Short Reshaped Poems

old women still have dreams
so they lie restlessly
in soft single beds 
away from mirrors 
that fracture their expectations;

they turn towards walls 
where cracks can be smoothed 
with shaking fingers 
and shadows can be reshaped 
into ageless promise......

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I was a blemished;
Made of skin;
I was mudded by my sins;
Yet He my God refined me remoted   me cleanse me from my sin;
Misshapened He reshaped me;
All over again I'm refined;
Now I am a new pot of clay; 

7/12/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Reborn --
  Restored
Refreshed
  Renewed
Rejuvenated
  Revived
Reawakened
  Rekindled
Regenerated
  Remade
Revitalized
  Reshaped
Reconstructed
  Redesigned
Refashioned
  Re-upped
Redeveloped
  Reclaimed
Rehabilitated 
  Redone
  Rewired
  Refined
Reinvigorated --
  Re-created!...

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I'm watching you age
into wiser smiles, measured steps.
(Your lines look beautiful)

Gravity of life reshaped
our foolish expenses of energy
(Oh, the hurrying we did together)

wasted vanity of emotions.
I love our becoming...
more vast of vivid moments

(Our expanding normal bits)
gnarled with experiences....

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Whittling away another hour,
thoughts recycled into knife blades,

Forgive them, they but whittle you,
they shape the figure that sits and carves.

The shavings fall, the hour grows thin.
and when the work is done,

there will be no knife,

no reshaped figure,


only a hand -
whittling and writing....

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On two feet adorned with five inches of pointed toes

Fatima oozes elegant seduction from crown to her base

Necked with gold jewels she strides along ankle braced

Proud back leaning forward her hips lead to reshaped bosom

When stylish stilletos falter she falls flat on her delicate face

05th June 2018...

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A rooted backyard rock,
blooms
in the morning sunlight.

All night
it has been time travelling
through the history of the earth,
now it is flowering,
for the light has reshaped it
into stillness once more.

For an unfurling moment
we both cast no shadow
upon this spiraling eon,
as we orbit a sun
together....

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Enthralled appalled eye-crawl;
I was in pieces broken and torn,
balls of sorted pieces scorn and worn;
 now gathered reshaped and formed,
 refreshed rebirth flying high whole I am I've risen,
From a caterpillar crawl to a butterfly flown;

12/26/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023...

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When you bloom in my garden,
My wounds will be given wings,
Colorful dotted wings,
They will be reshaped into butterflies!

When you twinkle at my sky,
Pains will hide in the forest of clouds
Smooth feathers of rain
kiss the roots of my soul!

When you sit on my shore,
The waves will dance,
Rush to touch the petals of your feet.
A cool breeze will hug me silently....

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A lump of clay upon God's wheel,
Twas such a simple start.
The gentlest of hands I could feel,
As He reshaped my heart.

If wrong things I may do or say,
Discard me he does not.
Like an earthly potter and his clay,
God uses what He's got.

A perfect vessel when he is done,
Nothing fancy yet you see.
But with God I must be number one,
For He still works on me.
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Of late I feel like a sandbar,
in the proverbial river of life.
Pushed and pulled by the flow,
reshaped by friction and strife.

No real place I feel at home.
Not really anchored , yet not adrift.
No adornment and no beauty,
Get close and you'll find I've got grit.

Somtimes I rise above life to stand,
catching some folks unaware.
I'm usually just below the surface,
over run by life and dispair....

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You think I'm looking out the window
While I view my own reflection
Staring at this distorted image
Without your eyes detection

I'm looking, at this person 
Who I no longer know
I was stronger once
Where did that person go?

You took him from me
Left this Zombie behind
You have reshaped me
To this person I find

I turn from the window
I have seen enough
The view would've been better
My life reflected is too tough...

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if bombs fall on a
far off place can CNN
make us feel the pain

woman lies about 
her color do we color
her in black and white

man massacres nine
innocent souls yet some care
more about burnt flag

Charley Cotton blames
the dead for dying because
they didn't want to kill 

a flag flies above
intolerance lives below
hate lives between them

emancipation
reshaped a nation don't fly
stars and bars no more...

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And be transformed into a caterpillar's dream,
Shedding old skins for wings of vibrant hue.
Emerge from chrysalis, a golden beam,
A phoenix rising, born again anew.
Like clay reshaped by a potter's gentle hand,
Or ore refined in life's hot crucible.
A seed that breaks its shell to understand
The sky's expanse, once deemed impossible.
And be transformed into a prism-catching light,
Revealing colors hidden from our sight....

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BE MY ESCAPE

touch my life and make it
real
steal my heart that I may
feel
taste my world with clear
ideal

conundrums
revealed

rescue me from dark dire
place
replace feelings lost in
space
restore in me scents of
grace

conundrums
displaced

follow my reflected
lights
into dark and scary
nights
restore peaceful dreamy
flights

conundrums
invite

be my escape
reshaped

be my escape
lace draped


© Kim van Breda...

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