Short Dispensing Poems

Wisdom follows
Dispensing answers and truth
If you are growing in love

Cynthia...

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vintage coin bank
dispensing
cash for tootsie rolls



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on February 28, 2021...

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seeds unraveling into branches
branches spawning into flowers
flowers dispensing their fruit
fruit distributing their seeds...

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Ancient as the wind 
Weathered like an old fence board 
he rocks in his chair 
Dispensing wisdom when asked 
Stories when you care to sit ...

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Dusk

descends,

discreetly

disassembling

Dawn.


Dew

drips down,

dispensing
 
dispersible

drops.


(Lanterne)


Mar. 11, 2019
Light Up The Page 2 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Joseph May...

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Who adjourns me
in this backlight story
Who will call the wolf
to dance in her captivity ?
Willow wisp dispensing hollowness
espied on fields of grey

The World's a stage
disembark at your own peril
Pontificate
your ardour
anoints us well...

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Dispensing Keys
by Hafiz
translation by Michael R. Burch

The imbecile
constructs cages 
for everyone he knows,
while the sage
(who has to duck his head
whenever the moon glows)
keeps dispensing keys 
all night long
to the beautiful, rowdy,
prison gang....

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Of Strings and Wind 

As the embers fades
There emerges a throbbing pain
The then jostling crowd 
Befuddled with many words
Now swallowed in shallow graves
Ebbing expectation 
Of men of words
Amused by the enticing wind 
Dismay at the broken strings
Dispensing scattered rhythm
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all pouring rain falls
falls down on me dispensing
your solid dew drops
~
 falling on me cold 
with tears from Angels crying
falling on me soaked
~
 and wet my body
 stain my body drenched and
in dew wetness spent


5/1/22
Written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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Nurses are extraordinarily kind;
dispensing hope and endless compassion.
Friendly caregivers and angels combined,
nurses are extraordinarily kind.
They're the concept of graciousness defined;
and smile when smiling seems out of fashion.
Nurses are extraordinarily kind;
dispensing hope and endless compassion....

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Listen to poem:

tic toc
the ticking 
of the clock

steel blue
resounding
thru and thru

roll call
the long walk
down the hall

white coats
dispensing
antidotes



AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Front Page Pick 2024

Submitted on November 22, 2020 for contest YOUR RHY-ME sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally posted on April 27, 2019...

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Through threaded clouds a misty light protruded beamingly
As if to answer roll-call a misty light so seemingly

A cataclysmic display of exuberance dispensing a joyous light
Am I correct or wrong even in this vivid spectacular at night

The moon plays her chords with a happy smile to display
Her superiority in height never needing to say

The End....

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ROSE

Here I am at break of dawn
Just me, my rod and my friend fawn
who stares at me as he did before
he knows I’ll leave with just my lore
I lost my Rose a year ago
and spend my thoughts in deep compose
dispensing with my time of woes
and time is wilting like a rose

Free Verse or Rhyme Poetry Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Eve Roper
May 4, 2019  #3...

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A knife in the pen

Dispensing blood's inks

A shroud of mind

In each cell thinks

The sentence is endless

Each thought is perturbed

The notion of freedom

Becomes more disturbed

Fire the match to the torch to the castle

Instead use a cap, a gown, and a tassel

Such children's toys

Deserve to be broken

They are tools of destruction

Like words never spoken...

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so is autumns dawn
crossing over horizon
deep in it's path dull 
~
lit lights orange bright
dispensing shadows of hues
horizontal views
~
falls autumns trees waves
in the autumn breeze so blown
colors view orange 
~
hues completely  drained
containment of yellows, reds
browns, aqua shades


9/26/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2021...

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Escaping through a window,
he mounts a silver skeleton.
Flying downhill, dispensing power
through straining ligaments.
His heroic calves squeezing light
into cone-shaped yellow beams
Then uphill, the counter-attack
of implacable night.
The boy speeds through
sleeping streets,
cape flowing, eye-mask
unseen, essential though
for a peddle-powered hero
who patrols
by the glow of a dynamo....

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Remember all those rebel poets
    and their bizarre ways
  How they spooked their stodgy elders
    with contra-poetic displays

  Dispensing with meter and flow, accent and rhyme
    penning metaphor-less, image-free lines
  Treating verse as a curse and a sonnet much worse
    vulgarities popping up like landmines..

  Well, it's gotten worse instead of better
    ~ Just read a poem without letters...

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An Ideal Father
Dr. James E. Martin
©June, 2014

Faithful to lead as God directs,
	Fearful if failure God detects.
Alert to danger along the way,
	Attentive to rightly God’s will obey.
Tearful if children go astray,
	Thankful if in god’s way they stay.
Heartily encouraging through every trial,
	Helpfully teaching all the while.
Eager in his duties to advance,
	Engaged in righteous, faithful stance.
Reaching out to those in need,
	Rightly dispensing God’s life-giving seed....

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Pretenders
By; Miracle man
6/14/2020

At birth God gave each, a soul and a voice,
but when it comes to voice, we divagate.
How we see it's use HE has made our choice,
some make bad choices, or equivocate.

In today’s climate many voice their whines,
causing division while dispensing pain. 
Completely ignoring God’s set guidelines,
as great pretenders too often we feign.


Psalm 160:6
“Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD.
Praise ye the LORD.” 
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