Short Deftly Poems

soft, malleable
manipulated deftly
hardened in a kiln...

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A ceaseless struggle
Deftly weaves us
Into a mess of manipulation....

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Listen to poem:

bees are quick thinkers
matching speed of apes and men
deftly find sweetness...

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Misty mornings drew us in
Where footprints deftly shod within
The steps of heart we took to find
The beating of eternal kind...

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A Soup poet wrote a love sonnet
She should have kept under her bonnet
Though deftly composed
Her love was exposed
And she can't put her finger on it...

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A lady so much older than I 
Deftly signalled a path from her thigh
Like a wrinkle in thyme
Something started to climb
Hmmph!  I forgot to zip up my fly!...

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Deeply, dangerously, 
daringly, darkly
defiantly, deadly
deftly, dumbly

disgustingly dis-guarded

10/8/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020...

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Philly in pink haze

Skyscrapers tucked deftly
behind a string of trees

car trucking along Girard
unaware of amaranth mist
slowly adjourning into dark...

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The gift that is given is given in vain.
The loss is incurred by having to explain
What the present is and why it is hers
The acceptance of which she deftly defers
Thus avoiding, yet causing, much heartfelt pain....

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“You play words like an instrument”
someone once said
Each vowel as a whole note
to consonants wed

High praise from a seeker
deftly looking for more
New songs in the making
—words singing du jour

(The New Room: March, 2023)...

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Spider deftly climbs on by,
Quickly moves on toward the fly.
Ugly, arrogant arach,
In he steals for the attack.
Silently devours his prey,
Hungry still, he moves away.
Enter bored and grumpy cat:
Death to spider, whack and splat!...

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When darkness styled me for a while
He deftly like a surgeon broke the spell
Begin we dropping dangled from a chute
From above we land one step from hell

Remember … You jumped and pulled the ripcord to start the journey...

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Francine, of contests,

the sullen cause the bitey claws,
as the proud poet seeks a place,
jerking open mental doors,
encompassing mental flaws,
blind true judgement, deftly insures,
who gets the honored place?
perhaps?

Don Johnson 24-july-11...

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Delirium delves deeply
Deeply dense
Derivatively dying
Dancing deliriously
Driving deeply densely

Happily hastily 
Honeyed homeliness

Lying loneliness
Levitating loveliness

Delirium doubly
Dealing deftly deathly
Deeply delving deliriously....

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Teacher and students 
Sitting slumped in impossibly rigid chairs
Staring at 
Shadows creeping deftly into
Corners never considered
Classes never attended
Vacations never enjoyed 
Wedding bells never rung and the
 Glorious reality that
“Only the good die young.”...

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Moths flutter 
anxious
Windows prevent 
entry
Saturday 
Turkey remains
reheating
Dark falls upon us
plump moon sliver blushing
Stars race into view
In patterns 
familiar
Another sunset
missed
In too busy
Moments
Changing leads
Blindly
Deftly
Oblivious...

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Listen to the light that so deftly surrounds you.
Like the night it holds onto everything, it holds on to you.
Watch and wait and listen for the sounds you are bound to hear,
Sit down on the rain and turn an ear, just one ear,
So that you will hear the sound in the light....

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Zero turn, dual stick,
deftly blasting grass with a high speed hover deck:
very slick!

Without delay,
warping time, phasers on trim, trek
away!

At last,
hope-you-dont-wreck
fast!

Zero turn, dual stick,
warping time, phasers on trim, trek
fast!
...

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The moonless night that enhances light 

Of the stars and all their clusters 

We all delight in this joyous sight

And the reverence that it musters

A tapestry for the eyes to see

So deftly woven in the sky

The majesty of this imagery

Will inspire life as time drifts by...

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I’ve been so many people in this lifetime.
Each tethered to the last - a lifeline,
Connecting me to my selves
As I deftly delve
Deep, and wild,
Free
And beguiled.
Even fish themselves
Swimming continental shelves
Marvel at this little heart of mine.
I’ve been so many people in this lifetime....

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words hurled 
from a bitter tongue
deftly flung 
across a tranquil pool

cruel and biting 
pebbles ricochet
leaving rippling scars
across a heart

throes of pain 
from glancing blows
verbal stones 
you chose to toss

skimming emotions 
eyes swimming 
with caromed tears
echoing of loss...

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true feelings 
concealed craftily
beneath the sheath 
of saccharine psyche 

fragile fantasy 
of self sanguinity 
fostered
by colors 
of chameleon skin

spurious emotions
sprawl surreptitious
pretentiously 
paraded skillfully
away from 
edge of reason
epitomize deftly 
camouflaged ego
...

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Winter was years ago
we are  plagued by the sonnets of the Sun
all our yesterdays a furnace of heat was brewing
Celluloid viewfinders of more pleasant vistas
appear deftly
Tall Ships frozen in the Arctic
and the clouds azure in the Mediterranean
We are refugees from industrialisation
and deforestation...

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Feathery frosted brilliance 
reflect bended prism color
Shaping mindful thoughts 
as they float and deftly hover

A fleeting chilling prance
Falling faintly from above
Swiftly shaping blankets 
of icy liquid love

Silent echoed sound  
between wind swept drifts
A melody of fallen flakes
released from heavens grip...

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erratic affairs muddle mindsets
confront life with unlike aspects
can’t let the wiseacre tell a lie 
I cried the day the music died
fractals repeat their eternal patterns
like fairy tales forever and after 
chanciness of life unravels
alter egos by-gone in travels
early on pace your time deftly
and scrawl your own bio wisely...

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