Short Freeverse Poems

The understanding of natural energy
and how one change vibrates, 
echoing through time and space
in transferences of power, but--
do you dare disturb the universe?...

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poetic plumes preened
            perfect beauty in a cage

            free birds versed in sky







Inspired by Line Gauthier's Freeverse vs Structured Poetry Contest...

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==================    Poems


                      The roses are red
                      The violets are blue
               bring forth the freeverse


                 GINSU-KNIFE   EASTPORT , MAINE...

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As the world turns
adjustments are made.
Spinning around as life enviably moves up and then down -
Heard without much sound.
Unless one listens closely to the noises which are created from all which surrounds.
UP and DOWN....

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I found love 
in words of poetry
I found you
so near yet so far away
So close
I hear your heart beat
pulsating with my own
So distant
more than hopes can dream
I found you
my fate
my destiny
now I wait
for you to find me...

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The cold air brushes my cheeks 
My fingertips glide on glass 
It doesn't feel like anything at first 
It feels numb
The lights in my life shine but the moment of warmth 
It crawls back through my spine 
And my body cries for you...

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Pick up your old guitar, 
find the soothing chords,
plucked notes or rhythmic hum,
voice your lyrics by firelight.
Bard, sing the songs of love, 
where none can dance tonight
but don't dare give your heart away,
take your place in destiny....

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cast me your leftovers
     I'll make daffodils
                 of them

  lend me your broken bits
        I'll weave them into
  something whole and striking

  confide your loneliness
      we'll race with wild horses
   then waltz in moonlight...

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chronic insomnia cripples
        its bubble of distortions guts my day      
             
                    deprived of sleep  
        the ordinary appears horribly difficult
                     the extraordinary 
                   becomes impossible...

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Bare annihilation vanquished before 
the wind breathed her in. 
First impressions clear, lasting,
only to shred the contract she composed for one. 
How? Questions that have many answers; 
none of which carry relief to the seeker.    
...

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We always ask for more-
More money, more food
More time.
The world's clock
Spinning ever too quickly.
But time heals-
The heart especially
Is mended only as such.
So while everyone wants this clock
To slow down
I wish it would hurry up
And get to healing.
...

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Elude me, sleep,
like a scorned lover
who leaves me breathless,
chest tight,
gripped with vines.

Leave me, sleep,
alone in the void,
not one sense available
as I hang,
immobile in purgatory.

Call me, sleep,
vibrant siren in an inky sea,
I fall to your whim,
oblivious,
into your arms. 
...

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soupbowl
                                                   appetite dish
                                            limerick cinquain freeverse
                                        mind challenging boggling fun
                                                         potluck





Tribute To All 
At  The Soup...

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Bonafide solicitations
Confusion crying 
Disorders insortations 
Radical modified eye examination 
Ideology cryptic notations
Self rearing conscious fearing 
Also endearing 
Randomly speaking
Adverse advertisements
Extra extra Read All About It








9/6/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019 ©...

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one candle lit 
set apart
for my tears will not apologize
I am dead but alive

no amount of time can pass
from this anniversary to the next
the heartless affects of years bring no ease
no air, no breath of joy

AIDS stole my heart that day
a year ago
I can’t hold you anymore
my adorable son
arms like my heart
empty

....

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Blatant chaos. Colorful lights mark our path.
Distant waves confuse my sight.
Heads driven into madness, minds broken.
Avoiding the edge. Lost in silence we found our souls.
Vibes of mint and echoes of lemon.
Wake from your dream, I am deeply amused.
Venting ash from cosmic depressions.
Quantum fear descends the tension.
Life is great, I have learned my lesson....

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under a delightful moon
      air silvermist due to drizzling rain
  a pale patina rode wavetops
              of the mystic sea

creamy waters washed across my feet
depositing opaline conchs, whelk egg cases
    and bits of purple fan coral
  oceanic generosity
          fueled my thankfulness
      as the horizon's apricot blush
                  announced sunrise...

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When everything is about to crumble,
Retreat,
When you are sheltered within that pliable form which surrounds you,
Stay tacit,
If all seems as if 11:11 will never reach your life,
Speak out,
When hallowed words strike with a silver tongue,
Battle,
Fight the fights you wish to win,
Never let yourself down or give yourself up,
You but know you before you can begin to be you....

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There is a place tucked away, 
in dreams, a land where they'll come true, 
my destination, my plan is to wake up one day.
and find that it will be realised,
a land with no borders, 
a world where all is one.
and one means together, 
everybody having fun and everything is free, 
one day, with you I agree, 
somewhere a place so far away from here, 
Utopia, maybe?...

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my liquid imagination
sweeps past boundaries
and risks the depths

in a moment
stolen from chaos
spirals of light
defy form
and warm my senses

there is blue
I'm sure

the blue that belongs
in peace
and it came to me
beyond reasoning

through a veil
of preconception
it yawned
and stirred

I became it
we became one
no need for answers
as if......
no question could occur...

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Silhouettes behind curtains,
reach upward
into the illumination
of moonlight,
and dance the tango of dreams.

Velveteen wings
briefly touch sparkling gems of tomorrow
while filigree legs curtsy
and welcome a new day.

Empty eyes kissed by the Witching Hour
silently retire within unfolding dreams
for love, she was with me today 
while we talked of things to be,
yet I was already in tomorrow....

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I love you
Sounds like candy
When it rolls off your tongue
So sweet
It's bound to fill my mouth
With cavities

I imagine you talking to me
I go word by word
Visualizing the eye contact
Dreaming of the way
Your voice sounds

I listen to your audio messages
Basking in the bliss
Smiling like the first time I heard them
Euphoric in the way
I can hear your smile
When you speak

I pop your words
Like sugar pills...

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Rain falls on the empty streets
It’s dawn 
You hear distant cars 
The wind blows a frozen kiss
Upon ragged sidewalks 
And for a moment everything is perfectly imperfect 
An ordinary moment in time-
The blackness of the sky is consuming 
Quiet before the chaos begins
An echo in time 
Suddenly the rain stops
And it’s the loudest silence 
Natures slumber 
While a single flake hovers down
Twisting and turning 
Landing in your palm...

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Holding you in my arms
we both knew where it would end,
we both knew we had no choice,
we tried everything to avoid it,
but it was calling the shots
and we had to say goodbye.

Holding you closer, 
hoping that would make a difference,
hoping goodbye would never come,
stroking your cheek and whispering,
whispering nothing.

Wishing time would stop,
wishing you would take me with you,
one of us had to stay behind;
some how I must try to live
without you....

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you held my breath
in a silent string,
while you kept shut
your heart from me;

away,
away and away
from me—
I pushed me out

yet you wait for me,
your marbled love
like you were Galatea
and I'd just carved you.

A warmth
I thought I felt,
but it's
cold and clear as glass,

yet you crumble me—
you pulled my heart
in a golden yarn of string
and I couldn't run away,

so I run into your arms instead,
out of breath, a breathing charmed.
...

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