Edged Poems

Two Edged Sword

The message of life
Cut like a two edged sword
Through the darkness night.

Two-Edged Sword

I followed your success,
I heard all of your music, and you sang them great,
what progress,

Names on billboards,
Bet men waiting to be your date
Awards,

What? Who?
That's not me, wait --
you?

I followed your success,
Bet men waiting to be your date
you?

Double-Edged Sword

Life truly is a double-edged sword,
The grass is greener on what side of the fence?
Who knows,
But that is life …

~ Pauly G

Double Edged Sword

had coffee with a colleague
he was young and eager
wanted to play Russian roulette 
because his resources were meagre

the universe conspires with us
granting us whatever we wish
but if fear and doubt makes us blink
boons granted are gone in a swish

A Two Edged Sword

A little knowledge is a bad thing.     Too much can be worse.

Your Coercive Blade of Censorship, My Razor Edged Pencil Tip

Silenced voices, feared by those in power.
Utopia sought, only dystopia flowers.
Protect all speech, diverse and free.
Perception leads to a society that is truly.
Redeemed expression, a beacon bright.
Escorting us through the darkest nights.
Silenced speech, we've lost our way.
Shaping the fascists we sought to slay.

A Two-Edged Sword

Marriage is a two-edged sword
   One end brandished by your overlord

     ~ At the other, your oxen gored

Two-Edged Swords

I write of two-edged swords (that tired clichè)
as though this modern boy knew hilt from blade;
as if I had been taught of true swordplay,
not learned from movies Errol Flynn had made.
But plainly put, things work more than one way:
the lake that offers joy can also drown,
the sun that melts the wax can harden clay, 
the fire that heats the meal burns houses down.
A hammer is adept at building things, 
though hammer's claw might tear the same apart.
The kiss that first gave freedom to love's wings,
when given to another, broke my heart.
Two-edged clichès may give the reader pause - 
I know firsthand the damage they can cause. 

written 30 Apr 2022

Double Edged Deity

young stud adonis
        most beautiful of all gods
        ~ handsome devil too

By 
David Kavanagh

Double Edged Helix

creations blueprint
         deciphering gods secrets
                or mary shelly 


By
David Kavanagh

Double Edged Knife

There’s two sides to every story 
A little bit of pain and a little bit of glory
Love and hate become so often entwined
Wrapping so tightly the heart that they bind

There’s two parts in every duet
A chorus of hope and a verse of regret
Sometimes you’re the singer sometimes the song
Getting the tune right but the rhythm all wrong

There are two directions that this path has
Left to finish first the right to finish last
One way is a smooth course the other is rough
Your journey brief or arduously tough

There’s humility in winning honour in defeat
There is always two versions of everyone we meet
Justice is served with discrimination on the side
Dished up immediately or after a goodbye

I sit in the middle of the scales of life
Contemplating ,empathising,on the tip of a knife
At times I’m understood and at others I am not
I am part of the universe, an insignificant dot

Over Edged Talking Heads-

Above all the edges;
Complete conversations;
Torrent decisions;
Abased delusions;
As I am out if my head
And I'm trapped  in my mind
Of make believe 
Reality  receive 
Promises  believed
Still talking heads


3/9/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2020

Give Me Something Round

Give me something round
Edges to life should be circular
Beware of the elliptic mystery
Rotate your marbles frequently

Give me something spherical
Two hemispheres in harmony
Held together with super glue
Solid to the core and spiraling

Give me something not Michigan
(Round objects are illegal in Michigan)
Balls and clocks are criminal offenses
Cops eat holes but not the donuts

Give me something curled up
Cylindrical in its composition
Rotund but not too obtusely cute
Circumferences should not be too cute

Give me something more articulated
Orbicular to orbiculated would be great
An object that orbits about itself and others
Held in both hands hollowed out loud

Give me something, anything with a shape
As long as it is not cube or rectangular
Squares and lines are grave mistakes
God forgives that which is angular

Give me something other than zeros
There must be light at the end of the tunnel
Ovals become more circular over time
Edges become less... once questioned

Give me moons surrounded by planets
Give me bald women who look ridiculous
We love them anyway from the bottom up
And the universe they came in on

Two-Edged Blades

A blade of grass
produces health
in annual balancing equivalence
to consuming soil and sun's wealth.

A human child
given Earth's sufficiencies,
produces robust health
by consuming soil and sun's captures
and re-investing wealth
out into this child's multiculturing exterior.

A wise humane Elder
given Earth's sufficiencies
and given trust of responsible authority
by a democratically cooperative polity,
Also aspires to produce healthy outcomes
within that community
in balancing proportion
through consuming soil and sun's captured resources,
re-invested in proportion
to this year's metabolic wealth,
and to last year's producer reimbursements,
nurturing future ecosystemic health,
and to each next generation's producers,
nurtured by this wise care
of Earth's wealthiest Elders.

A wise, and yet child-like, blade
consumes economic health
to produce cooperatively synergetic political wealth.

Almighty's Double-Edged Sword

R-eady your whole armor, 
O-n the fourteenth of May; 
D-evil's instruments roam, 
R-uining your faith all the way.
I-n spite of the enemy's lies, 
G-o on to spread the truth; 
O-pen the door of chance, for you to bear much fruit.

R-emain loyal to God's counsel, 
O-r else you cannot afford; 
X-factor of triumph is God
A-lmighty's double-edged
S-word.

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