Short Eschew Poems

a
and
it
the
but
or
me me me

unless
muse calls
necessarily....

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Friday night 
at the bar 
you spot a Jew --
    The Sabbath wine
    he hath eschewed...

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What care you
  be your green lawn
  tinged slightly blue

Does your garden
  eschew
  fescue...

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I shall not pray for roses,
When daffodils would do:
The simple without poses,
I never shall eschew.
...

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Criticizing politicians
   is oh-so-hip to do

'Till it comes time to vote --
   a bother most hipsters eschew...

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Modernist Fernand Leger
elievdd in art as social care
His genretook a moral view
for pure aesthetic he did eschew...

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When April’s wind briskly blew
Beth’s spring skirt billowed and flew:
Men on the street
Got an eye-treat
‘Cause panties, chose Beth to eschew....

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The Iran pact's signed with a seal
But t-rump can't stand Shia zeal
So them he'll eschew
And force a new breakthrough
Since only he knows how to deal...

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An act-as-they-wish guarantee
Leads brutes to think they’ll tread on me
But I too have rights
And might eschew fights
If backed by a fair referee...

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Sports stars these days
  get paid millions to play
    little boys and little girls games

  Yet jobs that only adults can do
    sports stars are wont to eschew...

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I must reject the holy-moly, mumbo-jumbo,
All that spirituality soup—Chicken Dumbo.
Atheists, Existentialists, and I, Agnostic,
Eschew the false enlightenment—socially caustic....

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If we remember to look at horizon and sky
The Universe draws us higher, whispers a reply
We all are stardust yet somehow so earthy
Humans eschew solid troughs, for color & crest (the showy)...

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esteemed
        genres
   unexpected
themes
     cleverness
     perceived
        perverse
        newness
perfected
in
fresh
terms:
     eschew
the
familiar
to 
   challenge
the
status
quo:
   creating
precedents
new...

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No more book fairs or tours
  no autographs signed

My words are my gift
  the privacy mine

No talk shows or fetes
  New York Times to eschew

Questions unanswered
  —my thoughts unreviewed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2018)...

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Happy birthday to a tot on her one-eth
Most times its best to not know what cometh.
But it has been said by prophets, forsooth:
Surely you'll have more teeth on your twoth
Oh glory to vittles masticatable
You'll be glad to eschew the unchewable....

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In spite of all your riches
you eschew what prophets do
Basilicas you build to self
with time but empty pews

Wealth deadly suicidal
when wielded as a gun
Whose target sits between your eyes
with one shot zero-sum

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)
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  To banish war
    your ego subdue
  Humility embrace
    vanity eschew  

  It starts with you
    then one at a time
  Lead by example
    inspiration sublime



      'A World without War' contest
  Sponsor: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
            March 07, 2024
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Consider the possibility
Lay aside improbability
Eschew negative futility
Never mind any hostility
Exercise your capability
Employing every utility
Accept the responsibility
Enjoy renewed visibility
Allowing for accessibility 

Written June 29, 2022...

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I don't think
so I stink,
evil I didn't eschew
it I did chew,
God i took for granted
I became grounded,
had bad attitude
that brought low altitude,
I don't pray
so I was the devil's prey,
I got tired
and decided to be fired,
then I gave God a chance
He made me to dance....

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Search the world
for your treasures,
lap up luxury, 
fondle greed, 
eschew the lowly
and humble
while your ego
struts naked before
a disdainful world.

But I would give up
Shakespeare's crown
and the touch of Midas
to seek the only thing
that matters-- to be
in God's good grace....

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when we fall prey to complacency 

and comfortably wallow in abject sloth, 
    
                   we suffocate motivation in its nascency. 

eschew apathy and inactivity; rise above both!



Sin Of Sloth Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Margarita Lillico
Date written: 07/24/2022...

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Apocalypse---

Abortive gorgons cling.
Political messiahs creep.
Other dystopias eschew.
Called messiahs lament.
American messiahs laze.
Lyrical raptures luxuriate.
Youthful doomsayers linger.
Private revelations lurk.
Startling revelations cower.
Environmental catastrophes cavort.


3/8/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2019...

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How must it feel to carry all you own
in one old shopping cart or your back,
to trudge through alleys weary to the bone,
to crave the food and shelter that you lack,
to long to leave the street life you eschew?  

But for the grace of God, we’d be there too.


picture 4

September 30, 2019, entered in Joseph May's Make It Six Contest...

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Allow me to introduce
the hermit Hugh
who
I do deduce
felt it within himself
to eschew
an embrace
yet
being obtuse
when on a wild chase
did goose a moose
in the caboose
then a disgrace
but such behaviour
did induce
Bruce
another recluse
to pick up the pace
when playing footsie
under the table
fast and loose
...

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An Acrostic by James Edward Lee Sr.
Formal wordings formulate.

Aided graphics essay.

Long billows eat.

Lyrical laments seethe.


Induced decreases compare.

Nominated creatives eschew.


Lesser peaks reach.

Open ears exult.

Valiant deeds write.

English ears enter.






3/4/19
 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©...

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