Short Deplete Poems

deplete calyx
is weeping from the cloud
kitten Taylor passed

To D Elizabeth R Taylor...

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as long as there be separation 
how then can we ever feel complete 
if God and soul tango dance not as one 
distanced from His heart our joy will deplete...

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Number 10

CORRUPT



Laws and yet more laws show
Show corruption at the door
When less is more sense flow
Deplete with ooze that pours




Leon Enriquez
23 December 2014
Singapore...

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In a game of matching mates
Humble life decorate lonely tree
Wheel reach  deep  dark hole

Flurry of bliss  crisped  leaves
Orchids deplete its tears 
Fallen cloud  stood  frozen
Till sound of  opening knops...

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too soon
this moon

day’s chores
some scores

most not
forgot

deplete
need sleep

morning
warning

disarm
alarm

same old
sixfold

more work
can’t shirk

no fun
undone

work sucks
need bucks...

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Cannot Beat the Beat

Can never be able to beat, "The Beat;"
To ever disavow, deplete or do delete;
Truth will tell,
That is swell,
What I say was always done discrete.

Jim Horn

Ari Melber Show on MSNBC who is
From Seattle....

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Illegal Migrants
Miracle Man
4/19/2024

Their sleeping bags and tents line each street,
making an eyesore of what once was neat.
The thing most unfunny,
we’re giving them money,
while our healthcare resources they deplete.
...

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Giving alms while looking at the recipient’s feet
Was asked why his self esteem did deplete
To which he said ‘I seem to be the giver
Yet God alone is the divine lover
So I look down ashamed
Lest heart be stained’

07-October-2021...

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Heat waves burn the Summer air 
deceit makes it difficult to breathe; 
Deplete my lungs of oxygen 
beat like dog days lies beneath; 

Rush of sultriness over and over 
paintbrush colors a soft breeze; 
Gush of flames constricting 
hush now your pain can ease....

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Mommie do I have to eat these green beans and broccoli?
Mommie do I have to deplete these green beans and broccoli?
Man, mama yo sure is...mean
Makin' me eat them there broccoli and green-beans.......UGH!!!


8/20/19
Written words & arranged music by James Edward Lee Sr.2019©...

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Forward
  My Feet

Advance
  Retreat

Forward 
  My Feet

The Foe
  To Greet

Advance 
  Retreat

Forward
  My Feet

Advance 
  Retreat

The Foe
  Deplete

Forward 
  My Feet

Advance
  Retreat
 
Forward
  My Feet

The Foe
  Delete

Mission
  Complete...

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Wait on and see if rich you be,
Consolation you've received;
Or if you're full and complete,
hunger may soon deplete;
Now may your laughter,keep
As you later mourn and weep;
Will the world speak well of you,
And applaud you to the grave;
Even though t'was ever thus'
Only He can save....

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Wait on and see if rich you be,
Consolation you've received;
Or if you're full and complete,
hunger may soon deplete;
Now may your laughter,keep
As you later mourn and weep;
Will the world speak well of you,
And applaud you to the grave;
Even though t'was ever thus'
Only He can save....

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Open secret, bliss throbs within
Benign magnetic heat
Tranquil stillness, free from thought din
Joy that does not deplete

Rapture grows to peaked height
Cascading day and night
To blissful heart’s delight

None can ferret
Open secret

14-March-2022
Quietus ...

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A month ago life was complete

Now it's torn in two

New hours at work short change life and deplete

The minutes to spend with family are few

My husband growls and moans

In disgust I cry myself to sleep

Money is tight to pay our loans 

And I find myself alone to weep


September 15,2013...

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Sipping doesn't deplete the optimist's natural well of joy.



December 20, 2017, entered in Brian Strand's Late December Premiere Contest
Placed 5th

May 30, 2018, entered in Silent One's Monoku Contest        Placed 1st


June 7, 2022
entered in the Bite Size no. 46 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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The forsaken heart
Is one that cries in pain
And alone
Even in the light
As it is among others.
It is dry
Without the flowing blood
Of another
Beating side by side
To repeat the 
Sounding drumbeat.
It is devoid of life
When deplete of love
As that remains
The main ingredient
For a strong
Eternal life....

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Waterfall gushing
on moss-covered rocks, breaking
up a bluish shine;
tree dangling from wet boulder
crushes the ginger,
to deplete it of its light...
Waterfall playing
a scherzo, ever grant me
this sweet symphony...
 


Entered in Raul Moreno's contest, "Rhythm of the falls" 

Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci...

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Remnants of laughter carry on the breeze
The sounds of the many children I hear
Sounds that inspire and so often please
The sounds that I’ll always hold dear
Sounds of today, that push me to tomorrow
They are sounds of the good in the world
As well, sounds of innocents, deplete of sorrow
The dream lives of all boys and girls...

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Scrambled legs
Tingling fingers
Grayscale of concrete.
Shimmering metal
Dancing air
No energy to deplete.
Rasping breaths
Stomach twisted
Into a crumpled bow.
Quietly shrinking
Girl in a dryer
Shriveled lips of snow.
Lurching throat
Dried up tongue
But nothing will come up,
Scarecrow arms
And glass-shard legs
Are never thin enough....

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Oh, what a Sham, a fragile charade..
A hollow masquerade we choose to parade.
Truth submerged in the depths of deceit..
Masks of deception, veiling hearts deplete.

In the shadows we dance, oblivious to the game..
But within the Sham, souls suffer in shame.
Dare we unmask, reveal our truest self?
Or forever be lost... beyond reach... beyond help?...

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Oh, what a Sham, a fragile charade..
A hollow masquerade we choose to parade.
Truth submerged in the depths of deceit..
Masks of deception, veiling hearts deplete.

In the shadows we dance, oblivious to the game..
But within the Sham, souls suffer in shame.
Dare we unmask, reveal our truest self?
Or forever be lost... beyond reach... beyond help?...

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Life is with halves replete,
No one real thing complete,
As things gladly deplete
And these sadly repeat:
Someone could include heat 
And a drunk wet soil peat 
I : a rock-n-roll beat
And clothes sewn from long sheet,
Because they at last shrink
And go ahead to stink;
My prestige starts to sink…

Things have been incomplete
And often this we meet....

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LIVING IN THE HEAT

Living in the HEAT, isn't something nice and SWEET; or NEAT.

But it is something that'll have you; or I on our FEET wanting to RETREAT away from this HEAT. For truly we cannot BEAT the HEAT.

Because living on the STREET; in this HEAT is something you; or I wishing we can 

DEFEAT without getting DEPLETE like a burnt up piece of MEAT....

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As I walk deplete it ;
Around those spacious skies;
Following me; 
Got it by the unusual sounds;
As my body amazed;
My heart and soul breathing;
I find solitude and oftening gratitude; 
As the rainbow frowned on me; 
Overhead is the promise; 
That I can see that is solitude
-- and I am ever so grateful

10/4/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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