Short Approximate Poems

Sometimes I notice
the approximate time that
she walks in the door....

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keep me guessing
guided by lines
connecting dots
to approximate a reality
that appears 
only as an outline...

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While circular area's moot 
3/14 math groupies salute
Approximate pi 
Which helps us get by
Since squares within rounds don't compute
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Death has a dimension
Measureless and void
What instrument could fathom
All nullity?

Reason tries to grasp it
Sincerest faith denies it
How futile to approximate
That universal dread!...

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Can you elaborate?
When I insinuate,
Or elucidate,
The postulate,
Of the populate ,
To the proclamate,
And indicate,
An approximate,
When to inaugurate,
The officiate,
To delegate,
Or orchestrate,
Us to celebrate...

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It certainly isn't beyond the realm of possibility
That one day we'll become robots, it's more a probability
We'll have an on/off switch
And a program which
Will provide us with our happy zone's approximate vicinity...

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It certainly isn't beyond the realm of possibility
That one day we'll become robots, it's more a probability
We'll have an on/off switch
And a program which
Will provide us with our happy zone's approximate vicinity...

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It certainly isn't beyond the realm of possibility
That one day we'll become robots, it's more a probability
We'll have an on/off switch
And a program which
Will provide us with our happy zone's approximate vicinity


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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Nautilus, chambered. 
Mathematics? Not really. 
By nature only. 

Smells more like…
Ah…normal distribution
(Of golden spirals). 

You could look it up. 
FIBONACCI? Not really. 
Logarithmic coil?

Not exactly. Else
One or the other would fit. 
Only nature fits....

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Towers of Bees

Over the city forest trees
Are hives of bees buzzing
In cubicle stacked towers with plastic flowers,
They labor for no honey, but money.

At an approximate five they fly
For they must eat and fill cool sheets,
To dream of bowers of sweet scented flowers,
When a cubicle is their own – their home...

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I will just be calm and quiet
After the unrest of the storm
Things can settle and be tranquil

Can I approximate tranquil
With heartbeat loud, what is quiet
I am afraid that I am the storm

Yes, I will run from the storm
To manifest tranquility
Fear still consumes me quietly

Quiet regrets, tranquil sorrows, further storms forecast...

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If I woke up and worked everyday with a calm 
resolute execution of plans,
or perhaps at least stayed on approximate track 
with the basic things for which I stand.
If with a small grain of faith I’d hold the course
knowing that by small things come the grand.
Then I think I’d be dangerous, I finally be...
an instrument in the Lord’s hands....

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winter’s calling wind
blown messages least most falls
torn tween autumn fall

winter’s lull at last
approximate two half months 
left to receive cold

and influx of snow
winter’s alarming burst of 
temperatures below 

thirty degrees and
 under distance sun noon day
yet it still be cold

1/30/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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She sleeps under her perennial sheets
Her mattress is six feet deep
The head and footrest approximate her size
Her hand holds a single red rose that cries

Years ago, her bed was scented
With crushed petals of a dozen roses
The happiness of her wedding day
Good intentions to which she’d pay

This pretty girl in perennials lives
In an affluent neighborhood that thrives
With rolling green hills and quiet trees
She paid the ultimate price of a rich man’s bride...

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Johannus organ for the Church choir
Has enough power to accompany;
Congregational singing strengthens soul
Through the spirit-filled hymnal psalmody.

An electronic keyboard instrument
Does approximate the pipe organ's sound;
Coming from the air so squeezed and compressed
Where the beautiful voice of wind is found.

This musical tool produces various
Timbres recognized by ears of brethren;
The worship service inside the temple
Is completed by Johannus organ....

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