Short Belting Poems

con conveyor  ~  belting blame





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China hits a wall
rising star Gwinn's belting strike
Germany squeaks by...

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Orion belting
               wisdom beams

             a dusting of stars





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tweet- tweet -tweet- tweet tweets
tweeting the whistling bird sings
lovely melodies
~
lively young birds tweets
chirping belting out solace
lovely melodies


8/19/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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King
B B
Belting it
strong and cries
Body and spirit
Beaming into his voice.
Guitar his soul appendix
Together in spirited lick
"Lawd I'm cryin' this out to your sky!
I've got and give and feel the blues inside!"...

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a wry sense of humor
belting laughter erupts my fancy you tickle
ace lampooner

mirth flows free
rare as a buffalo nickel
pure glee

hurray
comic boomer
ha's!

a wry sense of humor
rare as a buffalo nickel
ha's!...

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No one knows the rubble I’ve seen.
Nobody knows but DEEEshus.
I stop washing dishes and turn around.
My four-year-old is belting this out with gusto.

These dishes?
She nods.
Where did you learn it?
In church.

Okay....

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What kooky weather, hails belting down
A spectacular display, it pummelling our town
It's supposed to be spring
Must be winter's last fling
Sure not appreciated, almost broke Jack's crown


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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I am disposable-
No smile can illuminate me
No song can make me dance
There is no rhythm in my family
I cannot make harmony
With a voice that’s belting a different tune
I was not made for this
I may look like watercolor paint
But I cannot blend
I am oil paint
I stain
I am not right
I can only be me
I am disposable...

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Spoken words are as cryptic
as Chinese restaurant menus.
Combo fifteen please
hold the rice and cashews.

Music is music, so I thought
belting those hymns with enormous
volume, lest God be disappointed
and walk out on the performance. 

Silence, a useless treasure
when trying to reconnect.
with friends, it’s always easy
as nothing, is written in cement....

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Beekeepers become bafflingly bitter 
Bearing bee bites between binges.

Beekeepers become bigots by being biggest
Bee braggers beyond Bolivia.

Beyond beauty of busy, buzzing
Beauteous bumbling bees, beekeepers be
Befuddled by basic beekeeping bonuses.

Besides bigotry, and biases, beekeepers be
baffled and bamboozled by brother bees being
brilliantly brittle by banjo belting....

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intelligence diverge upon starlight

shrouded in extrubiant relight

             candles melter in resplendent swelter


    i belt out a belting belter


wax drip drop drips on burned lips
swinging out swingsets from smashed and cracked hips

meow woof howl

digging in the sky with a trowel

drppng vry sngl vwl

oi ee ie oe

the end..................................again...

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I’ve made my choice for my next life
I’m coming back fierce as a drag queen
I’ll be osé and voluptuous
flamboyantly vivacious
in stilettos and seductive gowns
wigs of lush luscious curls
belting out steamy tunes
on stage in cabarets
strutting my stuff
impersonating divas
living life large
as it is meant to be
with a passion that’s ferocious 



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on April 15, 2020...

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Someday, someone will bring back de Blues
Crying songs of yesterday
When we were young
When no better than de hurting songs were sung
Heartbreak caused us all to bruise

Someday, another Billie Holliday will rise up
A Bessie, Howlin’ Wolf, and Bobby Bland
Ella belting from de heart
Their deep-down message from de start
Blip, blub-a-do, wop, bip-bop a ‘bup.

written September 9, 2021...

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A dull soothing drizzle tickles her skin.
Her scheduled smile failed to arrive.
Dotting the green sea, rhythm and sighs.
Bead after bead she prays:
" Oh Mother, Oh Father.
What shall I do?
My heart fails, the tears fall, 
but I do so love you"
Belting chimes, trammels unmoved.
Cursing whipping winds paint the horizon.
Lips caressing each word.
Wading through memories, mist and confusion.
Paletted dress, she sits and says, amen....

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the wind chills the pane
as you tear at her heart
and she sits inside,
playing her love songs on guitar-
belting emotions
praying for you to come back
but the pane stays cold
reality finished that chapter
now she sits and waits-
waiting,
for her next kiss,
one she can fall for
one who completes her
when the pane can defrost
and the wind warms your heart
the kind where rain is better than sun
and you'd rather have a cloudy day
than the sun
because it is that magical...

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The buxom diva shattered chandeliers when she sang soprano.

Opera houses vibrated and thundered when she sang contralto!

When belting out an aria her voice quivered like Robin Hood's bow,

As she struggled through Mozart's ll re pastore blow by tedious blow!

His lady friend sat rapt but not her culturally impaired and hapless beau!

He'd much rather they'd spent the evening at the Grand Ol' Opry show!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
© All Rights Reserved...

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Your gift is to move me, to roll me with rhythm
like wind through the windows and road under thunder
Your voice in vibration in speaker sensation
Summer has found it's theme song
Heat humming humid, sweet perspiration
Found my own voice in complete liberation
Belting my lungs to the open air patient
Hitting the notes hard and wrong
You are my oasis in summer vivacious
Crunching the rhythm with promise envision
Found you cathartic, connect me electric
Summer has found it’s theme song....

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