Best Buttermilk Poems

I'd almost forgotten, how fondly this little hamlet
snuggles tight against the purple hills, and how State street
divides the town into two parts, like a pizza,...

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'neath buttermilk skies 
my soul on the horizon -
I have found my voice 


Susan Ashley 
April 26, 2020


~ Third Place ~
Morning Praise Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Raul...

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St. Milt’s Grand Opening today
Come and celebrate with us
On Martin Luther King Day
Worldwide choirs and gospel music
Singing MLK’s best loved hymns
Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simon 
It’s...

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Sheriff Koplin has ridden East to gather a few other folks who decided to leave the city and head West, hoping to settle in Milton...

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A man I am and near my end.
I have other men to call me friend.

And women round me for the lust
And four leaf clover for...

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Pleasures Of Tender Love

confection for the sweet
a taste of delight
if only I could show you
the pleasures of tender love
that shines like golden honey
caramel apples aureate
strewn...

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Moonshine, diesel fumes, and chicken wire. 
Laundry hangin’ on the line. 
Bible open to the Book of Job. 
Backyard thick with prickly pine.

Jacket pocket full...

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I am very small,                     ...

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Dedicated to Evelyn Judy Buehler. I love the joy
and color she brings to her poetry!


Pink puddle of petals, precious
underneath the parasol tree.

Celebrant-pear in bridal white...

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Hot coffee tickles
with sugar and cream
Buttermilk kisses
that feel like a dream
Brown sugar wishes
and grape jelly sighs
French toast desires
in blueberry eyes
Tangerine blushes
beneath satin sheet
Marmalade whispers
so cinnamon...

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As I watch the waves crash against the rocks and sand, 
and fondled my bare feet;
My mind wonders with the refracting color of the mist.
Cleansing...

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Food for thought !
Over what has been lost.

Days of long ago - filled with much flavour,
Foods exotic – for the discerning palate to savour.

There was...

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Alber’s Tamale Pie, Australian Meat Pie, Apple Pie, Amish Country Strawberry Pie,  
Bacon Pie, Bean Pie, Boston Cream Pie, Butterfinger Pie, Banana Cream Pie,...

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Made a batch of cornbread Saturday morning.

Mixed the cornbread with clams and nuts to make stuffing.

Surrounded and filled the turkey with onions and stuffing;

Having done...

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Out Of Water

Eternal suffering
Fresh cleansing rain,
regain
Harmonic smells so wonderful,
restores impressions in your mind of ocean shores

Rainbows of prism refracting,
colors that are spellbinding
red, orange, yellow, green,...

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