Each inch of my niche
The whirlwind rolled in rings at the eyewall,
Wild gale blew through the open tropical field.
I'd forgotten to close the windows tight,
And the ensuing rain inundated each inch of my niche.
The hurricane hurriedly stripped the veld of its peace.
Dry air pacified the expanse of the grassland,
The massive flood drained into a sunken cesspool,
My thoughts swayed to
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Categories:
inch, natural disasters, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse
Him
I caught his gaze
Raking every inch of my body
Creating a mental trail
For his tongue to follow.
He has no clue
How much i adore his lusty eyes
When they meet mine,
But what follows
Is still raw and raunchy
Only in my imagination.
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Categories:
inch, body, fantasy, imagination, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Two Inch Screws
You tell me that you've got the blues -
you must buy two two-inch screws?
Soon, you will find satisfaction.
In a jiff, you'll be back in action,
frequenting beachside hardware stores,
bolting silver knobs on doors.
Ninety-four cents is not much money.
It's good to do when days are sunny.
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Categories:
inch, silly,
Form: Rhyme
MEDITATION--A PROCESS
I still myself in the hallowed dream of light and love.
In the significant withdrawal of time, holding my breath
I breathe in the silence, stillness and sound.
I silently dwell in the rapturous becoming
Of the unhindered, unbridled emotions---
Holding myself in the chilling sphere of fear.
In the gnawing acoustics of survival----
Allowing every ounce of stillness
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Categories:
inch, 11th grade, age,
Form: Blank verse
Just an extra inch
In sports as life a missing extra inch
That winnows winners from whiners of fate--
Faced with no way forward, those who’d not flinch,
The rest of chaff gets stuck whilst at the gate.
Easy never comes even tiny pinch,
A seed on its own sprouts, but not sans care,
An inch of care and life is
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Categories:
inch, symbolism,
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
inch, imagery,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Categories:
inch, adventure, angst, extended metaphor,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Not One Inch Has Length
Heaven has not left
the long dead bone,
alert mouse whiskers,
still move the seven seas.
At the beginning and the end
there is nothing to come,
that has not come and is.
Mammoths stride
a thousand leagues,
over a single blade of grass.
One small sparrow -
an Ark for infinity.
All that is,
is but one single event.
The speckled hen
lays worlds within worlds.
The unbridled beaks of
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Categories:
inch, poetry,
Form: Free verse
One Inch To Grave
One inch to grave
For a heart that's brave
On a way uphill
The going was like self - kill
Where some ill minds pray for demise
But the heavens won't flip the dice
Cause the time was not yet ripe
For his skies to cloth in stripe
January 14, 2024, PST, SPC
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Categories:
inch, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Life Cycles By Inch Crawingg Caterpillar To a Radiant Beautiful Colorful Butterfly
LIFE CYCLES BY INCH CRAWINGG CATERPILLAR TO A RADIANT BEAUTIFUL COLORFUL BUTTERFLY
life cycles by inch
crawling caterpillar grows
by inch life cycles
crawling inch by inch
caterpillar spawn scoots on
inching, inching on
nibbling off leaves
flowers, grasses, flowers, trees
now beautiful Butterfly now flies
soaring bright adorn
life cycle butterflies flies
colorful insect
5/08/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
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Categories:
inch, analogy, appreciation, butterfly, celebration,
Form: Haiku
Loving My Refurbished Fifteen Inch Mid 2015 Macbook Pro
Loving my refurbished fifteen inch mid 2015 Macbook Pro
A lightning fast machine
purchased three days ago
now comfortably nestling with
said technological wonder,
where outside a cold wind howls
measuring windchill factor of five below
allowing, enabling and providing me
an opportunity to create virtual reality
issuing veritable deathblow
to any brave soul daring to weather
the onset of cold air masses
associated with atmospheric winds
nsync
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Categories:
inch, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Familiar World Moved An Inch Off-Center
The world shifted and here I stand
A tired and lethargic man
Who demos death to avoid life
It hurts to think, just close my eyes
A crippled cell ruined the richest man
And the poorest isn't safe now
A gaping pit formed under their feet
A frosty giant awaits
Burning home, left alone
Their snowy corpse was white as bone
The world shifted and
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Categories:
inch, change, death, loss,
Form: Lyric
Nine Inch Heels
In strapless nine-inch stiletto heels
stylized and polished to a high gloss,
she absolutely loves how she feels.
In her sexy pose, she can strike awe
within the hearts of unwary men,
who oft get tongue-tied and hem and haw.
Granted; nine-inch heels may seem extreme
but this seductive siren on stilts,
comes off as anything but mainstream.
(Tercets)
5/12/2021
A Time for Nine Poetry Contest
Sponsored
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Categories:
inch, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch
"Nine Inch Nails, Ten Pins and the Purl Stitch"
She takes the cake
they offer, chewing too rapidly,
she Shrews when she speaks
I’ll beat warpath drums, she says,
no mistake
I’m a groper ... goody two shoes
she says
mouth wide open
songs problematic
she's done and she's gone
a stitch loose in the weave
drop one pearl one
dropped
gone
for
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Categories:
inch, integrity, mirror, truth,
Form: Free verse
Inch Worm and the Hungry Frog-
lively showering
worm measures lorry crawling
measures steps by step
~
rIbbitting madly
a muddyingly hungry frog
now nipples on worm
5/28/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2020
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Categories:
inch, analogy, animal, food, insect,
Form: Haiku
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