Short Replies Poems

dear john she replies - dipping her pen into tears...

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Love is that can't be measured by the depth of word where heart replies well...

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Science of the Heart


Time exists…my heart replies-
“Why does heartache never end?”...

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Echoes are replies
From souls in the skies…answers
To truths and to lies
...

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space visitors knocked on my door
I do not talk to aliens! I yelled
“You just did!” one replies....

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Barack replies to questions
As the overthoughtful do;
What took five seconds to ask
Merits paragraphs....

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...and you came to answer the door like you
did with my prayers; your replies
sought the questions of mine....

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The wind
Howls at
This moon and
Replies, I shall
Wrap my arms
Around thee,
Brother John
We are bound
By this love...

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I write on your skin



                    sexy words with fingertips ...



          your replies ... shiver...

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BOTTOM OF THE WELL

       What's at the bottom of the well disciples ask Christ replies "HELL"

3/10/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2018...

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I cc on my emails 
old addresses of
friends and family 
who have passed 
feeling good about 
keeping them in the loop
and anticipating their replies...

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“How desperately I need God in my life.”

Inner Self replies… ‘Uhhh, need?
Perhaps you truly mean... 
I need to find the God already in my life.’

“Ahhh... better.”...

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ETIQUETTE 

I wrote a poem
waited for all the replies
people said, "Tanka" 
(as they quipped back a note)
I said, "You are most Welcome!" 

- Edlynn Nau
© May 14, 2016...

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~   I write on your skin ...



                                      sexy words with fingertips -



                       your replies ... shiver   ~...

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Her teacher is yapping again.
She resents it, it takes away from her nap time.
Do you sleep with your eyes open? Her girlfriends ask.
Must, she replies. It comes in handy in class....

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After baring concern
Developing each focus
Grasping, holding it,
Jumping, karma lives,
Moving nowhere over
Preparing quaint replies,
Sweet tastes, unkind,
Visioning with X-rays
Yearlong; zap...

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Radical ridiculants risk rash
ride-a-long rational resultants,
residing reluctantly, revealing
resounding, resourceful, recurrent,
reticent, resonate romances. Replies
readily rightfully recorded....

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love walks into a bar
sees hope drinkin' it away;
what's wrong, love asks
nothing's wrong, hope replies, 
nothing is wrong...

love turns to fate the bartender
and orders two shots of everything....

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I say a jaunty 'Good morning, Mr. O'Leary'
    but my he-neighbor-next-door is now a she

  'Good morning,' she replies, with joy in her voice
    'Isn't America a great country?' ~ We have a choice!'...

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Eerini,  greets the young Greek of Sparta
Shalom, answers the old Jew from Haifa
Assalam Alaikum, says the Arab Muslim
Peace, the Christian replies back to him. 
Enough! so easily said but hardly meant....

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Sometimes, your questions have no
meaning
when taken to a point where
east is your east and 
west is your west.
If this be so,
I wonder why you need my 
replies--
you already memorized them
in your head....

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Sunshine beams so directly onto a discreetly broken cloud
The tree line below it beckons thee so somber so proud
The cloud replies so reverently so utterly loud
Won't you stay with me? I plea darkness is such a shroud...

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I met a man whose repartee is clever and quick.
I have to stay on my toes, for he is quite slick.
He can even write a catchy poem or two like me on the fly.
Maybe he deserves a second look, if I can just sharpen up my replies....

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Why?
Why do I bother?
Why do I try?
when all I receive are one worded replies.

so why do I torture myself day by day?
Its not like you care anyway
yet I get such a rush
and cant help but gush'
at your perfect hair and face....

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Jack might be a wee bit scarce till next month
There's millions of things to think about all at once
We're moving and so
My replies may be slow
I'm sure you will hear my groans and my grunts


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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