Best Harboring Poems

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Silence, on waves of our tide motioned heartbeats,
cascading rhythms, a smooth metronome
Keeping this time inside blue water passions,
beneath the surface, the feelings we’ve grown

Hidden so deep in the swells of affection,
swimming the shores of a long summer’s night
Building a fortress of seashell laced castles,
sand dollar...

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Verse 1: Hating can hurt...taking off my shirt 
Fading can make you feel like dirt 
Sometimes, I feel beautiful and high as a kite
Other days, I feel like a cow patty on the ground...you love me despite 
Intimidated...threatened to the extreme
You're the diamond in the...

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Some sinister forces 
would try to gain control 
of what is deemed permissible. 
Theirs is the moral high ground, 
they maintain. 
All disagreement is dismissible.

They’d train, 
with discipline that’s drilled by rote, 
young minds to dumbed-down 
dogmatic belief, 
denying what might provide antidote -- 
the...

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Harbor a soft beauty it shines with a heinous glow
All eyes exposed, my mind quivers in your sight
Your touch as gentle as even the lightest snow
Speaking shallow, I wish I never had to say goodnight
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Broken and frail I had become in this world
Healing properties your...

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Police’s loudspeaker projected all over the neighborhood.
“IF YOU ARE HARBORING A FUGITIVE, TURN 
HIM IN RIGHT AWAY! THERE WILL BE NO
PUNISHMENT IF THE PERPETRATOR COMES 
OUT IN THE NEXT HOUR!”

“Do you think they mean me?” my guest asked.
“Doubtful,” I told her. “You are invisible to
non-believers,...

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breaking a new idea wide open 
dazzling myself with anticipation of possibilities 
futuristic particles of hope pour into my soul
I anticipate a metamorphic change
I am transmogrified into a new me 
as I let her take up residence in my brain...

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something flying over my head;
it's not alive nor is it dead;
must be harbouring wave;
seeds of dismal caves;
raining sins wets my body;
my soul dries as my sin forgiving;

6/12/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020...

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warmly protected by the Sun Goddess
I sleep in the sun on my couch 
on my porch in the middle of God’s country

my dog and cat are snoozing at my feet
pretending they are not friends, butt to butt 
we are content, feeling loved 

watched over by...

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