Short Billboard Poems

early darkness-
a mad man talking to
a billboard girl




     







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He
took his
day job home-
on a billboard 
scale

Ekphrasis after The Margin Between by Rosenquist...

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insatiable...
a necessary burden
Journeying through life

Enervates spirit
engaging worldly pleasures
a walking billboard 
~*~...

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billboard sign
winks at me
eat here now

temptation
hungry bear
buffet line

plate piled high
ten pounds plus
waistband stretch...

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billboard sign
winks at me
eat here now

temptation
hungry bear
buffet line

plate piled high
ten pounds plus
waistband stretch...

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Speedy Bill was often apprehended
For driving faster than recommended.
He paid officers no heed
Even increased his speed.
Now he’s on a wall decidedly distended....

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Every human being a is bill board
On each on the roadside of life
Devils advertise vices attractively
Angels teach virtues with humility
Skeptics deny everything outright
God records responses quietly...

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Picture a man's hooha on a billboard downtown
Ladies would be late, spill coffee on their gowns
With their mouths all agape
Their makeup in bad shape
Those ad boys sure know how to clown around...

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Just before the sun rises
  and just after it sets
The sky's majesty bursts forth
  Rapture's carnival in jets

of brilliant bold colors
  so rich and so deep
clinging to Heaven's billboard
  ere they give way to Time's sweep...

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Immeasurable,
unlabeled, word-
less by 
studded 
tears
and 
voice,


APHONIC.

Only death by 
tenderness 
swoops down
as eternity
and her hands,
soft as fire;
as time

the flesh;
a billboard
the soul
neon lights.

:: 11-06-2017 ::...

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What the fish
Cannot do with force
It does with stashed funds

Fishy final throw
Of the dice

Fact
The fish is
Running short of water

Facing the funny billboard:
Fishy Fish and Facts 

Every flying bird
- sly and sleek-
Ultimately lands
Somewhere somehow...

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thanks for the skanks on billboard planks but we got another,a brother from 
hartford,dang,i forgot his name,said we could play as long as he payed,it was 
ok.im on the george bush team,any dream will do as long as you,submit the 
proper form,thas yours....

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Swallow each and every word,
take them in and don’t choke;
Smell the cinnamon on my sword 
stronger the deeper it plunges;
Flashing lights on a billboard 
‘Eat all of my magick.’
I like to play when I’m a bit bored;
Energy I can bestow or revoke;
Shhh,can you feel what is unheard?...

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slogan upon the 
billboard of life 
read "attachment 
is dead" 
this rang true 
to the disillusioned 
eye's of the passers 
by 
driving by with 
angry stares 
glaring upon the road of 
life 
each one with unrequited 
love lost 
creating hearts of stone 
never able to be chiseled...

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Golden haired girl
Wakes up one morn
LA beckons
Acting storm
 
The Boulevard reached
She senses form
For a young girl
Not the norm
 
Office reached
Casting couch 
Sleazy dude
Wants her pouch
 
Future taken
Cast aside
Spent journey
Wasted ride
 
Billboard gloss
Gullible reader
L.A. Dreamer...

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I'm shutting myself down emotionally
I'll stay on the sidelines and watch you do your thing
I don't wanna blow my whistle 
Just play like the game has no rules
I'll put the scores on the billboard
How many times that thing called LOVE failed me
If anyone asks you about me, 
Just tell 'em am temporally unavailable...

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In Oregon, while we were touring,
We passed through a city called Boring.
We laughed at the name
'Cause it sounded so lame
That to visit, we'd both end up snoring.

A billboard announced (not a joke!)
That in Scotland, one town of Scots folk
Is named Dull, so they dared
To suggest they be paired;
Here's to Boring and Dull - holy smoke!...

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automobile
Street lamps
billboard lights freezing
The heavy rain late night
sweeps away

an old man
he can't straighten his bent back
he takes a hard breath
white breath to the air
scatter

by his beside
covered their heads with summer clothes
A couple laughing out loud
It passes

cigarette smoke staying in the place
left behind....

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Stuff I don’t deserve
As I swerve through this life
A reflection in time
Jesus is the One 
Who takes me to my prime

My life has been a billboard of mercy
God the Father flows and 
Shows the love filtering from His Heart
Stuff I don’t deserve but
He allows me to swerve through this life
My life is a billboard of mercy

Copyright 2024
...

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Gregory, songs be written about thee
and thy great bravery, fighting dragons
and such. Open arms celebrate thee
and the fire you fought and you won.

Gregory, these songs move to the top,
the billboard lights up with Christmas cheers,
Souper’s stirred by the bee bop -
your ferocity of harmony towards peers.

12/11/2019
Tribute to Gregory Paul...

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Feel the privatization in its might
A bullet in the African soul-
The sectors sold
The branches squared.

Our pride dwindles
When our Africa is slowly auctioned
To forces of stealth
Ruiners of our democracy.

Our masters slowly gather the spilled milk
Stride by stride
Grinning at the auction table
Their eyes glued on the politician’s billboard:
AFRICA FOR SALE....

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Feel the privatization in its might
A bullet in the African soul-
The sectors sold
The branches squared.

Our pride dwindles
When our Africa is slowly auctioned
To forces of stealth
Ruiners of our democracy.

Our masters slowly gather the spilled milk
Stride by stride
Grinning at the auction table
Their eyes glued on the politician’s billboard:
AFRICA FOR SALE....

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She is all a twitter
On-line 
Does she realize
That all the Internet Traffic
Is sure to see
Like wearing underwear on a billboard on the highway
Revealing
But if she keeps it light
And pure
She shares something that
Is better than making the boys stare
She'll show a spirit 
Unstained
Untainted
A Dove ready to fly
To Heaven
To enjoy the angelic sky...

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DIGRESSIONS ON BILLBOARD HAIKU

Sick of the commute?

	Early morning pavement gray as masticated 
	breakfast sprinkled with broken glass.

Brakelights driving you crazy?

	Blinking red Morse with its Monday 
	bad news: Accident Ahead.

Take the train and dream.

	And off beyond the shoulder, fields of grasses 
	growing free, whatever the mind can see....

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firefly lightning
 bug behinds his  abdomen
 wings fly whistling

~

at in the dark sparks
special parts attract sexist
 to glow at pre-night

~

lit, light up like a,
 flashing billboard on and off
fly with abdomen 

~

emitting light flashing
turning on off during flight
glowing in flight

7/2/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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