Short Assuredly Poems

An aspiring marine 
is assuredly green, 
but he's not as much green 
as a drowned marine.

Volodymyr Knyr
2014...

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Here's a thought, can love actually kill
Most assuredly YES, it can kill at will
A love divine
Can also blind
A nice kind of homicide with no blood spilled...

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Here's a thought, can love actually kill
Most assuredly YES, it can kill at will
A love divine
Can also blind
A nice kind of homicide with no blood spilled...

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We all stood in the belly of the oak trees
Feasting on its intestines
I do not know if i was the oak tree
We feast on, brother..?
But assuredly, brother
You were the butcher
That battered my tap root....

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and so after creating
six now i must write
a seventh poem but
this should be a day

of rest for rest 
assuredly even
he or her took
time to take 

a look and stop
to smell what
Adam called
a rose...

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Substance unveiled
First step taken
Ready for the journey
Fear is fuel
Failure an option
Stronger than before
Guidance needed
Assuredly provided
Back again
You never left.
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You look like something I drew with my left hand
And I'm bilingual, but I'm sure you know where I stand
Don't mean to offend
But invert to your other end
Most assuredly you'll be much more in demand...

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The attitude towards Muslims by the majority in my country
is the same which was promulgated against the Jews preceding nazi Germany.
They who do not learn from history
are destined to repeat it assuredly
and history is repeating itself presently....

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We just cannot mind our own business.
We know better than others.....
It gives me a bad case of poetical queasiness!

As one lost in a rough sea,
I will assuredly save thee!
I have a bad case of Deus Ex Machina.




            1/12/2022...

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Willingly,
I give 
This 
Heart;
To 
Have and hold.
Inscribed with
Special hopes and dreams, of my 
Kindred soul…
Inseparably,
Spliced within the 
Splendors gracing our lives


Comments:
Happily, I seal my pledge with this kiss
Assuredly, this love shall last eternally...

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There's no green shoots
to our intended relationship
that's what she said
I felt alone, not so secure
leaving the situ, so assuredly set
had our  meeting as a chat only
I gave my best photography, poetry and music
you were not as deep as you first poundered
although you were a Covid organiser...

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Love, assuredly
                       always
                       my breath,
                       my fighting arm
                       my walking legs
                       my support,
                       my judge
                        my reason
                        of living... !...

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He so fines, Beautiful so souls the days are fine;
Heavenly Father as wonderfully kind;
And His parentage is mild, ever breath is mind;

Adjourning love supply, He’s ever present always abides
Lovingly, assuredly He so inside, inside He is within me He’s finds


1/18/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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You cancel me,
I'll cancel you.
This is the way we'll learn nothing new.

You stay with yours,
I'll stay with mine.
Of each other we'll stay blissfully blind.

You spout your line;
I'll toe to mine;
Therefore, common ground we'll need not find.

You can't be wrong.
I'll know I'm right.
Most assuredly, we'll never fight!...

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Through the blackest hours;
     I glimpsed a movement,
Bristling within flames
     Found of opportunity...

With cupped fingers
     I drank of its droplets~
Wrung from the clouds 
     Of security...

It was then I exhaled~
     As the rays of hope encompassed me;
Knowing, I AM has made a way for me --
     Assuredly......

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An ally, a kindred, so fragile, so fleeting
Who knew you'd just lie back and take such a beating
A momentary trance, I'm assuredly sane
Alas, its just dreams playing tricks again

Withdraw to familiar, solitary hibernation
Lick at the wounds, inevitable damnation
I can't do this to you, or to me, anymore
Abstain from the prospects that expose me raw...

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Sullen Sally sat softly..
Sofa cushions.velvet,soft and lofty.

Pondering, world’s great thinkers.
Some friends in her past, were heavy drinkers.

She’d observe them with a smirk
Each,assuredly,a god,not a jerk.

They’d argue that their god was best.
Such arrogant angels, in sweater vests!


                     9/25/2023

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she said
i'm forming
a storm in a glass
of water but i without

bother
put some
powder in and
stirred stirring up

waves and a
whirlpool to taste
like lemon lemonade
at least that's what the

package
said so as
the cyclone
came to rest

rest 
assuredly
i will drink it
down but drowning

myself
by putting
in only a shot
of evergreen gin...

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Brisk winter air has settled in
I venture into my back yard
Grab a rake and pile up leaves
To be burned, with disregard

As I set torch to said fallen
I reflect on a job well done
Something assuredly needed
Now who's the responsible one?

Holiday spirit surrounds me
Bundled up in my attire
I feel the warmth, I see the glow
Oh no! My pants are on fire!...

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Yes, you  can!


Climb the mountain, no matter
how treacherous and steep!
Keep your eye on the lofty prize, 
far, far above your eyes.

It's when you are most exhausted,
that the second wind fills your lungs.
Negative thoughts seem heavier than 
iron rungs.

But you will most assuredly achieve.
You simply must.....believe!



         December 12, 2019...

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I trace the lines across your face,
full of deception and out of place,
the camera never lies.

You searched for a new feeling to explore,
Just another game, 
I showed myself the door (you could not open)
assuredly no gentleman, nor any lies left unspoken 

She goes by my name now 
such a smooth transition
I just hope for your sake darling...

She will be forgiving in my position....

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How thou speak in staunchness
Though thou nimbus wanes ever more.
In prejudice thy justice lies
"'Tis a matter for the courts."

Now thou laugh with prideful belly
Assuredly thy confidence grows.
Under foot and under brow
"And lest thou forget; my nose."

    "Forsooth can I," said he, "scarcely believe,"
    "That thou seeeth not the truth."

      Replied I,
     "But my friend, I believe I do."...

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To you...
For being a friend
All the way to this end
My regards I send
to the family you tend

Assuredly...
This friendship we share
And for all we care
No one can dare
To come and tare
Or lay a snare
And even claim a share!

Know this... 
In life there are fiends
Yet they pretend 
To be your friends
May I contend
That to you
I shall remain to be that royal friend
AFRICAN POET-AUSTIN TENTHANI PHIRI...

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Lucie is my loving cat.
She snuggles with me in my chair
and I’m content when she is there.

Lucie likes her tummy rubbed,
but most of all, her ears I knead,
but not enough, she shows her greed.

Lucie loves her laser light.
She chases it with upmost glee;
gets exercise, assuredly. 

Lucie knows her dinner time.
Stands by her dish and starts to cry;
sometimes she likes not what I buy....

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Do you need to be born in Africa or Haiti
to be saved
What about the single mother in the ghettos
of Detroit
Will an actor or politician or philanthropist
deem you worthy
Of a rescue from a situation that as assuredly
kills
Cable TV asks for your money for the starving
third world
While lost souls in your shadow are homeless, crying
—in plain sight

(Norristown Pennsylvania: January, 2021)...

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