Short Etchings Poems

In judgment we are sentenced…
its verdict zero-sum

(The New Room: November, 2021)...

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hoarfrost coats the grass
etching it 
like acid on a metal plate
defeating the
morning glories 


*10/20/12...

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silver-gray etchings
fingernail scratched ménage oak
~
the ice cold sun nods


12/30/2016...

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Don't get 
hung up on poetry.
When you get hung
up on poetry 
you start to dream
and your dreaming
softens the darkening
etchings in the world....

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Shifting sands beneath me leave soft impressions
Like the gentle etchings upon my pages
It is not my goal to create a pattern
Ever enduring



February 3, 2019...

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ornate frost etchings across panes
intricately grace taut wintry windows
ludic angels stage their ephemeral artwork



AP: 2nd place 2020

Posted on June 4, 2020...

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wisps of clouds
drawn across blue skies
celestial calligraphy
gracefully etched
i try to read the message 



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on October 27, 2022...

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CONTEMPORARY
in
a province
of the genteel
aesthetically
pleasing
ilustrated
  etchings
linear
meticulous
ccoladss
 possessed
disciplined
abstractionsa
of reality
in
curious
  retrospect...

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Ink

Indelible etchings
ingrained on a stone hearts
insatiable desire.
Icarian escape
igniting defiant
incantations of hope’s
inescapable truth.


©2/25/2017


submitted to – Pleiades I – poetry contest...

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CHOSEN WRITTEN WORDS

the letters are here
arranged on paper to read
spellbound written lies

sheets of paper lined
covered with etchings chosen
are the words we read

11/16/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

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Quatrain #131:
CITE


Calm in sure quest now gently shows,
Ink stains bring zest in telling flow;
Thought feeds the fest as feelings surge,
Etchings word best as message glows.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
10 December 2015
Singapore...

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Betwixt these tithes at her antiquities keen asylums; a foretokens child esoteric
Paleolithic etchings; afore their myths the caverns Acheron's absolved; loric tides..
Acute, this illness ironic it's stones ? Theology sects scribes a second coming as time....

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in soft outline
strokes
whorls&
      stains
cropping close
 
    piercing black
upright
&
 informal
  imaginary &surprising

 ambiguous
perhaps
 an allusion
      
 something from
 nothing
      refined
evocations
of
minimalist
  tracery...

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On a lonely pier
of weathered wood
and salt water etchings,
beneath a moonlit mosaic
on a cloudless sky

Stained glass brush strokes
cling to a northern horizon
as I cast my heart afloat,
wishing on a promised tide
that it reaches you...

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Years arrive and leave, 
Winters roll and weave
Lines around your eyes
Making you look wise.

Wise enough to know 
Every wind to blow
Leaves its time and trace 
Furrowed in your face.

Lines of love and grief,
Hate and disbelief,
Rage, and loyalty, 
On your face to see....

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Years arrive and leave, 
Winters roll and weave
Lines around your eyes
Making you look wise.

Wise enough to know 
Every wind to blow
Leaves its time and trace 
Furrowed in your face.

Lines of love and grief,
Hate and disbelief,
Rage, and loyalty, 
On your face to see....

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Speakers and writers on joy or great sorrow,

help human hearts deal with lies and the truth.

They offer an easing from etchings of tears,

and help on occasion to alleviate fears.

Their hand or a hug, love’s presence surround,

add warmth and compassion with silent sound....

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ETCHINGS

Ebony chalk  e t c h e s-
Easel full of parchment
exasperating me-
Edges of drawings that
elude my skilled talent-
E N D L E S S  soft artisan...


Pleiades E - Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman

Date Written: September 16, 2016...

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Small pieces of paper -
  notes to an unsuspecting love.
Etchings of black and blue ink
  scrawled errors on blank sheets
  that once said nothing.
Now, clearly displayed to read
  for all to see longings, emotions, feelings
  waiting to verbalize everything
but saying nothing at all 
  kept hidden inside....

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Peace and plenty,
Orb of fine rays;
Earth feels savvy,
Touch of fond ways;
Incline sure heart,
Calm and surely.
Mind cheery start,
Offer to see;
Voice sparks a trend,
Etchings of art;
Meet and attend,
Echo each part;
Note how things flow,
Thrills outlive show.




Leon Enriquez
22 December 2014
Singapore...

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Voice a fond feel,
Ask love to play;
Live joy that heals,
Explore sure stay;
Now as we merge,
Time after time;
Intuit a surge,
Note profound rhymes, 
Enjoy the light.
Apt as feelings:
Lost in sure flight,
Opt grand seeing;
Voice beyond birth,
Etchings of mirth.




Leon Enriquez
14 February 2015
Singapore...

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Blooms in sure dance
Rise to greet dawn;
Ideas fling chance,
Etchings of morn;
Focus of breeze.
Cool feelings blend;
One windy squeeze
Now primes intent;
Touch of wild hint,
Inspires a tone;
Niche in fine mint,
Urge swirls and hones;
Urgent this take:
Mind seeks to make.




Leon Enriquez
02 November 2014
Singapore...

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When the yellow fan quiets 
the still night creeps forward
the panic of midnight arrives.

The crickets can't carry 
a tune built on nothing
The moss fresh with dew can't help thrive.

I wonder 'till morning
I knew you before
The etchings my brain fascinates.

I pace fast and fury,
I wonder, I worry
My love is decideably late....

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Etchings of sincere thoughts
written down in time
so not to abandon their meanings.

Explosive feelings
falling ardently to paper
agonizing with each ache and affliction.

We right any injustice,
defend each analysis,
and plead toward understanding.

Amid life’s occurrences,
our audience takes in our wisdom
studying with rapt attention....

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Hollow,
carved out emptiness
replacing shake-able joy,
until it's just a gnawing ache.

Grieving streaks
drip in streams,
Covering my trembling face in
broken, bleeding etchings.

A crushing burden,
to breathe in the morning,
and carry as the sinking sun
dips below the fading horizon.

Another day, another loss.
A bitter pill to take....

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