Short Honed Poems

I bared my insides,
you sharpened knives on my ribs;
cutlery, bone honed....

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the old year now fades
with this pen honed by your hands
sonnets from my heart...

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Kestrel
Focused falcon
Honed huntress hovering
Adjusts; stoops; lands; dispatches
Raptorial...

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A well honed

Paradox

Results in laughter

Which clears the deck

Of all of  

Refined arguments

And questions......

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God is
a finely honed machine
You are born 
just to be replaced
Your smile
will smile once more
But on someone else's face...

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Knowledge whispered in hushed tones,
he listened in silence and concentration all honed,
he now whispers to others-who may or may not listen the drone....

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Truth thrives in contradiction
  the difference sharply honed

A neither nor redemption
  as zero-sum is known

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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May you be honed 
and strengthened 
by the humiliation
of occasional defeat.

Yet, in triumph,
may you shun urges
of chest-thumping
arrogance and conceit!...

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To pierce today’s attention span,
fewer words are best

A point honed sharp for one deep thrust
—one is all you’ll get

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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To pierce todays attention span,
  fewer words are best

A point honed sharp for one deep thrust,
  —one is all you’ll get

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)...

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Squeezing out a different meaning,
with each new moment passed

The choices honed, all time dethroned
—no instant first or last

(Mackinac City Michigan: July, 2019)...

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Specks of honed firelight
Grinding out the light of times
Flies run in the dark
Lighting up the night spaces
Bringing harmony to night

Russell Sivey...

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The winter has honed its attack.
“I'm freezing!” my butt shrieks alack,
as up climb the freezes
from toes passed the knees-es.
It's so cold my foreskin grew back!

12/30/18...

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Solid words liquefied;
Bound and told horrified;
Ancient own;
 Dooley honed ;
I am that child 
Buck-wild



7/8/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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A combination of Haiku and Kyoka

designer originals
from feed sacks
after the chickens were fed

her artist's touch
honed with the aid
of her foot movement
on the treadle machine...

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When the morning lark has honed its  silver chirp,
a dream-like canvass floats into a higher octave,
setting passages alight with sun filled prospect as eternity dissolves its outer limbs....

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Listen to poem:

Swords have two sharp edges.
Knives have two, one is sharp,
the other blunt, till honed.
Cliffs like blades are 
one-edged glades, stoned.
But on edge, on a ledge
and stoned,
it's one-sided....

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here we are
moving up and down
between polarities
in the play of life
until soul is honed
that resistance ebbs 
then boundaries blur
and our vaporised self
is finally free

26-December-2022...

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When I was single and living alone
Cereal curbed my tummy’s moans
Eating Cap'n Crunch
Breakfast, dinner, and lunch
Was a cooking hookey I honed!


10/4/11
Received 2nd place in "Cereal Limerick" contest...

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A pearl smile
A jaunting daunt
Eyes point check
Body on point
Wet lips
Lusciousness
Sound mind wholesome spirit
Blessedness
Woman honed beautiful

9/17/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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He hath made 
The point quite
Sincere never trade

Your pointless trite
Round former great
Whose sharpened plight

Remains unchanged fate
Indispensable when betrayed
Honed deeply serrate...

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Scot and Gael 
Pict and Brit
Even Cymru
Thrive in grit
No Back up
Not a bit
‘tis Celtic
Stubborn
Writ.
Fired in adversity
Tempered in
Ice cool
Deliberation
Honed in
Tribal
Code
One with
Earth Mother
Ever on call...

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Love in Friendship

Don’t neglect a friend,
Especially in times of difficulty
Friendship is the foundation of real love;
Giving advices and confront each other-hold the hearts together.
A love honed through friendship lasts for a lifetime!...

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may you, in cowardice,
    be bold and prevail,
         yet kind to those who
              struggle, stumble and fail;

may you be honed 
    by occasional defeat,
         yet, in triumph, shunning
              urges of conceit!...

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What is love?

The Bible and the bards have long since honed 
 A perfect exposition of this force,
So though my heart this power of love has owned
I'll simply, such discerning words endorse.





Sponsored by: Faraz Ajmal

07/08/18...

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