Short Draughts Poems

Automatic doors
let in people
and draughts automatically

As the darkness grows
the faces in the window
become more real

Kim James
8/1/96...

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Autumn teased red maple leaves
with draughts of flirtatious wind
Naked, the tree stood barren
Clothing, swept away



September 30th 2020  
Writing Challenge ~ Dodoitsu
Sponsored by Constance La France...

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The flavored fragrance of yesterday
Inter-weaved with the clouds of tomorrow
The sun drinking human fountains
As she dances within the yellow mystery
Spreading color across yonder draughts
Where the tongues of happiness reside...

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Five stones
   school caps
pooh sticks
  film flicks
short back
           and sides

mangles
 oil cloth
   braces 
 plimsole
dripping
           and toast

satchels
  school milk
cut-throat 
    razor
 coal fires
      and draughts...

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From the silent lips
That birthed the nightmare
‘twas heard round the universe
The infamous speech ‘tis dusk
Fabricated insomnia’s silhouette
the hands of time living
In naked draughts of infancy
adorning the skylines
With theatrical chases
Fostering handsome fairings...

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meandering thoughts
 dearest, loved friend calls out
after the human

meandering thoughts
a dearest, loving friend stalls
at the old human


meandering draughts
lonely, loving friend thirsty
watching them drink up


12/13/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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As leaves begin to plummet, 
The sun subsides earlier, too.
The moon ascends humming
love songs.
With silvery sonatas of you.

Outside, the once warm winds,
have removed their seductive rapture.
Now in draughts, and cold winds.
I've become their desolate, lost
capture!




September 8, 2019...

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Bourbon; whisky- on the rocks,
Chased by draughts of Coke
Or was it lines sniffed from the clock-
Forgotten after several tokes?

Join the Clan of Ativan,
(Betrothed to one Ms. Lora Tab)
In vodka pools, serenely swam-
By many needles, duly stabbed

My Ecstasy for LSD,
In quiet dens of Opium
Magic Mushrooms picked for me-
And a sip of amber rum......

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essence pure of all you are
luminous as angel stars

clearly tracked your soul flight
vast pensive universe delights

soul fragrance unlocked, opened
this heart fast closed, broken

breathing you in draughts refreshing
love's rich, soft web enmeshing

two into one; sweet perfume
satiates sense in your soul room

Faye Lanham Gibson
Copyright, October 11, 2014...

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Thunder measures out the distance
between lightning flash, and you and me.
We are still together, though separately,
two birds on up-draughts, treading air.

It wouldn’t be fair to ask
"Where are you now?"
for you are here
and everywhere where I can lie

and hear the roll of thunder,
watch lightning tilting at the dark,
understand whatever tethers you to me
is the secret within the art....

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Swayed I am by your sound taste

Amongst a sea of recluses

Against the hands of time we race

To stifle ignorance with nooses


Oh, how you stroke my rib cage

Laughter shaping countless voids

Revamping happiness for the age

Before they gambled ertswhile ploys



A heap of debris I'd be

Swept by carcinogenic draughts

Without you assured I'd seethe

A damn not given be it daft...

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Wings


Summer has come early this year
a Pieridae the shade of candle wax

suspending its journey, rests
against her open bathroom window. 

Draughts from the west wind
replaces air from Northern chills,

a comfort in the heated water.
Squeezing her eyes half closed
 
body is veiled in a haze of steam;
sealed as though there’s no escape,
 
‘til curtains flutter as butterfly wings.
like her thoughts, ready for flight....

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He told me
 his last 
 real conversation was in
 nineteen-fifty-five. And that was
  thirty minutes
 on the sidewalk
 with an interested stranger.
 Those that love him
 respect his silence,
 keep him to a fifteen word
 maximum. That allows them
 to get along. Silence is the juice
 of that loving home.
 He told me
 how he dreamed of
 lectures, long and
 deep draughts
 of speech.
 He dreamed of
 eyes bright with
 the lights from his stage....

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Come to the waters as they freely flow
from that vast life giving stream.
Drink many draughts of the water of life,
it is pure, refreshing and clean.

You need no containers to fill yourselves up,
this source is entirely free.
I guarantee that the contents are there,
to sustain every family!

So drink in abundance and drink your fill,
no drought will ever arise;
For the Master Controller will turn on the tap
when He hears your request from on high....

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As I slowly climbed the stairs to bed
discrepant thoughts surge in my head.
For it would not be long before
my bedroom door 
would slowly open
As it usually did; 
an omen
of what would come.
Hot draughts of rancid breathing,
upon my neck;
which always reeked of beer, 
or sometimes stale Darjeeling.
Then, subsequently sated;
It would slowly whisper in my ear;
"Unless you want 
I see your little brother too,
Don't you go and tell your mother, 
dear."...

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