Short Cast Off(A) Poems

I am shucked and peeled
A husk of what I once was
Cast off--abandoned...

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Soft scent of the night 
as lilacs cast off their fragrance 
layers on my body...

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Time to shed your skin
Cast off the old
Transform
Realize your gifts
The impossible becomes possible...

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Underground waiting

joys of green seeking free sky

puffs cast off and fly 


-by Edlynn Nau
©April 15, 2019...

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Aged,gnarled rooted in him
Fallen,but not cast off are you

As wild boughs engrafted thereto
Fallen,but not cast off are you...

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Since Mexico cast off the French
Make sure a Corona to clench
So forgo the Merlot
On Cinco de Mayo
And buy beer which can a thirst quench...

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Joanne the sun
Glow with the stun
To take your place
cast off for fun

When all you do
is bathe to some
When asked for looks
you bask to come...

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Joanne the sun
Glow with the stun
To take your place
cast off for fun

When all you do
is bathe for some
When all your looks
are basked to come...

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Alone with my thoughts,
  together in this moment

The light cast off its shadow
  —all prophecy reclaimed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)...

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Sun beams down smiling;
  tempting us to cast off cares 
  and play in lively sea

  Gaze into rockpools;
  lunch on blustery sand dunes
  and then home for tea...

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~RESET~

When those heavenly bodies
Stand before you?
Those the righteous embrace!!!
Those the wicked cast off
Reset

10/18/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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Lined up like third-graders 
on the fence of a deserted ballfield
after a week of Indian summer – 
cast-off sweaters, mittens, coats.
From a treetop, birds recite
the morning lesson....

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I stepped up I stepped out 
my feet are covered my feet are not 
I come across this Holy ground 
my socks and sandals I cast off now

3/13/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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It's hard to feel like
your growing up when you're moored
- sheltering at home.

I am patiently
waiting to take the helm of my
life's navigation.

My life, so far, is
prelude - I long to cast off 
and exit the slip....

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It is time
Too long in bed
I stretch
Cast off the bonds of Hypnos

Cold white sheets retreat
I am free
My head lifts
Sun caresses my face

I rise, standing tall
Naked for all to see
Beauty reborn
It is spring...

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this mystic arc
above the bridge
fogged rims
from river’s edge 
alluring eyes
to wind down
the fragmented
edges and plunge 
upon its icy depths 

my eyes 
cast off
like shadows 
towards
an ashen sky 
instead 

(Bus scribbles)...

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pale moon rises in vermilion skies
ashes and screams erupt from the pyre
lusterless eyes beseech me to join their throng
lifeless hands stretch forth from the fire
imploring me to cast off my innocence
daylight rips me from the delusion ~  pallid and afraid...

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I will pay no more
I declare myself bankrupt
I cannot afford
the interest rates
All collateral is spent
so I must renege

So weary, so tired
of bearing these false burdens
Now I cut the cords
I cast off the load
and lay it before Thy feet
The debt is cancelled......

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It’s time to
		          Blast off
		        To cast off
		     Cares and fears, 
	            Snares and tears.
		  
                          It's time
                   To heal, unwind 
		  To steel your mind
		   And steal the show
		         Now GO!...

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Blessed herbs cut cords,
Short circuit spells, cast off for 
Clockwise voyages

From fire elementals
The dead receive their summons

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I was given the prompt of writing a tanka with these words or phrases: 
elementals , blessed herb , short circuit

Bah...

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Smile Cinderella
The high prince is coming soon
when stars dance with moon
There's yet magic to be found
so cast off those lonesome blues

Destined for dancing
in your dazzling glass slippers
Hearts were made for love
at the hour they feel magic
Plum dusk, Cinderella, smile...

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deeper than the train of thought,
possibilities come to ought,
mis-red facts come up short,
beware the siren charmers,
come back to waters calmer,
good on ya Joe me-thought,
put on ya tin of armour,
cast off the line that caught.

re 'A parteners tale'
Joe Maverick....

Don...

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Dear patience, hold my wetted tongue,
And rouse my restless soul to speak;

Let not the vipers in my veins
Betray the sound of my heart’s beat;

Let not this captive loneliness
Ensnare the light that dwells within;

Cast off the serpents of the night,
And let the hope of heaven in....

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When sunlight breaks 
Above my neighbour's roof 
And bare branches in a breeze 
Make light dance before my eyes.
And when I hear the blue tit's pip 
Below the slowly brightening skies, 
Then Spring has woken from her sleep, 
Cast off the last cold winter sheet 
And soon she will arise....

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For tomorrows sacred dawn

The world awaits her birth reborn

Mankind resists the turn of tides

Where answers to the Lie's reside

I stand sometimes on moral ground

Ashamed by humanity's failings found

Yet in my heart and strong belief

I cast off the black and refuse to grieve!...

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