Short Dumbly Poems

I speak before I think. 
I act before I plan.
I love before I know,
and I dumbly cry over him....

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Deeply, dangerously, 
daringly, darkly
defiantly, deadly
deftly, dumbly

disgustingly dis-guarded

10/8/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020...

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Defeated men, seeking solace
Elbows posed on time polished bar  
Staring numbly into empty glass
Eyes gazing dumbly, sadly, humbly
Reliving the unforgiving
Lost  time…long past
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"Oh, dear! There's a lion in my tumbly,"
Winnie the Pooh, said, "I'm feeling numbly"
I'll climb up the tree and get some honey.
Nothing'   like sweet honey on a sonny
Day near the honeybees playing dumbly.


2/16/2022...

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Corpulent cottagers clapping like clowns
a fat Friday festival, gobblers and gowns.
Merry mad munchers of muffins and mirth
do-si-do dumbly, eaters of earth.
Champagne sugar shoved in a shoe
If love lasts not long, love handles will do....

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and
and
now for
my next
trick i
will not
one nor two
but three
yes you
heard that
right folks
three

i will
simultaneously write
three
poems not one
at a time
but at
the same
time reminding you
i once did
while dumbly staring
at work
write a fugue...

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The spider is no gastronome,
its diet is peculiarly its own.
In fact, it’s source of food are flies.
Yet flies (despite their compound eyes)
are not the best of flyers,
for many dumbly wind up 
in sticky spider webs stuck
as their tasty food suppliers.

...

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O, Lady!
Hard as barnacles
That block the silver skin
Of a Swan Boat
That sails errantly
Upon the Sea of Din
You are the Wave
That lifts that boat
Or sinks it in the mire
You are its ruby eyes that dim
Or flare with bright desire.

I cannot tell,
I cannot tell,
The reason
Why you go,
I’ll grip the rails
And furl the sails
And dumbly watch the snow....

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When you were unfaithful
to your promises to me,
I told you in no uncertain syllables,
I need no empathy nor sympathy.

I simply said:
I flocci-
nauci-
nihili- 
pili-
ficated you.
You dumbly asked,

“Wha- uh, what do you mean?”

At first, I looked at you and said nothing.

You became more forceful in your demands.

This time I said, “NOTHING!”

You left, nothing in or on your mind....

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The feathered rulers of the sky,
in many colors, shapes, and kinds,
dance through the waves of oceans high
to leave behind Earth’s crusted rind.

Majestic, beautiful, and bright
Their chords peel away dusk and dawn.
Completely safe in freedom's flight,
Secure to float upon a song.

But I compare not to such grace
For to the penguin I relate
I walk on ice with bobbing pace
and dumbly hack a curse to fate.

I wish I could fly...

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Hand reached through
  to pull you through
Ill always do that for you
  I held you closely, caring closely
you drench my shirt in tears
But after all the years
I've lifted, held you up
said words to build you up
You stand firmly now
tred your own ground
walk side by side, you and I
til that day I tripped fell
stumbled down swiftly
You never broke pace to lift me
Striding on, not looking back
I lay there, looking on dumbly
Its your heartless way that numbed me...

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