Short Paragraph Poems

One
   One letter
   One word
   One sentence
   One paragraph
   One page
   One chapter
   One section
   One book
   One...

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A blank page is ready
For the pen to begin
Spreading the words
One letter at a time
Then one paragraph
Followed by another
Until the poem has
        ended...

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And what are naked words ?
Words that are not formatted in a sentence or paragraph
Or surrounded by punctuation marks or numbers....


4/7/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Thusly
A thought
The first letter
A sentence ensues
The paragraph develops
A chapter has been inscribed
The new story can be ascertained
A position on the bookshelf is reserved
The copywriter will never be discouraged...

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What's your relationship to the Deceased

Why I am also dead as well

Someone wrote an essay on me

Well I say essay more like a paragraph

And when I say paragraph I mean sentence

Which in reality was no more than a

?

Actually...

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Sickness is the devil himself divining his ill will.
It seems his only interest is to see what he can kill.
The evil deep inside us all, he uses as a tool.
And sneaks around just like a snake awaiting his next fool.

One paragraph unto itself.
Now on display on Poetry Soup's shelf....

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If words were notes upon a score
would the melody play beyond …

Each phrase a chord, each line a hymn
each paragraph a song

If words could sing harmonic
as their letters drift away

Would music take you past that place
— verse forces you to stay

(The Book Of Prayers: March, 2017)
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Not another letter,
not another breath.
Not another paragraph,
to sentence me to death.
Not another chapter written,
I'm running out of rhyme.
Of all the pages I have filled,
have stolen from me time.
Not another paragraph,
not another breath,
Not another letter,
to sentence me to death....

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The other half of me 
Explains what others see
But only few know that half 

That I choke and bleed between every laugh 
That there's a king behind the gaffe  
That there’s pain in every paragraph 

And those who know 
Don't know where I'll go 

But at least they will be at my gravestone...

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If words were notes upon a score,
would the melody play beyond…

Each phrase a chord, each line a hymn,
each paragraph a song

If words could sing harmonic,
  as their letters drift away

Would music take you past that place
—verse forces you to stay

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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Concentration would appear
to gain me nothing.
I read a paragraph,
close my eyes and open them,
then read one more,
yet nothing still is gained.
Do I hold no interest in what
each paragraph holds?
Each page? Each hour? Each day?
What is gained in age?
And does age hold me nought?

(January 2022)...

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There is a poem inside of me
It’s trying to get out
I do not know how long it is
Or what it is about
Swirling thoughts inside my head
Words to make you laugh
Witty, wild, wavy words
To form a paragraph
Words that tell a story 
Of something you might do
Betcha if you look inside
You’ll find a poem in you!...

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A smile is worth ten words, enough to write a sentence. 
A smile is worth a hundred words, enough to write a paragraph.
A smile is worth a
Thousand words, enough to write a story. 
A smile is worth a
million words, enough to write a novel. 
A smile is worth a infinite amount of words, enough to rewrite history....

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These words are just thoughts written on paper.
It's free to take it's own form. 
Follow it's own outline and format.
A composition of feelings, emotion, wisdom 
all in one paragraph, on e phrase.
A personal and deep reflection of yourself, 
your surrounding, your dreams, your dispair.
A glance at your mind written on paper....

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I’m all alone in a pit of darkness.
Nothing can save me anymore.
I’ve lost all my hope.
And love always seems to fail with me.
No-one seemed to care about anything to do with me.
No-one believed I would do this.
They thought it was just jokes.
Well I guess I have proved them wrong.
And with this short, little paragraph, I must leave....

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In burlap did he laugh,
the huskiness of mirth
to occupy the dearth
of sound. A photograph
beside the paragraph;
her testament of worth.

In satin does she weep,
cold buttons in her lap.
The invocations tap
an estuary deep.
Like flutterings in sleep
they flood the aching gap.

She penned his epitaph:
In Burlap Did He Laugh.

3/26/18...

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You required from us no elegy
So I promise in this paragraph
My poems become your epitaph
From all the years of reading youve done
Ive become your writing son
And today  I am almost old
I will write it into solid gold
Your blood is the fluid in my inky pen
The spirit of the ages
I will spill on these pages
Until one day I will see you again...

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 What  matters everything else words comparable distorted letters  speaking faucity collective words
Collective converse
Yakityyak
Combined parallel to make sentences
 Breach multiply sentences paragraph in parenthesis Community first leading to that confusion 
Referencing channing collective communication

1/1/24
Written words James Edward Lee Sr 2024...

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Cosmos hides her secrets in whispers
Communicating bits on wings of faeries
Dusted flowers aid in the subterfuge
Lilacs enjoying starlight, leaning in to hear
Violets peeking at mossy ferns who hold answers
Each particle coveting the bits that were entrusted to them
No one having a complete paragraph or even a sentence
Until they agree to collaborate in universal agreement...

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celebrating ignorance as an offering
enabling us to experience suffering
an orientation as such exits trance
recognising life as a divine dance
spontaneity does not paragraph 
so soul laughs at its own gaffe
and with no earthy goals to chase
bilocates between earth and space 
enjoying bliss even whilst hemmed in
at all times feeling bliss ignition within ...

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Written in blood yet sheds no red
As pen caresses my mighty seed
The shadows hurled the whispers of the dark
As pleasure slithers in the moon of light.
And then decoded in the movement of your lips
You realize all of a sudden this is no paragraph
But fragments of innumerable plights
Moistened with the desire
Of some men.
Now, indelible.









Featured in PoetrySoup Home Page from Jan. 30- Feb. 5, 2012...

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Painful
painted
paragraph
pages,
paisley 
pale,
pulsating
paper
passing
passion,
passive
pastoral
patchwork
patchouli,
patina
pathos
pauses.

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October 23, 2019


Poetry/Alliteration/Patina Pauses
Copyright Protected, ID 19-1190-761-02
All Rights Reserved.  Written under Pseudonym.


Written for the contest, Tautogram
sponsor, Eve Roper

First Place...

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(each paragraph of this poem is a Haiku 5–7–5 syllables)

I need to avoid
unimportant distractions
so my parents say

Exhausting yourself
in intimate situations
is dumb at your age

This is a yearly
lecture that I know by heart
- they must think me loose.

Surely you jest...
could you be suggesting a
conjugal visit?

Where do I find the
form needed to apply for that?
Do you have a pen?...

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To weave the threads of destiny
 Entwined in  life's fragility
 And stitch the moments in memory
 Wrapped up in life's mystery 

 Each chapter with its ups and down  
 As joy and sadness swirl around
  Turning the pages into years 
 With old familiar family cheers

 The twilight of the final chapter
 When the book comes to its end
 And then comes the last paragraph
 Which leaves us with that final memory...

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Black plastic bag
discarded on the bridge
writhes like 
an injured animal.
      
A paragraph of
birds in the blue 
of the sky wing by
grammatically correct,
but open ended until
the commander in chief
changes its configuration
with punctuation.
      
A fleet of wild geese
flying their colors
barge in like 
small battleships 
in minor invasion.
The equation
some of us make
is: what price
Freedom?...

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