Short Amateur Poems

poet
pens thousandth haiku
amateur...

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A piano sits
While amateur musicians
Passively compete...

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shards of Mirrored glass…

Back to my throbbing bruised bottom  
 Amateur skate class...

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A just beginner
First timer around brand new
NEVER DONE  BEFORE


James Edward Lee Sr  ©2017
10/18/17...

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Watercolourist Hercules Brabazon
were his picturesque swansong
An artist to his core
rated himself just an amateur...

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Watercolourist Hercules Brabazon
were his picturesque swansong
An artist to his core
rated himself just an amateur...

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You’re trying to hang tough
But your ball's in the rough
Don’t throw a fit
Just think then hit
Forget all that pro stuff
...

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As we near the end of our road trip
a blessing from an old amateur wordsmith:
No road is ever too long 
if you have someone to share it with
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Chicago's like a box of alcoholics
you always know what your gonna git
gang bangers and amateur rappers
pick pockets and sidewalk crappers
trolls guzzling homebrew under a bridge...

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a corpulent pink frog hopped past chasing a fly
they were soon joined by a pink and yellow butterfly
Not now! Said Sir Chucky, an amateur magician.
I am trying to learn a trick shown to me by an electrician....

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Jan doesn't write iambic pentameter
So please don't condescend and mock her
We have different styles
I bring laughter and smiles
Please remember Jan is just an amateur!


30th April 2015...

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NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT
So little evidence remains
Of Vermeer's ups+downs+pains-
Happily,his art,his epitaph
reveals all,to the attentive viewer
amateur or connoisseur !

See my vermeer cartoons 
@www.vermeersgirls.blogspot.com...

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P oet, I'm afraid your words are too small.
O range is a word that won't rhyme at all.
E nd with a full stop, and a coma there.
T he verse you put down is practically bare.
R emember to spell check, find all your mistakes.
Y et this is not all writing poetry takes....

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The exoplanet council's having a pow-wow
  Where are those amateur astronomers now

We've lost track of their telescopes
  Have all those earthlings given up hope

Optimistic that our lifeforms will soon be discovered
  Guess we'll have to wait 'til folks down there recover...

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There once was an entrepreneur
An Irish born rank amateur
He made garden chairs
Outdoor tables I swear
His name was Paddy O'Furniture



Written 14th March 2017

Entry to "luck of the Irish limerick" contest

Notes: happy St Patrick's day to all my fellow Irish men and women...

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A progidy in her early teens
When this Flemish lass burst on the scene
A stylish breakfast piece
an epulaeryu in paint-
a gifted amateur she ain't

Tribute to the Clara Peeters 1594-1657
Specialist with breakfast pieces eg Table with pie,game & olives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Peeters...

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amateur inventors are responsible...
they brought about near everything...
education is now an industry and
the media is about stamping out minds
to fit a modern consumer world
where-in the only privacy left
is under an all out attack...
brought about by the greedy...
how much cash in your pocket?...

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An amateur with art in her veins,  
A portrait and palette to design dreams and pains.

Serendipitous ideas flood the gates,  
An obsession mushrooms as fate curates. 

Rekindling old fondness, 
Crafting nuance with skillfulness. 

From canvas to clinic, the journey unfolds, 
Exploring dermal maps with a finesse untold....

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For an amateur it's quite difficult 
to eat a bowl of rice with a set of chop sticks
and nearly imposable to eat a bowl of rice
with only one chop stick.
I guess the difference between the possible and
the impossible depends on how hungry you are
to achieve a positive outcome rather than a negative.

Lets all eat!
thought for food...

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Listen to poem:

Curious to test the fallacious claim
that you could eviscerate calamari squid
in the vortex of a blender,
the amateur chef took the plunge
to bewilder and tantalize friends.
He added a whole squid to the bowl of a blender
and selected the lowest speed.
It looked good a first,
but then the mix blushed scarlet -
Calamari in the Mist....

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Creating

If I create with a needle,
You are whispering in my ear,
“Punch here and close again,
Even and neatly, my dear.”

Without You I cannot bake a cake;
For all those You guided before,
Soil tilled, flour milled 
Hands and hands galore.

And when I create something 
Whether of beauty or amateur,
You created the joy it gives me,
Thank you, my God!

You I adore!...

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    A long time ago, grandpa told me
       amateur athletes crossed oceans and paid the fees 

    Every four years a noble spirit arose
       emblazoned on a torch, fiery and free 

    A spirit clear, shining bright and true
       the Olympic spirit, one that cut through

    The claptrap of power, regulation and rules
       crossing the finish line in brotherhood
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Sometimes just a trim; others, a drastic clip;
around-the-world trip with one mighty snip.
	
Children and scissors together, tempt fate;
by the time you check, it's already too late.

Like closing hen-house doors after the chicks are out;
no need to whimper, get angry or shout.

She's taken the scissors, achieved a slam dunk;
whacked her dog-ears off, leaving two stubby chunks....

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I'm real good at excuses,
And syntax abuses,
But my ultimate excuse,
I'm an amateur, what's the use?

What do I know from this stuff?
I ain't no diamond in the rough,
I just put down words that come to me,
From someone or place that I can't see

So blame them if it sucks,
Or makes you laugh with yucks,
The only poems that come from me,
Are those that create a sense of ecstacy....

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Black, white

wrong, right

straight, gay

night, day

meek, freak

open, sneak

Would it be easier without labels?

Could we just say I am that I am

Who I am because I am...God's child!

Rich, poor

faithful, whore

corrupt, pure

professional, amateur

mom, dad

good, bad

strong, weak

homely, street

Could we learn just to be?

and not hurt anybody?...

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