Tag Archives: love

don’t get carried away by this

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  stability is a coin toss away he said, but magical thinking went the way of daisy heads for me when i stripped feelings petal by petal hoping he did love me– much easier to ask the man instead of a daisy … Continue reading →

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i hate cliches like wearing my heart on my sleeve, as if somehow that much control would be possible

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

a heart lives inside my tongue, in my fingertips, pulses through my pen & i never know what secret it will speak just for the sake of singing it & there i am, left cleaning all that unrepentant truth-telling that … Continue reading →

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sonnet #2

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the unfolding sweetness your kisses bring deeply hidden, past where lips together join and learn a language of sighs, feather soft promises of pleasure murmured, rising in heartbeats faster than the frantic wings of a hummingbird rushing to nectar before … Continue reading →

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trying my hand at shadorma

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you whisper to me your yearning so lightly a feather voiced with a weight that staggers inside one small word     The Shadorma is a Spanish poetic form made up of a stanza of six lines (sestet) with no set rhyme scheme. It … Continue reading →

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becoming this us

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

bodies blend to become this us promised in your hands how they open to mine how our eyes echo feeling this us promised in your hands painting skin all colors with one touch how our eyes echo feeling the way … Continue reading →

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Seduction: A duet

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

By Noel A. Ihebuzor and Susan L. Daniels seduction is best when done softly, slowly and yes, subtly– to lead entranced an entrancing partner (not necessarily all that innocent – intent and consent in a closet slightly ajar, and ever … Continue reading →

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I know the fault lines

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  I know the fault lines where this heart breaks easiest; can chart easily these movements between us as if they are rivers, tides automatic and effortless and impossible to force as it would be to shape dreams into waking forms; … Continue reading →

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