Short Admonished Poems

When facing the fire,
Save your face with humbleness
Admonished reproof....

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An uncle unpolished
The polished bamboo strips
He was astonished
When he was admonished
And repolished the polished strips.

29.12.2020 
Tongue Twister....

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Was admonished today on another site
Basically for my humour, she took a swipe
Offensive she claimed
Smart remarks I'm blamed
Well loved by many, still winning in spite...

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Admonished old Sol for the holiday he took
Disappeared for a weekend when big plans were booked
Next time he tries that
Gonna give him a slap
Cept I fear my hand will need to be replaced with a hook...

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Admonished old sol for the holiday he took
Disappeared for a weekend when big plans were booked
Next time he tries that
Gonna give him a slap
Cept I fear my hand will need to be replaced with a hook...

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I wrote upon the edges of the wind
black heart ache pain
the ink that filled the well
the quill air sprinkled light
feel me buttons
choose my fingers touch
inspiration comes with saunter
feelings with a lurch
Truth AhLiOdNeEs in the...

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"There is no safety this side of Death",
admonished Father Jubal.
There's a chance we've only one more breath;
I'd bet my bottom Ruble!
My iron tongue- my lying lung!
One last dirge to be sung...
But from the depths of Hell, from Heaven fell-
I have climbed up wrung for wrung!...

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pausing before entering the temple
the monk burst out into fits of laughter 
at man’s idiocy of caging God in an edifice 

the fundamentalists admonished him
but the nondescript beggar simply smiled
astonished at the ignorance of the bourgeois 

24-May-2023...

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Trevor McKinney suggested we Pay It Forward;
others call it random acts of kindness.
Jesus admonished, “Be lights in your world.”
Shine, people, shine.  Let your good deeds glorify God.

March 10, 2022

Sponsor	Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Contest Name	Being a light to others

The movie, Pay It Forward came out in 2000....

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Though taught 
to be prayerful:
“to pray
without ceasing”*
we are admonished
to tarry for answers…

taking heed 
not to become 
“prayer patients”
exclaiming this
to the Father above:
“Lord, give me
patience right now…”

for such is 
impatience
at work.

*1Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.

August 5, 2019...

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Darn those sweet little lies
Deceiving duplicitous disguises
Tainting and twisting the truth
Loathsome lessons learned at youth
Casually coloring confessions
Secretly shrouding indiscretions
Desperately dodging discovery
Sometimes slandering skulduggery
Distorting details is dishonest
And should always be admonished


  an original poem by Daniel Turner...

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There once was a child
questioned everything she did
her parents admonished her
for peering into
the workings of the world,
but the child
poor child
couldn't possibly understand
what did she do wrong,
and the wise old man
said to her that
t'was not her fault
for 'tis the world
who should be punished
for the fault often lies 
not in the doing
but in the way we see the doing....

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They all wish,

and dreams collide- on a dime-
on a dive,

they say in admonished curves in time and color,

of those flapping doves, 

seizes mind a flutter,

they wish to seal within the prosperous carrothers-
sanctity of motion,
hectors O' acres of the dozens...


They all wish one the baskets on the ovens-
and upon dishes their bumpkins-
that loudness to be promised to everyone we have punished....

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At shore just shy of ocean floor
Shy by foolish miles and miles more
Splashing in through shallow withouts 
Hush hush all these flourishing doubts

Cautious soul breathes rush of air
Push down the rush to hold it there
Shining spirit in primal shouts
Hush hush all these flourishing doubts

Shortcomings bashed and admonished
In waves washing them astonished
No sharing shapes of shaken bouts
Hush hush all my flourishing doubts...

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Two Lenses - Unchanged

When I was young and foolish
I’d do things not quite schoolish.
My naked feet danced barefoot  in the rain
splashing in water running toward the drains
until grams admonished me on my childish ways. 

Today,  I am always wearing socks and shoes
careful outside where my feet may get bruised,
but in the warm spring storms and  rainy days
I stand at the door and watch the children play
 whose simplistic innocence restores my youth....

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Scattered the droplets splay 
a sheen not really seen 
soft shades of blue filter 
from the form that is you 

azure streaks of summertime bliss 
electrifying my sky 

a mere twining in your eye 
accentuates and erupts 
feining the sun 

I've come undone 
as the strings untie 
the past 

waves wash over our fears 
bravely admonished to lie near 

trailing footprints traverse 
holding on to an outstreched hand 
farther never felt so close...

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Who am I to speak, suffer?
Who am I to explain pain?
I am of a wonder, and He’s greater
 than everything;
My name is healed
My name is whole
I am holy, abundantly assured
Wholesome and admonished
Heavenly polish
Spirit is also always, willing-as my flesh is weak;

So I must kill,
I must kill, forever kill the flesh;
You see it’s a mess;
I am of Heaven’s Bliss;
I am of I am energy, spirit bless birth;

3/22/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©

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