Short Archived Poems

options
      strewn
among doubt
  and
      layered looks,
magnified
tossed
pitched
        then archived
'til
      a new day...
...by
        restraint...

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Through the lens of a lifetime
Moments captured
Who we are
Who we were
Warm memories
Colors softened by time
Infinitely archived
In the album
Of our heart...

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Cardboard bound, paper built
And shackled in plastic rings
The world labelled Notebook
Hold all sorts of wondrous things.
Pages stained with a hundred spells,
Brings the land alive,
So tell me, weary traveller,
What do you need archived?...

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Archived voices;
Prolific choices;
Acquiring winds blowing past the trees; 
~
People stalking;
Animals walking running,
 from the humans;
~
Captivating me;
All these trues;
Around me, surrounds me at the city  
zoo
.

4/15/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2020...

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spliced narratives
               in better taste
         introspectives
richly painted
intertwined
       with the fragile
things
    of life
       held dear
&
   the doubts
           archived in our minds
a
literal
     fitting  picture
                       from secrecy
to fact
     of hidden
         suffering

made known...

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I protect the abandoned
paint over the graffiti
fill the shattered warehouse windows
with kapok stuffing,
lag rusting pipes with pitch and tar
chain all the broken doors from the inside.
Sleep on mounds of archived words
eyes drooping over yellowing pages.
One day I'm going to burn it all down,
but not this winter, 
I still have to keep the dead 
a little lukewarm....

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