Short Deteriorating Poems

gnashed teeth
and battery flavored asbestos
& so open minded
that its fallen out
a Chernobyl sneeze
deteriorating
the gestalt...

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Heaven
              Celestial, Delightful 
         Opening, Promising, Giving
Kingdom, Paradise, Fantasyland, Utopia
      Decaying, Deteriorating, Ebbing
               Wounded, Abused
                         Earth...

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deteriorating mind - remnants of time clasped in wrinkled hands


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A Pick  a Picture Contest
Hosted by James Edward Lee Sr.
Based on Image 2
Placed 1st
30th March 2019...

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one day
we will die
lifeless in this
realm
deteriorating heap
of flesh and bones
then why
why not
conjure the audacity
to question every thing
you already exist
in a realm of infinite
possibilities
explore

aug 8 2016
monday 10.18 am...

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Brightness fading
Time takes its toll

Green encroaches the outer shell
Putrid smells clouding heads

Weak and beaten 
Lifeless and broken
Structure deteriorating 

One last adventure 
A final memory 

Boxes waiting to be filled
A final resting place...

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Breathing tedious life into a heedless cadaver,
 Peering over barbed wire to see the edge of never,
 Building on the ashes of love that branded the heart painfully slow,
 Deteriorating hopes plunge deep to the abysmal stillness only received once below....

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I sit inside this jar
Watching through the glass
As life proceeds without me

I sit inside this jar
Waiting for nothing
My ambitions aimless

I sit inside this jar
Wasting...
Decaying...
Deteriorating...

Soon
I will be nothing
But dust
At the bottom
Of this jar...

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The seen and unseen
we are: Forehead Eye
awakened slowly
or else the burn
would annihilate
therefore—the graces;

Sons of God
in His image created
we are a Universe Body,
and yet

we limit awareness
to cells deteriorating

that which is
immortal
and ever
conscious…....

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Time is a road.
We move forward and backwards;
sometimes we move at the same pace,
different speeds, while other times we collide.
Progressing or deteriorating as humans,
we're all travelers through time,
trying to understand how and why we are moving
up and about, like eternal pendulums........

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Everytime I pray
Everytime I try
Situation remains the same 

Everytime I shed tears
Everytime I put my brain to work
Conditions keeps deteriorating

Everytime I zonk out my energy
Everytime I crack the nuts
State of affairs stays at the insitu

What the  is life anyway
It is ups and downs...

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I hear the walls starting to 
break.  Creak crack.  It's 
starting...do I have enough 
cement to save this? Sheer will 
alone can't hold it up.  After it 
breaks will any one want to put 
it back up.  This could be the 
last chance to save this wall.  
Try as I may nature will have 
the final call.  But for this wall 
I'm giving my all....

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My soul has been deteriorating
beneath the tattoo of life.
The stains have left behind
an antagonizing belief of love in my veins.
Pain is ripping at my skin,
tears are drying out my blood.
Fear is cloning a shadow
to trick my emotions,
to see an imprint of the smile I once had.
My cry is turning into
a seasonal habit of depression;
in the mind of the heart....

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Weary eyes gazed to the sky.
Pleading for the sun to beam a hope of comfort.
Mind wandering in the midst of wind.
As to why he was paying for his father’s sin.
Petite hands trembling. 
As he fumbled in bewilderment.
Skinned down to the naked bone.
A feeble body diminishing suddenly, 
amongst a memory leisurely deteriorating. 
With only the remembrance of purple leaves....

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Chaos of mind Eating, inching, scratching, crawling. 
Deteriorating the tissue of my mind. 
Enveloping miasmic corporeal vibrations. 
Sounds that stretch, twist, and creak. 
Leaking emissions evaporation a contaminate. 
Eyes a window attached to the mind the trenches. Elaborated around the voices eating, itching, scratching crawling. 
Is my sanity dissolved into chaos made impartially?...

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Take 5-
A step back
Your distortion of reality
Deteriorating subconsciously
Unable to distinguish fact from fantasy
It’s not so bad –
Living in your imagination
What’s real or a hallucination
My mind is trampled with anticipation
Body facing ablation
Tortuous mind, its obligation
To dissipate the stagnation
Of a creative mind-
Obliteration of the finest
But hell, my own mind is biased...

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I'm deteriorating.
You don't know how little I eat, 
how much I ****,
that I use drugs.
You see me- behaving quite naturally,
doing the things I need to do to prove:
 I'm alive. 

I'm alive, but for how long?
I turn my lips upward to pretend the signals aren't there.
My heart fluctuates and pulsates off beat-
my internal metronome needs repair.
I'm out of breath.
Am I out of life?...

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Like an endless death 
Every day I feel as if I’m deteriorating 
I can feel my soul degrading 
Make it stop

I’m getting mad
It hurts too much
Like 1000 paper cuts and such
Make it stop

The mask that has to go up
In order to get through the day
I want it all to go away
Make it stop

The pain of opening my eyes
My patience is growing thin
The lack of emotion is growing in
Make it stop....

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More salt, more sugar
More sour, more sweet

More beats, more energy
More cravings, more addiction 

Bitter blood, sweet blood 
Diluted blood, thick blood

Screaming vessels, stenotic vessels
Pounding vessels, sluggish vessels

Pressures rising, failing pumps
Tears tearing, organs inflaming   

More mirrors, more fears
Calorie counts failing, organs deteriorating 

Too much salt, too much sugar
Too much work, to fix the extremes...

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I’m tired in this drop
The walls are all the same
I’m soaked now

In the midst of deteriorating
It hurts more than normal
I think it’s broken

The light up top is gone now
Just like the one down here
Oh well…  oh well.

The love inside the teardrops
Has turned to the coldest rain
Now there’s just the pain

It’s settled in my chest
Eating at my insides
Feeding at the dead lives

The end will not come quickly 
Not even quietly
For now, I just sigh at thee...

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Tiresome trivial circumstances 
Never ending failures 
On far off decided chances
Treat life as a purgatory

When will favors be sent my way
An opportunity
An immeasurable means
Out of this deteriorating abyss

This perdition of myself
Condemnation of body, mind, life
Endless abandonment
No savior in line of sight

Tramples hopes and expectations
Knowingly participating 
In a life of agonizing suffering
No future for everlasting nirvana...

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We need better plastics,
To hell with the bakelite saints 
That stand silent inside,
The great wheels,
 of the grand vehicle. 
Forever sleeping behind visqueen, 
Covered plexiglass,
 hiding themselves 
From the eyes of prophets,
And cruel November.

We need better plastics,
The Christ that guards 
The scorpion forever persevered
In lucite;has become, 
frail from the sunlight
And cracks, with each 
Touch,slowly deteriorating 
With each passing December....

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Why ? Is it I'm behind and when you're in debt 
You're in the rears ?
When you're late you pay a fine,
it costs you patience monies and time 
Credit deteriorating fathom gross abundance 
Payments lost you are shot in the back 
In the rear behind buttocks with penicillin 
In the buttocks medicine can't stop smallpox 
In the rears payment and debt 
Your crimes your financial debts ends when you're Dead?


12/4/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Crumbling skin and swollen eyes
Make me carry the darkest lies
The walls i built to feel no pain
Were now starting to suffocate 
Every mirror shows a different side
I wonder if i ever was right 
Getting confused between death and life
Deterioration had taken quite a time
Everything in me wanted to let go
But Maybe pain still had its love to show
As i smiled crumbling with broken needles
My breath no longer asked for air
And there came an end
To each inch of the space i had....

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Sandy Times
Trundling over soft
feet deteriorating downwards

Attempting migration
to impenetrable grains

Dramatic curving seas
landscaped for eyes to dance upon
 
Cloudy lilied surf
circumnavigates at the foot

Colourful daystar
skulks dreamingly away 

Big whites enshroud
the navigating splendor 

Scattered coral
Impinges the mind

Pebbles placed into
Intriguing decorations
On now rigid sand

Destinations met
The soul refreshed

Remembering
enjoying
Sandy times...

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