Short Toasts Poems

two late night coffees
toasts with peanut butter
a long sigh



posted on June 7, 2018...

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been on the wagon
no alcohol in six weeks...
he toasts his success!


Date 3/18/19...

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a fine blanket of sand
toasts a calloused skin
a definitive bouquet
a calming pitch
the ocean embraces me
and I submit...

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Boasted sunrises
And champagne sunsets fizzle
Long winded best men

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Sorry if I'm not on more. Life. Here's a new one....

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A million kisses
To the Moon
A thousand toasts
Of Summer wine
A hundred hugs
To May and June
And as many pats 
(as you’ll allow me)
Upon your fine behind

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Three boys thought they had seen the ghosts
resisting the urge to yell roasts
posing as known heroes
made ghosts to be zeros
Not knowing it was seven toasts

Syllable per line: 8 8 8 6 6 8...

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Crowds joined with smiles and cheers
Champagne flowed with delight
Celebrating New Years
Counting down to midnight
Crystal flutes raised in toasts
Compliments to the host's
Choice of superb bubbly...

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coffee… conversation starter for years
warms our spirits
striking smell
stirs thought
brews

talk
turns to
thanksgiving
toasts gratitude
replenishing our hearts with memories
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Soup Creek Toasts
Marmite cocktails are delicious I've heard
They are the hippest cocktails being served
So to raise a toast 
Tell Jenna the host
Mayor Tom's sure to be shaken and stirred.

6th September 2022...

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Friends, let’s share delicious
Food, laughter, anecdotes,
Funny songs, birthday toasts. 
Full glasses clink as the
Family celebrates:
Father is eighty years!
Feel the joy and the love.

September 24, 2016
For contest Pleiades F
Sponsored by Kim Merryman...

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a scattering of rice
    a few awkward toasts

  waves goodbye
    tin cans trailing
  
  just married sign
    upside down

  short drive to motel
    six, no a/c

  bedsprings creak
    soon fail

  glass shatters

  third marriage
    for both...

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My heart knows,
    Why it chose
    One red rose.
    Timeless pose,
    To propose.

    Church bells swing,
    Choirboys sing.
    Wedding ring,
    Lots of bling,
    Toasts go ching.

    I/ 13/ 2022.

     What's new poetry contest.
    Sponsor Joseph May....

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Time

Times Square is full tonight. 
Time's final trimester 
Tips on the verge of
Today, yesterday, and
Tomorrow, as Father
Time's temp'ral tradition
Toasts--MIDNIGHT--New Years' Eve!

©deborah burch
12.23.16
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Form:Pleiades...

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White icing spread atop cut-out trees,
Shrubs melt,
expose green cutout cookie snowflakes,
Blue skies shove away clouds,
reveal warm glossy blanketed fields,
Sunshine toasts the breeze a golden crisp.
Gazing out the picture window,
I watch as God bakes another day of Ohio January....

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People who suffer from Alchoholism

Long nights, short days,
I don't know why I can't stay away
Hours of toasts, minutes of fame
the minutes that haunt my echoing brain
living a life of unbreakable shame
praying that god would help with the pain
no answer, but a bottle
a bottle of blame...

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Friends hug and make toasts.
Big bands play loud songs.
Loud parties get wild.
Fireworks fill skies
Confetti is thrown.

On New Years’ Day,
Parades fill streets.
Kids catch candy.
Girls twirl batons.

Later that night,
Lights go out.
People sleep.

New Year’s
Begins

Hope.


12/28/2016...

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After The Wedding


after the I do’s
after the photographs
after the guests have gone
after the rice is swept up
after the toasts
after the dances
after the wedding dress is stored
after the rental tux is returned
after the banquet hall is dark
after the hot honeymoon

Now the marriage begins
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your tongue dances
              on the roof of your mouth,
           your bare feet
              kiss your sacred ground...
            your flowered body so affable
              thus everyone toasts
              the beauty of your eyes
              and you rest solemn
              in the grateful sand... !...

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Happy Birthday!
  Marks each year
We all clink glasses
  To a friend's new year 

Toasts are read
  Loads of good cheer
All in honor of
  The coming year 

Behind the scenes
  It's time to reflect
The good, preserve
  The bad reject

Blow out the candles
  Eat the cake...
Promises to keep
  Decisions to make...

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Not a good day, I want to fly away, 
Disapear into dispair, dying from lying,
I'll just go ding, like an old toaster thing,
It toasts bread, and never goes to bed,
Awake through the pain and strains,
Crying tears of fears,
Not beliving all of the dealings of drugs,
That is untill I got mugged,
Cought in a frought, not one way out,
I turn insideout,
Burning and yearning for hope,
But "no" said the pope....

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May you get to spend time alone,
But never get to be lonesome.

May you never get so drunk,
You find yourself sitting on a shelf with an elf.

May your charms be good enough,
To turns fiends into friends.

May a touch of sun on your shoulders,
Always be enough to gladden your heart.

May your morning walk,
Bring you safely out of the mist.

May tomorrow,
Always be the best day of your life.
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You’d moved round and it wasn’t A Catwalk
And your bare back arched and I didn’t talk
The worst vomiting and I didn’t sulk
And at me, missiles fired to baulk
But tell me if I did yell or baulk?

A right you have to strip body bare
But I will see nothing of The Rare,
Always self lending to abhorred boasts
While you aren’t a sought subject of toasts …

Those who are after fame not deserved
Shall a way find to be just reserved....

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Hail hail the gang's all here!
Auld Lang Syne and singing toasts,
Pretty well shnockered with all that cheer,
Pitching me, the designated driver host.
Y'all ishz djusht the mosht!

Never seen it from this side,
Everybody's lookin' kinda fried.
Wishishin you da bestest buddy!

You know, I'm pretty glad I'm here,
Every one of these trusted, trusting friends is very dear.
Actually this shady deal was pretty danged raw.....
Roasted buddies fixed me with the short straw!!...

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Sweet sounds drifting through the air, 
causing happiness everywhere.
Flowers bloom and sunshine shows, 
all happiness seems to glow.
Adults and children join and gather,
the air is filled with joyful chatter.
Birds are chirping and skies are blue,
everything is perfect, good as new.
Picnics on the fresh, green grass,
everyone toasts with a glass.
Songs and dances through the night, 
everything seems to be just right.
Cheers to you and cheers to me,
we're all a big happy family....

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