nothing in common

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you ask why I love you
& I answer, because
of how you love

the way you bring it
to me
with such tenderness
& singularity

a word I once used
to describe my own
offering of self to you;
not so much a feeling
as an action,
a commitment

you now look at me,
puzzled,
when I say
the only things we have in common

are you, your addiction
& my response to it
which is its own sickness
if I stay
& that can never be enough

you ask for a translation

like we speak different languages
made of the same words

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Creek walk haiku: 2 haiku

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

dragonfly stalks, skims
& hovers over water–
delicate hunter

***

if light shaped music
the sun would chime reflections
dancing on water

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prism

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you have steered
my light off its path
& separated it
into broken, shining ribbons

the colors are beautiful
but if I follow this bent beam
I will be lost forever
to your prismatic vision
that does not see the whole
only the spectrum that suits
your desires of the moment

better to keep whole,
retrieve & revive the self
that knows its own form,
source
& trajectory

shining & unfiltered
both particle & wave,
seeking
an equal radiance

***The mirror poem was for Nancy, who inspired it.  This one is for my co-creator and friend, Noel, who suggested that a mirror was perhaps not the best image to explore pathology with, and to try out the idea of prisms.  What do you guys think?

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unguarded

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

because I did not think
my heart needed shielding

you just walked inside,
one kiss key to all my locks

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waiting for the storm

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

everything I am
stretches towards
& yearns to burn electric

my skin
rippling pure energy
barely time to say yes
& again
that same yes

a strike that cannot be cooled
by just rain
after thunder

rattles my bones
with its power

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Parachute

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

With all my writing about free falling lately, I was delightfully surprised to hear this song on the radio, by Ingrid Michaelson.  Love it!  Hope you like it too.

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the rainbow girl

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

she is named for the breath of God
that animated Adam
but she is more than breath
she is breath within a body

her beauty a fusion of 3 continents:
African eyes,
Native American cheekbones,
European lips
wrapped in skin
the color of warm honey
kissing apricots

all lithe grace
& brilliant smile
that today dimmed
as her hands rose to shield
those new breasts

those men
are looking at me
like I’m something to eat
& they’re hungry
she said

& I, with an equally primal response
want to free her
from the weight of those stares

do I scratch out their eyes
or do I tell her it is biology
& to get used to it?

today, I will be her mother
& go for those eyes;
she can get used to
that kind of looking
later.

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