Short North By East Poems

from north to East-west
a journey without substance
haphazardly...

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Good to have four wheels
Off to road you want to go
North, south, east or west....

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storm clouds billow west
weather vane creaks north to east…
left knee aches a bit...

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burning hot sun gold
                         from north south east west here
                          Utopian tropical Brazil home...

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Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.
North, South, East, West.
earth, water, air, fire.
adenine(A), cytosine(C), guanine(G), thymine(T)....

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All Philosophies 			
                               North, South, East and West and on....			
                                             Can't go out of Soul...

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North, South, East, or West; to which shall it be?
Please tell me which way...to escape from me!




* Ninth place in Brian Strand's contest, "Double Take"....

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Wind, Fire, Earth and Rain,
Feel my longing to be rid of pain
North, South, East and West,
Lift my pain, with all the rest
Mother Earth hear my cry,
Feel the space that’s now empty inside
This is how I’ll spin my spell
Make my Heart start feeling well...

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One 

Road

Is it

Correct one

If you have not planned

The direction you should follow

Go any road north, south, east or west whatever path

You want for today without a guided mapped out course life's end equal regret
  ...

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First and Foremost
Set your bearing's right
If you choose to navigate at night
And awake to the light
North , West , East , South
They multiply to Four
It is Nature's unwritten Law
Like the motion of a door
Opening forth our Future 
While slamming Closed its Door
Upon that which came Before...

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Be a flower and not a Thorn
Every morning you are Reborn
Be a bridge and not a Wall
Get up stand up if you Fall
Be a bird and not a Beast
Fly wherever from North to East
Be in love with every being 
From the skies somebody is seeing 
Be a Believer  and not an Athiest 
Life is all a lovely Feast...

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I wear a compass because I inspire to stay on the map.
North, south, east, west whatever the direction the world is flat.
The only fact history lacked is the end of the world is never exact.
The Pacific Ocean meets lands still unknown to humanity. 
While societies collide creating an unrelated reality.
LOVE...

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Direct me to your northern lips for a kiss
My lips will find yours
Direct me to your southern heart
I will bring warmth to yours
Direct me to your east and west arms
I will wrap mine around you

We are both lost I am in need of
A compass rose to find me
North, South, East or West
I promise you this
I will find you...

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I
Have
3 sides
4 eyes a nose
and a mouth 2 ears
north south east and west
paradox tops left the bottom right takes sides
While my left and right looks in the mirror 2faced

8/2/19
written words by James Edward Lee Sr., 2019©
formally known as the poem "Triangular-" a Shape poem was written 7/30/19...

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Travelled from mouth to mouth
North,west,east & south
Far feom the censor's pen-
In memory now,long gone
This poetry of anon

Tribute to the many anon poets who use this form(often with song) 'merely written for the 
people' becoming worksongs/chanties etc outrunning the state censor & fanning freedom's 
flame in al men's hearts....

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Embrace the day loosely don't cling
Let it flow, unhatched, free
As the river rushes or saunters
Ever rolling to the sea

With outstretched arms fly 'pon breezes
Swaying north, south, east, west
Ride the waves soaring the currents
Freedom wakes are the best

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, 
you cease forever to be able to do it."
Quoted and don't know author.....

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My reacher
Like a compass
Like a waze
Telling me the directions
The north, south, east, west
The roads, the bridges, the ways
But not the initial planning and the final decision
I remain puzzle and helpless
At the cross-roads
But at once
I found that
I carry my own legs
The initial and final decisions both are mine
The teacher only provides me with skills and knowledge 
For this life...

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One foot here and the other there
Celestial light shines down
on the folding fan
channeling the wind from North to East,
to South, and lastly West
Cherry blossom petals slowly rain
and scarlet petals of dying flowers
join the westward winds
Another step here and another there
This folding fan will guide the way
on the path of faith, patience, wisdom, humility, and elegance
in this sacred dance...

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I have this compass
That points me to your love
North, South, East, or West
Wouldn't be enough
To lead me through this jungle
To point me straight to you
I have this compass
I'm never going to lose

I have this compass
On which I've inscribed your name
If ever it is that I lose sight
It shows me the way
Straight to your beating heart
Is all this compass does
I have this compass
That points me to your love...

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I
                                                     Have
                                                 three sides
                                             two eyes  a nose
                                         and a mouth two ears
                                     north south east and west
                      paradox tops left the bottom right takes sides






7/30/19
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2019©...

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Mulligatawny, soup for you,
Uniquely, peppered, seasoned through,
Lots of ingredients, we might use,
Lentils, a mustard seed or two, 
Interesting flavours, we might choose,
Garlic, chillies, tamarind too,
Adapting, finding, something new,
Trial and error, tastes good, it's true,
Always learning, that's what we do,
Warming, nourishing, filling too,
North, South, East, West, the whole world through,
Your soulful bowl, of poet's stew.
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No matter how rough things be
No matter of the strange,
No matter how crazy is
Know there will be change.

However trapped you think you are
Within a futile farce,
Here, nothing lasts forever
Know that all shall pass.

Do your best and don’t give up
Problems are to solve,
Don’t worry if it all seems hard
We naturally evolve.

North, South, East and West
Way out beyond the range,
Always was another way
So know there will be change....

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these walls surround me from the north south east and west
for in this place my role in society is retired and put to rest
a place where your talents and skills are put aside
you will face a judge and upon him your future he will decide
it can bring you a new start or leave a terrible end
leaving you behind those walls needing that one special friend
you hope and pray for that one chance to be givin
to return to your life in the land of the livin...

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The devil he just hangs around
Waiting on his prey
Quietly he’ll pull you down
A little day by day

He lies at first to win your heart
And tells you its okay
But you are trapped right from the start
And what a price you pay

He only takes the very best
To be his personal slaves
North, south, east and west
Dominations what he craves

The anger and the loneliness
The misery and defeat
Loving families gone remiss
His victories are so sweet...

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Wanting to be at a good place in my life, stabbing my heart with a knife
Imagining the person I want to be forgive me for the things I couldn't see
My emptyness inside look for a place to hide, I'm stumbling down low no place to go
North, South, East, West, still I find no place to rest
My body outta range for the things I couldn't change
Eraseing my mind leaveing everything behind
I fight for the light so I don't disappear into the place I most fear...

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