Short Braided Poems

Pine gum, amber chew
Brown needles, braided bracelet
Bed of weaved senses...

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braided branches hang 
hiding its sorrow from us 
while gathering strength...

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Entwined finger roots
cracking pain in concrete threads
Slow and quiet strength....

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Some taste your heart, 
Others touch your skin;
Braided together, 
take me to that level....

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Playfully graceful
Braided hair redolent of
Femininity,
It's captivating to read
Your character's signature...

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She was a master weaver, 
                     a master craftsman, and so, 
                           she braided his soul into hers....

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Inscriptions of love 
Braided vows
Of twisted gold
Blessed by heaven
Engulfed our fingers
United our bodies
Entwined our souls
Witness our journey
Now take us home...

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Over lambent plains
of blond wheat,
braided spikes
rustling
in flaxen breeze,
a flock of crows
seesaws
like obsidian scythes
in cider firmament
under harvest sun's afternoon eye....

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cascading water
flows into braided rivers
rush of white water

palaces of sandstone
towering monolith
statuesque splendor

weathered mosaics
ancient cathedrals carved in stone
natures masterpiece...

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thoughts pounding
echoing loudly inside my brain
feelings hammering
clamoring tinges of this pain
a facade that slips
its anchoring clips
strength that's feigned
a tin heart, that's dangling from
a braided chain...

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Fringed by putrescent dusk
Fingernails dig beneath graveyard wounds
Fostered by lexical warfare
Within the harrowing fiascos of tomorrow
Nothing but bated memories
Braided by skin, coffee, and cigarettes
Branded by concrete whispers...

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Moments pass as they wait
Following strands of braided fate
Slowly moving split cells
Keeping us from shouting yells
Holding for the visions dear
That always start this time of year
To keep me going near
The whisper maker of my ear....

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Ethos of 10 

They sat, bemused,
 in their inocence;
wearing their guilt, 
braided tight.
Sealed in a pointed star; 
Waiting on the Wolf and Its teeth,
 to severe the braids of gold.
Oh the crimson spurting;  
wasted for free breath....

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My swing is made from braided ropes 
I feel the summer's end 
The charming wind will sometimes come
To call me back again  

And though the year has taken toll
The path sometimes too steep 
The mountain hymns will softly fall  
To shepherd me to sleep...

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Can you hear consequence? Is it calling? 
Will we ever turn to face the weather?
Hush little lamb; all your senseless bawling.
Blinded by our choices; a braided tether.

Striding in cadence with the bellwether.
We’ll soon have to answer; all together....

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If I was a sheriff
I would wear a gleaming gold star
A holster with silver twin six-shooters
You would be afraid of my sequined Stetson
As I march up and down the street
In my fancy embroidered braided cowboy boots
I would befriend Indians
If I was a sheriff...

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LIMERICK
BRADY SADIE--

There was once a girl named Sadie
She had such long hair it was Brady
Hair so long comb would say Ahh!!
Could not run a strand through it no way
this is why she kept it braided


7/14/19

Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©...

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A length of knots makes crooked necks
That's bound by ropes to gallows
Tied by lore and judges hands
And braided by deeds of fellows
And though the graves of many knaves have gone unmarked with cruel intent
Their kin be sworn, with devils scorn
That they will not soon forget...

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Hong Kongs
Big pong
Five are tried 
heads hooded
Hands tied

Wolf like packs
Claim a moral low
Truth can't bestow
The depth of facts
Now for all to know

Morals now obscene 
As today is seen,
Humanity traded
Weave of life torn
Insanity in-braided

A very aged norm.'...

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                wearing my cologne
                        tux shirt
               leather braided ankle
                        bracelet

                      no panties

                      lax'd hern
                         mine
                         yacht

 
...

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I won't go out in this day's mess
Until my hair in golden tress
Is braided neatly, oh, so sweetly.

Come to me at break of dawn,
Or when the day is nearly drawn
In my seclusion of delusion.

Please make believe with me
And sail away on endless sea,
Beyond sunset and beyond regret....

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The death spiral of a Space-X rocket
looking like a portal to an otherworld
where I long to enter and belong 
like velvet on a royal gown,
with silk ribbons in my braided hair 
flowing down the castle stair...
and a knight, my own Sir Gallahad,
vanquishing the dragons 
waiting to devour me.
...

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I dreamt of a siren 
with crystal skin and quaint braided hair. 

her eyes, slow swirls of undying azure,
coiled around, her salt-sweet chorus 
tightening at my throat

The alluring notes 
pierce through my rasp scream—

In cold sweats I
wake up nauseous—
My vocal cords enfolded in her skin.
...

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Sabbath 
Her Peace Descends
Welcome, Angels and Men
Candle Flames Bright, Radiant Light
Braided Loaves of Bread; Closed eyes, Blessings said
Delicacies before Guests Spread
Songs sung, Thoughts to Inspire
Grace Soars Higher
Shalom


                        'Shalom' means 'Peace,' (lit: Completion, Wholeness)...

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Persuading you with
my verses

Never convincing you
with my yarn

Your heartstrings twist
in braided strands

Attention mine
disarmed

All shouts have turned
to whispers

New melodies
resound

A phrase to dance
inside your head

As love
—each word surrounds

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)...

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