Pocketing Poems | Examples

Who was first? 16-08-25

Who first stood atop the empire state?
Who first slipped into Khufu's tomb?
Who first walked across the stones of the Great Wall,
wind biting their face?

Who first plunged into the darkness beneath the Channel?
Who first watched the sun set across the Bay,
suspended on the skeleton of the Golden Gate?
Who was first?

You'd say impossible,
I'd say "the workers".

We forget too easily
how we owe everything to them.
our homes, our connections,
water at the curl of a finger,
light at the flick of a switch.
Without them, even the richest man would 
live like a peasant.

Yet today we look away
or worse, never look at all.
We let them trade lives for profit,
watch in silence as they stomp over
the people who should be valued the most.
Pocketing pennies,
whilst their blood stains everything we've built.

Time Displacement

I’d like to reach into my pocket 
And use all those wasted times of past displacements 
Stored there for just this momentous occasion 
A fatalistic fantasy for immortality. . .  
For I know that one day 
My time will run out 
But for now, I intend to keep on pocketing 
And using as I please 
I’ll let you know how it’s working 
When I’m two hundred and three

HEARTLESS PATRIOTS

Once again, they horde the fuel
Tricking everyone to blame the gov't spoil.
Weeks ago, they pledged loyalty
To serve her faithfully with all might
Yet here they are, inflating prices, pocketing taxes.

They saluted the flag with pride so grand
But in their eyes, Sierra Leone is a battlefield 
Where, like a jungle, the fittest survives
Even if leaving compatriots to die
To a grueling inferno on a highway drive.

Like a puppeteers, they toy with prices
Steal and champion every vice there is
Their loyalty to the country is a hollow shell
Where offsprings of deception dwell
Their places of worship arenas to trample the hearts of their compatriots
Treating each of us like idiots.

A heartless patriot, an empty shelf
Striving to fill up, putting country behind self.
Wretched monsters by all indication
Boasting of knowledge and the best education
But the day of reckoning looms, where truth will eclipse their deceit.

Read Me

read me
o dear, are you
as curious as Alice
remember that rabbit hole
drink me
eat me
oh my
oh dear
where has the time gone
pocketing my giggles
i’m off
to have crumpets with the queen of hearts
oh no
i mean the king of tarts
oh my
how tea-totally disrespectful 
too soon
the whole house of cards
is falling
i’m falling
well you fell
for this
curiosity trick
stay hip-hoppity
i mean happity
i’ll be bouncing along
now, tail
between
fairy tales

don’t read
i bet
you're really curious now…

9/23/2022

Mighty Men Muse of God

Mighty Men Muse of God

Mighty Men muster the mighty muse of God
Mighty Men come rescue those camps that have fallen
Angel demons swallowing game frolicking
Pick pocketing;
Mighty Man cluster gatherings
Parliament filibuster relinquish;
THOSE THE CRIMES Earth leaders’ vessels rise and sequestered;
Your truth absolute
Differs from God voice He’s set lose;
Mighty Men of Mighty Muse of God
Come together and his truths Elohim so honor Him in praise now;

“From future anthology **God Voices My Heart with His Words**”
9/19/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©

Hail the Queen, We Bid You Ado

“Maybe in your next life “Krishna said

Because we really don’t know what happens, after your dead

Well, our president has beat the charge

our military now list him as “at large”? 

Tomorrow will still keep its Dawn

Because of a memory it must carry on


Will the criminals be allowed to rule?

And are we allowed the devils tools

Perhaps the plan that our gods intend

Is to overthrow our heroes who were built by pretend

yet who is the god and what is their gender?

from whence did they come the west or Eastender

Perhaps theirs a story that needs to be told

but who are the tellers the young or the old

asking for facts yet not accepting the truth

you will squander your wisdom on our untrained youth

the queen has now died and left our earth

still gathering friends and pocketing girth

there are laws in place to protect her grave

for those who steal from what she saved

"Dethrone them all" as Alice would say

"For the thrones made of gold and we shall spend it this way!

I Caught Covid In Spite of My Vaccinations

New York state is paying 20 cents for gloves that normally cost less than five cents, $7.50 for masks that normally go for 50 cents, $2,795 for infusion pumps that normally cost half that, $248,841 for a portable X-ray machine that typically sells for $30,000 to $80,000.

Who's pocketing all this? An array of producers, importers, wholesalers and speculators. State laws against price gouging usually don't apply to government purchases.

Some of it may be finding its way into this fall's election campaigns. The veteran Republican fundraiser Mike Gula and Republican political operative John Thomas just started a company selling coronavirus testing kits, personal protective equipment and other "hard to find medical supplies to beat the outbreak". They call themselves "the largest global network of Covid-19 medical suppliers".

Asked how he'd found such equipment, Gula explained: "I have relationships with a lot of people."

Thomas added: "In politics - especially if you're at a high enough level - you are one phone call away from anybody in the world."

Pocketing Life

give me pockets
that’s where miscellaneous life goes
I have a nose for the roses
the grass demands my toes
my heart needs pockets
to bring it all home


10/30/2021

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Johnny Appleseed

Johnny was a lover of God's country
who roamed cherished land because he was free.
A skilled outdoorsman with backcountry charms,
he donned a burlap sack with holes for arms.
To wear rugged shoes was quite a blessing,
for barefoot he'd trek, soles without dressing.
He donned a useful pot upon his head,
books have depicted, historians said.
He was kind and gentle to all God's life,
though he was childless and had no wife.
He escaped wild beasts, slept under stars,
and had tales to tell along with scars.
As an optimist with fistfuls of seed,
he ceased moments to meet a future need.
Crisp and delicious, he loved apples' taste,
pocketing precious seed to sow in haste.
Imaging orchards graceful and wild,
he planted new life with faith of a child.
With settlers he'd barter for basic needs
blessing them with the product of his seeds.
From Pennsylvania to Iowa's ground,
Johnny's living legacy can be found.

1/20/2021

Welcome To the Fold

The homeless slept out in the cold
Because all the preachers loved gold
Until they could see
Its better to be
Pocketing large banknotes that fold

Winters a Thief

Steel coloured sky days
Lawns wearing white coats.
Misty mornings hide the coming day. 
Breath hanging  there 
Where they words or just hot air.
Lakes frozen solid
Mere mortals walking on water.
Squirrels dancing on skeleton trees.
To the sound of bird calls.
Dogs better dressed than their owners
being taken for a spin. 
Shorter days, longer nights
to dream of sun kissed beaches.
you leave for work no sign of light
return in darkness another day lost
winters pick pocketing your life one day at a time.

The Power of the Purse

The power of the purse
What a curse that can be
When greed steps in and feeds on self
And self becomes priority

No thought for others or their need
They turn the other cheek
Pocketing their wages
That grow bigger week by week

Their wealth becomes the master
And they a willing slave
Just look at our politicians
The way that they behave

They are there to govern country
With humanity and pride
No place for ego trips
Or a personal easy ride

They are very privileged
To have this chance to shine
I know what I'd be doing
If the chance was ever mine

I'd get right back to basics
And build things up from there
Put money in it's rightful place
Making it compulsory to care

Pick Pocketing Pineapples

Synchronised zephyrs are holidaying in giant zones. It is interesting to note that this experience is not an easy excursion. For such weight is waving and waving is not a noted duty for any passing shoal of cuttlefish appearing on a highway. To watch a duck eating a four course dinner and drinks is often an enlightening experience. But exploding beach balls can make quite a large amount of mess. Measure messages metrically. And so the talking tiger traverses a roped bridge bringing the lively little cakes. A centimetre chats to a kilometer. And static sailors are looking at the peas. Take no silvery signal box to a five star hotel. Ok then. Wear a silky suit then. Good. That should please a pantry pickle. Hahaha waving washing machine passing. Xxxx Broomfield brook xxxx dodecahedron zzzz

Moonchild

The sun of Aleppo will not
Smit you by the night of war;
for you are the toothpick stronger
then the great wall of China,
you are a king of the night.

Music in your head is grace,
love is sweet in your mouth,
Stars seen in your eyes are 
the celestials of the heavens;
your muse is the god of perfection.

You are the art in appreciation,
you are the streams of knowledge,
the movement of your hair by the air
is the orbiting voices of the angels,
the earth can not even home your skull.


Dance of your feet are tale of love
writing from home to home for peace,
your beads glitter and glow for sanity.
Moonchild, moonlight of tomorrow,
We are the song of your yesterday.


Moonchild, moonlight of the gods,
Through your destiny we can build,
Yesterday made us a fool; fools 
Pocketing our groaning lies to fault
Come, take us home where you live.


©John chizoba vincent

Shock

In the midst of darkness
I was called upon,
stepping into a world where I saw no walls,
look ! , the lightning and rainbow gods are stirring at me,
my voice and vocals squeezing themselves inside my throat,
the turbulence of my mind was as that of a bad cloud,
sweating from head to toe
I could feel my heart in my hands,
pocketing my eyes with great phobia to pray with my poems,
clapping of hands and feet by unseen crowd made my prayers more touching,
what a shock ! , i sailed through my audition with a victorious victory .

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