Short Derailing Poems

learning piano
train of thought derailing notes
window flower grows...

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Thoughts of her rob my slumber.
She burglarizes my rest.
She pervades my life,
into my dreams.
She is the locomotive
derailing my train of thought.
I have no reign over myself.
My infatuation grows daily.
In this I lose control
as I watch my heart wander....

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Forgiveness undercuts the pain 
growing fruit beyond the brain’s 
ability to see in full.....
Spiralling a web of care 
that wipes away  
the hate in fear.  
Binding up a broken soul
forgiveness fills the gaping hole.
Derailing evil from its path,
forgiveness 
lightens up the heart....

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BUILDING BLOCK

Temporal they are higher power,
unveiled to me who are temporary obstacle
 that's temporal derailing me for abating power
If this be meant to be compliance unequivocal
God has the  triumphant power 
Always to turn around man's power
For humanity strong tower 
Will fall
When El Shaddai calls
Governmental bricks will fall

6/11/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025...

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Lunch with a friend 
Conversation flows
A ring of the phone
Our talking froze

She chooses to answer
I look annoyed
Our time together
Has now been destroyed

I stare at my plate
While being ignored
Five minutes pass
I'm getting bored

Was the call business?
No, just idle chatter
Derailing the mood
For an irrelevant matter

Keeping my calm
An impossible task
a little respect
Is all that I ask

Tethered to tech
Disconnecting us all
Harming a friendship
All over a call...

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All 8 billion of us
have mental illness
some 
subtly 
so
others profound
its a matter of degree
of shade..

some reach out - adapt
become chefs-CEOS- presidents
others curl inward
cannibalize themselves
crapping out 
psychopaths  
creeping about
raking fangs along 
our plump peace cloud... 

We've emptied asylums
population at critical mass
somebodies gonna crack
lay twisted neck upon the tracks
derailing society
plucking lives
off the vine
before 
they're
ripe...

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Her life like a horse
A striping stallion
Breath taking force
Overseen by a falcon

A fickle terrain
And bipolar forecast
Derailing her train
Distorting her past

A thunderous tide
Bellows as it rolls
With enticing eyes
A story unfolds

Gripping the clutch
With her pinky finger 
White candy, her crutch
Soft sugar and stinger

Briskly trotting
A tight rope beneath
Tripping, falling
A pool of grief 

Barely afloat
Gasping for air
Just one more boat
To get here to there...

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