Short Corralled Poems

white strands out to sea
maroon roots cerise corralled
oysters secrets pearls...

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Thoughts about Thoughts
1/11/2016

Thoughts kept corralled, wear your brand,
But once shared, they pasture on open range
Becoming vulnerable to any unscrupulous cowboy 
Possessing a running iron;
Tom
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brilliance bona fide in redolent skies
keen red submerging, clementine twilight
sunflowers show-offs of the waning sun
wedged within burnt orange escarpments
swifts of volcanic horizon in desert crags
old West crush corralled in surround-hugs
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Kittens here kittens there, kittens, kittens everywhere!
Tabby cats with stripes that laugh and ooze and sing.
Kittens coming in and out with a zigzag and a zing.
Kittens in a pumpkin, not corralled in any way.
Kittens running around crazily today, hooray!...

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Maybe it’s the gravity of your eyes 
always pulling me in, 
goosebumps and deja vu prickling;
Nothing matters when I’m with you; 
Electric pull and my pulse jumps;
Try and pry apart attraction 
instead I become more metallic; 
Corralled by the force, you’re magnetic....

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If my thoughts are to be mine alone
embracing utterance cannot be an option.

Only thoughts kept corralled, wear my brand,
and once uttered, they pasture on open range.

Becoming vulnerable to any unscrupulous cowboy
who possesses a running iron.



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Coerced and Corraled In A Cage

What seems to be apparent  was the stage,
That we had discovered regarding the rage,
And from recorder,
Personality disorder,
Both coerced and corralled in a tight cage.


Jim Horn


This seems to have caused some of Kavanaugh's
desire for revenge....

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Bow down to the better than thous

All us treated like sheep and cows

Corralled and penned and strapped inside

While those on high just break our pride

Whether you're a son or daughter

Prepare yourself for the slaughter

We're all the same to those that bleeds us

It's time to bite the hand that feeds us...

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Having A Thought 
Miracle Man
2/25/2025

Thoughts remain in the delivery room
until the tongue gives them birth.
Many thoughts go full term
but some are birthed premature.

Thoughts kept corralled I hold title to,
but once shared they graze on open range
becoming vulnerable to any unscrupulous 
cowboy possessing a running iron.






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Admired in fear we seek to tame
Our mutual assured destruction
Better not to roil the mane
Flying breath defies direction

He sought to run away
Snared again in torrid protest
Feigned obey your silly play
Shadows of his former tempest

They bleat and beat their chests
Corralled today a winsome gale
With every look he still protests
Purest handsome finest male...

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Surging he rode the rogue wave, rendering righteous destruction in his path.  With lethal intent, he corralled his quarry in the bay. The serene cool crystal waters soon turned crimson red with the blood of the innocent and vulnerable.   

brutal hearts brazen
emotional tsunamis
slay in the shallows

Rhymes & Reasons Poetry Contest (Haibun)
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Written 18/06/2020...

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In the early hours
Thoughts turn crystalline 
In the silky silent
Nothingness 

In the dark field
Of endeavour
With no opposition
They gather

No longer
Corralled by barks
Of Distraction
Or fences of frustration 

Exploring 
My hopeful mind
Grazing on the joy
Of freedom

Bleating with
Poetic possibilities 
Until the luscious light
Of sunrise awakens

In the early hours...

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Come let's explore.
Children three to four
Dump toys from a toy box on to the floor.
Delighted shouts come from their cores
As treasures lost have been found makes
Their hearts soar.
Wait. There's more
Happy sounds coming from the bedroom 
Through the open door
Lets me know my children will be busy for
Hours with this score.
Of course clean up will be a chore.
Unless I keep them corralled so they can't 
Deplore....

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In this line of life a parallel listed standing in realities trying to breathe
Enclosed in a circle surrounded by people who are broken
Corralled in perplexities trying to find my due fond memories
My misgivings are taken being toyed with spiritually broken
I was just a token just standing here hopin
I'm such a mess tattered torn yet I am bless

1/7/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Fragment of dreams       
 
When I awoke it was still raining
the roof still leaking
a sense of emptiness.
          Not dreaming much
horses galloping across the Pampas
           flaring nostrils
            flying manes.
Too close to a dusty town
Corralled
Broken to nil 
sad eyes look to the Pampas
Yes, 
                sailors by the shore
seeing the sea
                 the far ocean
they shall not sail on again....

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it's not just water that fills our ocean
buoyant as that may be
it's more of matter over mind
anchoring aground  
when bluebirds no longer sound

I still hear them  
echoing through the silence of time
a coded coo corralled in unconscious

intertwined  
a slow dance of death

unrehearsed
shadows aloof

to die
upon the sword
but as one

blood wrung wrists
washing away in the waves
wreaking a lumpish shore...

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Skin transformed to silver beneath the sweep of leaves, 
Peach and nitrate in the moon glow and the shaven silhouette; 
Filtered through the branches, latticed on her breast, 
Polychromatic prisms corralled in pin-prick beads of sweat. 

Summer heat and darkness enticed us ever closer, 
Bathed in pallid moonbeams and stardust memories; 
Laying down together, we as one upon the soil, 
And the heavens smiled upon us as we dreamed beneath the trees......

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Black lace drapes 
her sullen shoulders 
alabaster illusions beguile 
as moist mouths mount anticipation 

teeth grind the collar 
controlled 
corralled breaths hush 

honey dipped suckels 
carress her wings 
engulfing her breed 
choking along with our greed 
as our needs loudly sing 

Black lace gripped 
then ripped  
apart 
bosoms blossom 
and her bud blooms 

desires quench as lips lick 
and lap in luxury 

I'll be coming soon...

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A crocodile-hide sunset,
a ferrous squall;
somethings boiling up there.

Storm gulls
beat mosquito clouds away
as they flee.

Ten wild horses corralled in a dumpster
hammer my fearless heart.

An anemic sky gulps for breath
near or far
a brawling trample scuffs the earth. 

The dimming light drips strings 
of gelid spittle.
Vaporous stalactites shred an acrid air.

Now a ferrous rain cuffs and pelts.
I hide my face from its eyes,
follow a screaming ghost
into the house....

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