Short Gotten Poems

I believe
I’ve 
Gotten the
Hang of 
This poetry
Writing thing...

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Send them just because
Never gotten them before
They're my favorite...

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fix me gotten one
set head and roasted  bread mix
bright orange tomato's...

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"genuflect reflux"


an ailment gotten from being raised Roman Catholic...

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Suitcase in her hands.
This scene has gotten too dull.
Goodbye, New Jersey....

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we talk you walk
left me all alone
now I gotten go on
its fill of pain fears
also
OUT DOOR TEARS...

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A momentary silence, has gotten in my head.
Why don't you speak, say something to me; 
tell me how I look in bed....

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     The 'Gong Show's' off the air, long-ago dead
  
       ~ but not the reverberations of that gong in my head...

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She came up for air and
Found she had gotten lost
In the undercurrent,
Swept away by a forbidden
Yesterday.

Cynthia...

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You can reject human nature,
spend your whole life being mad,
or you can just accept it,
do the best with what you have....

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As I've grown older, I've found,
that my body has gotten more round,
as I try it,
another new diet,
I always add another pound....

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As I've grown older, I've found,
that my body has gotten more round.
As I try it,
another new diet,
I always add another pound....

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A woman, a mother
as a little girl
she couldn't wait to become
But its gotten to hard now 
back to a little girl
she wants to run...

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boll weevil, be evil
gotten, wotton 
wrought in,  brough in 
rotten, cotton

5/21/18
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
Copyright © 2018...

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When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, 
what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, what ever it is you've got left....

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Sorrow, pain express sorrow, mourning ill-gotten
   -------negative passions


3/12/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©


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How far have I really gotten?
Am I overestimating the distance of my journey?
I’d like to think not
I hope I get to where I want to be,
Where I need to be...

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I got a bad case of the avian flu
It's a bad case and the prescription is you
There's a bird out there that's gotten me
That writes mad rhymes to a Rotten T...

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Time to go shopping,
to buy some new clothes,
last years model,
have gotten so small.
I wonder why,
they don't fit anymore,
could it be the goodies,
that I adore....

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some or smooth
some or cool
you must pay dues
its good and bad news
yes there is pain
you gotten do your thing
get up from the dust
don't be ashame
LIFES LIKE A BOXING RING...

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I flinch each time you claim we're one flesh
Seventy-three years long; you've not gotten it yet?
You are you, and me, from a different tree; not set

Within yours.

*...

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If you have not gotten to know my soul. 
Then you know nothing of my scars & my soul. 
So save the egotistical compliments to take my blindfolds off. 
They will not work....

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gentle opulence 
	bright symbol of reunion ~
		yuè yuán zhi yè

(October Full Moon – Chinese) 
*yuè yuán zhi yè indicates the night when the moon has gotten fully round...

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“whether or not”


two days without walking,
and without out loud talking.
have i gotten lazy,
or have i gone crazy;
complaining, when’s the rain going to start stopping?...

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I heard the bird hit the window
So I went to find the fallen creature
He was not laying outside my sunroom
So I feel he must have gotten up
And flew away
To live another day...

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