Short Classifying Poems

What do you call me:
flower, herb, or weed? I am
a dandelion.


October 2, 2021
entered in the Bite-Size poem Contest #22
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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"Genus" 

taxonomic 
classifying worth
separating the yolk 
from the white
like poets pegged
on a line to dry
still and wet 
behind the ears
years slapped
heartily away
and back into 
the shore 
like tides
to bare feet

hear them cry

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023) 
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Why the tag?
Did I give you a reason,
not to trust me?
why the antagonism?

my intention was never
to create division
friendship, purely friendship
or is even that not allowed?

if not, then say so
don’t be suspicious,
and don’t assume,
because by doing so I am being tagged

and classifying me,
will only reflect badly on you
because in the end 
you never got to know me…...

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Only this;
And a joyousness
Remembering many beautiful, matriarch models
And so you came gently in forgiveness;
Forgiving, allowing the arboreal atonement


I threw my resort upon the heart;
Of my cold unloving mind;
Back into my memories accommodating
That uttermost - that uttermost; 
And the savior was classifying;
The arboreal atonement allowing 




4/10/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©...

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