Best Ly Poems

champagne toast ~ 
      hopes and dreams for the new year fizz before they fizzle


Susan Ashley
December 28, 2017


~ Second Place...

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The beauteous days of summer were here at last,
And the primetime of nature was coming so fast!

We sat on the porch, watching a lazy day...

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~Life Support~

Welcome New Poet To Poetry Soup, 
I offer you a warm smile, in hopes you come back another day.
From the moment I spot your...

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What Of This Niggardly Miserable Earth

What of this niggardly miserable earth
this small plot awaiting a white tombstone
when she cares and asks what is it all...

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LOVE being felt caressively,so sexually, 
intimately,intentively makes me feel so 
radical,speaking hypothetical-ly of how it 
makes me feel,

So real,the thrill I always feel,the ideal of...

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Hey there, Rag doll!
I'm folding into a bowled, 
bold mix and
I'm in knead of a partner.

First come. First served.

Lying in a daydream -
I see you...

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Meaning, ever bending, never ending-ly open to changing it's mind and opinions,
by moving around words and pulling and pushing in different directions,
until everything changes, rearranges...

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“Scrabbled”



I could write a book
about all your dance moves
fire handed on a platter
heart beating like a hammer

a body of work
glanced at nonchalantly
on an open floor
dance...

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Hello friends 
I am coming back after a long gap during which many things happened. I lost my dear wife Shashi in July 2017 who...

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“the eyes of my eyes opened” as
the door when she came in, late
and embarrassed, click of a
shutter into “the ear of my ear” a
whispered ‘hi’...

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O foolish Amerikan klan,
who hath Klux bewitched thee with pale poof?

Kluless to the celestial truth,
Love immutable is infinity grand

Children of the Aryan band,
what doth the...

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We look into your eyes. They look back 
so human-ly!
You treat us like the child that had to 
grow up quickly.

You stand behind your lines...

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Mrs. Claus
Up and died 
She was tired

Santa looked 
Googly eyes
Twenty-fives

Santa wed
Died in bed
Really dead?  

I did syllable check and looked up lines one and...

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--Our Father God Makes US POETS- A  Dedicated Verse to Caren Krutsinger--


Lord the colors of your world" indeed makes me a poet's heart sings...

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You're so love-a-ly, so love-a-ly
can't believe you're in love with me.
The loveliest thing is this song to sing
your so giving heart - the love you...

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