Short Button Up Poems

shushed severe with look
button locked together lips —
a withdrawn secret

6/8/2020...

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During the cold as the trees button up
Spending time, finding heat unbuttoned
Your comfort to reach for in the night
Warming us up, frost standing no fight...

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3/10/12

mild weather ahead
so says the news report
except for the wind
that frozen voice from the north
button up then till april

conjure now green vision
how happy those spring sounds
tulips thrusting up
refreshing smell of spring rain
just a winter’s nap away...

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a pleiades

Back off, speedy cat, wait for the word;
Brakes on, until the blessing be heard.
Button up, fat lips, let us give thanks.
Brother, do you remember the Manx?
Busy with gobbling, he failed to pray.
Buzzsaw, the dog, determined to play,
Bob-tailed cat, end result, on that day....

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brisk cold winds settles
across the nation so wide
autumn days are flows in
~
sweat shirt woolen pants
big over coat button up
whosshs- burr cold outside
~
winter days has flows in
brisk cold winds blows on nation
fall gone winter here



11/26/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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No big $10 dollar words
No attempt to parade my mind
I came, I saw, I conquered
I'm the easy kind

I'd like to think
the world is round
but surely it is not
Or I'd be sliding all around
and I see no curved ground

So button up your pompous mouth
It's time for you to be real
The simple truth is easy to read
It's what you really feel....

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Coming

And then again you are alone
The bird is gone, a bird has flown
When you made the fatal slip
Forgot to button up your lip
And other than a fatal flaw
Something that you never saw
Guess you lost your grip

But coming soon another light
Candle burns with her’s alight
Better sharpen up your sight
Pretty as a bird in flight
Another timeless slip
accept her is my right

Don Johnson...

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Close your eyes and see a loch, the spot I  go: 
icy waters swirl beneath my wooden boat,
tall surrounding hills are blanketed in snow,
lashed by hail, I button up my winter coat,
Nessie glides and fishes in her world below.
Will she choose today to surface, maybe float?
If she's friend or foe, I long to see her face!
Visits only in my head, I love this place...

for Carolyn's My Place contest...

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Get up,
Now, shut up.

Strap up,
Zip up,
Lace-up,
Button up,
Now, go and level up.

Why are you looking down?
And why are you wearing that ugly frown?

Look at you, looking like a clown.
Stop playing; this is not a circus, so stop fooling around.

Get on up now,
And find out how.

Put down the 'Weary Willie' frown.
Now get up so you can get down.

Go get it,
Be invested in it.

So, shut up
And get up!

Up, up, up!...

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Button up your metaphors;
Zipper up your lip.
Shoot from any place you want
Other than the hip.

Writing what you really feel
By some will seem a crime,
Especially when posted
Like your others, all in rhyme.

Don’t express conflicting views.
Follow the advice
Of staying on the sidelines
And avoid all thinning ice.

Sometimes words can make a point
That’s better left unsaid
And on occasion, poems are better
When they aren’t read.
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