Short Calculated Poems

Look before you leap,
The hole is too deep....

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the neophyte
a calculated effort
in every detail




posted on August 20, 2018...

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Rolling 
Capricorn style;
You always play to win;
Remain cold and calculated;
Work hard....

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I looked for love in all quadrants
scroll all imaginary routes
  only calculated the perimeter of solitude...

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Provoking
Retched 
Offensive
Vixen 
Odious 
Calculated 
Asinine 
Tempting
Insulting
Voluptuous
Empty inside

© Stacy Lynn Stiles...

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prowler in the night, slow and calculated
your eyes already have their hooks in me



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on September 30, 2022...

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Miss Armitage entered Calculus class
To stand amidst a disorderly eruption
And she immediately confiscated a catapult
Deemed to be a weapon of math disruption...

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Where is the lightning?
Rains calculated thunders!
Roars across the skies scape;
Treacherous abrasive storms;
Drench righteously;

1/11/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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Our lives were always at high risk in that small town of loonies. 
Ironically, we still take calculated risks in cities;
Where we found our true selves, no longer need each other's pities....

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bright sky darkening
betrayal by subterfuge ...
cruel aftermath






11/5/2022

When betrayal from those you trust is combined with calculated deceit, the aftermath can be most cruel....

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My moves, CALCULATED.
My motives, ULTERIOR.
My thoughts FIXATED...

...on getting you nearer




Note: This is inspired by Robert Greene's book " The Art of Seduction" ...

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A wonderful meal then a beautiful dessert
wrong motives hidden by the exciting concert
an outing quite mysterious
sponsored by a mind so devious
just for the calculated possibility of a bedroom insert....

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My sister Lucile sold her acoustic guitar
To buy a hot motor scooter with a sidecar
Her bad luck, they soon separated
On which she hadn’t calculated
But I said, “For her that’s definitely a par!” 

Written July 15, 2022...

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Do I have to talk about death for you to listen?
Do I have to scream for you to hear?
Why should I tell you life's secrets
When all that's left is to destroy.

Everything is calculated,
In it's place and time.
All of you is sold or traded
Down to the last dime....

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calculated demise
breathless eyes
encircling flies
rancid
sun
rise
breathe me lies
broken palm
of
dreams
escape from me
learn me to teach
beyond
my figertips voice
there is no
other
choice
part
of
me
dies
unending
calculated demise
?...

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Do I have to talk about death for you to listen?
Do I have to scream for you to hear?
Why should I tell you life's secrets
When all that's left is to destroy.

Everything is calculated,
In it's place and time.
All of you is sold or traded
Down to the last dime....

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Systematic destruction
It’s your high
Setting fires ablaze 
Never a thought of harm
Ones who you touch lay in waste by your decision 
Calculated time 
Something a miss 
How it plays out 
The months crossed out 
Shot up in a pattern 
The pattern of your destruction...

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Perhaps
extremely
rigid
sentences
never
indicate the
calculated
kinetic
energy
that you are trying to impart.

Perhaps.

Eventually insanity wins out
Relegating
Sentences
Indubitably
Frivolous and
Leaving
Any and all superfluous
Grandiosity
Empty of purpose....

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The gravity of freedom,
  the weight of space and time

Above the calculated noise, 
  the wisdom of the Mime

Truth reveals a vacuum,
   where silence waits to live

As words describe what minds can’t see
  —and imagery forgives

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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No one
not even
the rain
has hands
as small as yours
when you shake your head
your hair moves like
the limbs of willows
and that certain
motion of your fingertips
can stir the well of my soul
your electric love
calculated to please
is like
a ring
of trees on fire
around a pond of ice...

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Listen to poem:

he said it
like a promise
a coded message
one word
timed just so
to test the waters
to lay the groundwork
to plant the seed
deliberate
calculated
an arrow shot 
at her heart



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~CITYLIGHTS~ 2021

AP: 2nd place 2021

Posted on August 24, 2021...

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A young woman’s back-bones
are never bent for no reason
lips are not shapely for no purpose
she carries no bag for no intention
swims through air as queen hunter
for no calculated bright reason
if the hair is absent, eye lashes short
when those in streets look back not
then which God created her wrong?...

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If one, then two and three understand my pain.
  Like five and six feelings at a single moment.
Four is where I am at, half way too eight, and
  two times a problem. So let me count down;
three, two, one, and stop on zero. Which cannot be.
  So let it be known that problems carefully calculated 
can be solved....

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MR.F
Coerce and seductive is he
Dread like the comb and bee
It tears one who admires
Who can say it is required

Crave not to see it calculated
Else it gets you frustrated
Don’t with it be on table
Cos like water you become unstable

Who are you? Fear!
Oracle of tears-fear
He ask whom shall I chastise
O! Don’t be prize...

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Like glass jars
fresh from the canner...
neatly forced into rows
by content and date...

like this are the rows
of carefully calculated,
labeled and catalogued
pockets of my mind

Peaches cannot sit
beside green beans

Soft thoughts cannot
be in with math data

And please, put each file
back exactly where you found it...

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