Short Perplex Poems

Perplex  and absorbed frog 
      by the leaping butterfly
      not Freud would explain...

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Espresso is brewing: that's my fix,
not my expensive Rolex;
this Ralph Lauren suit is elegant.
Good looks can generate sentiment;
worry, rush and stress perplex!...

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She often had an audience to perplex
Her magical act causing applause
Never one to bow or genuflect
Or read any missive to its smallest clause
She made her own rules, created her own laws...

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I must be sure that I got it all together in and outside my minds I just say whatever
Just got the message and the message is I AM PERPLEX?

11/16/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...

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She did not ire against the fading light
The mystery of death did not perplex
But comforted her enervated soul
As she acquiesced to fate
Her last words extolled the joys of life
And love 
And the sunset...

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Complex and Convex

His brain became concave and convex
And enough many people to perplex
What erupted had been endemic
Also it turned out to be systemic
Problems possessed became complex.

Does this sound either familiar or dissimilar?

Jim Horn...

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Crack in time, the evidence sublime
Caustic vision renders masterpiece
Mark the time you see this rhyme
Delivery assured to alter progeny

Fake we fall, all hit the wall
Perplex shun binding synchronicity
Mind aside logic defied
Release the Krakatau within you...

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When you are here
All hopes, dreams and ambitions disappear;
Drowned in your eyes when I hold your hand,
Unremembered now that I understand.
For you perplex my mind with memories
Of so many forgotten ecstasies;
Which were, are not and perhaps will never be
When we hold this moment between you and me...

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I was
Pondering neigh in a distance
Got no one to hold on to
Grief is couching my heart
Devouring in perplex moments
Not in solitude
Nay intrusion
But in Orion’s distance
Once, even once
Perpetuates your caring image
That passionate smile
Trenches a loving hello
Oozing with life
A magic touch
I live...

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Her toenails are as thick as a tortoise shell
She does not hesitate to tell
Potentials suitors to go to h…..
She has not been to charm school, says Cousin Kell

Tough old bird with opinions most would never tell
can perplex and stuplify with one old world spell
we are fascinated yet terrified by our grandma Nell
She calls us to supper with a possessed dinner bell...

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First of all, let me tell you this. I am not just like anybody else. I am an art, yet a perplex one. A notional, complicated masterpiece. Don't compel yourself to fathom my cognitive content because even I cannot explain who really am I to myself. I want you to understand me the way your mind can just do. After all, I am an abstract art. It depends upon the spectator what to see upon me....

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You see a cold touched room,
The remains of a flame flicker.
Hopes are reflected in the embers,
Things that once may have been.

A form lies, cast into moonlit confines,
Beset all around by shadows,
Overwhelmed, alone, disassembled.
A body trembling with fickle wants.

All it's memories are windswept,
Insides are a desolate expanse.
Turbulent sights passing by you,
They sow doubts and perplex....

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I went swimming in nostalgia last night
I fought it for hours with all of my might
The things that are wrong that were right before
Mingle with new things that perplex my core

I won the battle and surged to the top
And cleaned my mind with a memory mop
Just as I cleared my past - or thought I had
My daughter smiled up, "What's a jukebox, Dad?"



3-22-19
Contest: Late March 2019, Eight Lines
Sponsor: Brian Strand...

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Interacting with one's own reflection,
just a glance gives no satisfaction
morphed when forms shadow in light,
don't show itself at night.

Either inferior or superior 
a complex to make one perplex,
for better of some
and a disaster for others.

In style tagged along with a smile
too real to be fragile,
what you see,is what it shows
it's just what you have to trust.

For precision loosen up inner inhibition
only you have the right to make decision....

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