Short Compacted Poems

Procrastination
time well wasted or a gift
for work compacted...

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Dust compacted, formed into bricks
Lain to last as lodged in time
Exposed labours to live in and live on
As labourer becomes dust
Unknown and forgotten...

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snowballs compacted
rolled up, stacked, frozen in place
man’s jewels, a carrot and coal

flurries cling to fur
and shaken loose, tail wagging 
snowball’s freshly unfurling

1/9/2023
Winter Sedoka
Sponsor: Charles Messina...

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My life was found in pain 
I was ransomed for a pen

Never will I permit my soul to ache 
I won't construct  the same mistake
 
I was throbbing everyday
My grief was unheard anyway

Now I will stand compacted 
My aplomb will be contracted...

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The war came quickly
Compacted into a 19 inch box
In full color…At 6PM every night
No re-runs, renewed every year for 11 seasons--
Sitting in semi-light watching death happen--
We waited for victory...
It never came--
We never had the nerve to cancel...

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Thin pale grass
Competing with the
Strong tree roots
Pushed to the surface.

Below the ground
There are reasons.

Heavy clay,
Compacted soil,
Competing
For moisture,
And air.

Below the ground
There are reasons.

Can we cut the roots, 
Remove the grass,
And plant a new garden.

Below the ground
There are reasons....

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Slugs and snails line the highway,
Munching, crunching, drinking fumes;
Early in the morning, late at day.

A tunnel of black ahead looms,
Feasting on diesel, ready to growl;
Into the maw a lucky one zooms.

Compacted inside the giant jowl,
Hooter poised, horsepower stalls;
Bodies meet with metallic howl.

“Fetch my skimmer, freedom calls,
Flying, leaping o’er all that appalls.”...

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Where do fallen leaves go 
before the snow
Fallings sliding slithering tutoring spiraling down 
to the ground
Environmental meltdown
Decompose composite
Frozen solid
Covered by snow
Bio degraded re-arrange molecules particles
Compacted Marsh
Covered over by temperature in snow
To come back in Spring as grass or rose

11/20/19
Written word by James Edward Lee Sr  2019...

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As sandy clouds coalesce
Stardust pulses through the rampant current
And I know not the story
Of fragments washed ashore
Of paltry particles filling the gaps
Of golden grains compacted underfoot

As ghosts that once imprinted the coast
That have long-since been considered

Time passes unevenly

Left in a concealed crevice under the pier to be forgotten
Untouched for four hundred seasons...

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Black softness nestles in his sheen so fab
as warm purrs vibrate his feline aura
Gash-like, a red neck-sash swings a gleaming
heart-shaped pendant, swaying a dangled flash.
Ebon stretches as the midnight creature
elongating his compacted frame, lithe.
Reaching, he uncurls a bounding jaguar
awake to the moon’s abracadabra

(10/31/2019: For my Halloween companion in tonight's sickle moon)...

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VIRTUOSITY
in a
compacted
reverence
a naturalistic
 virtuoso
of
 dazzling artistry

such
childhoid delights
simulationg
the
sensitive touch
tactile
 visible
in the
art of
 articulation
the making
of space
an
intricate
record
of
recognituon
in the
of aptness
of stress
in
a
transient
threshold
of order
traced in
a
random
 pattern

 placenemt
of
 method
of
apparent
ingenuity
of
 patience...

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One may not possess garden space
dwelling in a compacted place
But there’s something all can embrace
that’s the sky in glorious grace.

Look at clouds as they’re drifting by
painting their pictures way up high
Thrill to dance of birds on the wing
hark their melodic twittering.

There’s beauty in the rising sun
or sunset as the night’s begun
So do not fret o’er what was missed
for the sky is a wondrous gift....

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tiny weight of grandma’s parakeet
on my finger
spider leg toes
bones enclosed in skin 
the curved pins the claws
that grip my finger
balancing its wiry weight
of beak and wings

the feathered fan of tail 
compacted 
pulling downward
balances the body full of webs of bones
like veins inside my eye

delicate bones

like grandma herself
thin and fragile
with holy hair
thick and white 
it fans like feathers
in my dreams...

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I am MY TRUE SELF GOD PARTICLES- ENERGY
I was in my true self
Energy
Compiled, compacted amazingly
power composed of God particles
Energy
just such as Him
power composed of God particles
self power composed of God particles
just such as Him
Compiled, compacted amazingly
self power composed of God particles
I was in my true self power composed of God particles

3/3/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2023...

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I feel solidified
Captured in blue-green horizon
They are eternal and faceless
My lungs; brown paper bags deflating
My milk structures are curdling
There are tiny mouths taking microscopic airs
Aerated and heavy as oxygen in a stone sphere
Gaumless and watched by black-ochre shadows circling
Compacted as mud underfoot and crushed
By reaching hands exploring my hollow flesh
Taking me further down and circles of dust
Rosaries in waterlogged,...

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Capri

roofless cubes, spidery with wire,
cakes of azure and enzian;
above at the Villa San Michele
Rilke smiles down at the broken beaches,
at coves of defiant waves, compacted sea

Pompeii

a chessboard of honest stones
open to a sky of hushed shouts;
we huddle in a boned frame
of another life, a stopped day

Napoli

warm and secret, olive-eyed
an infinite beauty makes a new face
as we gaze ape-like from our bus;
an act of moment...

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