Short Frontage Poems

Backward
Bashful, Reversed
Retreating, Inverting, Retiring
Bigot, Rear End; Progress, Frontage
Advancing, Developing, Growing
Cultured, Civilized
Forward

written August 23, 2021...

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My Persona

Today I built myself a Persona,
My Identity has become a façade,
I thought it was time I had one,
Concealment shouldn’t be too hard.

It’s a kind of portico, facia or frontage,
A cover-up or clever disguise.
Smoke screened by veneered pretence,
You won’t see what’s in front of your eyes....

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Cracks In The Facade-


frontage fronts faces aspects open space
exterior buildings look
there’s cracks in the façade


the face of a building, especially
principal front that looking out
all have minuet cracks here




11/25/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©...

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funeral, loss
Katrina Waves

Draws her strength internally
Boasting strong hosed waves ashore
Headed inland she sweeps all asunder 
Vanishing in a breath’s count 
‘Frontage’ lays flattened now
Waved ‘kaput’!Katrina 
Drawing her core strength 
Boasting strong hosed waves ashore 
Head inland she sweeps all asunder 
Vanishing in a breath’s count 
‘Frontage’ lays flattened 
Waves ‘kaput’!...

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There seems to be some rain that’s coming, Joan.
The sky is filling wide with gray clouds o’er
our mountains’ massive evergreens that moan
with new wind’s show that I’ll miss evermore.
But I’ll miss sleet and snow yet nevermore.
Can’t say our life was lacking certain gain.
Yes, Joan, rough cabin’s parcel price did soar.
Lot’s frontage lies against the road called Main
that leads to village green, but we now wait the rain....

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