Short Dried Out Poems

natural small stream
lovely call of winter pond 
dried out in summer...

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out of season
a lavender aroma
elegiac
distilled
sweet,
an expansive
wonderment
evaporates
subsides...
summer scents
gone forever...

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stale, stagnant, unmoving
going nowhere,
forgetting to live
stuck in the muck of nothingness
dried out, dried up,
closing inward
forgetting to care...

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it it comes down
all around
you down hear a sound
only water flow
also has  a 
glow
the sand  wet and it a pain
has to dried out
before there people no doudt
its
BEACH AND THE RAIN...

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rain less summertime
a solid, heavy rock stands
by the perfect stone

tear-less summertime
the dried out, heavy rock stands
all around the stones

7/29/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©...

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sand dunes sunshiny
 as young fierce camels smoking
 unlit cigarettes
~
dried out and thirsty 
while storing water in their 
humps, inhales puff-puff

5/28/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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Painted With Same Brush

Both had been painted with same brush;
One was loser and the other a loony lush;
Both were being,
Not worth seeing;
With disaster had a crude crushing brush.

Jim Horn

Paint must have all dried out....

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the aged tear
 what I dreamed of you,
dried out..

I didn't have a voice
to say goodbye
forever...

my pains
so many,
survived,
so I planted
nostalgia for you
in the seeds
of my screams,
that now only
float in infinity... !...

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I am sorry I don't know if I am having fun, 
writing poets of bullets running through my head of gun.
But blood there is none..
Maybe I have already bleed some.
Dried out the wounds had become.
Big ass of blood plumb.
Dead ones.


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weather be cold so 
frigid bones frostbite bitten
skin dried out broken 
~
cold and frosted grounds
 crack led pops walks icy grounds
weather be so cold




1/21/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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It's a hundred and ten
 in the shade 
I'm sweating again 
and ant's got 
their tongues out
boy oh boys it's hot
bees pollen has dried out 
man it's hot out here
 it's summertime

8/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Autumn rain so cool and refreshing,
Drenching the soil, the roots quench their thirst.
The late Summer sun had dried out the ground.
The plants wait for rain to abate the dry curse.




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The sea dried out and the sun didn't shine the day i no longer called you mine. The moon split in half and the stars fell the the sea, i watched my world crumble in front of me. Grass no longer green, the sky no longer blue. My heart lost its beat, the day I lost you....

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A garden unattended 
is a woman abandoned


Grass growing unruly 
her hair untidy


Petals dried out 
manicure urgently needed 


Dry stems and twigs 
chapped lips and dry skin


Weeds vined and entwined around trees 
ingrown toenails and coarse heels on feet...

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There was a time,
for crying, now the tears have dried out.
With emptiness I look out,
for reasons in the unknown spur.

What am I waiting for?
not love or sacrifices,
no sympathy also.
But just to wait for time.

Where to go?
yet the adamant journey is on,
to travel to the end....

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At dawn and dusk the birdsongs busk;
The highlights of my day.

I'd gladly waste out every hour,
as they sing out our their hearts for no pay

I'd go without food or water
Until my eyes dried out

My ears bled from the tones

And I'd happily pass away
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This is how
love works. You
become irreplaceable
so there is nowhere 
else to go. You become
inescapabe. All of you
paid out, used up,
drops of you squeezed out
so that only a dried-out
core left
if you could escape.
You become the
regular schedule of breath,
the meal,
the glass of water....

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Blows the winds of time
through this hollow husk
Rustling among emotions
that have turned to dust

Gusting through memories
of eroded dreams
Tiny seeds of sanity
seeping through the seams

Battered hopes dried out
in a spirit fallow
Quality of life withered
beneath pains shadow...

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I was walking through my garden 
Spraying water on my plants 
I took a few drops from my water can 
And I had given it to some ants

They took their sips...
And they wet their lips 
That were dried out from the sun
 
Then they all did flips...
And they wiggled their hips 
And they ran away one-by-one...

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convince my jellied spacial chasms 
to defibrillate your dried out 
turkey bones, to sand them down  
and to carve useful trinkets from  
them which can be sold at a craft  
stand at the state fair for two  
dollars and sixty-five cents, or  
for the cactus virginity of 
your mind, whichever is worth more....

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flowers all gone now 
grasses dried out color brown
seasons autumn fall

cool cold brisk blank air
below fifty degrees so
season change winter

after autumn falls
everything’s not dead just brown
dormant is the grounds


12/13/2023
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
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Grateful for your love
Ratchet old cottonwood tree looks dried out and dead to me
Winters temperatures scavenger cold long Robin perched above
O' behold what a wonderful God who provides for them and us
       --Always

So thankful
I AM soul grateful for His love

2/11/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2024...

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trees tend to blush ~ when they're kissed
by Jack Frost's lips ~ cold as ice
inked in the night ~ red dyes bleed
and blood-stained leaves ~ pay the price

bare trees stand nude ~ in the woods 
stripped of their leaves ~ by a breeze
as the wind whips ~ through the bones
of dried-out twigs ~ with such ease...

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The peak of the summertime brings the heat
All day in the sun leaves you feeling beat
Try hard to get cool
Time spent by the pool
So much time you are redder than a beet

Your skin feels like leathery dried out meat
You'd give anything for an icy cool treat
The sun is so cruel
You feel like a fool
To the sun I admit utter defeat
6/14/2020...

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This is a give me everything world
a million takers for every giver
this is why mankind's wells are running dry
the givers are dead or dying out
soon there'll be nothing left but takers 
clusters of walking excuses for human beings
looking to bleed out the last of the givers
then capping the wells of life 
with the bones of their dried out excuses-...

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