Short Duly Poems

wiki wiki wick
duly announces bread crumbs
to the other birds...

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If an author feels a need
To explain their poem 
I realize 
They
did
not
understand
it
either...

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They float silently across the sky
A teddy bear, a rose, a horse’s head
As I watch, I quietly sigh
My imagination duly fed...

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creamsicle wings that glide, susurration
of light that pierces the dark -
duly sent from heaven’s crown

8/1/2022...

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The Flowers Bloom
Faid To The Colors Of Fall,
Placidly Awaiting
The Gray Winters End.

Her Patience Duly Rewarded
With The Colors Of Spring....

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Cat’s shots were scheduled at noon today
Shark stayed out of sight, completely away.
Came prancing back home at five o’clock
Vet’s office closed for the day and duly locked....

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“Honk and drive if you love sweet Jesus”
“Text and drive to meet Jesus in pieces”
You are duly warned
Did you hear that horn
Pay attention or your chance increases...

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I recoil at your previous wish duly met...
but timelessly bled

Escapes restrained our semblance of dread,
but limitlessly crept

I had specks of me for you to test,
now decidedly unkempt......

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Some act, sin surely meant, Ambition     entitlement
Some act, sincerely meant, And bit shun entitlement
Some act, unruly deft, Some tact, and duly left
One say, entire verse, some say, and tire verse...

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a million minds meandering
wondering whether wise
can continue in chaos
till onus openly overhauled
then doubt duly dissipates
fear fizzles finally
eventually everything eases
finding beautiful baseline balance....

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duly warranted yet unwavering
unworthy unmerited
I am able to be yet saved 
by the grace of an ALL MIGHTY
ALL LOVING, FORGIVING
God


written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021
11/3/21...

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The words merely borrowed,
to then juxtapose

Each Poet the debtor,
whose lender forgoes 

All lines duly tendered,
with verses inured

The beauty, the order
—new feelings assured

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)...

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soft,
gentle
outpouring,
duly distilled 
by our loving heart,
infuses in each pulse,
an aspect of vibrancy,
innate to expansion of soul,
being nothing but one with the whole

09-May-2021...

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A cool winters wind; 
A friendship in need;
A call one could not bare;
The worst kind of health scare;
Incomprehensible destitute now;
True allegiance, duly proved;
Recovery, slow but true;
Will the scars ever heal....

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Badly bloated;
Daily devoted;
Silver coated;
Duly noted.
Across water boated;
Ruby throated;
Castle moated;
Around touted;
Poem wroted;
Out pointed;
Available and anointed;
Have been appointed;
Was disjointed.

Jim Horn...

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The delivery,
  incidental to the message

The format,
  duly chosen for the sound

The listener,
  singled out with times forgiveness

The truth
  —but spoken once to then abound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2018)...

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The memory of the

poor, struggling, inspiring, but now dead poet, 

made eternal muse, by, and for, the 

poor, struggling, aspiring, but living poet:

an existential measure of 

blood, sweat, and tears, of 

mind, body, and soul....

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We decorate until our hands are red
Invite relatives not yet dead
Our food is prepared way ahead
Know we will be duly fed
Kids jump quickly out of bed
Hug Santa Uncle Ed
Adults yawn instead
There is such mirth
Good Will Earth 
Jesus
Birth...

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Hazel the eyes that dim on flight
And gazing low, she pauses there
On royal boat to rest on quay.
Fair princess knows what to rewrite
While bridal court duly prepares
Against her will, she rows away.


Senses For A Sextet
Ashley Conte. 11/8/13...

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~~~~Flower for Heidi~~~~ 

Is it the lasting touch or the telephone, 
one's loved so much when feet find home.
Sentimental for the days recorded duly, yet hope withstands,
gentle flowers afforded beauty by Heidi Sands. ~Heidi's hands~...

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Married to the sacred word
Committed to its ideal
Betrothed to sworn fidelity
Divorced from the unreal
My wedding duly prearranged
All children heaven sown
I copulate each solemn vowel
—and spread the verse unknown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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Married to the sacred word
Committed to its ideal
Betrothed to sworn fidelity
Divorced from the unreal
My wedding duly prearranged
With choice not mine to own
I conjugate my solemn vowel
And spread the verse unknown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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I put it in my a.m. engine
    and pray that it kicks in

  By the time I reach my locker
    I'm ready to punch in

  My prayers are duly weighed and judged
    as they swirl in my canteen

  Helping me to mid-morn break
    ~ where I'll swig some more caffeine...

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When music strikes a chord inside
    furious do emotions churn
  Though peacefully we sleep once home
    in dreams for more we yearn... 

  Let anger possess us, however
    even a moment or two
  our insides duly toss and turn
    as all we've constructed burns...

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(((?)))
her passion had me thrashing as she swirled inside my mind
blowing all my walls apart
collapsing space and time
she kissed me with such emotion that she became an ocean on my tongue
an effervescent lotion
a magic, seething potion 
where my fears were duly hung...

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