Short Overhear Poems

I did not do it,
I just thought about it.

Oh, I guess I did do it
and you probably did also.

Let's not speak of it,
or we might overhear
what was already said....

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        Hubby in land phone.
        Peculiar weird stinking smell
        I sensed, most pungent.
        I picked up the extension
        to overhear betrayal.

    
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Singing in shed furthest corner of yard; lights are on in room.
Smoking in shack furthest back from house, mind is lit and with it.
Nobody to witness me, overhear anything, nor complain....

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Midday,
no shadows to muddle the glare.

Fawn stuck in a briar bush.
Bear coming.

If only a cloud
could hide the face of death?

The hungry cries
of her cubs unsettle the air.

If only you were not so near
to overhear....

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^*^LISTEN^*^


.Cat calls softly in the night.

What do they mean?

What do they say!

Sexy, warm meows, I overhear.

Come slowly, sweet cat!

Your soft meow song

So warm and dear.

Let it in tbe darkness, sing 


             5/4/2021
                ~8~...

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One wanted my company but they vetoed,
I had happened to overhear.
My anger never torpedoed,
but nulled to make way for sorrow.
I realized it was not them that were hollow–
But it was I that caused distress,
I could not sojourn there nor here,
and everyone hesitated, failing to confess....

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 Blessed is the New Day dawning
My prayer this day
Father is that we be a maker and maintainer of peace
Overhear we go
and you Father bring in the calm, in peace in tense situations
That we are peace in you and you are peace in us



2/25/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Oh mammy, what time is it now?
Where is Daddy?
At the Horse and Plough 

Will he be home
When we have our tea?
Mum shook her head, that's unlikely 

Will he be home
Before I go to bed?
I doubt it today, the tired mother said 

Will he be home 
In the cold light of day?
I hope not, I overhear my mother say
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as I hover above the beach
and the people
and the sea
I overhear the same conversation everytime

"no that one
over there
can you tell which one
she's very curvy 
just look at her tail
oh I see it now 
a mermaid in the clouds
that's so cool
watch how she swims
as the wind blows the clouds about"

always makes me smile...

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Turrets are turning,
behind the tanks
exhausts are farting death clouds,
barrels, like angry dicks,
are hot, erect and spurting,
buildings erupt, climaxing
on TV screens.

On both sides of these yonder hill
where the redline bleeds,
blank-eyed children,
play their video games,
while trying to overhear
a merciful God at His prayers....

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Yes, my darling, she whispers real low,
tenderly egging him on in  the shadow
as on her ample and generous breasts
the lusty man greedily sucks and feasts.

Behind the door everything I overhear,
the sounds that the lovers make there;
blinded by wild rage the idiot barges in
and in a tryst I catch and startle them…

my unfaithful wife and our day-old baby boy!...

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Through the wee hours of the dawn
On a cold autumn night of 
February. The harmattan harsh
And dry breeze blowing

I overhear the leaves weepy-scratchy
Noise. Still but almost conscious,
Generously, her angelic face
Came, flashing, over my memory

And those valentine that passed, 
One whom cannot be forgotten.
Smiles as tender, Rachael,
Emenaha says "all the best"....

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Above the deep blue clouds, i
overhear you hauling like the east wind
kissing all over my neck, where i
lay, so beautiful as the butterfly wing

which I cannot catch
only to feel the lifelong soothe
you offer before the sun hatch
and discomfort me in my suit

ample _ sweats falls like tears
from the rain down to my ring
you never stop flirting with my ears
times you come by and sing....

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You threaten to shoot my friends dead.
You lie about what they have said.
You mock me in my misery.
You throw your knife at Cameron's head.

That ain't my trip.

You call her curses every day.
But overhear! They claim you're gay.
You flip your lid and kill the kid
And in your room you hide away.

That ain't my trip.

You lie and say I have a crush.
That ain't my trip.
That ain't my trip.
No, that ain't my trip....

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the malagasy giant jumping rats 
look at me as if

to tell me it'll be alright in
the end

but i try to ditch the family
and run off to the insect house

overhear a family wanting a refund because
the aquarium has no octopus

there's no banter
in the primate enclosure

the ape looks frightfully annoyed

and i'm trying to get me mate
into dressing gowns

willing to dead name once
a week

the family find me 
amongst the anteaters...

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When you weren't looking
I thought I heard your lips say
"Kiss me"
Your arms said
"Hold me tight"
And your heart say
"Love me tonight"

When you looked away
I heard your body say
"I could be yours"
And I swear I overheard
Your soul say
"We belong together"
"Love me tonight"

Love speaks louder than words
Even when not talking
Listen closely and you will overhear
How love feels

Listening In Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
12/11/19...

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Don’t be as ice to me this day.
Did I do something you now hate?
What’s my offense that seems to grate
upon your soul, tell I now pray.
Were we not lovers yesterday,
when you put sweet lips close to mine
with hazel eyes that seem to shine
as I held you in a soft way.
Then I said June comes after May
when we can tie the marriage bow.
Yes, Angel, know your face will glow
and we will be as one some say.
What you overhear is not true
For I am true as sky is blue....

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Respect is automatic
until they have double-crossed you six times
spit in your underwear
and you have caught them in their eighth lie

Respect is cheerfully given
unless they hurt your feelings good and hard
unless they trip you at the top of the stairs
unless you overhear them making fun of you again

Respect is eagerly available
until they remind you of someone else
who has disrespected, hurt or betrayed you
If they do, it’s all over before it gets started....

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A life becomes fictionalized,
movies and TV shows plagiarize our truth.

A tree fell in the forest,
that particular forest was crowded,
yet its fall went unnoticed;
we were all looking away,
were plugged into some other reality.

Tribal people know how to relate
to their ongoing stories,
to their growing roots.
A tribe is not a village
not an ancestral tree,
it’s a commonality with a few trivial things
that mean much.

Together we overhear
what we hold dear....

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It is not a conversation you overhear,
Like the questions rolling underfoot,
"Who goes there?".
You can see the grass has told
How tall to grow
To the chicory, dandelions and clover.
At the edge of the pitch
Where competition is stiff,
They grow bigger, taller and bolder;
Yet in each new match, every plant,
Agrees to a height and no taller.

Till in the next field over, where it's wild and fallowed,
It's to the death, all bets are off, and no foul.



2,21,2020...

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Sshhhhh!!!
Wait patiently
I don't want the stars to overhear us,
they'll fuss like phantoms
if they hear the future between us,
you know, I began as a palmist in Persia
the money was good, the hand lines were thick
and the future didn't waste time on lies
but if the king's court caught you crusading, 
if they heard hersey of heresy
from the palmistry you provided to the people
then they'd cut your hands off,
okay, I found the oracle of the Alpha and the Omega...

J.A.B....

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