Best Aloft Poems

We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and that's clear where he'd spent his life.
Downstairs had been quite easy, George was neat,
his things all had a purpose, neatly...

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Moody Blues is playing through my speakers

                                    And my mind

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I walk the shore caressed in smiles
   Touched by a thousand memories
       Swept aloft by perfumed sighs
           In the curl of your embrace
    ...

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A little bird told me,
you're out of the nest....

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Season of dream haze and arctic signpost.
Chill and chap brood whose scattered offspring plummet thermal values as welcome mat for “whiskered” chimney guest awash with bounty.
Thief of sun filled days without a twinge but that universal late December  rendezvous can’t be thrust off-course.
Primal raw...

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Off the perch with shame beneath,
A Twitted crow flies aloft.
Hoping spectrum, blues and reds,
Dreadful notions, ugly skin!

Bracken wings, rotten look,
Rocking black, freakish beak,
Squawking hard, aiming high,
Cracking sound, beating trees!

Nasty fight that broke his heart,
Thrown afar from family,
Roots unknown yet fallen prey,
Lost he was to mystery.

Spreading...

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magpie struts haughty
its demeanor black and white
flips betwixt between...

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This beautifully designed
Spring, star-studded night.
Alive within these brave souls
Of courage, truly, a breathless,
Singular, moving delight!

I am not here to be an advocate 
Only for me, a most piteous plea!
Yelping, as a child,pay attention to me.
But to also support oppressed
others, so far across the sea!
Kiiled with...

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I
Humans are divine, but watch & emulate pigs

II
We have body-vehicles; "I'm my car," is like thinking you are poultry 

III
Scripture helps us recall our divinity (versus eating with pigs, as the fate of The rude spendthrift & HEIR in LUKE 15, teaches us)

IV
Earthly problems drag...

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Happiness like a balloon must be handled with great care.
A very transitory thing, sometimes made of but air.

The bubble of content can burst from a less than kindly word,
Despondency replaces joy that had within you stirred.

Happiness to be of worth is made of stronger stuff.
It...

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The ship in the harbor is sailing
with a blue flag aloft;
returned from a season of trading,
its crew is in sorrow for the captain has crossed
from this life into the great unveiling
at God's golden shore.


Note: If you are sad and describe yourself as "feeling blue," you...

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Gold at the center
Ringed with black 
Standing on silver 
Never looking back

Coolest windswept 
Hills aloft the sea
Looking toward heaven 
Never more to be

Sun scorched and burnt
Now entirely free
Looking at the shadows 
Tossed across the sea...

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Aloft sits a bird in the corner above mine front door;
Spirited wings flapping so;
Opened mouthed chicklets trumpets pour;

Droppings food for its young to and for;

8/21/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr©2023...

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Cleanfill and cement
selected pigments of orange and blue
a stiff chilling sky blue hue
to create a scenic spektical
beauty
marks the walls a sight for
people to admire
perfection
and style Phor-Lustoreteaze
the sight of marveled perfection

the lavishness
and her beauty
makes grown men
crumble and fall
her smile and capitavtivness
make me more eager to call
guess...

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Aunt unilateral, naughtily tempting,
Unintentionally naughty toyboys attracting,
Nicely tantalizes ardent uniting,
Teleporting aloft, usurping NASA!...

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