Short Flatten Poems

Dried roses fate
I flatten fit
Laminate it.
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your critical words
flatten me like a pancake -
please pass the syrup...

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Flatten my hand to claim Paper
Rock is her choice so I beat her
But Scissors will conquer 
I'll change my gesture
To make sure I'm always the winner


12 June 2011...

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High ranking General George S. Patton.
His mission the enemy to flatten.
To his troops he exclaimed without blinking,
If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn’t thinking.
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Never Hit a Potamus

Never hit a Potamus,
on his grey brown nose.
Cos' if you do, he'll flatten you,
by jumping on your toes.



For 7 year olds
Contest to follow
KS 28.1.18...

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Cap'n Rogers, a star-spangled gent,
Whose shield off a baddie was sent.
With a "Heavens to Betsy!"
He'd flatten your jetski,
Then apologize, "Sorry, I meant..."

©bfa031925

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I speed-dial her again: “Flatten the curve,
O muse - I’m dry from social distancing.”
“Abundance of caution”, she says. The nerve!
I press redial. “Please, help me write! Dance! Sing!”
Alas, my muse is self-isolating....

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Harvest time

 Golden acres of wheat 
soon the harvester will cut you down
make you into bread and fodder 
I remember when you were tall as me
and the north- west wind  
tried to flatten you but you
bent with the wind 
At sunrise rose like a peace- army
Hell bent on becoming flour...

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beneath the canvas glows the dullness of colors;
flatten by the piercings;
 sack of colors;
bold beautiful blacks and whites;
be it ever so bountiful;
I choose to draw my own constrictive arts? 



6/24/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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Lost in the dust and the wrinkled up rust
is the copper from pennies discarded
Caught in the snow as the wind howls, blows
they shiver and flatten abandoned
Spring thaws the road from it's internal cold
shoving the sand to the curb
Then we stroll by and collect our surprise
copper in slumber disturbed....

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There are many ways.
The spirits say there are.
Ways to escape.
There are gaps through the bars.
I could flatten my body and slip though.
Or so they say.
The medicine counter calls us.
They call us every day.
The voices go deeper.
I try to flatten my body, but my mom calls.
Blurting things out, and crying.
Then flatness....

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I place the flower on the stone;
Laid it there left it there alone;
Came back watered it spring, summer, fall 
And watched it wither, watched it freeze and thaw;
It didn't grow it laid flatten and torn; 
Now it's winter and it's covered with snow;

11/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Paisley's not in
    Thin ties are disasters
  Corduroy's out
    No stomachs are stout

  Fashion's dictates rule young brains
    whose bodies agonize in pain
  Trying to flatten curves into right angles
    ~ weight forbidden to gain














































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< Early morning,

   Its rainy and dark,

   Quit dull,

   Cloudy and gray,

   Emotions flowing not,

   So dim and sadden,

   Stuck in a zone,

   Feeling all alone,

   Suddenly blacken,

   Now dressed in lace,

   And black satin,

   Emotions flowing all over,

   Yet still lost,

   Dazed and amazed,

   Felt crushed pancake flatten......>...

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I'm the forgotten one
everyone can see
I go everywhere alone 
to flatten the streets
some think I'm strong
some think I'm weak
some pray to God
for him to save me...

But I'm the forgotten one
wandering in this world
I don't ask for help
cuz no one will come
there are not magic tricks
or someone above
just this hard to explain life 
beautiful and raw.

Jessica...

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How To Squeeze
When you share toothpaste in a family it is a drag to have to flatten out the tube every time you want to express your little dab of paste.  Inevitably, someone else has squeezed in the middle and messed it up. Small potatoes Huh!



When you squeeze the toothpaste tube
Please squeeze it from the bottom,
If you use another way
You're doing something rotten....

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The lunchroom fart
of turbo pasta
scatters garlic teargas
laced with meaty mystery
without mercy to
flatten cubicles.

Chain-reactions
of Tupperware battles
erupt to devastate
once discerning pallets
until hobbled by stabs
of shrapnel to the gut,

prompting an exodus
of mournful bodies
propelled along that cloud
of processed misery
to wander, ashen-faced
along the concrete void....

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You haven't fallen where no one else has fallen
you aren't fighting a fight no one else has fought 
this hurdle's a test, let's call it a calling 
a challenge to change via natural warning 

For now you live life feeling hopeless and broken 
but many have been there so talk and be open 
sharing with others will inspire ways of coping 
time will curve, flatten out and incline terrain now sloping...

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And In THE TRUNK OF MY ole' hoopty CAR- -

What's in the trunk of my ole' hoopty car
an out date scissor jack
rusted up 4 way lug-wench
flatten spare tire
box of dirty oily shop towels
a broken flare
mildew soggy trunk deck rug
a can of spray Lysol
Oh! yeah all them parking tickets from my windshield

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9/28/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019...

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A madness of love lives here.
A madness of mind, of body, of fear.

It can level valleys, flatten hills.
It can torture a heart with no pity, haunt a soul in dead screams.

Burning hotter than the sun it can freeze the deepest of seas.
Splitting atoms, commanding time, tearing the fabric of nature. A power that could dim the light of the sun.

Love is the meaning of mankind, it can’t die or be won....

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I am who I am
I can tip toe through a 
Dancing on Ice routine 
While
Reaching for the stars

I might be the patent, keen, Steve, Asics or rocket dog
However
I have a sole that flatten the lawn

I suppose that’s my
A contribution

You smiled at me
The first time we met

Not to forget

Flamboyant Dexter threatening words
“I am going to retire 
You
Unless you go with my
holiday attire”

Who am I?...

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Obviously, I am kissed 
Once more by destiny 
When clock touching
The summer moonlight night
Without pain
And, flatten the thought 
By the buzzing bug
With a fiery lips, awaking 
My lonesome blood 
Into whacking as I fell 
Into her breath
With its natural scent 
Like Venus, the god
Wrapped my lonely body 
By sweet loving hand 
That I felt like 
Lolly candy
Wanting… 
To be licked 
By you, again and again...

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Heading east, after Arizona,
through New Mexico and past
the wide Lone Star state,
greens shade from dull to bright.
The desert was pale pastels
and heat devoid of moisture.
Here, humid bayou flora flourish
in black and steamy soil where 
hurricanes hit the coast, winds 
flatten sugar cane, and two 
rich-brown nutrias cross a placid canal.
Their wakes, on the still surface, are 
clean and nearly perfect inverted 
V's....

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there is this exact space
into which every thought fits
in its proper fold
you bend all over
keeping them aligned by the groove
trim 
and smooth 
and flatten the thickness
and then molds everything 
to reduce the size
you write on top of the box the name
putting the meaning inside
then tie it with a sash
and put it on the shelf
just open the box to find out
what can you avoid doing again
the same nonsense as always....

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I bring her red and white carnations 
"Roses," she says, "only roses. Valentine's tradition."
Breezy pressure of non-acceptance
Words that flatten me like a dull sermon
Squirm inducing to understand what I'm up against
Commands that taste like salt
Re-booting the rhythm of ritual
Re-framing an approach to love
For however long the florist remains open












Poem composed: February 16, 2021
Revised: April 18, 2021...

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