Short Folding Poems

another rainy day
the tulip folding in
on itself...

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ottaman empire
armenian genocide
with pride,tradition...

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folding wishes
origami 
whispers



posted on March 8, 2019...

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Eyes closed chest implodes
Folding inward my head bows
Wet tear on my thigh...

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Subduction
continental contact
thrusting and folding
Seismic kiss of an
orogeny...

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folding time and space
      origami of the heart
    
     love and paper  cuts...

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Our sages’ pages and wages
Fading, folding and falling
… the prodigals named and shamed...

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melancholy and cheerful
stop and go
folding and unfolding
coexists,
unreachable but
always with us
color of hope....

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The universe is vast, unimaginable
With uncountable circles of beings and things
The multiverse is folding around all....

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Like a spider skirting around its' web
The Sun hustled about the clouds 
On golden legs
That spotted a re-folding sea....

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beauties
unruffled
on a steamy day
float in boats rowed by their beaus 
white silken hands folding their fans at sunset
...

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Falling of dark 
Folding a fear in me
Brings rain if it’s 
Increasing by another fold
My fear
Not now
But when I was small...

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These demons
These drugs
Working hard
Folding rugs
May the best of me
Still be to come
God help me
I’m still on your side...

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napkin holder...
                                               what an
                                               easy job...

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folding poems
  with cherry blossoms —
his shirts are clean

—haiku 


February 02, 2019
Wild Orchid Haiku

(modern haiku)...

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silent walls collapse
folding in sucked into the void
with no sound or light,
to show what once beamed bright there
leaving a black abstinence...

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Nothing is happening..

The seeming story

Unfolding and folding 

Is secretly Nothing

And in another story

The secret is revealed 

To no one......

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Twisting folding melting 
Into cradled arms molded just for me 
Safe and secure 
No place I would rather be 
Relaxing letting my mind run free 
In my happy place...

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ink bending over
                                             folding words
                                          on a twister board






MagiCicada 13...

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Folding words into
a feeling
The permanence was
addictive
The creases
redefining
And the transcendence
sublime

(Nashville Tennessee: 'The Bluebird' October 1991)?...

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You're taste still lingers
upon my lips 
remembering the feeling
running 
through me
a touch so 
longing hands folding
fingers clinging
that kiss
a lasting lingering taste....

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I
Chos e chos

Candle in darkness,
Haunting silence,
Memories folding,
Dead to the touch,
Like the cold barrel,
Its eternal kiss,
Death’s echo,
I await,
Wait,
It,
I,
Echo!...

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It is silent like a prayer.
All the words are lost
and so are all the roads,
which lead to nowhere.
My arm is folding yours
as if an impossibility. 
And softly the night is coming....

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The day is folding
     Like moths when they close their wings
          Skies have turned crimson
               With butterfly reflections
                    Till fireflies gather night...

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silk moist squirming worm
crawls  metamorphosizing
folding molding to
~
so a  picturesque
now a flying beautiful
insect butterfly


9/1/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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