Short Emptying Poems

My mind is set on

writing poetry tonight 

emptying my heart...

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there you go, stomping
on the rainbow of my heart
emptying the gold


Cynthia...

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eyes closed 
I blow 
emptying my heart..
The sad bubble rises 
carrying my woes
heavenward...

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utah
camping on a blue mesa
human noise
emptying into  
evening stillnes


Published - January, 2016 - Haiku Society Journal...

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There’s a voice inside that’s killing me,
slowly day by day

Each line I write, each word I speak
—is paid with time reclaimed

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)...

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What I poured out to you
was me;all of me
that I had sight but I have chosen blindness
so that I'll be walked by you alone
i have left my past behind;
walk me to the future....

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Dreaming in exile
Escapes domicile
Emptying the hopes
Penned in envelopes










For Form J-Jueju Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Broken Wings
Sixth Place
3-26-2017...

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Worship
Blissful, Divine
Healing, Uplifting, Revering
Emptying my sorrow, Draining my tomorrow
Recalling, Grieving, Erasing
Grave, Distraught
Worry
...

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MORNING GOLD

In the midst of morning, emptying mug;
and time’s gold needs to be spent -
I yell loudly “Get up!”

The quill wants to repent
its movement through the hourglass;
and I have to shatter the sandman’s dreams.
...

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The needles are numbered
The heart beats few
The mind emptying
The tale of raven's hell
Rapping at the door
The flesh singed to ashes
Fire in the air
The brittle fragments
Jagged to the bone
The weeping iris
One last breath
As the needle passes through...

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a moment
    of insight
      informs
tracing
eternity
  in a
     notion
of
consequences
      detaching
      desires
      emptying
      the mind
of indifference
into
   time
    contained
     frames
of
separateness
into
reality...

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On praying knees
looking to the sky
emptying my heart
with heartfelt words
 Pouring my soul 
to the earth
by revealing my past
removing the burdens upon it
 Easing the memories of old
lessening the pain
allowing memories to become shadows
and slowly fade...

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Growing older, one observes
That energy starts waning.
Though it’s not what one deserves,
There’s no use in complaining.

Aging throws us learning curves
To deal with verve that’s draining.
When nothing’s left in the reserves,
It’s time for some refraining....

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just north, one hundred miles
mountains await
you can't wait
to purge the weight
of your love
emptying your heart
with your song

just south, one hundred miles
a valley verde
the echo strains
and what I hear
resonating here
your love always
one hundred miles
north...

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Haiku 
By the impossibility
A chance of a lifetime 
Birth of a child


Deep in slumber
The impossibility of dawn 
End of a dream 


In your Ear 

Sixty-seven he said 
So he got a job emptying bins
Until it was noticed 
Seven before six 
So he got fired for being innumerate...

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I predict heartbreak
I predict this is how it will all end
Harvest
Emptying the lands
Raping the grounds

I promise Pinot Noir
What is this I'm speaking of
Emptying the land
Pillaging backgrounds
 Harvest
Fleece cultivates my soul

12/10/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2019...

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Short but meaningful
Let it be a hideaway 
Full with fresh and serene thoughts
Away from the ever evolving changes!

Brief, I  know though memorable
A stint stay swayed  in my heart
From lingering homesickness
Stationary until it is dynamic again!

Emptying my mind 
Is what I needed most!...

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BOOM
FLASH
CRASH
Bash
I wait…
And I wait…
		And I wait…
Only emptying silence…

Emotional Violence…

So quiet and hushed

My life feels CRUSHED

Genuine fear…


That the end is ?
				...Near
					
					The fear is so REAL
Concrete and Palpable

	Ic can almost touch it…
Not just feel....

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The day's long shadows
hold on as I do,  reaching
out, trying not to let go of what 
is passing away.

Each evening there is
always this ritual 
of holding on then the slow
release, the letting go
twinged by a little sorrow,
the emptying of what never
spoke or left a name,
to make room
for tomorrow....

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running down the aisle way, a-giggling
streams of paper white, a-streaming
an apocalyptic wriggle, shelves emptying
toddlers buy their wine and away their going
unexpected per-usuality of a pandemic outing
per chance my husband’s found this greeting
the sun has set on 2020, yet the panic’s continuing...

1/6/2021...

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The prostrate lizard,
hated savior,
crawls the crooked road to the city

Figures, sinking with the light, 
bending your prayers
—watching the sun

Light retreats
as shadows leave,
emptying space for a new awareness

Its carnal madness
telling again and again 
—how far you’ve come

(West Philadelphia: December, 1972)...

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When the words don’t lure me with their muse,
Desire to pour out hopes, dreams, light that bleeds,
Wetting the beauty of my heart’s best seeds,
Emptying the feelings, once caged by pain, shame,
Thoughts meant to be penned, poetry, mapped out,
Despairing of the urge to stay buried by a trail of can’t.

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Santa was ‘breaking in’ new Reindeer, but done in his back
Doctors tried to repair, but it was well and truly cracked 
Finished with presents and dolls 
And no more busting his balls
He found a ‘great niche’ down the sperm bank, emptying his sack


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Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich
12/15/21...

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All the things I fear you have heard
Loving me anyway despite my oddities
Laughter exceeds every word
Emptying the worries I carry with me
Justifying me though I may be wrong
And helping me through in goodness
Never expecting me to be strong
Despite the immolating darkness 
Remembered and never once forgotten,
Alejandra, my friend, the begotten...

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Emptiness may come in the form of
Poverty caused by the lack of the esssentials for life
Struggling by emptying energy to earn a living
And satisfaction on a give and take basis for happiness
But the highest stage is satisfaction
Take pressureless, greedless, selfishless and guiltless to yourself
And give away donations and sympathy for others...

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