Short Leveled Poems

lover’s lane
empty
lonely
lipless
leveled by texts
not policed
...

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Leveled mental state 
these quiet evenings alone
I find peace with selfies...

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Multi-leveled beauty
Of motion and of mind
Unbridled, raw emotion –
The music and the rhyme.

A haunting melody
And harmony belong
Within the lonely rhythm
And sorrow of my song....

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Lust is a broken engine,
operating with aviation fuel.
It flies victim up in the skies,
and lands not in airport,
not even in airstrip,
but in the leveled gardens,
of someone’s heart....

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Tsunami

People watching
Small waves rolling,
Sea birds chatter
Seeking shelter,
Tsunami approaching
Island sanctuary.

People fleeing
Water smashing,
Buildings leveled
Trees uprooted,
Bodies floating
Out to sea.

Tsunami!
Survivors
Counting
Blessings....

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The Deer

Walking through the woods
Silently across the snow
Leaving a row of tracks
The man hides in a tree
Looking down into the forest
His eyes catch a faint motion
Down below a deer looks up
Their eyes meet for a second
A gun is leveled
A trigger is pulled
A bullet flies into the air
No more deer...

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I am a brick house

I'm a brick house
Could be a shapely woman or a house
Leveled in courses stacked one on top of each other
A dwelling consisting of mortar, wood, and rock
A residential dwelling space
Made to inhabit man and his family
I am a brick house

5/19/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
Mask Poetry Type...

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The Horizon


Sunset upon the horizon 
The separation
The divide 
The leveled eye’s perspective 
Of degree 
Of magnitude 
Of scope, of range, of reach 
A continuous,smooth parallel plane 
A flaming red sphere 
Melts into the  sky
Sinking deep into the never ending line 
Of the sea





Marckincia Jean
Free verse 
09/30/19...

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*Image of Driftwords by Pixabay.
Visitations

Yellows upped,
humble shanty forms beyond verdant meadows.

Animals resounding,
quivering grounds,
championed zephyrs penetrate leveled jealousies.

I knocked,
the whitish doorway opened,
neighborly xenial exchanges.

*Free Verse/Abecedarian

2021 October 17...

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I
Think - but don't make THINKING "your aim" -
"Don't look too good ... or lose common touch"
I learned from past masters, one name
Is Kipling. Khalil Gibran. Thanks. Much!

II
He called defeat his "bold companion," 
To be understood "is to be leveled," without
"Defeat, My Defeat," he owned loss & gain;
Life & death. Prepared to dig graves within...

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Nourishment of wild,
we forgot where we came from;
It may be too late;

Destroying the sea,
wiping out the whole forest;
No regard for home;

Parasites feeding,
mono crops poaching the land;
Rich soil won’t come back;

Humanity’s ills
leveled with nature’s fury;
Violent minute storm;

It’s over in an instant;
The faithless now filled with hope....

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The chores withheld and catered for,
un-tethered from your noose,
do you run and skip ahead?

A measured routine had quelled what you once knew, 
what tomorrow's plans, sketched yesterday, lay down.

The very process to succeed,
your ambitious coded program
has crept grown and leveled dominance.

And now who works for who?
The decades pass and drag each moment....

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Wildly fertile soil;
Soft petals and wise old oaks,
some consume insects;

Oxygen filled air;
Many who can’t long to fly 
to change perspective;

Storms, wildfires, earthquakes 
we feel leveled when she yells;
Mother may I live? 

These rushing currents;
Home to scores of marine life,
full of square rip tides;

Replenishing the famine,
it’s symbiotic nature...

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St. John gave its pupils arithmetic
I glided through these 
Like breeze of Belize

Los Angeles City College leveled me
Algebra had me on my knees

YET

I clamored to Cal. State, Long Beach,
Where Information Science sacked me

I fought back on campus lush lawns
Lingered crossed-leg in summer sun

WON

My grade was not an F
I graduated and felt blessed.

*...

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Chasing tail; A dream,
Hides secrecy; A love,
Open door; locked tight,
Only you and I can go.
An amazing feel gives me,
Roller*Coaster chills; ice-cube,
To the bone.
This promised experiance never
To come down, as we carry these
Hearts leveled sight, where we've
Bonded friendship in stone; concrete,
Forever n' always, as we imprint the
World in coulor; R N' C wile rule the 
riverbed suite in love....

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Perfection doesn't exist I try so hard to be what u want I kill myself for you pills and vodka keep me leveled no 
one knows the truth tears fall blood stains my sleeves why am I not good enough my bottled emotions I 
swallow kill me please end this pain this life is a prison I'm already dead a ghost who haunts this world I'm 
nothing and I waste the air that others deserve to breathe and for that I'm sorry....

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The only game to be found was one tiny runt
Goddess Diana was sent by the gods to help with the hunt
The forest was amazed at her animal power
She unleashed cumulus clouds who brought down a shower
During the storm beasts came tr to the meadow
Many fabulous specimens were leveled by bow
Can you come again soon? Asked a hunter named Todd.
I think you can do it yourself, Diana said. Thinking his request odd....

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I am fighting on the lord’s side
I am victorious on all sides
Enemies take heed and flee from all sides
Cause the  Mighty man in battle
Cannot lose or be rattled 
He is with me always  
I am thus a stranger to defeat 
At the mention of His mighty name
Every adversary must surrender 
Every mountain must be leveled 
At the battle of Calvary 
He  conquered death mightily 
And made me more than a conqueror 
...

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Somethings need no explanation
You see a word
You know it's spelt wrong
A letter out of place
You just know it

You may know nothing about music
Until a wrong chord is struck
One bad note
And no one has to tell you
You just know it

I came to know you
Beyond the person people see
There was nothing out of place
No wrong chord in my heart
The perfect imperfections
A true mountain leveled to a molehill
There were no words to explain
I just knew it...

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I acknowledge my status as a stranger inappropriate clothes old habits out of sync with wasp 
and wren i admit i dont know how to sit still or move with purpose i prefer books to moonlight 
statuary to trees but this lawn has been leveled for looking so i kick off my sandal's and walk 
it's cool green who claims were mere muscle and fluids? my feet are the primitives here as 
for the rest ah the air now is a tonic of absence, bearing nothing but news of a breeze....

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The delicate of words that fallow 
That gives no sorrow
Claiming many of the feelings
It is gone without dealings
Shock in many occasions 
With outbound decisions
Leaving without explanation
That life has a destination
Lost in the clouds
Into the outstanding crowds
Lesson to be learned
But found that you have been burned
Shocked to be afraid
And no one to give you aid
Deep in many thoughts
Comes words that shocks
Leveled out beliefs
And just one word deceives...

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And Stephen, full of grace, performed great signs;
The Freedmen rose, disputed what he said.
Unable to withstand, they soon resigned;
They leveled claims of blasphemy instead.
They stirred up folks; the news, like wildfire, spread.

’Twas seized, brought ‘fore the council ‘gainst his will
Where witnesses bore testimony ill,
“Says Jesus will destroy this holy place,
Seeks to reverse what Moses has instilled!”
But Stephen bore a calm, angelic face.

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(from Acts 6)...

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