I Found the Courage to Speak
...No torrid steel rod cauterized my wounds
for I couldn't lick the festering gashes clean.
Your sharp-bladed tongue bit too deep,
fangs plunged with each vile cursed scene.
No mere prick or scrat...
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Categories:
pitfall, anger,
Form: Rhyme
The Concept
...I have an idea for a poem,
a collection maybe
of all-encompassing rhymes
that satisfy each emotion,
separately and together.
Once it's finished
no one will need to write a poem again.
Ther...
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Categories:
pitfall, anxiety, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Soldier PITFALL-
...Cowboy Oh-boy
Combat Kit Kat
Rapid Salad
Baseball pitfall
Soldier Dozier
5/20/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2024
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Categories:
pitfall, addiction, analogy, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Footle
Surreal Dream
...The grim reaper casted his scythe
The hurt was real from the slit
The black smoke capped the dark of night
There's not even a glow of light
Then suddenly, in heaven's gate
I stood up to m...
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Categories:
pitfall, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Questions and Answers
...We answer big questions one by one
As scientific progress marches on.
When we find an answer, we’re not done.
Up spring two new questions to dwell upon!
Math then informs us of a sad pitfall. ...
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Categories:
pitfall, humor, irony, math, science,
Form: Rhyme
Dead End Street
...A dead end street like road to hell
A burning bright flame, you can tell
A deep pitfall with no way out
It takes your soul without a doubt
A sharp sickle of death awaits
To put some dead ...
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Categories:
pitfall, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Endless Bliss
...Night or day, we’re engaged in play
Joyously heeding our soul’s call
To the rhythm divine, as we sway
Our essence, in time we recall
Rising swiftly after each fall
When with love, we choose to...
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Categories:
pitfall, joy, spiritual,
Form: Ballade
The Letter - Letter To My Children Poetry Contest
...My dear child, if you read this
Feel with your heart the warmth of my embrace
May your days always be filled with bliss
May your world be always showered with grace
Don't you forget to alwa...
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Categories:
pitfall, child,
Form: Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Best Rewarder
...June 28 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 25-28
Key Verse – Proverbs 25:10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
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Categories:
pitfall, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Wars
...I couldn't hear a word of what he's got to say no more
As there was this war coming about in my head
Soldiers against soldiers
Men against men
Tearing each other apart
Eating each other's hearts...
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Categories:
pitfall, anger, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Liquid Bullets
...Pelted with such incredible force
one hundred and ten on that fastball;
Harder to dodge than anything in sports;
Foggy you’re lost within a pitfall
sweet nothings condensed on your cheek;
Th...
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Categories:
pitfall, emotions, feelings,
Form: Terza Rima
Neuroticism
...*Image of Cat Thoughts by PI.
neuroticism
downpour recesses
leaf refuge exits hostage
pitfall disguises
not in use mirror
lain supinely being calm
motion copied cat
intrud...
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Categories:
pitfall, cat, character, senses,
Form: Haiku
Tell It Like It Is
...Oh, it’s a complete package—
Love and sex,
You cannot have one
without the other.
I love my parakeet
but I cannot go do…
You know what I mean?!
But sex alone is
A pitfall, a delightful dece...
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Categories:
pitfall, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
You Got Me Once
...You got me but you failed to see me
For you were looking for a jewel
In my thoughts I shined brightly
But you were digging for a well
You broke my heart in two
And made my spirit wander
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Categories:
pitfall, age,
Form: Rhyme
Vaporise
...Liken earth life as but a dream
Where merging with God, is soul's prize
Yet not so simple as does seem
Confronted with ego spawned lies
An entrapment of joy and sighs
Though so short...
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Categories:
pitfall, joy, love, silence, spiritual,
Form: Ballade
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