Short About Face Poems

When evil is impossible to forgive
     Reverse the word ~ and live...

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you have taste
hard to trace
tho we're of anuther race
its not about face
its who is who
your one of a few
there's never be
ANUTHER YOU...

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its a place not about race
or about face
black or white
you have a right
just the right thing
you will have no pain
will not fall
HEAVEN IS FOR ALL...

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put  this in your head
you blood is red
so is other
we are all sister and brothers
not about face
or race
why be  as a seen
in anuther place
BE A HUMAN BEAN...

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I’m hurtling through time and through space
And I’m driving at a record pace
But the more that I drive
The later I’ll arrive
It’s time I did an about-face...

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         Pony-up, you owe the money
           Your protests, not even funny

         When you win, we pay up fast
           The about-face ~ What a contrast
...

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driving son back to naval boot camp —
                                   miles and miles in wrong direction

8/24/2020
Silent One’s When plans don’t go to plan...

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At about face I'm standing north ,
I turn left,
I turn left,
I turn left,
I turn left,
at a stand I am now about face and full circle~

5/4/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Can our spirits pray
without God at the center

Can worship pay homage
to self

Can divinity reign 
in each person ordained

Revering what’s hidden
—indwelt 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)...

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The mirror calling deepest
is the one that you avoid
Images run left then right
your back turned paranoid 

Unwillingness to turn around
in fear of what you’ll see
Illusion as your proffered choice
—reflection waits unseen

(Dreamsleep: April, 2023)...

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If you travel in the wrong direction, 
you will require a modest correction. 
All we have to do is turn you around. 
In the right direction you will be bound. 
Make an about face on the track if you please. 
You need a turn of one hundred and eighty degrees.

Inspired by another member's poem....

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Tripping

 
Over shoes

Under views

About face

Over race

                     


Tripping

About views

Over choose

About race

Under trace


Tripping

Over fret

About yet

Under books

About looks


Tripping

Under choose

About loose

Under trace

About face


Tripping...

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You took it too far—
When you put my tears in the junk.
The shift was when 
You shoved your tack through my dance—
Making my heart on my looks;
My guts on my heart…
Smashed, my convictions,
On the stairs—
I’m pleading, walk with me there.
Tell me how my bleeding can
Whirl out this insanity…
I'm complete, in sane....

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Black cat crosses path.
Bad luck just superstition.
  ....about face, in case.

The bats and black cats
Are more powerful tonight.
   ...or so it may seem.

Spooky sounds abound,
Creaking doors are amplified.
  ...hair on neck stands up.

Spooky stories told
In front of Guy Foxes fire.
  ....all ending with Boo!!!...

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Listen to poem:

About Face
David J Walker

It is about face 
About time and place
And direction 
And unoccupied space 
In East or West that 
We face

And the unknowing of 
which is  forward or 
backward or north 
or south

the illusion of which is
up and which is down

bound by the gravity of
anticipation in

each new moon and season
Named for the gods lost
To antiquity...

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Left so overwhelmed 
with all the tomfoolery;
Drowning in why try;
Operating in my lane,
never meant to set the pace;

Not made to follow, 
they go right as I turn left;
Throw in a white flag;
My heart eviscerated,
I’m stuck between fight or flight;

Thinking of the group 
that already forgot me;
A disappearance 
from them and an about face,
you just can’t save everything.
...

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To you it may seem
That I'm grumpy or mean
Or that I cry a lot

The truth I fear 
Is so very near
And it all explains a lot

The face you see
Is not really me
I know you know me not

The truth, with wit
Is about what I did
In this itsy bitsy cot

My pants, too late
Is warm with weight
And really smells a lot!

So, hey, put down that phone
And leave me alone
Or help this tiny tot!

Picture no. 1...

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Elephantine
Slow motion measures
out of time
in pace
Great go-between
grows notions
in lines 
and space
Eglantine
embows fragrant pleasure
springtime's
embrace
Mezzanine
bon mot for half measure
lying low
in place
Intervene
plover distraction
displeasure
paradigm
about face
Serene
glow sensate pleasure
time felt
with grace


Written 16 May 2020
posted 19 July 2020

''Eglantine'' - a wild rose....

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Puberty arrives
With it's accompanying drives
Plus the scourge of teenage acne.
Most remedies would fail 
Nothing ever worked well
While my face continued to attack me.

Father scoffed "Son I implore
If you scrub your face more
Then your acne will soon disappear."
Scrubbed as hard as I could
But it still did no good
Further proof that my case was severe.

Unsightly, painful and embarrassing...
By adulthood it stopped its harassing....

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So he is worthy
Worthy is his grace
He whom turnt about-face
Someone whose stop his sinning
Turned it around started new beginnings
Humanity turn it around stop sinning
Find your place
I see tomorrow heart so it's beating
I feel yesterday's love receeding
My soul rises flies away
As my spirit guides on angel wings
Worthy is the Lamb and so is man and his kind
Humanity worthy of the Father's grace


11/30/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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