Tag Archives: poetry

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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not a complaint, really, but close to it

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

why do I write your poems, you who every night this week have spun phrases, skillfully braided & murmuring like rivers of liquid silver in my ears, just on the edge of sleep coming if I get up to write, you are appeased … Continue reading →

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mortification (for eulonia)

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

she wants to stretch just a little past body. the old religious did it with mortification fasting and no sleep, praying for days awaiting illumination, their substance translucent ecstatic, the divine translated the way sun flows through a window where flesh is … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this is no time for tenderness, for blooming. seventeen days before the sun’s center rays brush the equator on its movement south we open eyes to paler light, morning mist & the first sight of exhaled breath since spring in a thin … Continue reading →

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sky skimming

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

between morning sun and setting moon one paraglider hangs suspended in all that blueness

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if bodies could flow to where minds fly

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if bodies could flow to where minds fly I would learn weightlessness on the moon or perhaps string stars in a burning thread, not needing breath & laughing at magnitude and gravity as if absolute things mean anything in this madness.  in smaller … Continue reading →

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bought not born

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

they had to drop out of air already walking & shaping talking points the men writing laws or maybe only straight white married women like the ones they own are worth protecting no–I think these men with keys to wind … Continue reading →

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