Short Beforehand Poems

A man admits to his crimes beforehand,
But a coward continues to unravel them like dusk parchments....

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Apparently God decides on your actions and thoughts by choosing them beforehand,
My friends won't be very nice to me if they know that 
Can I sue it?...

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Welcoming the rain
The parched earth drinks,
From temporary water stains.
Can you smell it beforehand and think ;
Almost time to splash puddles and dance again....

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I came beforehand
And yet you understand.
Me not
I've died yet I've risen
Now I live in heaven
And I shall return
Again Jesus says...


11/25/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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You never knew I did this
But once I was a fly
I buzzed right over top your house and
Carved a heart into the sky

I planned it days beforehand
I never said a thing
I just went out and did it
A kiss blown from my wing...

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You will know magic
When your dreams tell you beforehand
When people bring what you think about
When life pulls you like the wind
When there are no bars holding you back
When time & death isn't fearful
Until then you're blind to the whispers
-Frankii Fame...

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What are you, if not yet dead
Living out, beforehand
Its lost forever moment
In its featureless land!

Feel now what, never too late
Through what of its power
Redemptive, fails not , smiled out:
A loving compassion.
Winter in the heart's limbo
As spring-time, sunned upon....

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If only we could have
held more tightly, a bit
longer; perhaps while
fondly dreaming had learned
beforehand the many
dexterities of hearts...

but the moment
is a moving target--
once seized 
its changes continue,
nothing held long enough
to exist the same
beyond the first
grasping…....

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Don't get close, isolate from them
love isn't joy, it's the ultimate pain
bonds aren't the answer, solitude is a vital gem
when one betrays someone, their heart is slain
if a friend is lost, one's heart may very well be be in eternal condemn
to avoid sorrow beforehand, cut ties so there's no scars to sustain...

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Beforehand there was great sorrow
That time before Katie brought jovial
I wondered lonely as a cloud 
Til the day she made me pour down rain
As the cold air drew to our cheeks
So did our minutes quicken to their end
I left as my heart grew on it a hole
For never has there been a story of woe
Than this of Khondwani and her Tio...

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O-ne prayer you say, 
L-ord God knows beforehand; 
G-et your heart in shape, 
A-s you obey His command. 

D-o pray to the Father, 
E-arly twenty-ninth of June; 
L-et Him bless your life, 
O-ne grace will come 
S-oon. 

R-eady your mind and soul, 
E-very night, every day; 
Y-ou must always prepare 
E-ach prayer you 
S-ay....

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In the self conjured game of hide & seek
With impish delight we take a sneak peek
We know beforehand where He is hidden
Yet for fun we pretend to do as bidden
Both recognise the harmless subterfuge 
Fusing in the heart where He takes refuge
Each pulse a flow of union & separation 
Rapturous bliss in an unending explosion

Within...

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G-reat day of salvation 
H-as been told beforehand; 
I-t's God Who orders us to obey, 
E-agerly follow His command. 

S-alvation day is great, 
A-lmighty Father says it is so; 
N-ever ever be in doubt, 
T-he men are nowhere to go. 
O-n the fifth of July, solidify your conviction; 
S-avior Jesus Christ comes on the great day of salvation....

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Arrangements of particular sounds
and spirits never mended
by these renouncement of desire
just nothing more then wood wood would
wouldn’t dare say it’s added to the pile like wood to the
pyre
or the fire
Terrible chimes of rhymes
announced practically beforehand
forget rhyme 
or meter
or the feeding of words to canvas
nevermind it all
just forget me to time
and call it a day...

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We carry it in us
like a child in a womb.
We do not have to know this,
knowledge has no part in this journey.

It is not words coming through,
it is we that come through.

The craft is in how we shape the pot.
no one knows beforehand
how the pot gets filled.

Maybe the poet will understand,
see a little of this, however 
it is not necessary at all,
not at all....

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I got bit
Three times.
By what?
I do not know.

Up the leg,
Past the knee.
Itch
Unmistakable.

Beforehand,
I spied
An ugly spider,
With a white dot.

After Brunswick stew
And my husband’s wings,
Pretzel sticks with mustard
And onion rings.

Yummy in the tummy —
but
what
bit
me?

I do not know!
will
i
go
back?

The food was great
but so’s the itch.

6/23/2019...

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I feel thankful today,
You loved me beforehand,
Your love makes me feel grand,
Your love that came my way;

I feel grateful today,
Your grace showered on me,
Your grace that set me free,
Your grace that shone my way;

I feel thankful today,
Your mercy I can feel,
Your mercy me did heal,
Your mercy guides my way.




11/23/18


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I desire not to belong to any one
Nor I wish to have some one to belong to me
Though I have no demand to them
Yet I fear to fail to fulfil my responsibility
As I have no control
On my own heart and soul
Moreover, I know without doubt that
One day this vehicle will go down
Under the impulse of sea
So I want to detach beforehand
As I can not tolerate tears
Some one to shed
Or take their fortune
When I sink
Along with me...

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Blessed our the New Sabbath
Grand and beautiful the heart of God is
He gives
Giving’s all that’s His
All we have to do is thank Him beforehand and continual
You’re hi blessed child
Always
And this day of His joy His love, His heart
Truly yours I’m a witness
Double 7 fold blessings unto you are worthy of much more.
You are Elohim Now time for more blessings and love

1/7/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©...

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”Doing nothing follow love’s intimate scent ~ 
Unwrap life slowly, like a birthday present”
            ~ quote by poet


To have x-ray vision, piercing veil of time,
may not be a boon, since it stifles surprise,
dulling the magic of innocent heart’s chime
and of joyous rapture on the upward rise.
Living in the now, as we heavenward climb,
allows God’s blessing and mercy to baptise
our soul in whose luminescence we delight,
knowing not beforehand, hues of aura bright....

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until the moment I see you I'm never as sure as the time beforehand
and over and over again,  I cower
My strengths   involve certainties and convictions and 
feelings of power (maybe)

until the day I wake up sad I will never stop believing
the mornings are so hopeful
fresh, promising, and I LOVE myself in them

until I can anticipate you I don't know what to do
time is hurting me, the evenings are so low
I barely believe that this is eluding me,
would one deliberately be so slow...

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