Short Dominoes Poems

Dominoes online
I doubt we’d have kept talking
You knew Zimmerman


By Robb A. Kopp...

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steel carriage belches
carbon cloud into the air
too early frog croaks...

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with a wedge of glass

we  split the rainbow

separate colors

into organized rows

of light

they stack

like dominoes

ready to topple

should we turn the lens...

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The collapsing in of an emotion
The house of cards falls
Here is the beginning, there is the end
But mid ground failure
There's no awards for that
Little old dominoes could tell you
A miss, is a miss...

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from this
field of dominoes
form an array of
headstones and
here to rest are
the tin soldiers
buried and bound
in this hallowed ground
that did their best
these brave young men
served with pride but now
there are no more ghosts to hide...

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Past the House of Sages 
       Past the Arab owned 
bodega
   past the Spanish people playing dominoes 
        Towards my home
  on the Lower East Side
   We on the Lower East Side 
are spending our lives 
    in the asphalt homelaqnd
while we make love
    to the urban landscape...

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Sickening feeling, justified.
Smell the nature, smell the gas.
Must be.
Strange feeling, swell.
I can fly, like the breeze of wind.
Sensuous and gun fire.
Blonde arabic, Sensuous
I can breath like an ape.
I can fly like a bird.
I swell like the smell
Flipping dominoes.
Changing cards....

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White  house  picket  fence  garden
Black hair kohl eyes  blue rose lips 
Chef folding egg whites into souffle
Defrosting preparing cooking lunch
Sculpture of a laurel-crowned  bust
Oriental  rugs  bare  wooden  floors
Inhale   a   sweet  antique  floral  air
Chink  iced-tea glasses Dominoes...

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KICKING DOMINOES

nonsense utter nonsense plays out
dominoes don’t just get knocked down
they get kicked down
you’ve not been attacked
and no one’s hurt you on purpose
you forgot to consider
all the facts
now you’re the one
hurting on purpose
shame…
               shame…
                              shame…

8/8/2017...

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Stick figures
In shadows running dominoes
Savoring the synopsis 
of the multitudes clamoring 
Against the forces stripped of gratitude
 Hearing the voices of death choirs singing loudly
Silent bogus is the boogie dancing in the streets dire
Animated conglomerate


3/6/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 3022...

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A tiny baby dollhouse doll,
A bunch of dominoes,
A puzzle piece, a stacking cup -
Where are they? No one knows.

The cover to some match-up cards,
The crayons in a box,
Three golf balls from the matching set, 
Assorted Lego blocks.

These items and a dozen more
Are AWOL and I'd bet
That I'm the only person
In the house who seems to fret....

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disgraciatta beauty of defeat.

nor is it unfair:
we expect nothing,
because we build castles with silica
and with the clouds of the cobalt sky.
experts in nothing.
professionals of almost.
doubt teachers.
shaped like dominoes,
we await the touch of reality 
to return to the repose of the vanquished.

Immaculate innocence of the ignorant....

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Reading for inspiration
  and not for fact

The words paint a picture
  in my mind

Like dominoes falling
  one by one

They rise from the page
  to remind

My fingers enliven
  and start to draw

A vivid story
  new image sublime 

All colors reborn,
  as each word is set free

The ink now transformed
  —and divine

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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Don't you feel sometimes
You and I are not alike
Don't you feel
Your interests should be sealed
Be two different people
To make everything simple
Have yourself to still be proud
Have a stranger to be in the crowd
You don't want to be a loner
But who else loves playing dominoes
Don't you feel sometimes
You and I are not alike
Don't you feel
"you are what you are and that's real"...

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Twenty Seventeen

Who am I on January 2nd,
Am I who I was on November 1;
More dominoes have fallen,
How quickly, increasing, unceasing.

So deep in loneliness gripping;
Hungover without the wine,
And blind to what meditation 
Reveals quickly, and as quickly steals.

I rattle between the crash of symbols,
Concentration stolen away;
Who am I on January 2nd?
Let the future have its way....

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what once stood up now, no longer
like dominoes, one knocking over the other
all laying neatly in a straight row
with a clicking sound as down it goes

each connected by the dots
never enough when I draw my lot
what I once had and now haven't got
never even get to take a shot

too much time to stand them up
once it's there, then it's not
ending coming too abrupt
like a blind man on a bluff...

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Time fly's by when your having fun
time creeps by when your having none
hope against hope,and wish in one hand
wish for true love and hope for a stand
we rise and we fall like tipping dominoes
we give and we take whichever way the wind blows
although time had no face it smiles at us
in the blink of an eye we all turn to dust
so have lots of fun, and let time fly by
but me ill have none, and savor this life....

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It is nearing on to a second spring night,
While twilight’s glow is coloring the western sky;
Brown horses are silhouetted against its brilliance,
Purple, lilac, coral misty and mysterious stripes.

Misty for the days' wispy clouds are floating softly;
Mysterious, the universe so sublimely spawned,
Eyes close across time's rolling like ivory dominoes falling,
Only to open again to a pink and pearlescent dawn....

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I love how wè live faraway
From the noise and voices
Echoing like dominoes falling
fast and faster into the abyss
Of destruction.

I love how we live safely,
We think, as long as the world
Stays confined within electronic
Devices like caged birds, wings
Beating breezes into deluges.

I love how we live unmolested 
By the sharp edges of violence,
The softness of sun when it rises
And when it sets buttresses our fortress
Of blindness.
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Hanging on hope, acknowledging 
I wade along through empty promises
Away, farther and farther, I drift 
Outside realms of delusions I’ve seen
And like a child hold to 
Words ever spoken in faith, august
By a Father who loves unconditionally 
Each person regardless of hue,
Origin, creed, ethnicity, religion…
All, differences imposed, willfully 
Inciting division, one generation to next
And like dominoes, each falls … 
Fear, animosity thrive as love abates   
~*~...

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everything happens for a reason.
sometimes we can't see what that reason is.
but if it hadn't have happened, 
something else would have.
things wouldn't turn out the same.
like the person who left and we didn't know why.
they could have stayed.
or could they?
if they would have, something else wouldn't have happend.
then something else would stem from that.
life would be upside down.
life is like a row of dominoes waiting to be knocked over.
if one falls, they all fall....

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