Tag Archives: poetry

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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the bones of it

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

a sugar maple after the first hard freeze knows the essential & lets everything else go releases red to run rustling in front of wind we call it falling but the core stands bare the stripped simplicity of a monk … Continue reading →

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awakening

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

what do i know this moment rising from a dream still swimming behind eyelids i keep closed awareness weaves itself the shuttle/my breath pulse stretching throat to speech this my sunrise

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vengeance movies nonwithstanding

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  i want to write poetry about chrysanthemums licking yellow & bronze along sidewalks, & rivaling leaves in their burn or how my creek, frosted clear now from algae carries those leaves in fleets of color into that great lake, … Continue reading →

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day of the girl (the sun goddesses remembered)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I am tired of differences– tell me again how this body is pulled by the moon in its tides, hormones alternately softening minds and sharpening tongues as if somehow female minds are less because ovaries steep thoughts in estrogen until they … Continue reading →

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the price of a voice (for Malala)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

when a child speaks what makes her words so dangerous you would gag her with lead? what code of honor that is spoken or written exists for women or their children in this place where girls are burned by acid … Continue reading →

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