Tag Archives: poetry

my worship

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

1. so, you would gamble with God as your ante of desperation you would put God in a book, in a box filed in a place in your life you take out and put away at your convenience only speak … Continue reading →

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silence without the vow

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

beyond words, I have echoed the pulse of this planet, felt shifts in heat and magnetism drift from pole to pole in worship, sometimes there is a vow of silence or a moment of it wordlessness begins a knowing, an essential … Continue reading →

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baking and breaking bread

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  this flour comes from living seed ground to texture of fine sand I know how many hands full will make two loaves, measured by height on my board not cups; how much water & honey to revive yeast something … Continue reading →

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growing through a block

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

a 17-year silence can shout if anyone listens speak to how broken in the middle you can hollow out a heart like a cored apple or scooped melon to not listen to pain & falsify living until you almost persuade … Continue reading →

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catching something big

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if I write of ants or the movements of the earth or even a dance of planets I can only guess at if I write of you of how one touch flowers me or if I write of deeper love … Continue reading →

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the new gods still have clay feet

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the world is getting terrifyingly small he said, the immediacy of data exchanges & satellited conversations compress it perhaps perhaps, we lessen the planet somehow to our scale when we do not measure distances in miles or kilometers but rather … Continue reading →

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in relation to heaven

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my words are ladders past sky to stars here I stand point to where they spread a burning remote but intimately seen & each named

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