Best Lip Service Poems

most poets
neither am nor want to be
just stuck
halfway to an imagined hell
of homage to self
and lip service to the creator...

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EITHER 
a searing indictment of 
contemporary American society 
OR 
just a bit of fun! 

********** 

They seem to have forgotten common courtesy, 
'Have A Nice Day!' rings so hollow, such a shame; 
they're so mired in mediocrity 
and no one ever, ever takes the blame....

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lips steaming, hot brands my sultry skin - searing me forever sizzled



Susan Ashley
August 2, 2017


N/A
Contest: Wonderful One Liners 
Sponsor: s. grace...

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There once was a lass named Bikini Rose
Curvy-swervy from her lips to her toes
   The lads ah-ed and oohed 
   Which Rose just pooh-poohed
Due to those hairs coming out of her nose...

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A field of angry faces fume
with mouths agape as spittle flies
from lips best used for other tasks.

Upon the green , the rolling lawn of angst,
demonstrators wave paper placards. 
Group A never nearing Group B.
Flags drape the bandstand packed
with pomp and politicians give lip-service
to the trodden...

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Either
a searing indictment of
contemporary American society
or
just a bit of fun!

                     *******

They seem to have forgotten common courtesy, 
'Have A Nice Day!' rings so hollow, it's...

Continue reading...

EITHER 

a searing indictment of 
contemporary American society 

OR 

just a bit of fun! 

********** 

They seem to have forgotten common courtesy, 
'Have A Nice Day!' rings so hollow, what a shame; 
they're so mired in mediocrity 
and no one ever, ever takes the blame....

Continue reading...

LIP SERVICE

parishioner’s lips
misbehaving in church kiss ~
wife’s peace offering

11/5/2017
senryu...

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I came upon serried ranks
Of once-men who'd given their all,
Silent sentinels who'd known fear,
Pain and terror before their fall.

They'd stared the grim Reaper in the face
And knew their time had come.
But there were those who knew not that
Their lives were a rounded sum.

Some in distant...

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Either
          a searing indictment of
   contemporary American society
                          ...

Continue reading...

Either
          a searing indictment of
   contemporary American society
                          ...

Continue reading...

Either
a searing indictment of
contemporary American society
or
just a bit of fun!


They seem to have forgotten common courtesy, 
'Have A Nice Day!' rings so hollow, it's a shame;
they're so mired in mediocrity 
and no one ever, ever takes the blame. 

Overweight, yet under-nourished, 
over-sexed and under-intellectual, 
they...

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Imagining that first kiss
Butterflies dance in my soul
Coyly you invite me in
Our lips seal the deal...

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Either
          a searing indictment of
   contemporary American society
                          ...

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Tripping from our tongues-
                                       the joys of...

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