Short Derailed Poems

Derailed from

Their nest

The mystery deepens

The mockingbird

Stealing the young...

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The Gilas basketball team 
Has derailed the SoKor's dream 
As Philippines reigns supreme....

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a small train derailed
there was no casualty
a millipede

( Inspired by Basho)...

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on a wayward train
upon tracks of emotions
far off hope derails
in the silence of my cries
his love tried to cork my tears


November 24, 2019...

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Violent workings;
Corvid containment;
Prayers for derailed;
I rebuke this pandemic;

5/9/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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There was a dumb dude from LeMains
Who would sit on the tracks of trains.
One day while there he got stuck
And by a speeding train was struck.
His body showed no evidence of brains....

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My wife was once a school bus driver
Brave lady she's still in therapy, a survivor
It's quite a sad tale
At times gets derailed
Aims at kiddies with words I can't decipher...

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A tragedy, a train derailed. 
Not far in deep grief of the scene; 
homeward-bound it so tried, but failed.
Burnt cork smell and images seen 
veiled as they lay upon cold ground.



11/30/2019...

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He wanted to spend a life of chastity             
so off he went to a Jesuit seminary                    
till he saw pretty damsels during communion       
and out the window flew his cherished vocation!...

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doused flame
ruined plans
created dismay 
within 
placed a 
wrench in 
future 
no hope
non at all
remains 
all dreams 
have been
derailed 
the emotional 
train has 
flew of a cliff
crash and burn
gone...

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Pounding each key
like a Fender Rhodes
the computer bent and wailed
Bits and bytes
of encrypted language
messages derailed

Memory freezes
last chance rebooted
restart zero-sum
The riff uncapped
its printout fading
—typeface on the run

(The New Room: 8/6/2023)...

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Hand over fist
Tightly bound mist
Falling change washes
Covering new day UN-derailed

Timelines metabolize truth
Driven skull to shine and buffer
Smoothie abuse, set up new booths!
A concoction of American bliss

Rage to the end of the world
See the bills unfurl
Leverage this beast
Make it complete...

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Derailed, dizzy, drunk, I snore on my floor.
Naked, unshaven, bald I don’t beg for a penny.
Rotten poems, intellectual crap, I'm agnostic.
Warm dialogues, Worms all over me, I'm reckless.
Shivering and shouting, I'm searching for my balls.
Hallucination, Marijuana, dreams, life is a gas balloon....

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Spirit Vessel Elegy by James Edward Lee Sr. 


Decayed lay the vessel, fill with rot;
Derailed and decomposed;
Tilled embalmed yet corpse not;
Dispose of spirit so rose;
It rises you see the truths-self is spies

Soars a Spirit so the Spirit never dies ;


9/19/23
WRITTEN WORDS BY James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©...

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My journey started in a small way..
Walking, jogging, sometimes running.
It has started and stopped,
Been derailed by arid landscapes,
and drowned by self doubt.

While the view is ever changing
And the road can be bumpy,
The journey has been the thing
That stays with me during  bleak times,
And lights the dark parts of my heart....

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Cure, At The End Of Your Rainbow


The heart suffers from an ancient and incurable disease
It’s deception goes unabated unless one learns to make it cease

Its cure is not a secret, though known only by the wise and the few
Its deceit may be derailed, if one dares to utilize its maker’s view

01182015(PS contest, At the End Of Your Rainbow)...

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Enriching knowledge was our scope...

But avarice derailed our friendship...

Ostentation unfurled through your face...

Hurricanes of emotion...

The island boy devoured your soul with deceptions..

So u casted mistrustful eye on me...

Am now cut to the quick...

Will however give you that tiny victory but that will be for a short while.....

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I shouldn't be here today, my plans got derailed.
So now I sit, eat and do nothing.
I'm a huge void.
People talk, I smile and I say yes I'm doing good.
All the while I want to say screw you and leave me alone. 
I feel like a baby now, being watched over, 
people scared to even let me pee
But when this started, when the signs were there, no one cared....

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Forty years ago today
Was when John Lennon died.
The world was shocked and saddened
Watching peace and death collide.

My dad was in the hospital – 
His triple bypass failed – 
So while all John’s fans were mourning,
My entire life derailed.

Two deaths forever intertwined
With tragic disbelief
Will always bring me, on this date,
Back to that searing grief....

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Suddenly auto-disconnect entered
-	Like a mechanical mal-function
All too soon, I felt smothered
-	System shut down at this junction

This train is moving too fast
-	I keep applying the brakes
But I know this can’t last
-	I don’t have what it takes

Though I’m feeling slightly derailed
-	Tied to previous emotions
My heart left the trail
-	Lost in all the commotion...

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Somewhere in the fog is Chaucer's prologue
to those Canterberry tales.
Ms. Layton I must thank for storing it
in my memory bank which of late seems
to have paled.
No offense to Mr. Chaucer but it's way past
time to toss her before this old brain is derailed.
For some day soon I may stutter with so much
extra brain clutter but Chaucer's prologue
it  seems I have nailed....

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Combing through the carnage
Questions outnumber answers
Derailed if dwell on the details 
Will we forfeit all our advances?

Easy to get singularly focused 
On second guessing decisions 
Better to not ruminate on regrets
Since the past has no revisions 

Power in pivoting to the present 
As a new path has been charted 
Final destination still unknown
But in a better place than we started...

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MY DREAMS STARED AT ME IN MY PERIPHERAL VISION…
FLICKERS OF DESIRE CIRCULATED THROUGH MY BLOOD VESSEL...
DREAMS INTUNE WITH ME, FIRE IN MY BELLY….
SPIRIT OF FEAR THEN CAME TO PARTY WITH ME….
DESIRE OF DREAM DERAILED EVERY SECOND…
MILLIONS OF FIRE CRACKERS UNSTRINGED THROUGH MY FINGER TIPS…
DARKNESS ENGULFED ME LIKE DEATH’S SHADY BLACK ABODE…
MY DREAM WORLD NOW MY PLAY GROUND….
A VICTIM OF FEAR…....

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In a place full of technicalities,
And immorality,
Many search for financial immortality,

Few fight feelings of gravity,
Unable to agree with reality,
Another casualty, accepted casually,
Blind faith of causality?

Bad or good,
Yet not so simple,
Sword of shield,
Choice is instrumental,

Black and white, are details,
On track, not derailed,
Subliminal messages make things seem,
But where's the grey area in between?...

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A delayed train 
     and uncooperative weather 
derailed his plans 
to seek forgiveness 
     for his mistake 

now, nerves frayed 
cold rain 
  hammers down  
     his best suit and shoes 
         no longer pristine
his floral apology crumpled
  
just one disaster after another 



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Sorry wasn't sure where to put this bit.... This is my first ever entry in poetry soup!...

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