Best Ly Poems

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


Susan Ashley
December 28, 2017


~ Second Place ~
Contest: Monoku 2: New Year
Sponsor: Silent One...

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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 go by,
With no interesting views, to gladden our eyes.

Then one of us said a hiking trip was needed,
We friends agreed...

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What if we'd met at Jackson Memorial in the neonatal ward,
Placed ever so gently, side by side, facing the outside world?
And our parents and relatives and friends they had
Giggled thru an over sized window
And waved and pointed and cooed at us,
Two tiny babies in little...

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My heart beating is alive hitherto
my lung breathing is hitherto
my eyes hitherto facing the queen
of myself thy love IS don . . .  
    — ( thank thou by blessing creator)
But, obviously in worth is degrees
of early befoul inquiry  ....

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Neuropathy in my hands.
A panoply is the rest.
A screw loose in my head.
With itis through my back.
It's what old sawbones said.
But he saved the best for last.
Seems I have two more days
Please pass the ham and mayonnaise...

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Just because the plane has landed 
And the pilot has turned off the fasten seat belt sign 
Does not mean you should hurry to get out of your seat,
It will be five minutes before they open  the hatch
And an additional ten minutes before all...

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Zipper or zip, just fasten it, right and tight
In order to keep, purple souls, out of sight
Play safe, for Robin or Barbie, not to peek
People might start snapping unwanted pic
Every time you go outside you need to zip 
Rush not, for, no damn will give...

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Lily Ly Dun, was an Asian beauty I once knew
Known around town for her yummy moo moo
Quite a few times
Her vistas I climbed
To put it gently, set my chengdu's askew...

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Lily Ly Dun, was an Asian beauty I once knew
Known around town for her yummy moo moo
Quite a few times
Her vistas I climbed
To put it gently, set my chengdu's askew...

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Charlie says he cannot talk,
For he is a dog, a dog,
That can walk,
Jog not for him,
Is much too hard.

But has fun playing,
With his toys,
In his fenced in
Backyard.

Sorrow for him,
Should not be shed,
For happiness abounds.

Come have a look,
See how happy.

He can be....

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So reaching for you;
My love so rejoices through;
My mind is so lost;
As it can't keep up;
So my lonely heart just flush; 
Thinking about my soul touch;

5/20/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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she sent
me a photo
perhaps not
knowing a flash
would fill her dark
cave sensitive eyes

so much so
she closed one
so thus began the
myth that was his but
now surely had become 
hers for observe as the tale

unfolds on
this second of
nights after two men
we're taken in by her lust
of life and...

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Never seen a star
just its dying light
never felt happiness
try as i might
never heard true loves whisper
within the steam of night
never smelt the sweetest rose
above the bile and stale
Never spoke a truer word
than this hopeless tale...

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