Short Desiccate Poems

pale desiccate strand
solemn dirge of the Pharaohs
shrouded by tourists...

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you desiccate life 
my heart melts in your desert… 
drink my oasis...

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desiccate fountain
long legged dog urinates
mist inside the bowl


3/19/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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Fish dewatered delicious
is sucked dry with salt 
its flesh assaulted
rung out, and dried stark stiff.

Wishes like fishes rise in expectation
that hopes and dreams will flourish
but knock-backs, rebuffs and rejections
desiccate dreams with onslaught of salt,
shrivelling wishes, wizen to salt wish....

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Hold on!
Hold on a little longer 
Please don't burn to ashes and desiccate 
Hold on a little longer
Because this is not yet enough for us
Like long starry nights, beneath a star's fall
A child dreams home, home of happiness
And if the word 'forever' was my life;
"I would have wished for you"
Forever to be drowning in love.....

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Rendered seed concealed in Love's nest
Tendered sapling fondling mother's breast
Adolescent twig fluttering with pubescent zest
Immature leaves on mating quest
Maturing frond passing coupling test
Cherished branches sprout; hearth's bough dressed
In due time, seasoned fruit; perpetuity's crest
Stale, desiccate limbs; vitality's inquest...

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When you are in your emotional healing journey
You need a moral support than criticism
I have learned that the culprits 
are the closest to you,
These souls could suck out life out of you
And leave you to desiccate and still condemn you.

Hold on
Don't give up
The process might be alien to you
But you are making a progress because you have
Identified the bad seed.
Be healed....

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Shed on that certain kind of warmth
You give the waters that washed away our footsteps

Illumine the dark leaves of our past
Blown away by the indifferent breeze.

Desiccate the grass that invited conversations
But leave the roots unscorched. 

I prayed to Autumn to blow away my pains
But Winter entertained me instead.

I won’t let Spring visit me
Until you burn down her cold heart, Summer....

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Inevitable Transformation



                            Despite human lust to remain human in all

                            aspects and norms

                            Timelessness will desiccate primeval bones

                             then alter sentient forms...











Penned: 05/05/2022
             6:51 p.m.
             Lake Worth
             Florida USA...

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Memories became trapped in the shade of an eclipse,
Light that they once held gone, buried in feelings of transgressed sin. 
All hope bled out of me through the scars in which you had left.
   Slowly my heart started to shrivel and desiccate from within.



*”Exposed in Darkness.” is a four-line verse taken from my original poem, “The Falling.” Date: December 2nd, 2020. Intended for the entry of the Liberum Divisa 3 contest.*...

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