Short Earth Shaking Poems

Butterflies dance, with each glance 
Desire burns, heart yearns 

Truth aching, earth shaking 
Forbidden lust, tests the trust 

To share that we’re a pair
Is the want that deeply haunts...

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Dead and dismembered bodies all around me
The burning of flesh that makes my skin crawl
Screams that would break one's soul in two
Bones breaking and the earth shaking from yet more destruction
Blood as it drips from a wound on my head, into my eyes, and finally comes to 
rest on my lips
Why would someone wish this hell on another?...

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Eve of His Reign

facing the sunset
the lion king's on his hill
standing fierce and strong


Swans Drifting Away

a flock of mute swans
gliding on silver waters
under rose strewn moon


An Elephant Warning

I hear the trumpets
ears flaring, it comes running
with earth shaking news


Sunday Frolic

long ears, twitchy nose
wide eyes gleaming, bunny hop
green fields of Easter...

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His mind turned razor sharp,
just like daddy's used to
when he told me i was wrong and to stop it,
(can a six year old be wrong?)
 
so til his mind softened like newly melted butter,
I carried the torch.

I carried it through the mudslide,
and through that earth shaking quake,
and back into the cold rain.....

I carried the torch,
and then one day,
we stepped into bliss.

(it was worth it)...

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BECAUSE I LOVE YOU---

The air you breathe;
Means, everything;
To me, because I love;

Those steps you take;
The streets you walk on;
The smell of your breathe;
Breathe taking, so sweet; 
So earth shaking, You're complete;
To me, because I, I love you;

The air you breathe, means everything... because I love you
means, everything, because I, I love you;To me, because I love you;

9/17/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

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Up to Mount Olympus
Where the Rabbi sits
Dolling out Mitzvah
In his sing song voice
Down into the pit
Where evil boils hot
Spewing out terror
In earth-shaking noise

Over to the West
Where the KING reigns
From a castle of blood
In-trenched by kids
On the winds of the East
Where the emperor struts
Whirling the air with breath
In disasters that alter the grid

One ROAR brings it all tumbling down....

Written by Trudy Schrader on 02-19-2022...

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Their wedding cake is perfect flour,
Rich, Fresh: A Never–To–Sour,
‘Pink Rose’ The Bride’s flower’,
A bouquet holding with excited power …

‘Husband and wife’ pronounced at Jesus hour,
As enemies helplessly glower,
While above them they tower,
Neatly forcing them to cower …

St.  John’s Church Newest Couple,
Looking wondrously ‘The Supple’
To never themselves overreach
Nor matrimonial contract breach …

And what to that say, All Men?
An Earth-shaking “Amen!”...

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If this was -


If this will be -


Just another "infinite desert":


One yet falls down to one's


Knees -


Faithfully, if need be,


Digs down, with one's own two good hands,


Digs into the burning, shifting, choking sand;


For just there:


Under the turning, biting grit, under the


Cloudless sky, the blinding sun:


Rushing, mighty, Life-Giving Water rising;


Earth-shaking calm;


Perfect, placid, Gnostic twin fish -


Lazily aware....

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