Short Malnourished Poems

my reflection is you..

I never grew..

staying will cause you to be malnourished too.....

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Ricky-ticky-tick
Ricky-ticky-tack
  It's nutritious food we lack...

Fee-fi-fo-fum
I smell the blood
  of a malnourished orphan...

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My feeding is true yet malnourished
Soul seeking though astonished
Devices of form and virtue
Draining the core tips of mankind

I see the world
Let me live it...

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Here lies my wallet.
On my desk he sleeps.
His malnourished stomach’s
been empty for weeks.

No family survived him.
There is only me, 
With no way to pay off
his burial fee....

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Poet feeds
     of illusions
     that's why he is always
     malnourished

    God does not
    transform faith
    of believers
    but inspires
    faith atheists...

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There’s a stunning visitor in my house
He introduces himself, Santa Clause
I could hardly believe him
He looks malnourished and thin
He adds, go on diet as age arouse.







27 Dec. 2018   6.05pm







Limerick in 10,10,7,7,10...

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Moving silently without direction
Like an old Saint 
Quick yet perturbed
Mimicking a malnourished child 

A silhouetted figure in the dark
Slithers across the curve of the Earth 
While the dewdrops gather at their pruned toes
Just to find 
You.

~Whoever...

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I'm Not wordy
I'm worth it 
My cursive 
Encourages  the mind, malnourished 

Enquiring on allusive conclusions
Is not cruel or foolish 
It is
True
The most  infinitive quest of life 
To question and test 
to prove or neglect  
to mourn or adapt
These are the most natural states of being...

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Once, the sounds of industry,
giant leather belts squealing, 
gears grinding, endless pounding, 
steam billowing, strong aromas
emanated from factories holding
the dangerous machine beasts,
tended by, tired,malnourished, 
men, women and children
shackled to their charges 
by chains of poverty...

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A fading intent
Lost amid echoed voices
A blurring of lines


A meaningless word
Adrift on a feeling
Softness or sting


Her eyes lied
As she spoke her “truth”
A lover’s denial


A barb blindly tossed
An unnoticed flinch
An unshed tear


Malnourished 
When the wise lack wisdom
Un-nurtured youth

...

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Above a dark hill
One flower
A flower amongst others fallen

His skinny malnourished browning trunk among them
His pale face watches and ponders
His eyes slowly dimming like the stars

The stars die fast then are born again
That's what we see through our eyes
How fast do we pass

How fast do our eyes dim
To the stars above
In their dark cloudy space...

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What I need most in my life is love. 'cos I am malnourished of affection. My heart is 
starving of nourishment for  tender loving care. I yearn for genuine unconditional 
love. A love that will be loving most of the time. A love that will be understanding 
majority of the time. A love that will give abundant of love frequently. I need love 
because it is food for the heart and head and without it, I will starve;hence, dead....

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I was locked in jail of world 
You become my spritual guider

I was unaware of worldly dealings 
You become my best broker

I got stuck in various situations 
You become my lawyer 

Growing at my age of distraction
You become my guru

At my every mistake 
You become my parent


My passion and talent were malnourished
You become my dietician

I was recognized as nayan
Because you become my sister(unnati)

NAYAN SHRIMAL...

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RETRENCHED WOMEN

The soul aches
    numbs the brain
          Pictures float away of women
             crying, laughing, ironing sheets
thinking about jobs and sex
         finding work and 
              cooking cheap spaghetti


Playing with malnourished children
     recovering from trauma, turmoil
        turbulence, schizophrenia
             from wombing life and giving
                              garlands of open hands...

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Hot tamales door to door
Knocking on doors along the sun baked street
Ten inch sub rotting on the dusty ground
Souls breaking under my feet
In pile of money the politician rolls
Malnourished beg for more
Poaching saints from grassy knolls
Black ants devour the ranch covered sub they’ve found
Sewer gasses emerging from fractured concrete
From the skull of a timber rattler crawls a paraplegic spider
Corn tortillas rolled on the bathroom floor...

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I have a question a wondering thought imagine this and that...
If a squirrel is a rodent?
Why? Then why is it such a cute little critter;
And when they procreate do they also have a litter;
With a big fluffy tail looking like a skinny malnourished cat,
 ...that's just to silly;
That a squirrel is just a pretty rat;
There's one in my front yard he likes  corn cobs I've named him Billy;

9/30/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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It lurks in the dark,
waiting to be fed by me - a great
appetite it has! 
Sometimes I feed it knowingly,
other times unknowingly.
It's growth patterns is somewhat irregular-
one minute it's too large and stout,
other times it's malnourished and stunted.
People get frightened when they see its reflection
in my eyes; violence is its symbolism.
The problem with the monster is that it doesn't
have a body. Spiritual warriors tell me that only
my mind can kill it........

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phrases whipped
feelings Pen"man"Shipped 
from Continental African Minds, 
to AmeriCaribbean Paper Colonies
i am a Slave of Poetry

toiling under hot shining scrutiny
in boundless green feelings
i am a Slave of Poetry

shackled in the dark
dark corners of my mind
malnourished of inspiration
i am a Slave of Poetry

escape this
critics hounding my heels
"massa" hunting me down
how many more till 
i can write my freedom
become a Poet
no longer a Slave of Poetry...

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