Short Lilted Poems

once I met a shadow
who wasn't really there
I listened to the whispers
that lilted on the breeze
I fell in love with a love song
a tune to which I danced
once I met a shadow
that vanished in thin air...

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44. 
Personality commodities
Melting into bar stools
Progress beyond God
to make the ultimate partnership.

Profits will come less belligerently 
When lovers sing praises in lilted voices.
off tune liquors pour needlessly
down the throats of the well fed.
Meager brotherhood looked at me 
With a dirty f...

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Lacerated tongue, lilted symbolism
Hearts wrenched in pain
Fever eclipsed, words remain
Darting in the dead of night

Some flat, some bubbling
Bitter, bled, absorbing, churning
Never accepting the day's images
Exactly as they sit

In careful wording, a poet's mind exhibits
Transformation of common currency
Full of grace, full of venom
Seeping where other talk just explains...

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PICTURE THIS MOON LIGHT EMBRACE

silhouette on bay
standing on the docks
we embrace
kissing
couple not afraid
to show their love anywhere...
standing kissing
under the moonlight glittering
moonshine showing our love
birds flying east
as we passionately embrace
looking in each others face
we embrace, kiss
lilted lanterns light up the pier
still embracing and holding you
kiss me in front of the moon
Moon light Embrace

 3/22/18
   Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

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