Short Buffaloes Poems

cows, bulls, buffaloes 
men, women, children, guests, ghosts ~
all know each movement


03 January 2022...

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brother buffaloes wait for us on the plain
we give thanks to our father sky
Apaches will eat well tonight
the hunt begins...

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in hills where buffaloes roam

i brew coffee too much foam

excess grounds water cold

bitter stale tastes too bold

grateful when my wife gets home.
...

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When you get to my old age of eighty-two
You and your doctor, dance a pas de deux
An entrée, an adagio
Dance like two buffaloes
Quite a pretty sight, worth a spleen or two...

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Look, these 
spiny seeds
of Xanthium,
with hooks,
have got stuck
to the hair
of these 
buffaloes
returning from 
the woods!

They've been 
carried here
to this distant 
land
to be dispersed
at different 
directions!...

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Start little but yet dare dream big. 
Crocodile, worms and insects, 
eats when little but 
now deer, buffaloes kills and eats 
And if the lion is slack it can become food.
But It starts on insects! 
Start something today and dream it big. 
If big you cannot start, 
Then make big, that you start.
Dare to dream big!...

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The justice system's a spider web everyone knows;

        captures just the tiniest insects: flies, moths, mosquitoes;

                                                   as a  trap

                                                   it's a crap

                   that's totally unnoticed by the passing buffaloes....

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Eye Beholden-

beholden are birds bankrolls beautifully
I beholden both basis beholds bravely
the beholden betrays brilliantly

I beholden blood buffaloes blindly
the beholden bath becomes boldly
the beholden bread brings blissfully
the beholden basket begins brutally 

7/29/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.© 2020...

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The resonance of Time's ticking is unbearable!
Once you appeared on the warm and soft riverbed
Years passed stealthily
The 'elfin pinnace' glided on and on
The echoing life slowly engulfed you to a hallucinating slumber

And then

Left on the arid banks 
Where even the carcasses of buffaloes rot disdainfully
You stare at yourself, shocked and wide awake......

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Sitting around the evening campfire
Talking of home and girls and cattle
Eating beans and beef and always dust
Tomorrow's river crossing another battle.

I doubt those tired boys had any idea
The part they were playing just then
That history would tell the story
Of the cattle, the plains and the men.

Of legends and heroes and horses
The bad guys and leather and guns 
Buffaloes, Indians and cow-towns
Of the West, and how it was won....

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Beef 

The name of eating flesh is meat 
But many people have given its name many ways 
If it is from cows and buffaloes then it is beef
Pork is if it comes from pigs 
Chicken and mutton are the other names given to it fondly 
But no another name they could come up with 
When they kill a person 
For his or her eating choice or habit but death 
Life of cow is more precious than a person 
And this horrendous thing 
Can’t be happened anywhere but on this land called India....

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Whirling flakes of fantasy softly tango,
cheek to cheek, or modestly waltzing strangers.
Blizzard whiteout buffaloes moon and starlight,
   cloaking the lovers.

Frozen fountain, brazenly fetching, catching
coins of ice, those stupefied flattened pennies.
Queen of snow and fairies do bluster shavings.
   Breathless the statue.

Snowmen slurry tottering, wayward listing.
Melting, baring, chattering cherub crystals.
Water flowing merrily whistles sport at
   winter’s undressing....

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