Short Lengths Poems

Takes all of my very own strength,
To never resort to such a length....

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we go to great lengths to win ~ and in the end find that we've won nothing...

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without
a rival and
ten lengths clear at the post,
the well-backed grey became the toast-
in beer....

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TINKLING HARPSICHORD

DRONING ON 

 

LENGTHS OF 

CRYSTAL 

HARMONY 

 

PAUSED 

BEFORE 

SUNLIGHT...

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Different lengths 
Different breadths. 

Surfing sometimes 
Hard at times. 

Pausing 
Dossing. 

Stretch
Etch....

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rushing waves music
                              sings acoustic sound with lengths 
                                     plays in frequencies...

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the wisdom of the owl
comes from lengths
of being perched and keeping watch
posture of a statue
int eh glow of a full moon
eyes piercing every move...

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the wisdom of the owl

comes from lengths

of being perched and keeping watch

posture of a statue

in the glow of a full moon

eyes piercing every move...

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Rocked fence rounds tinged of moss,
Laurels languish on limbered lengths aloft,
Faithful oak blessed rays anoint.


2019 September 24
howmanysyllables
6, 10, 7...

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Work, loot, kill, the whole nine yards.
The lengths folks go for the dough;
willing to sell out their souls!
Good and bad deeds done.


Date written and posted: 03/17/2019...

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e-mail and wail
out your name
to the lengths of the universe

tug that tantrum
around the stars
shining full moon
staring me in my face

looking nature in the eye
i come to terms
and surrender you to bleed...

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I did learn at an early age that girls 
can leave our lives
In varying lengths of time.
This interval can from a drink
to years
or even over the length
it takes to have dinner.
One week was Summer Camp
When I was eight....

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Alive and death,
Are only The Breath,
Moving through the depths,
Growing it's strength,
Going to any lengths,
To enjoy an experience,
Coming In sync with the dance,
Back out into the expanse,
Creating chance after chance...

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As a tribute to Sir Edmund Clerihew Bentley 
I now write this unique form- consequently 
Two rhyming couplets, with line lengths unequal 
I'll tribute myself...in my clerihew sequel 



Clerihew Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh 
12/18/20...

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What lengths we go and cash we spend
On soap and scent and balm.
Our mornings rife with toil and scrub
As taught to us by mom.

We mustn’t stray from hygiene’s aim
Spit toothpaste in the sink.
Throw on your coat and head to work
Here’s hoping we don’t stink!...

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I knew a man from Isle of Wight
who often got into a fight.
His words made little sense
and people took offence.
He was, indeed, a blatherskite*.

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*a person who talks at great lengths
  without making much sense....

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Sensual heavenly bodies
Tempting man to risk it all
Answer to a lovers dream
Reclining under with moonbeams
Light years away they do shine
Immittting wave lengths our eyes blind
Great excitement when one falls
Halting me in my steps to stare 
Total darkness shows them all...

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end
sofa ukk
ew
----e
did he mean shoop
or they and me
did he mean
so f**k you
yeah thats write
two times
Thrice you say
so faux yew
I say it all to destiny
to hope that never came
to all fired, by particles
to waves lengths
never swam
We are the ones
that f**ked us all
now feel ashamed
I AM...

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For a long time I searched,
I wanted to feel that surge of 
power
That peaceful wonderful feeling
I could go to such lengths
Maybe my heart wasn't in the 
search
But a turmoil was stirring
My only route to escape
Took me a while but finally
The shear joy it brought
I'm satisfied...
I found my inspiration....

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Light breaking forth at dawn
reveals right there on my lawn
a lovely sight to which I’m drawn:
a wee woodland sprite to gaze upon,
prancing with joy and delight, a red fawn.


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Another 'jump rhyme': 5 line monorhyme
of lengths, 6,7,8,9,10
with internal rhyme jumping from word 1 to word 5
through the progression...

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marathon of deep seeded feelings 
a long-distance emotional
endurance race to the finish
a maladaptive mental competition 
that lasted an extremely long time 
that want great lengths to try and 
remain within the unhealthy contest 
within the game that played out year
after year between the two hearts that 
fell into the emotional trap long ago...

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To what end art,
or music, or poetry,
but to frame a moment
and simply see something
of that moment itself,
ineffably ordinary and peculiar;
her seamed and wrinkled face,
a silence broken to uneven lengths,
the exact expression of love -
and in that moment have revealed
something you hide from yourself,
an ability to remove the frame
and still see the beauty...

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What do you 
Believe in?

How far will you
Go?
For something
You love

At what lengths
Would you stand 
Up for
Something
Believe in?
Something you
Cherish?

Would you
Stand up to fight?
Would you contend?
How about if 
You knew your life
Would end?

Would you die
Or stand
Falsely accused 
Sitting in jail
For something
You didn’t do?

Would you?...

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Too steep! Too steep!
I simply cannot sleep
I should be off in slumberland
The hill! The hill!
Its incline haunts me still
What if it does not go as planned
My brain! My brain!
It's racing 'round again
I simply do not understand
Exhale, close eyes
And try to realize
That life is truly pretty grand

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Messing with line lengths: 4/6/8, aab ccb ddb eeb...

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Herding and opening interesting horizon 
Ever invigorating
As  it has started,  it has started 
Houses come liberating 
Deep into the darkness heaves 
Releasing structures deep into the darkness 
Factoring number lengths dropped leasing
 into the memories bewitching sheltering
 turmoils
 Home verse


12/29/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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