Best Divisa Poems
Prayer For Her, This Wounded Heart Healed
Please keep this dream in my lost life
remove painful sting and life filled with strife
Let her dance and sing another sweet tune
as I hold her under this, merciful God's moon.
An excerpt from: "As I Hold Her Under This, Merciful God's Moon"
(written 7/26/2015)
For- Your Best Poem #2 contest, sponsor Shadow Hamilton
Now Submitted for contest: July 19, 2019
Contest: Arbitrium Divisa 3
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden
For the nonce, living soul,
you will breathe in new lessons through our tender tethering
as your seeking thirst is slaked through your skin;
for life's osmosis seeps mortal knowledge not implanted at conception.
Susan Ashley
September 16, 2019
~ Second Place ~
Contest: Arbitrium Divisa 4 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Gregory R. Barden
*An excerpt from: Odyssey Of A Soul; written June 8, 2018*
I thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
But now all of a sudden I’m weary, frail and old.
I thought I was a poet. My pen is of no use.
With teary eyes I whisper to my dejected muse.
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These lines were posted on 5 June 2015 as
part of my poem "The Poet Who Never Was".
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Contest: Rithimus Divisa
Sponsor: Gregory R. Barden
Placed 3rd
Cinnamon memories catch my soul in snares
as I trace in anguish the curve of your lips
in a photo stained sepia with my tears;
a thousand words... spoken through my fingertips.
Susan Ashley
October 14, 2020
~ Second Place ~
Excerpt from: Lost In My Lost Cinnamon Dreams; May 9, 2019
Premiere Contest: Rithimus Divisa 10
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden
Amidst wistful notions
to revive his parched heart,
he craves to be ladled with her ardent spirits,
to be cradled... in the tulip of her essence.
Susan Ashley
July 19, 2019
~ Tenth Place ~
An excerpt from: The Irony Of Fate (written July 18, 2018)
Submitted for contest: July 19, 2019
Premiere Contest: Arbitrium Divisa 3
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden
Your bow - my violin we do unite
on rhythmic notes of ecstasy we fly
entwined our heartstrings vibrate through the night -
emblazoned love songs burn across the sky.
Susan Ashley
September 22, 2020
~ Third Place ~
An excerpt from: Making Beautiful Music Together (written April 15, 2018)
Submitted for contest: Sept. 22, 2020
Premiere Contest: Rithimus Divisa 6
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden
One of the keys to happiness is mental quietness
The splendor of a full moon hung in the darkness
Orchards of lovely colors and textures, readiness.
Delightful rapt echoes of a vivacious life sweetness
Juin 1st, 2021
(Lines from my free verse poem, ‘Peacefulness’)
Liberum Divisa 6 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Gregory Richard Barden
Proud daffodils have bowed their weary heads
And roses shed their petals one by one,
Green leaves transform to gold and fiery reds
The gilded reign of autumn has begun.
19.12.19
An extract taken from my poem 'seasonal transitions'
Arbitrium Divisa 5 Poetry Contest sponsored by Gregory Barden
I meander down a path sublime
Running fingers through sands of time
I come to seek the universal truth
While reminiscing upon my youth
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~CLOUDS MEANDER~ 2020
AP: Honorable Mention 2025, Honorable Mention 2021
Submitted on December 8, 2019 for contest ARBITRIUM DIVISA 4 sponsored by GREGORY RICHARD BARDEN - RANKED 2ND
Your death did steal my breath and heartbeat like a thief,
I’m nothing but a dying tree without a leaf -
barren branches bland reaching skyward in drab brown
doomful gloom, I ache and pray winds to take me down.
Susan Ashley
September 27, 2020
~ Sixth Place ~
Premiere Contest: Your Best Quatrain
Sponsored: L Milton Hankins
~ First Place ~
Contest: Hm's And Na's October 2020
Sponsor: Constance La France
(N/A'd in contest: Rithimus Divisa 7)
excerpt from: Death Is The Bane Of My Existence; June 17, 2018
judged; Oct. 1, 2020
Now, each day poses limitless opportunities for stress and strain -
New directions, new pains, new worries, brand-new doors open
Before older squeaky ones have closed, yesterday's problems
Had been mulled over, firmly grasped, solved, and cast aside.
Stanza from "Perspective on Time Passing"
for "Liberum Divisa" poetry contest
sponsored by Gregory Richard Barden
Poetry Soup Poem of the Day
May 28, 2021
#70 on Poetry Soup Best New Poems
June 1, 2021
Thrills of ardent aster in Fall bloom,
whispers and lips in butterfly tease -
stoking hearth’s heat in surrendered swoon
harvesting lust.. with vanilla ease.
Susan Ashley
October 9, 2020
~ Second Place ~
Original poem “Beauty Of Day’s Harvest” - September 28, 2019
Premiere Contest: Rithimus Divisa 9
Sponsor: Gregory R Barden
Submitted for contest on October 9, 2020
Reprisals are sharp thorns from stabbing tongues
causing deep wounds that may never heal.
Regrets are sown in the seams of a guilty mind
where no salve can reach, and scars remain.
November 16, 2021 ~ Liberum Divisa 8 Contest
Taken from the poem: Reprisal or Regret ~ 2016
Contest Sponsored by Gregory Richard Barden
God’s Presence
I pray for peace, my worldly goal
That each and ev’ry sacred soul
Will feel the essence of your might,
To feel your presence day and night
1-17-20
Arbitrium Divisa 6 Poetry Contest ~N/A~
Judged on 1-27-2020
1-10-20
In Praise of God Poetry Contest~First Place~
Sponsored by Kim Rodrigues
Poem this verse was taken from is “In Praise of God”
And with the forged visage of thunder's sword
Her sentry slays monsters of gray
Freeing astral blooms to spark and blaze
Across the brief November sky.
9/01/21
Liberum Divisa 7
Sponsor: Gregory Richard Barden
Taken from 'Brief November'