Durations Poems | Examples


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Premium Member The State of Absolute Nothingness

The gamut of space is unmeasured 
as future projectory durations are futile
for the present
time is a provocative presence
with their backs to the wall 
subjecting humankind 
a balance with the course of its nature
having the incessant tock that ticks many off the wall
that faces trade with theirs 
and that soulless thing of their objection
where lies a litany of unfinished deadlines
leaving these higher-ups against the wall
sharing their objections
whining that the clock had run out of its time 
—preposterous
the vacuum of time is indefinite
there is no beginning
there is no ending
mayhaps the time of the day had expired
and if it be so
then there will always be a tomorrow
—time permitting

The War of Perception

Time fades through the heart of the storm 
Durations of silence conflicts with violence 
Who are we to predict the contradiction?
One may speak, the other perceives, but who truly believes?

Faith begins with blind intentions 
Failure stands tall seeking intervention 
A kind word makes a difference 

Dreading the day through a selfish conscience 
Hope is perspective absorbed by imperfections 
How long can this be without validation?

Premium Member A Place Not Meant To Be: 04

#4:  Time Always Minute

Time, inspired, now expired, on-site, sit tight.
all that stands subject to change constantly,
from one crossroads to milestone, overwrite,
the turning point, grains of sand, presently,
 exchanging circumstances pertinent,
time-space continuum, situations, 
time-slot columns, sectional, alignment,
segments prepare a course of durations,
stages invent themselves accordingly,
time and again they reinvent the wholes,
tis uncompromising strengths ... primary,
repeat performance, seconds intervals,
full showcase entertains a split instant,
shifting affects all their pulled souls; constant.


Premium Member Faith

Fame floats about like child's play,

And like the wind, soon flees away,

Inspiring for short durations day to day.

Tried and tested faith builds trust to stay.

Heaven belongs to the faithful who kneel to pray.

Fourth and Four

Adjust and move four words for worth/ 
Aghast at July 4th I’ll power forward north / 
Away from what’s been uncovered worse than I’ve ever been coerced
I devour and nourish as the demeanor looks gorgeous/
He could just be mean and cook gorges/
Or spree clean to book and flee out of storage in the mind/
Got to get adorned oranges to be hoarded all timed and primed/
For the reminiscence of my minutes to cinch/
Or seconds to seize as I inch through this decadence towards reverence/
I’ll replenish and diminish the sacks and lost yardage/ 
It’s 4th and 4 hence the past porridge to sift in historic pork/
Let’s get to the meat of the stork like underneath the bark of an oak/
I won’t sulk I’ll spark and soak in my marinade/
I stare and gaze with a glare and a glaze/
Going through phase after phase/
Placed in places where there are no choices just voices/
Demands, directions, reprimands and disciplinary actions for noises/
Their discrete dealings and doings drive dimwits down from poises/
Disillusioned durations debunk the punk directly to become disinfected from a disenchanted situation and he rejoices

Drum Beat

Enticing beat,
ancient accolades, achieving ancestry
 backbeat barrage, buoyant beats
crescendo chorus  calculations
 dulled dirges, double drumming durations
environmental echoed egos
 faint, fading fervent falsettos;
Ghost-Note grooves
 hi-hat hoop heads hued
intended isolation idio-synchrony
 jembe jaunt journeyings
kidi kick knockings
 linear lick loggings
metronome mallets magical
 nostalgic notations neurological
ostinato off-beat odd-modulationss
 paradiddle  percussive permutations,  
rudimentary rack repetitions, relentless rolls,
 soft solitary shakers, steady shredding, single stroking spurs,
tenacious, tribal tectonic tympani trance 
 udu utterance 
 vibraslap virgin, vivid vibes vile,
 wood-block whirls winging wild 
xboba, x-hat, xaern
 yearning yugen yarn 
zigzag
 enticing beat.


Premium Member Mungu Amenisamehe -Bow Has Forgiven Me-

God has forgiven me 
in my sins 
all the durations 

God  My God has forgiven me 
has forgiven me

Thou my faith 
 be absent
Yet and still he gathers
My hopes, my dream

God has forgiven me

In my sins
 all the durations 
My God, my God He has forgiven me
Has forgiven me 

in my sins
in my sins I've been filled with grace 
Mercies face 
God has forgiven me

Mungu amenisamehe God
God has forgiven me


3/9/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021

Premium Member King of Heaven Jesus

Eupora something you look forward 
Captivating incisions trauma puzzled 
Visions armed with indecisions durations 
Completions inner visions peace is hungry 
Let it be fed less discipliness bleeds,  it's coming 
Coming to a head there is a new nation called... Heaven 
And Jesus is the King, let us relish and all come together 
In devotion in praise and worship Him

10/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020

Premium Member The Quiet

What if I don't speak, hardly say a word?
Will you understand all of the quiet verbs?
Silence complete was the room scented with
A fragrance in the heated month of June
Can you hold a silent conversation?

I have plenty of patients  and tranquil
Compilations with learned durations, few.
Do you hear whispers of a quiet love?
So tender such a lonely touch, quietly
Seeking a word quiet is patient and hears

The question: HOW CAN YOU BE SO QUIET? 
The reply: just simply close your mouth.
Listen.... they never stop.
GOD  IS QUIET TOO.

Super Saiyan

6/3/17



Continual verbatim
And ultimatums

Better know what they're payin'
During times of economic downfall and inflation

I got no time for playin' 
And don't care what others are sayin'

Skills like Raiden
Time I turn super saiyan
Mixed with Jason
Any anything made by Wes Craven
Near and far from any raven

Across every basin
And all the nations
During any occasions

Got  to make more bacon
In the form of Benjamin Franklins

Events occuring for short or long-term durations
Regarding similar and different situations

I've been way down below the foundation
In the basement
Below layers of pavement
Still found inspiration
As the universe remained in rotation
Since the dawn of creation
Among objects nowhere near or adjacent
To lots that were or were not vacant

With the talent of a mason
And knowledge of a shaman
In any location

Treat You and Cure You Wujanto

Treat you and cure you WUJANTO….
Treat by partly exposed for preventions. Treat our china tyrants acute durations by plots will need the help of his wife. First in views is he do not hope to kill his own wife. 
All at once is to put away WUJANTO guns and send away all his pawns. Then by ways WUJANTO is criticize as bad as he likely had in normal.
Thus give WUJANTO a chance to miff without killing.
Final step give back WUJANTO his guns and follower men.
All a sudden and then WUJANTO wife should dare and brave to point at WUJANTO as bad as he had been. He is a tyrant and he is murder.. Doing this we hope we could cure the madness of WUJANTO. If it could not be gone we then try the other ways. WUJANTO brains may open and cut with CINGULOTOMY. WUJANTO as highest chief in china around year 2000 to 2012 and nothing yet to down should need a cure for killing madness.    --------Cheung Shun Sang=Cauchy3----------

Treat You and Cure You Wujanto

Treat you and cure you WUJANTO….
Treat by partly exposed for preventions. Treat our china tyrants acute durations by plots will need the help of his wife. First in views is he do not hope to kill his own wife. 
All at once is to put away WUJANTO guns and send away all his pawns. Then by ways WUJANTO is criticize as bad as he likely had in normal.
Thus give WUJANTO a chance to miff without killing.
Final step give back WUJANTO his guns and follower men.
All a sudden and then WUJANTO wife should dare and brave to point at WUJANTO as bad as he had been. He is a tyrant and he is murder.. Doing this we hope we could cure the madness of WUJANTO. If it could not be gone we then try the other ways. WUJANTO brains may open and cut with CINGULOTOMY. WUJANTO as highest chief in china around year 2000 to 2012 and nothing yet to down should need a cure for killing madness.    --------Cheung Shun Sang=Cauchy3----------

Cyleung Obsession

C.Y. LEUNG OBSESSIONS…
World obsessions keep the leftish Triad comes.
Juggle made the Trial balloons for C.Y. Leung public senses and just used money bribes to arrange some Hong Kong Leftish Triad to protest also support our so HONG KONG C.Y. LEUNG chief executive ways.
Rightist HONG KONG newspaper some as HONG KONG government counter alternative send their men that guise to get the evidence going against C.Y. gangs.
Most reports and evidences go against C.Y. gangs so may also include C.Y. Leung himself. That is Hong Kong world obsessions. Leftish Triad or rightist triad compulsive behavioral comes. Acute durations all are counts and counters alternatives.
----------Cheung Shun Sang=Cauchy3----------

Sacred Spaces

(by Kristen Bruni For Inspired Contest)

I never choose a place to write 
when settling in a new home. 
I let the space talk to me
and slowly reel me it's zone. 

I find it best to type it first 
as my writing can get messy. 
Backspacing is much easier
less casual and more dressy.

My sacred place to release my words
is usually on my table.
Where your supposed to eat
yet allows me to enable.

My brain to focus on the beauty
that blooms as the poetry comes to life. 
Creating stories and passion
mixed in with hardship and strife. 

My space is always snug
as to embrace my creations.
Cozy and peaceful
propelling through durations. 

Candles lit illuminate my soul
even if it's light.
The tiny flame reminds me of
poems that will ignite. 

My purpose is always 
to make another smile.
A short little story
instead of a novel with long miles.

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