Measuring With Metrics
Little is less than a lot
And most is not a few
I need a handle on this
So I know what to do
When measuring more
Into my favorite recipe
For a palmful is okay
Measuring for me …
Then come the metrics
Confusing me more
I cannot read labels
In the grocery store
I know about ounces
Milligrams are strange
And what is a liter
I cannot exchange
Guess
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Categories:
measurements, change, confusion, me, silly,
Form: Light Verse
Measurements of Time-
sometimes times solid;
by minute or hour hands;
measurements of time;
hour glass broken;
sundials don’t work in the rain;
sometimes times misses;
measurements of time;
by minute or hour hands;
times solid sometimes;
6/27/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
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Categories:
measurements, analogy, engagement, how i
Form: Haiku
Categories:
measurements, butterfly,
Form: Acrostic
Measurements of a Kiss
When I kissed you
Silk rolled out from spring's green mill
Tinted with nervous sparks of morning glories
Feathers fell from sunburnt clouds
And trembled on snow's frozen laughter
Foxes crawled out from throat's dark burrow
Drenched in slippery rain of enslaved desires
A serpent's cold tongue licked cerebral strings
Playing desert's song of melting sandiness
A dormant volcano erupted without warning
Frightening gut's sleeping
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Categories:
measurements, bird, birth, black love,
Form: I do not know?
Cold Measurements
Do not think there is a day I do not want
Or a week, or even a year I repulse
Do not think I do rebuff
Any part that is you
If there is something I abhor it is the distance...
the distance that you put between us
In miles, lightyears and the length
Of your arm
In cold measurements of two cups
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Categories:
measurements, farewell, fate, feelings, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Measurements of Men
Measure men not in meters,
Yet in volume of ventricle, you’ll find,
Compassion therein, one’s true capacity,
Of magnitude meaning, undefined,
How little broad shoulders do matter,
To bolster an orphan through rem,
Nor biceps do shelter maternal sadness,
As she leaves droplets under the stem,
It’s in the weight he holds onto a syllable,
For he knows the force which unfolds,
A gentle note,
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Categories:
measurements, age, care, culture, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Measurements Ugh!
Darn rules are getting harder to read
Millimeters, centimeters
Might as well put millipede
A 1/32
Maybe a 1/64 and 1/2
6 centimeter minus .875
A 2:1 pitch=5 holes and one inch
10 millimeters to the right
Has anyone found my mind yet?
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Categories:
measurements, education, social,
Form: Free verse