Susan's Poetry

Where does inspiration lie? Everywhere! This is my attempt to pounce on and then shape the words I breathe.

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My poems disappear from this blog after 6 days so they may be published elsewhere.

Please visit my other BLOG, too, Susan, continued . . . .

Susan: "Susan's Poetry" is brand new as of April 2012. The "Susan, continued" blog is a mixture of readings and discussion. Both are a commitment to boldness, to talking out my thoughts, and to performing as I used to from instinct to instinct.

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Interviews

1. Life of a Poet by Sherry at Poets United

2. In This Version of My Life--An Interview by Isadora at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads

Notes On The Art Of Poetry

I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on
in the world between the covers of books,
such sandstorms and ice blasts of words,
such staggering peace, such enormous laughter,
such and so many blinding bright lights,
splashing all over the pages
in a million bits and pieces
all of which were words, words, words,
and each of which were alive forever
in its own delight and glory and oddity and light.

by Dylan Thomas

THE PEACE of WILD THINGS

by Wendell Berry

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.