Short Postage Poems

postage stamp traffic drought
patient King naked spine
juvenile cocktail crevice's dye...

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Love's pain is like a postage stamp
being licked too many times
When you wonder who she'll woo
in a letter sent with chimes...

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Postage Due

Never… leaves no forwarding address
					      ……forever… mails the letters.

 								
								John G. Lawless
								©3/1/2018...

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I sent my heart in the mail
And the stamp only cost 37 cents
No added postage for my deflated core
It weighs nothing
Just like your feelings for me...

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What's more full a can of worms?
or a can beans,
What's more colorful a peacock tail?
or postage mail,
What's more valuable a pot of gold?
You don't know, it's a human soul!

1/23/18
by James Edward Lee Sr....

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My Return to Forever Neverland
behold blended benevolent beings
Assemblage on my behalf
Microcosm minutes balances all
Eternal spirit equations unfettering
our coincidence of cold living
Universal postage accepted....

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Postage rates were rising;
we didn't mind one bit.
We used a bit of buck sense
and slid right in the groove.

We bought lots of forever 
stamps and didn't take the hit
and Uncle Sam went wanting
when push came to shove....

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It seems every time I buy some stuff
It comes wrapped up in more stuff
I'm so sick and tired of all this trash
I say "enough's enough"
So tomorrow I'm packing it all in a crate
With a bio-degradable liner
Then slapping it with some postage 
And sending it back to China



Yep--it's all for the contest...

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your eyes mail me letters
letters i rip open
with suspense and wanting
words never spoken
dancing phrases
that i feel in my knees
unfold in my stomach

your eyes write me love notes
notes i tear apart
they glance down my body
sending cursive messages
punctuating each breast 
with an exclamation mark 
between my thighs...

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You
                        Travel
                     Far across
                 Waters and lands
                Remaining in place
                   In one corner
                   You move on
                       To reach
                           Me



5-24-2020
Ninette Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Emile Pinet...

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~~~
Ostracized
forsaken place
these bars of time
no saving grace
from whence I came
a fence I face
around and round
no end in chase

Just because
I said I do
I'm seldom excused
when postage due

No-one to share
I stand alone
to cheat despair
I scratch this poem
of matters fact
it finds no home
amid your care
dispense of drone
~~~...

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Everyone likes something free
And I agree, to some degree,
But sometimes it occurs to me
We’re better off without it.

For if that item seems to be
A freebie, there may be a fee
Or postage; there’s no guarantee,
For fine print doesn’t shout it.

Still, when something’s gratis, we
Can’t pass it up and that’s the key;
When it is offered, we say, “Gee,
Well, thanks!” and don’t you doubt it.
...

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She used a kiss for postage stamps
she mailed her letter "neath the lamp
  lit by the oldest man in town

  she watched him bring his ladder down
he touched her cheek and kissed her hair
and bade her go backhome from there

  the twilight gave way to the dark
she watched the street light's golden spark
reflected in some secret eyes
among the lilacs sweet surprise

  Her postage kisses found their mark
on male that came in after dark....

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It cost me an arm and a leg but I think it was well worth the cost,
I am not into jewellery in any meaningful way,
So, it was no great hardship to forego the pleasure,
Of owning the latest piece of bling,
That people seem to want to hang around their necks,
I never bought a selfie stick,
It therefore shouldn't have been a surprise to you,
That I would pay for the return postage on,
The Mill Stone you so kindly sent me on 30 days free trial....

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There are no postage stamps that send letters
back to England three centuries ago,
no postage stamps that make letters
travel back until the grave hasn't been dug yet,
and John Donne stands looking out the window,
it is just beginning to rain this April morning,
and the birds are falling into the trees
like chess pieces into an unplayed game,
and John Donne sees the postman coming up the street,
the postman walks very carefully because his cane
is made of glass....

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Words
Alphabets
Soup
I said I love you
You sighed
Not now
My laundry is calling
I had call waiting
Forever
My plan expired
My love retired
I sent you a letter
In a painting
A Monet in time
Collage of flowers
Spring time in Paris
I poured the tears
I drank the wine
I yearned
For what else could one do?
No postal codes or postage due
My longing never ends
My heart is at its end
So I buy this postal card
From far away
I will never return
But will you stay?...

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In the mail came the clay
It was addressed to me they say
When opened, the parcel
Really stunk , Had this marvel

Been untimely parcelled
Address been wrong
Surely there was some 
That didn't bong

The post was contacted
Since it was sent
Postage pre-paid
Just be content

Accept it with gladness
Do with it what you can
Don't you understand
This is for you woman

It will help you into
The promise land
Patience is promised


This is unfinished.
Self control  also...

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