Short Fetter Poems

SCARED GAMBLER

wetter setter
debtor fetter

4/25/18
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
Copyright © 2018...

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He who all to himself seeks Love
Does the wings of Love fetter
Love is like a young dove
She flourishes in space and nectar!...

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Pet's Autobiography

I don't mean to be rude:
To adore gods is good,
To adore dogs is better-
So, let me off the fetter!


01st Sept' 2013...

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Oh haiku – how I do love you!
With your sweet simplicity and gentle refrain 
You fetter me to petite joys
Allowing me to…oh dear - I wrote a quatrain!...

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The decay of corpses is my domain
Abandoned in the dread mountain region
Unrestrainable through fetter and chain
My bread mouldy but my spirit Legion...

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On the theme of birds that flutter and fly
I’d free my flock of dreams to swarm the sky
Blind to both cage and fetter
-blinded by sun and freedom of feather...

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CONVERSION


I have signed the pledge of success:

Stood in the group and confessed

To drinking tea and coffee to excess;




But now I have seen the light, I'm better  -

No more tannin and caffeine fetter.

I’m a beertotaller....

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With each breath reborn, we flow on
There remains no fetter
Both fears and desires, long since gone 
Free from mental chatter

We make not any fuss
Going where God takes us
Bliss suffused, here now thus 

Sin-free, ego shorn
With each breath reborn

09-April-2022
Quietus ...

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ACROSTIC (acrostic)

A crostic poems are fun to do
C reating lines that are right on que,
R endering verse when a line’s first letter
O ffers meaning yet doesn’t fetter
S pelling out of a sonorous title
T hat describes your heartfelt recital.
I n a craft of alphabetic form
C ontrol is crucial to inspire and inform....

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I'm here to vent my feelings.
Thank the Lord you came.
Try to listen closely,
I have a lot to blame.

Your coming brings me comfort.
All here to share my pain.
Together we can conquer.
At least until I'm sane.

It's been a lot to mention.
But now I'm feeling better.
I'm thankful for your listening.
My life gone back to fetter....

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addicted to a scent
we once granted consent
enmeshed us in confines of time
deadening sentience to our inner chime
self-blocking the influx of God’s grace
owing to mundane goals we chase
so the verses our mind shapes
though colourful rainbow drapes
if it has now become a habit routine
perhaps it is indulgence we need to wean...

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My silent spirit within
Wakes me up with a din,
Says, “hark the honey-bee’s hum,
Akin to the secret mantra ‘Aum’

Your body, you are not,
You are your Soul
To unify with that ‘Ultimate’
Should be your goal

The body is Soul’s fetter
The sooner you break it the better
Chanting of Aum and incantation
Shall guide you on the path of Liberation!”...

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The pen rushes; unstoppable yet
Thoughts deeply buried that fret
Fullness swallowed by emptiness met

Subtle meanings; ambiguous
Thoughts; so strenuous
Emotions; sensuous

Imaginations vivid and blurry
Overflowing ideas in brevity
Amidst freedom; perplexity

Stirs the mind that fetter
Pages remain in flicker
A torture for every writer


-May 7, 2019...

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Blowing out the candles on my cake 
I muse with the music of this mortal sphere. 
And congratulate and condole at once; 
The agony and ecstasy meld in one celestial ball 
Unkempt with imagined beauty and power- 
Beyond reckoning. 
Confine it not, nor fetter,nor furl 
But let fly surreptitious sobriety 
That hath on winged fancy flown 
And forever toward Heaven's unboundedness....

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That is what I tell Joyce:
She's got a world's free choice
To fasten words of praise
On a thing without base
Or take a snake's poise
Raising a critic's voice...

Over rubbish rejoice
Like she'd done as free Joyce
Because she had the choice
To make an impure noise

Yet, it shall count later
One failed a life better:
Spoke no healing letter...
Caged self with fetter....

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I sit with page in front of me
not blank, as you may think.
My words are on the brink
of flying or dying, you see.

So I’ll just sit, and stare, and blink
and try to make it better,
maybe change a letter,
to get my feet and rhymes in sync.

When I’m stuck and mind in fetter
I’ll dream of flying high.
Not wanting words to die,
I become a phrase abetter....

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Leaves of gold and fiery red 
Around us all it's beauty spreads
Crisp air, icy breath 
Holding hands for warmth is best 

Cozy sweaters they'll never fetter 
The change in you , alongside this weather


Shorter days , nights will come quicker
Cocoa in hand instead of cold liquor

Season of sweetness
Some may say bitter 

If autumn is this good 
I can't wait for  winter...

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As I lay here
 Agony clawing
Flowing tears
 I am bawling.

Crying over fate
 Over my rotten luck
Cursing this last mate
 Knowing I'm a schmuck.

Wishing I was better
 Wishing I was smart
Yet this pain does fetter
 And stays in my heart.

Can I be the same?
 No nothing can be
As life is not a game
 But this is just me.

Always fighting
 Always trying
Always writing
 Slowly dying....

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To the talked to, but have yet to meet
From what has been said you seem so sweet

To what has not is sure to be a treat

Getting to know each other better
Is something we should not fetter

Friends at the start
Will set us apart

We're seeking relationships that will last
A one that is unlike the ones of our past

So let's see what the future will bring
It's sure to bring us both a grin...

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presupposing renewal of breath
continuity of memory linking time
gradually accepting our limitations
trauma bonding with habit patterns
spontaneity of innocence sacrificed

we mark out our territory in a cage
decorating it with objects of desire
of which creative impulse too a fetter
snarling if any intruder comes close
living alone in our cell with mirrors
in fading light

26-November-2022...

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When we don’t a lunatic fetter,
Sanity does not look quite better;
When A Sluggard is The Pace Setter,
Things begin to happen much later:
An Aquarian Chosen Go-getter,
A lot tend to be rather wetter; 
Everyone A Well-Trained Sharp Shooter 
Exchange of Gunfire The Redder;
One deciding to be A Looter
Many Shaky Accounts The Redder …

I’ve told you what usually follow
And why my laughs are sometimes hollow....

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You want two coppers,
and many golds,
and many more diamonds,
what for?
will you eat them,
you may wear them,
but for how long,
and to what avail,
you might sell them,
get money,
what would you do with money,
you can eat only as much as you want to,
you can live only in space required by your cubic feet,
you can wear better,live better,
but how do you define better,
is it really better,
or just a mental fetter....

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See the birds and butterflies
Flying west carefree
Whilst some birds gather gregariously 
On old eucalyptus tree.

Daytime sunny radiance 
Visible exposure 
For underneath and beneath 
Those whom seek to know her.

Heed the glory of the light
On the Earth from sky 
Note life all forms how thus born
And Identify…

For admiring is inspiring 
When under our great sun
Though better with no fetter
To be a part and one....

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She wore her art in socks and mittens at first
But then she began designing her t-shirts, and even worse…
She decorated her lampshades, or maybe, even better
No one’s house looked like hers, Mable P.T. Fetter

She is odd some said, but they were not friends of mine.
I thought her colorful things were mighty and fine.
Spent time with her, listening to stories that were colorful too.
She was not the norm, so now, wouldn’t you?...

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So you think that you’re better?
My diction ain’t got no fetter
I can pull books from just one letter.

It’s a skill I’ve been honing
While you’ve been atoning
For rhymes inexcusable
Yeah I’m not defusable.

You think you’re so clever 
But I’ll use you like a lever
All your weak lines I’ll sever.

Stack them up like a ladder
My victory spoken from your tongue
And every time you get madder
I’ll just climb another rung....

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