Dinner BellThe sun will shine,
The moon will rise.
The nights will always glimmer.
The birds will fly,
The bugs will glide,
The people will hide for winter.
Everyday subsidies,
Everyday I survived,
I still don’t feel like a winner.
All the plates will be shined,
All the guest get invites,
But I’ll still eat alone for...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Trolls, Bots and Spidered WebsThrough false truth, the Rus reclaims hegemony,
Farming trolls to be enrolled,
'Neath bridges, clowns, see enemies,
Puking riddles on those tolled.
Then the bots deliver the hurl,
Regurgitate into the net,
Till truth is common as a pearl,
Yet what you see is what you get.
Spidered webs entangle yonder,
The language largely modeled,
And artificial minds are left to ponder,
Which words are...
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Categories:
allusion, america, corruption, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
The CurcumstancesIs Calvinism the cousin of Providence
And Mystery the brother of Fate
Does Liberty relate to Religion
And do Laws protect or berate
Can Unity support Division
Or Loves opposite other than Hate
Can Truth be hidden from leaders
and multiply the problems we face
Can Time be suspended
By the simple act of Faith
Can Salvation find the Needy
Before it is too late...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
ALTHOUSE POD-Dun hill donuts don't make na change make no scents smelly, stinky non Everffiecent relvelenct tech no manure stench
Come apart partly cleft ain't none sun bench
Can't support the door when it hangs below the floor
crist, krash, dung
Life at the odhouse pod
4/24/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©
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Categories:
adventure, allusion, analogy, character,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Council of the WickedAs the man walks alone he sees the joy from the counsel that has become the Pharisees.
They have given the oath of rituals that pertain to the past and not for the future.
Looking at the actions and expectations, he sees them like the corrupted Phrarisees.
What they have done is go against the Edenic beauty of...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, conflict, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Shadows IVThe darkness settles in at 1400 and it is crying
It has deal with pain in a manner that is becoming burdensome
It is tired of all the disappoints and is still crying
Physical pain would be less burdensome
The connection of souls does not come to the lips
HOPE is lost and not in any universe
The constant disappointment has...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, anxiety, depression,
Form: Sonnet
Night TerrorsRunning down Chicago Ave barefoot brain buzzing hymns and static, neon crucifix blinking above a bodega, the gospel of smoke and piss, all-night diner flickering with ghosts of jukeboxes past—she laughs in her sleep, god I miss her already, dreaming of Congo drums, 3AM baptisms, ash on my tongue and wind in my coat, don’t...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
my soul in foreign lands, forgotten 1
The map unrolls, a skin of dust,
where landmarks shift like whispers lost to a gust.
I trace a fracture, jagged, unfamiliar...
A place where my phantom feet wandered, chillier
than memory allows. A tongue they spoke is lost,
A melody unheard, for a dearly paid-for cost.
within the crumbling walls of an infernal keep,
A cracked, blackened mirror shows a face,...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, art, dark,
Form: Free verse
INCREDIBLE
Nothing has changed... but all is unlike from what it was seconds ago......
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Categories:
allusion, perspective, time,
Form: Monoku
WALK poetrix
I walk stoically through life
with complete certainty of arriving at
some good place... when... I don't know!
...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, journey, life,
Form: Epigram
Categories:
allusion, god, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Monoku
love they sayLove, they say
When I was fifty-two, I fell in love and that
was hard; I lost my sanity for the sake of love
I had been married twice before I met my
undoing, learned the rope of living a pretense of love
when the only thing of interest was sex
I was never a family man, leaving me, the women
did...
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Categories:
addiction, age, allusion,
Form: ABC
A Muggy Day in AssamThe air is heavy—
like a warm, wet blanket wrapped around everything.
The sun?
Hiding behind a cloud,
like it doesn’t want to deal with the day.
The Brahmaputra flows—
slow, wide, calm.
It mirrors the dull sky,
grey and tired like it skipped breakfast.
The trees don’t move.
Not even a whisper of wind.
Just leaves, soaked with sweat,
hanging there like they’ve given up.
The cicadas...
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Categories:
allegory, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The TreeSome see your for your beauty
But I only see the pain
No one at all can see inside
Life travels on just like a train
So strong you are, so full of life
But there's something they can't know
Deep inside the roots, a ghost
through each season darkness grows
A face so unforgiving
guilt builds just like a trap
It sucks you in,...
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Categories:
allusion, anxiety, deep,
Form: Rhyme
UNIVERSAL REALITY
When we put on again
the cloak of spiritual reality
that truth will set us free......
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Categories:
allusion, perspective, spiritual, truth,
Form: Epigram
Specific Types of Allusion Poems
Definition | What is Allusion in Poetry?
Poems Related to Allusion
quotation, connotation, remark, inference, suggestion, innuendo, citation, insinuation, imputation, mention, charge, indication, statement, intimation, denotation, implication, figure of speech, play on words, casual remark, incidental mention,