need to fall too but backwards into leaves & just breathe those crushed tannins that taste of tea & home.  home in the child sense … Continue reading →

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haiku heights: September heights–DAY 30!!!!!!

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

escaped balloons climb sometimes miles before they drift– several shades of free

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Posted on September 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

BRILLIANT.

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double standards

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

she has two children by two different fathers you said, as if somehow that made her less i traced circles on your chest wrapped my fingers in that hair, and pulled just enough to sting or draw attention to my … Continue reading →

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eavesdropping half of a conversation

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

corcovado, bossa is too bright & fast for this coffee line but the piano joys in slides & chopped chords tickling ears like peacock feathers i want to shrink away from– beautiful but annoying coffee & chocolate beige the air … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

George has scribed live passion here–I love this.

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