Short Is That It Poems

The cruelest thing about life
 —is that it can be taken away

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)...

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the beauty of the heart is that it beats JESUS


2/1/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Should I be mad
or maybe not care
so many people who are just not there

My guess is that it no longer matters
but on your day 
what would you say
if I didnt call

O well...

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Then
the guns
fell
silent

"Is that it?"
"What do we do now?"

"Go home" echoed out
"Nothing to see here, the attacker has been dealt with"
"Keep moving along - it's a crime scene now"...

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past
And the appeal of the present is that it won’t last;
The Future creates mystery, then dissolves fast
It gets born in the present and dies in the past....

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i see it before me 
i have not stepped towards, nor walked along its direction 
it is clearly there for me to do so 
the decision 
can stray left or right of the way I go 
and all I know 
is that it starts 
before me...

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As you see there is a great fall
Let love stretch its hands being universal
Let us love each other and all,
It has a great power see you will
Under one condition is that it must be real
Then we all will laugh you as well....

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What you don't know about writing
is that it doesn't know you, 
until the two of you are willing 
to stew a mess of your own -
brewing your blood's greatest enigmas
right down to its own bone marrow -
why not say hello,
at least?...

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Which way do I face?
Where is he?

I just stand there?
OK thanks

And I speak now?
OK thanks

“God I stand before you naked
Please judge me kindly”

What do I do now?
OK thanks

Is that it?
OK thanks

Any chance of a nice cup of tea?
OK thanks...

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It is now the end of your life
Your life was filled with wonder and happiness
Your only wish is that it did not have to end
It is a peculiar thing aging
You start with almost no knowledge 
You leave with the knowledge that you can never understand everything....

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Fly those colors high
For we will not live tonight
Today is the last day of your life,
So kiss the sea goodbye,
The beast has come to claim its toll,
It will not leave without us,
All we can have is trust
In this old boat,
Our only hope is that it will stay afloat......

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It seems the most dangerous symptom caused by the Omicron* strain is that it makes the radicals even more moronic! 

*A new Covid variant that the doctor who raised the alarm about it says so far Omicron has caused only very mild symptoms. https://youtu.be/HisaMHjRkvk...

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The past, present, and future
The beginning and the end (alpha and omega)
The evolution of existence
The thing that the simple minded can not grasp
The perplexity is, that it is the lack of knowledge
Which is proven in the proverbial saying
“What’s in store only time will tell.”...

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A few minutes ago I was outside enjoying the sun...
          The saddest part about betrayal is that it never comes from enemies.
                    ~The Cat atlas_chubby_paws 

When a friend becomes an enemy I have to ask myself was that friend a friend in the first place? 
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whats interesting about giving up
is that it is my fault,
my choice to stop putting in the effort
to make things better.
i allow myself to have this
fictitious sense of control.
because what else am i 
supposed to do?
what happens when what i have to give,
who i am
is not good enough?...

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The saddest thing about poetry
is that it can say nothing more beautiful
of the real than the real says naturally of itself.
The grandest thing about poetry, on the other hand,
is that it can portray in such splendor the unreal
as to awaken in us the notion that
the delusion is brutally real....

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Just one word
Is that it?
In four months just one word ..
OK

NO it’s NOT OK
It will NEVER be OK
Our lives will never be the same
YOU trampled over me
Only care about yourself
How can you live with your actions?
Got to say I’m better off without you
Screw you!

12th October 2015...

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You used to say it!
You used to say.....
"I love you"
almost every day.
Now you don't say it,
you don't say it anymore.
You're saying it
increasingly  less
than you ever did before.
The reason you don't say it,
is that it wouldn't be true
but as much as
you don't love me
is as much as
I don't love you!...

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If the past is the past
then why does it affect our present.
Wether we take the past as a lesson or a burden
it still affects our future.
Our past shapes who we are
who we become
and our views on life.
The thing about the past 
is that it doesnt stay in the past.
We carry it on and on through life.
My past is my present and my future....

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What is a saskatoon berry? 
All I know is that it arrived on my doorstep this fall. 
Looking like a dried up stick in a pot of soil.
The community farm had too many for it’s food forest so I got one. 
It is out in my garden, in the hole that I dug, in the cold.
It may be dead for all I know or it could bloom and feed us. 
Or it just might be a metaphor....

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I used to drink, but now I think,
Being sober is the way.
All the smoke I used to toke,
Took up most of the day.

Between the two, I guess I knew,
My life was out of touch.
I must concede, the fault of weed,
Is that it costs too much.

Now I'm clean, strong and lean,
From hours working out.
But times I miss that herbal kiss,
Instead of being stout....

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According to pompous Al Gore, he claimed to have invented the internet!

Well, I'm certainly delighted to hear that - we are forever in his debt!

I have rather serious doubts about that dubious claim, however.

My understanding (tho' not all that well understood) is that it was a group endeavor!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Sorry... 
Indeed a miracle word,
How much relief it gives, 
The one who says and the one who receives.
How wondrous, 
As it could break down walls,
Melts the ice,
Brings out a smile,
Makes everything nice.
Truly magical, 
The only condition that it poses,
That brings arguments to a close,
Is that it should come from within,
From the sincerest part of your being.

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The mystery of ‘the hole’,
is that it has no mass at all.
A thing that only can exist
through nothingness - that’s the twist!

A hole can be of any size,
yet of nothing does it comprise.
Nothing has no size at all,
no matter how big or small.

So what conclusion can we draw
from ‘the hole’ with this flaw?
That it’s simply just not there,
no matter how hard you stare!!...

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Inner turbulence swirls
Imprisoned
As in liquid amber,
When motion ends 
And the peace
And the stillness
Of eternity doesn't 
Answer the question,
If you could
You'd gaze beyond
Your tiny prison,
And if you could
You'd greet a star 
New-born
On your horizon
And if you could
You'd ask the void
"Is that it?"
But you know the answer
Anyway
Don't you.
You've known it all along....

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