Short Presses Poems

flower presses
fruit preserves-
autumn frays...

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Sophie Dog presses

Hard against my lower back,

wanting the middle...

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Cool dawn sitting up
Grey dark presses its last kiss
Intensely I miss
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
April 16, 2016...

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the green twig
from the failing honeysuckle
presses this window
leads me to love the green force
even in chilly december...

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PRACTICAL    LOVE



He caresses her tress

She presses her dress

He guesses her stress

She addresses his lustiness...

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In the shower stall

he presses up against me. . . 

hot steam is rising


Nov. 7, 2019  for Richard Lamoureux's Sexyku Contest...

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Fear presses, cold steel
Constricting thought, killing love. 
Freedom paralysed.
A swallow with tethered wings
Longing for the Sky...

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you can burn in Hell

or wait, hot off the presses,

Heaven has icy pops!




Contest: How hot was it!!!
John Lawless, contest...

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10 reps of Haiku curls
10 reps of Irish Ballad presses
3X5 paragraphs of trenchant prose
5X Lyrical lunges
Last 5 minutes: Free range editing gut check...

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Painfully
Unitiality
Sensationally
Huddle's--a powerful push presses painfully~


1/19/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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their sweet messages

strum of bow as dawn ascends

drum presses to hone

wing’d reflection in the pane

decoding birdsong array

3/3/2021...

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A poem presses page
	To pot I rant and rave
To Amsterdam sizzle
	Smoke hash in the drizzle
It’s no small task
	Just bitter-less tact
In driving my bees
	To insanity please...

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In soft, pinkish robe—

on the shoreline rocks,

this fair bloom greets

the early morning ship

of dream, and presses 

my fingers on a dirty 

patched road of life....

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between pages 
of biology book
prankster presses worm



AP: 3rd place 2020

Submitted on March 9, 2019 for contest THE BOOK WORM sponsored by KAI MICHAEL NEUMANN  -  RANKED 1ST...

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I once Confront this familiar look into ones vacant soul. I now see what seems darkened by echoing anguish. Here and now a betrayal presses denial into a love lost stare of disappointment...

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He presses down the keys on the machine
putting four images on the page
Manipulating them in a cubist manner 
with his magic filter 
He puts a halo around each
Like Christ
Man Ray goes digital...

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Swab
inside 
my nose
presses, swirls. Twinges,
twitches, runs like it’s bleeding.
I wait in lobby, till rest home screener
smiles. “Negative! Good to go!”
Grandmother, I only
do this
for 
you!...

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shadows lengthen
chestnuts roast-
winter bides

catkins murmur
easter eggs-
spring tides

bluebells chime
wasps picnic-
summer stays

flower presses
fruit preserves-
autumn frays


Haiku sequence form...

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Glasses for astigmatism
Helps one see even a prism

Without them black runs into white
But these glasses are not that nice

Presses on ears, rides on nose
Can't get colors to match clothes

To see or not to see
Now that is the question...

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haiku seasons
frozen in epigrams 
tripping from a pen

shadows lengthen
chestnuts roast-
winter bides

catkins murmur
easter eggs-
spring tides

bluebells chime
wasps picnic-
summer stays

flower presses
fruit preserves-
autumn frays...

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Sitting on my front steps
  delighting in the scene
Discerning in the ordinary
  long-forgotten dreams

A toddler hides in mommy's skirts
  A dolly-girl presses dandelions to her nose
A brave lad stays up on a unicycle
  Can I, my imagination regrow?...

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Knowing that time does not move,
that I move through it -
I take my time.
There is nowhere to go today,
nothing presses,
the journey to take is inwards,
and even this can wait
while I watch the falling rain
slowly wash my moments away....

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Eighty revolutions
Around the sun I will soon experience 
Residing on this old planet while 
Time presses steadily toward  
Heaven—for eternity.  

5/13/2021
written for "Planet Poetry" Contest
sponsored by Matt Caliri...

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I float in a pool of darkness
Cold presses in and on me
I am alone
Floating aimlessly
I reach for sparks of hope
But rather than warm,
They only burn.

I ache with sorrow
I hunger to leave
To escape
To leave this prison
I crave to be free
To be heard
To be loved....

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If you sit a monkey in front of a computer
There is a chance, no matter how far flung
That if it presses buttons at random
It will type a magnum opus
Well, I took a dictionary today
And guess what
The words were always there
I just picked and rearranged them...

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