Short Flinches Poems

Why aren't any graceful gracious go flinches going to the glorious grassy groves~


8/22/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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the old swab barnacle bill
swilled all the grog at his will
chases the young winches
and never once flinches
knows pirate love is a thrill

Pirate Themed Limerick Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
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Jessie! I would have filled
your empty heart with my overflowing love
if you had but caught it when I poured!
But, alas! Your arms lie at your sides!
And your face flinches not as
my last drop of blood drips
into emptiness!...

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She sits and waits
Never flinches
Never wanes
The Blackened bride
Awaiting the return
of her betrothed
bathing in the tears
of the sea who stole her love
She sits and waits
never flinches
Never wanes
The love she cannot stop
and pain that never ends....

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Wednesday Blasts Intrigue now,
Constantianus Flinches Inventory

Wednesday Atomizes Flutteriness now,
Dulcitius Plunges Editorial

Tuesday Bursts Giggliness now.
Tribunas Implements Snakes

Saturday Annihilates Disappoint now,
Maximianus Observes Zones...

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His Rain Songs

(inspired by Stephen Kilmer's poem, Rain Songs)

Was glad you came back, my
childhood friend from Nam.

Look at the friends of the dead;
they cry when it rains.

My friend flinches, cries, or shouts.
Forever nightmares.

The dead are resting now....

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I wouldn't bother 
alchemizing language
into golden press releases
of your own making.

It never works long anyway,
grapevines get better reception.

A dog knows who flinches.
Moss grows where one lingers,
even silence
leaves thumbprints.

Say nothing. Say too much.
Either way—
they’ll know you....

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Heroes have many faces

Despite their deathlike pallor

The sum of any soldier

Is measured by their valor

The fear they feel in battle

But never ever flinches

Is purely a reflection

Of courage in the trenches

Even with odds against them

Will still fight to their last breath

Ever stalwartly they stand

And march bravely to their death...

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Do rabbits bite?
I sure hope not
‘Cause their fur’s so fluffy
Like my cat’s
And they are well rounded
Fat even,
They look cuddly 
Like a hairy teddy
And I just have to touch them!

Slowly I reach my palm
Pause it above its skin

It doesn’t move away

So I lower my hand
And touch its nose
Gentle
It flinches a little
But stays on 

I touch it again
But this time 
It shies away.
And I smile in relief

rabbits don’t bite after all...

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So that you are left barely a person
Near inhuman, but just...
Mind and body wrecked with havoc
Trying to persuade people that you are still who you once were
They fail to believe-
     To remember that you are
     To remember who you are
And in remembering, mind turns cheek a pale, bitter pink
So flinches the upward turned palm
That makes humility seem flawed
Purposeless and incomplete
Fading, one must, in and out of sleep
Just to be sober enough to get on....

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We are a mercurial Gemini women.
Yes, you read this correctly.
We are so many personalities.
It might seem nutty to a Capricorn or Aries woman.
But we are at least six, maybe seven women
in one body that used to be tiny.

My husband of fifty years flinches when we walk toward him
in the morning.
He never knows if he is getting an upper cut to his chin
or a sexy kiss.
Our hazel eyes flash with happiness as we read his scared little mind.
We love this!...

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What horrors mine eyes have seen
The aches and pain of a body beaten
Scars crawling against my back
Mind still flinches remembering the pattern of attack
Innocence taken like many before
The violation on the floor
Years of senseless pain
Caused with nothing to gain
The memories I will always remember
burning low like a dying ember
And I tell the world now
With a tight little bow
A bit cracked and faded I might be
I'll never be broken
That is not for me....

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