Short Affirming Poems

You wish a friend luck
Affirming "do break a leg"
shows love not sarcasm...

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Love's call
Boosts and blossoms;
Each affirming whisper
Releasing the beauty hidden
Within....

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Don't vote Trump who’s just not in, 
Because that would be a huge sin, 
Hillary’s not guilty of any emailing, 
So don't tip the vote, be affirming....

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Swan - A Didactic Cinquain

Swans
Mute, unexpected
Affirming, bouncing, wandering
surprised I was 
Roam

2/11/2023
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2023...

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Locks untangled slide freely over life giving, affirming white glow.
The indentation along the spines contours,
head moved forward, leant, exposed nape,
the very essence of, in archetype....

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Scars from the past I keep for the sake of

Awareness, affirming I'm

Stronger and wiser now


Written April 1st, 2017 for the Kimo contest sponsored by Broken wings...

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LISTLESS

Sitting at my faithful desk

Listless

Lifeless work sits incomplete

Listless

Watching icy raindrops fall

Listless

View outside affirming gloom

Listless

Perchance another poem to pen...

“LISTLESS”...

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Despair
                      empty, bleak
         shivering, whimpering, trembling
            gloom, doom … light, music
         wondering, brightening, affirming
                    lustrous, radiant
                           Hope...

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space itself yields
when we are one with it
and as a mark of love
reveals through its crevice
light that lights all lights
shimmering from beyond
beheld in plain sight
in our waking state
as recurring epiphany 
affirming the eternal truth...

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before
                      earlier, past
     backing, preceding, affirming,  
 aforehand, behind , beyond, future, 
   succeeding, following, resulting,
                       later, next 
                            after



Date written: 03/27/2023...

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Love boosts and blossoms
With praise begotten,
Releasing beauty locked within;
Child,adult,large or small,
Mis-shapen,shrunken or flowering tall,
Each the product of love's call;
In affirming whispers fond,
First,love binds then bonds,
Thus love grows,as it flows....

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without affirming, we yet feel
tingling of the spiritual heart
third eye glistens, spine’s vibrant
million bliss ignitions in head start

root that holds all energies erect
reminds us of our humble origins
each pore a door, seeks an encore
of songs sung by ethereal virgins...

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Each monk who saw, asked us to thaw,
feral instinct that’s self-serving,
observing love’s the only law,
of which each soul is deserving.

Such is the path that scriptures teach,
affirming God is within reach,
for which our heart needs to transform,
imbibing bliss magnetism warm....

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Affable windswept seas,
     Awaken distant dreams
     Affirming lost desires.
     Agog with passion's will,
     Awaiting windward hope.
     Away on bounding crests,
     Alive to trim such sails.


     Pleiades-A-Poetry Contest
     Sponsored by Kim Merryman
     08/09/2016...

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In the middle of "hell" and all its ogres,
It is difficult to find a ray of hope,
or salvation to lighten the spirit,
A smile or simple laughter fights its
way to get to the surface,
While the heart festers with pain
and angst, a mere facade to the outside
world, affirming the mirage, that all is well....

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Dusk unveils the stars, at last light;
when blue morphs into ebony.
Silhouettes slowly fade from sight,
and shifting shadows merge as one
heralding the approach of night.
Affirming that day's reign is done,
chameleon clouds shed their white.
And Luna rises splendidly
as darkness saturates the night....

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God be praised for His splendid honor
Shining by His truth of great majesty 
Affirming His holiness* showing righteous terror
Against evils of idolatry and iniquity
Amidst His sovereign plan throughout eternity. 

*Psalm 47:8 God reigneth… God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

March 21, 2019...

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Affirming in truth that we’re the universe,
the will of God and our own, both become one,
whence obviated is the need to rehearse,
with our soul aflame like the light of the sun.
All doings are done though us by God Himself
and music of the spheres plays on by itself,
wherein all we do is receive boons of grace,
with bliss mists holding us in tender embrace....

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6 a.m. I watched a robin
As it tugged upon a worm.
When it saw me it was startled
So it dropped it, all a’squirm.

When it knew I posed no danger
It proceeded with its meal,
Thus affirming that the adage
‘Bout the early bird is real. 

For a bird it seems that early
Is a goal we can confirm,
But the same does not apply
To that poor breakfast-eaten worm....

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I stand beside still waters and wonder
Such peace filling my heart this day,
So many comforting thoughts I ponder
I stand beside still waters and wonder
At the affirming sounds of voices fonder,
Reminding me of my principles at play,
I stand beside still waters and wonder
Such peace filling my heart this day. 

Written March 31, 2022...

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Principles are like procedures we live by
Educating ourselves with things that go by
Doing things the right way we believe in
Affirming we're always right as we thrive and bang in
Getting along with thoughts and actions of all
Over and under our ideas that confront us all
Growing with everybody is what we want for all
Yours is my love, my choice, that conquers all...

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So many teachers, each affirming their view,
makes us smile, for these folks see not ego’s guile,
shape-shifting scripts that unendingly renew
belief we adopt and then flaunt as our style.
In truth the seeker who seeks does not exist,
thus as long as there remains a to do list,
we remain confined to this life pulse dual,
trapped in delusion of a thought form whirlpool....

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If we be spirit and this form a vessel,
affirming that we are boundless like vast space,
thus resting thought flow, in our heart we nestle
with pulsations of love, inpouring by grace.
A rebel, a nerd, we follow not the herd,
choosing to rest ego cravings untoward,
knowing that if God is, He must be within
the cave of our heart, so we go in therein....

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Affirmations seem popular
attempting to manifest reality
peril being of ego seeking
boon as bane causing fatality

Unless with the conscience 
we be in tranquil alignment 
ego borne cravings & urgings
bring suffering & discontentment 

Such is the divine paradox
that whilst we may co-create
we must do so in loving surrender
detached and in stillness sedate

16-September-2020...

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To live non-affirming
to live not at all
To hide in the shadows
and creep down the hall

To live uncommitted
new doubts to contend
All time intermittent
repressed till the end

To live without friendship
alone on the rock
A wandering echo
reflections that mock

To live undecided
with doubt your best friend
a future derided
—the present pretend

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)...

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