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Best Poems Written by Ben Soodsma

Below are the all-time best Ben Soodsma poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Like Branches

I’ve looked back
Remembering days
And the ways
Our voices persistently sway…
like the branches

And the nights—
Recalling the bright city
Lights
Upon the sidewalks
We told ourselves
We’d walk

But never did

The quiet that followed
It was the least expected

And I was waiting for the crickets
To end this tongue-tied trance

The summer faded
Crickets killed by frost
An endless trance,
That I had never lost

And it all returned one day
Just to be up and taken away
Determined I stand
To return to that land
We’ve discovered.

The crickets never came

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They Never Leave Here

There’s something about nights
The cool, calm breeze brushing ears
The sky provides our only light
We sit in the middle of a park
Waiting for what we want to hear

And even if I don’t hear it,
I’m alright with that

I’m barely listening anyways—
The sky has so much more to offer
Every single star is in the same place
They’ve been there since I was young

You may have left, you may be leaving
But the stars, they never leave here

Maybe someday I’ll find myself
In the middle of this park
Nothing changing—
Not the stars,
Not whoever she may be

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Weak At the Knees

And darling please—
Can you make this pain stop?
It’s my knees,
They’re worn and aching.
Did you think this through?
It’s my breath you’re taking.

You know how to shake me,
I’m weak at the knees.
You know how to break me,
I’m weak at the knees.
You know how to make me,
Weak at the knees.