Short Reframe Poems

since you left my wet embrace 
you have not been tamed
you left me needing a want I chased
now I feel ashamed...
I thought the use of me would clue you in and stay with me reframed...

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Worried are the dreams of the phyllite degrees
Goings on are those severed screams
Fashion are the promises
Mouths and hearts covered with harness
Demons have received
Humanity minds reframe

Mind games?

4/27/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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At what point…
  does the fiction you’ve created become true

At what point…
  do old lies make more sense than new truths

At what point…
  do prevarication and veracity reframe

At what point…
  do they come together—their message the same

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)...

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Long shadows calm the ripples, sooth the edge
As sunrise bows its head, completes its pledge
In orange flash of daylight’s passing spark
Full blush for lover’s need of passion’s dark.
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Bullfrogs will croak and dragonflies alight
As you reframe the embers of the night
We will return again as moment’s must
For memories are but the lies we trust....

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Dreams in my head won’t go away
But they also can’t stay
As they distract me
From today 

So I’ll anchor
Myself to present day
Pulling forward tomorrow
To see right now in a new way

Rethinking my view to recognize
What I've been searching for
May already exist and be
Waiting at my door

Took some time
To reframe my mind
For me to gain awareness
Of spots that used to be blind...

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When the distance seems too far
The challenge well above your bar
Looking at it as a whole
Is how we frighten to our soul. 
Yet each journey has a start
The place were from we first depart. 
Every step will take you nearer,
And with each breath the goal is clearer. 
If you don’t focus on the end
The journey will become your friend. 
The goal that seemed too harsh a plight 
Will now be well within your sight....

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Reframe the vision they see of your life
make it seem real easy put on a show;
They tend to wield your past just like a knife; 
Selfies and status updates you outgrow 
reset the loop just let them think they know;
Create an illusion laced with control; 
Put those vacant views into a black hole,
walk away turn your back on what’s toxic; 
What is visible is never the whole;
Just stack that deck become a magic trick....

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If I beg for another chance,
If my efforts stay worthy of praise,
Will the Jesus in you advance,
and absolve my sins that blaze?

time has grown long, your heart reformed
you've turned your light towards other's shade
you grew tired while my heart warmed
and now I trust and you're afraid

The clouds crawl through the sky
their shape never stays the same
your love shifts as you go by
the weather breaks and times reframe...

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So sublime 
These oceans come alive 
As the sun leaves its lips on me 
As the tides caress my feet 

Couldn't ask for anything better now 
Then to be here 
To breathe in 

This everlasting piece of paradise 
To feel peace 
And release this 

Imperfect confession 
That it's not the same   
Yet I still question 
Who's to blame, as we reframe 

Photo stills from a better day 
Simpler times, if only we run away 
And drive off into the sunset of eternal youth...

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