Short Rectangular Poems

Bouncing Square Balloons

Bouncing square balloons
Rectangular falls spools bounce
Play catch you and I


10/11/17
James Edward Lee Sr....

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PARALLEOGRAMATIC

Four sober quadrilateral equations
were quartered around a rectangular occasion.
No less than a quadrifarious derivation,
are ever admitted to the annual rectangular without libation!...

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Bleacher madness
Heaven wake stairs
Blinding lights
Naked skies,
Rectangular green
Wild aroma
Rolling leather
Deep pride.
Unstoppable 
Heart beat
Unbeatable 
Pride,
Immortal scream
Young child
Aged man
Dream team....

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Golden Spiral



ONE amazing Fibonacci sequence earns a purple heart
POINT of division breaks rectangular apart
SIX lily petals blossom brings delight
ONE quest of phi shapes ammonite
EIGHT the symbol of infinity everlasting fractal art...

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                   The Appetizing Box



               A box can be rectangular.
               Not round but so angular.
               Ones I like smell so good.
               Pizza,in my neighborhood.



                          6-26-2022


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A fit
of ecstatic madness
strangled the pen, and
a newfound voice
clearer than my own
rang through the
plane of white
upon which words
etched in frantic ink
carved, from the 
blank, rectangular sea
entire worlds
and I was to rein
a God in my own chair
so powerful is
the pen of a poet....

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Spherical - is the abode of mortals
that shares sky's skin
 Rectangular - is the land
Brown in flesh
Beneath - is a black derm
Beneath again is another brown hide
Degluting bodies - sipping rain
Beneath again is the family of all - I can't tell
Different images - yet growing greens
Such is hu(e)man with colorful miens...

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Rectangular in shape as a deep shoebox,
where leather boots lied on long shelves.
I fell in love with their tempting softness;
I am wearing them and friends love them,
ladies adore them and shamelessly wink! 
I consider myself as lucky as a rich man;
my boots will wear out, nobody will smile:
when they'll see a sad, worthless beggar!...

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With myrtle and listenability
I undertake the words of the prophets
Memories relapse in an unhealthy fashion
Man the forgetful
this rectangular mouth
compromises loftily
The Moons harsh splendour
boasts its specious context
as marigold and beam
sway across my October windowsill
like salt peter cleansing the pelt
truth is unburdened...

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stripped bare
i stood quivering
breathing the air
sweaty and staggering

rectangular sanctum
in front of me
offer the purity that autumn
lacked so desperately

wading through
this mass anew
i question my own motives
for leaving you

frustrated now
i rise to the ground
unfamiliar affections are overrated
the pool is chlorinated...

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Shaping my life.
Encircling strife.
Collective parellels.
Broken sea shells.
Fractioned good and evil.
Turnstile moments of repreival.
Octagons of cessation.
Stars of anticipation.
Wishes boomerang to my chest.
Rectangular mattress to rest.
Birth, life to death.
Triangular first and last breath.
Flesh filled casket, loss.
Redemption through the cross...

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Was it illusion,was it a dream?
That Garden in moonlight , ink
Dark sky. A single cloud like a
Razor passing. Black tree stretched 
High and it’s claws scratched the
The milky way.Rectangular pond
Black as crude oil deadly still, I
Kneel and gaze deep within; like
Narcissus  enamoured and
Transformed. A door into
Summer opens, blinding light
And in one stroke, my Garden
Is no more....

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Oblong,
curved,
rectangular,
squared,
circular,
spherical,
hexagonal,
cubical,
and traingular,
these were and several others,
the shapes,
of millions,
of partitions in my memory,
I was looking to fit ideas of shapes similar,
but fits were far and wide,
I needed to stock likes and alikes,
but all lay strewn,
harried and troubled,
I had to admit,
that I had an unfurnished mind....

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hands bony and coarse
honestly earned bread 
labour on earth
no  crime no corruption 
elementary
fingers knuckle out to obtain 
large platter of boiled potatoes 
pouring the cold brew  
intense faces rapt attention/
/ vibrancy layered with dark-
ness /soft gentle lines windows spread to eternity
weathered table rafter boards rectangular columns
oiled lamp throwing light on the expressive faces
failed in its life time adored now  
poor artist rest in peace...

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Listen to poem:

(Another childhood poem)

A pamphlet file in green metallic
thrusts through neon antinight
its cornered self, harsh in glare.
Piers of five-tiered fingers --
shelves -- extend beyond,
in series: a formal pattern,
rectangular and angular.
Artificial electric shine reflects
bland or blatant color.
There are books, some in disarray
in order placement on the shelves.
All:  solid, relentless, inflexible.
And most were made for use
by patterns much more rigid still....

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As Hollywood
Casts its rectangular light,
A lighthouse without rotation
That warns no-one
As our ships are bashed
Against the rocks,
Sharp, jagged rocks
Of protruding buttresses
And ledges
In our fall down the shaft
To the center of the earth
To Tartarus
We silently applaud
As we enjoy,
As we are moved,
As the swell of the surf
Under our wooden ship
Washes us
With deep and deathly undercurrents
To ultimate doom
Against the rocks,
The jagged rocks,
Of this world....

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