Tag Archives: free verse

Beneath

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

You are always skimming the surface of things. If it were summer I would call you dragonfly and love you for it but this is winter and ice grows deeper than the flowers prismed on my window thick enough to … Continue reading →

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged , , | 17 Comments

fragment 1/15/2014

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

I am no god, but pay a divine price for what I learn. I did not trade an eye for wisdom; Just this heart bargained for a moment. Listen. Absence speaks loudest in a quiet place where pulse rioted hope … Continue reading →

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged , , | 27 Comments

It is dangerous to love a poet

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

It is dangerous to love a poet who blows emotion into rainbow animals; orange giraffes, pink dogs, purple monkeys– her balloon bestiary handed off to anyone who stops to admire her skill and their lightness. That some are shaped to your … Continue reading →

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged , , | 112 Comments

It is dangerous to love a poet

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

It is dangerous to love a poet who blows emotion into rainbow animals; orange giraffes, pink dogs, purple monkeys– her balloon bestiary handed off to anyone who stops to admire her skill and their lightness. That some are shaped to your … Continue reading →

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged , , | 43 Comments

silenced

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

with mouth nailed shut her eyes shout hear them

Posted in New Free Verse, silence | Tagged , , , | 21 Comments

Surgery

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

everything went black or did it just go brain switched off with a chemical snap awareness rising in bubbles fizzing against the velvet side of eyelids, opening to sharper pain & something missing ***prompt from Words From Windows

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

measurements and calculations

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

so enmeshed in numbers height, weight, the measurable distance between eyebrows the arc of a nose shades of eyes, hair, and skin all dictated by the way melanin scatters to paint us in rainbows shape and size of eyes flare … Continue reading →

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged , , , | 13 Comments