Short Kernel Poems

In every lie, a kernel of Truth ~
    Old folks no longer jealous of youth...

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Coconut kernel is
good to eat;
healthy, too.

But a coconut
falling on 
one's head isn't
healthy!...

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Sack begins to sag
Salty kernel makes me gag
Soaking through the bag

By Robb A. Kopp

All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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That's
how it is
the chaff
blown away
and the kernel
of truth
takes root
a magnificent
everlasting
tree
of man....

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Just a small kernel of shapes,
Able to be any size or colour,
Enable you to design anything,
Any image, icon, picture, frame...

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Look deep within your soul.
If you do not like what you find,
Look deeper still
Until you find the kernel of your life,
The essence of your being....

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Within the energies I borrow
radiates a kernel of gold
polished by the magnificence
I’ve been blessed to behold
at the crux of experience
once levity banishes sorrow....

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Sunday
The Lord's day, celebrates the Eucharist
Day of the Resurrection
Christian family
Day of joy 
Rest from work
Foundation
Kernel, the whole liturgical year

04052014...

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Identity,
Born from a kernel of inheritance
Planted deep within a furrow of pain
Growing in the light of new discovery
Reseeding itself
  —waiting for the rain

(My Son Trystan & I: May, 2016)...

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God helps those who help themselves
Hidden here a kernel of truth: "no free lunch!"
But if I seek a shelter in real or fancied homelessness
"A stitch in time saves nine," - not my bikini (thanx a bunch)...

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bending tree branches 
each little flower smile-filled ---
spirit romantic 

earth is green covered
no kernel of mud is seen ---
crickets stridulate 

green arches of trees
stand welcoming the sunbeams ---
grasshoppers concert...

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CRACKING THE KGB
I heard that the Lt. Kernel of the KGB, was a hard nut to crackSo I felt even more than obliged to give him a good old whack
Indiana Shaw . . . ; )...

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Rocket is a favorite fresh salad and food, 
       Indeed, for all, in my view, the best dinner
    Kale is highly recommended you should include  
  Kernel of a date balm tree!! it's rare! but, for older
Infiltrative soft cheese -on them all- to woo good mood...

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Cerise took a bite of the cherry

ground her teeth on the pip

a kernel of truth searching salvation

conditioned to drivel and drool

Salvador handed her a spittoon

to release the rest of the lies


24th July 2021

Bite Size Poem no 14

Sponsor Line Gauthier...

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he is packing food for winter
each kernel might make the difference
between surviving the Iowa winter and not
some say owls are wise
they have nothing on squirrels
he begins his climb to his nest
where he deposits his corn
wishing it was sweet corn
instead of field corn...

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Words, woven into the kernel of my emotion
penned by sagacious poets on the soup,
are calling forth poetry,
from my mind's tower.
I can also hear the muse,
dictating another lines of poems.
But, why is my pen's stroke faint,
on the padded book I write?
Don't you think I need a refill?...

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Pure Christianity forges ahead..'
Amidst these days of dread
Changless, by day; hour years!
Immutable truth ever near.'
Smashing chains and fear
Though the season is drear
It never falters, it holds so dear'
A kernel; that ever seeds; Love
Gifting to humans born from above.!

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Depths of Despair
     Rise it will not, is
     Buried deep in the kernel
     Of the  mortal being
Soul squirming to realm beyond
Trail of blood inked black with grief

Earlier submitted
Date
26 Sept 2016
Contest 
Lament a Tanka
Now submitting for contest 261 max 5 lines
Date Jan 9 2017...

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A blaze of years, into the kernel of 20 minutes, in front of a crowd praying to see
You made a monument to your past, not to our future
One chose to entertain, another to introduce, a third to baptize in blood

Waiting for the day my petals bud
To discern a nightlight from a fireball
And coo back what I see...

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Dawn breaks.
All nature wakes,
and up from the creek
waddles three little drakes..
A momma mallard hesitates,
time abates.
Six guarded peeps cautiously await.
Scratch grains form yellow rains.
They some how manage to sustain.
Pecked at, swallowed with a gurgle,
greedily devouring every kernel,
until only the dust remains.....

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Today I’m a blob
a slob
a glob
a perturbed mob hob
don’t ask me what it means
you will be peter fink snob
you’re ugly and spoiled
and it’s not your business you see,
so get away and stop pestering me.
today I’m a blob, a snob, a glob, 
a perturbed mob hob.
uglier and more surly than
a spilled kernel of a sassy
Iowan corn cob....

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Buttery , Salty
Popcorn ;
So much wrapped in a smell ;

Close my eyes,
Sensory  overload;
So many moments,
every kernel

Smiles, Late-night working ,
Each bite, mind  traveling;
Angry ,  broken Reels 

With every little taste,
Burns I would never  erase ;
Engulf my mind with memories 

So much wrapped in that smell,
Buttery, salty  
Nostalgia...

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Listen to poem:

All life has within a kernel core ~ a dash of the within of things
the continuum
of ancestry is vital
for life here on earth
This within of things has been within, 
from the very beginning, for all life's kin
arose from the one and only unique cell 
that sparked alive, with life's spell....

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A popcorn kernel between your gums
serves only to annoy.
Until it festers to a head
and pops out to your joy.

A kernel to be licked about
provoking all your gums
and soothing nature come to you.
Your voice in little hums.

To lastly there's a swallow had.
A gulp to pull it down.
To scratch your throat in bitter taste
and leave it there to drown....

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The roses are dead;
Its autumn air has stiffened them;
Dandelions yet blossoms;
Squirrels hide their winter kernel achene;
Scrambling, gathering storm stores for winters crest;
Birds seeking sanctuary heading south and west;
Sitting in buildings eves, roofs and arches covering rest;

10/30/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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