Best Blighted Poems

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An old lady lived up a mountain
Fast flowing streams her water fountain
Until a frog one day 
Said kiss me quick I pray
Turn into your prince on wedding day


Day arose all dressed in brilliant white
Lifted veil smiling ..oh what a fright
He gave a scream and ran
Rather...

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I can only live in a garden
where warped talons
of tiger tulip petals mar
unbroken lines of pastel shimmer,
not where silent cerulean lakes
float as though aloft 
in frames of polished stone 
to tell the cloudless sky,
I'm your offspring.
I smile for blighted statues
mocked by companies of peonies 
effervescing...

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The Vessel pt. 1 - A Blighted Vale (pt 2/2)

Amongst the dead and dying trees,
A Stygian crypt of crumbling stone
A doorway opened, not with man-made keys,
But forgotten tongue from forgotten tome
This ancient ruin with obscured glyphs,
Gently brushed clean with calloused tips
Whispered words from cracked, parched...

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Blighted Happiness

Our love is like a withered leaf
That lies on the brink of the river
Waiting for the winds or the waves
To swiftly be scattered and driven
Or for heavy rains or pearling dust
To be abruptly abrogated forever.

Our love like a withered leaf, bleeding,
May stand firm and...

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... Or Did It?

Should I have married Jillian?
Could I have slept with Gemma?
I undergo a million
of this kind of dilemma.

They crop up in a thrice, of course,
but hang around for ever 
(or do they crop up in a force?
Oh, why can’t I be clever?)

I envy...

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The Vessel pt. 1 - A Blighted Vale (pt 1/2)

A solitary figure off the beaten path,
The air a palpable gloom
Be it mortal or shade of someone passed,
No longer in want of a tomb
Betwixt a shuffling gait and steady pace,
A sole impression leaves foliage displaced
This mark...

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Has Become Blighted

Could it be that he was conniving
When he said we would be arriving
At conclusion affecting us severely
Out of our minds drive us nearly.

What else about him seems strange
People he does mentally derange
Suffering and things worrying about
We did end up with a lot of...

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Marigold-embellished heart, blood-colored mulberry
Crooning in the shape of crowned blackbird plumage
ensconced inside a darkened, visualized shrubbery
On fully closed lips, a drop of blood-red fluid murage. 

Crooning in the shape of crowned blackbird plumage
Scarlet dew on lined leaves, lush but oppressive
On fully closed lips, a drop of...

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a learner I sensed the presence
And relentless fashion
Mothy butterfly
Spring has sprung

Lightning flash
Passion rush
Fashion weather
Wing jet in the hanger
Collecting dust

Technologies nature
Distance relevant


1/11/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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