The Best WordPress Poetry of 2012

Best Poetry of the Year (2012)

As I said about a week ago when I posted the light verses winners, I started collecting poems in January of 2012 with the intent of declaring which poems I liked best.  The “best” are simply the ones I most liked (I’m strictly a rhyme and rhythm guy).  I didn’t analyze them critically, but took them as a whole.  I just liked them better than others I had read.

I’m simply unable to follow many more blogs than I do at present. And because WordPress last year changed the way WordPress members view new posts, I don’t read nearly as many poems in new posts as I once did. Non-members (or I can when I’m logged out) can see 25 or so new posts on a single page and skim quickly through the titles and pictures for something interesting to read. When I’m logged in, I usually see about 7 before I get to my stats and the format is not nearly as convenient. SO, if I’m not following your blog and you post a poem you’d particularly like me to read, put a link in the comments and I’ll gladly take the trip to your blog. Maybe I’ll like it well enough to file away for picking the best of 2013!

The exerpts and links that follow are for what I’ve chosen as the best WordPress poetry of 2012.  Congratulations to all those below.

I think the rest of you will enjoy them as well.

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The Territory ’76 by Dennis N. O’Brien

The lagoons like jewels in the yellow plain
Where the dry grass waits for the coming rain,
Like a necklace won from a tomb of old
Set with sapphires bring in a chain of gold…

http://dnobrienpoetry.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/the-territory-76/

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To A Sunset Cloud by Herschel Snow

O Cloud, (I’ll address you as if alive,
For such shameless vibrancy I’ve admired,
Only in what lives, or at least derives
Life from another.) I dare to inquire,…

http://raisingcrabgrass.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/to-a-sunset-cloud/

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Deadlocked in our Affair by “Bluesander”

You leave me wordless, my tongue tied in knots,
Drowning in a casket of my own deadly thoughts,
And what scares me the most is not your rejection,
But your silence, your whim – hollowed down affection…

http://bluesander.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/deadlocked-in-our-affair/#wpl-likebox

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Masseur by Kay Salady

Vanilla scented candles glimmer
Across silk cushions as they shimmer
Beneath her body as she lies
For fragrant oils to be applied…

http://kaysalady.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/masseur/

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Snowchild by Sandra Conner

When I was a child, I thought as a child,
And snow was a thing so delightful.
From school we were free; we got wet to the knees,
And our mom’s day was thrown all off schedule…

http://sandraconner.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/snowchild-2/

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Together As One by AJ Barlow

On our own merits, we’ll falter and fail
But together as one, we’ll always prevail
For us on our own, never could be
Half of what together makes you and me…

http://ajpoetry.com/2012/06/27/together-as-one/

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The Pattern Repeats by “Wordcoaster”

A pair of eyes that blush the robin red
And charm sweet smiles from all the nearby kids,
Your brows like sparrows with their wings outspread,
A flight of fancy perched above your lids…

http://wordcoaster.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/the-pattern-repeats/

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Autumnal by Kathryn Sparks

Faint as the smoke from a fir-branch fire
far off on the foggy shore,
Where salt-stung sea choruses a choir
as the tide rolls more and more…

http://kiwsparks.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/a-change-of-seasons/

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http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mf4jFRq/Golden+Cup

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