Short Resurfacing Poems

Waiting to enter,
Our eyes moved up, then down.
                    A leaf- fell- on ice....

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Heavy rain flooding
Water level increases
Swimming with the stream














7-9-2016...

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broken promises, resurfacing as new dreams ~ a new year's nightmare



Monoku 2: New Year
Sponsor: Silent One
17 syllables (5-7-5)...

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resurfacing self doubt
recurring negative 
self talk emerging 
once again after 
being buried for 
so long within 
the recesses of 
the subconscious mind...

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I take a dive from a precipice.
To escape my life as it is.
Deep water, deep gulp of air
on resurfacing, new life to share.
Thrilled now that I dare.

26/03/2016...

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Still
Here in
Atlantis,
Mother of pearls.
Iridescent; being pregnant with light,
A world rebuilding - waiting to hold you.
Resurfacing:
Sea the sun,
Finding 
Home....

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gazing into the depth
of her infinite eyes
hopes are resurfacing
compassion is recharging
stability of body and soul
reemerging binding love is
a lake floating on rising
waves of passion we rejoin
mercury is retrograding...

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Too many indigo tears

The Ocean
hides them beneath
her broad blue checkered apron

White capped waves skirt across
a memory
an act
drowned
long forgotten

Vomiting up
salt and brine
debris that won’t
stay down

Resurfacing, beached
upon
tomorrow


An
old shoe
someone once
wore...

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I left you to drown
In the pouring rain
And I had counted on you falling in a puddle
And never resurfacing
I found my way back to your room without you
And similarly, without a key
I kindly left a towel outside the door
Incase you made it back alive
And I hadn’t counted on it
But you’re still breathing...

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Alone in darkness
Patiently I await with my mysery
I focus on the illussions
But I cannot escape from my reality
I run my fingers through my hair
A frustration created from my own devise
Shadows dancing everywhere
Resurfacing I feel my old demons rise
Haunting me .... Whispering
Runaway you will be okay...

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Florida recycles Summer heat,
a slower version of a hot beat;
Fall’s still smoking;

Leaves crack and dull to brown
skipping the colors of Autumn;
Southern sky’s daunting;

September’s a soft shadow
with hollowed flames to follow;
Serotonin’s falling;

Freckled skin still a bit warm,
season has no time to transform;
Sunburn’s resurfacing....

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Said it a million times
Is it sinking in your mind?
Open your ears to these words
Is it too much for you
To hear what is really true?
These are your lies resurfacing
I didn’t know that when the world ends
We will be the only two left
I’d like to leave you with the trees
And the grass and the sky
Because I would rather die
Then be with you for all time...

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A hundred puzzle pieces scattered on the floor.
All is in place, except for one more.

I didn’t realize one was missing.
And it seems there’s no chance of it resurfacing.

I’ve looked everywhere.
I couldn’t find it anywhere.

It’s hard to look for something unknown.
All on my own.

With only a picture of what could be.
If only I could find the missing puzzle piece....

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Listen to poem:

Timeless and haunting
Recurring nightmares
Trauma resurfacing
Over and over again

Reasoning through images
Ongoing healing
Resisting auto pilot
Inventing resolutions
And re-inventing
Rinse and repeat

New scenarios
New outcomes
Letting go of trauma
Releasing
Reprogramming
Rinse and repeat                       



AP: 3rd place 2022

Posted on August 26, 2021...

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blast from the past
leaves us appalled & aghast
crude wake up call
delusion blown in the squall

savage dream images
ferality that conscience ravages
remnants of our past
resurfacing for an unholy repast

negativity seeking release
being a bubble of ego imaginary 
we allow it to quietly burst
for love alone quenches our thirst 

in prayerful surrender 

19-September-2020...

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Raised Iron works
thrust out of the blacktop.
Women-hole covers
appear; the tip of the spear
above new drilled silos.

Rubber slugs concrete.
Debora steers her way
through a slalom of
gender specific movements.

The road bucks under
her taught belly,
while fingers push
a wheel through
a video game maze.

Long laboring feminists
under hard hats
are digging her,
so she just smiles -
tries to relax....

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In the heated jungle city girth
 the roads and highways heating heated birth 
Burst chuck holes crevice valleys bottomless
Those the asphalt mounds needs cutting resurfacing
Rugged on the streets we drive on over Chuck's holes
And Tom's Bumpy are the sidewalks we stride on
Cracks and holes yet we still go on
With in the cityscape we travel 
Rugged are the surfaces  


8/11/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2022...

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Embrace that which defines you...
we're lucky some changes come slower
than rain 
in the desert,
so that some have time to react,
leaving no stone unturned...

There are no new lessons 
to be learned.

Old matters 
just keep resurfacing 
to crash upon your shore--

just leave the shadows 
and the temperatures shall rise once more.

Retreat into your solitude
and prepare your change of intention. 
It's not how hard you push--

but rather in which direction....

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I went swimming in the Notwane River,
And took a plunge on the cool waters
Resurfacing only to take a deep breath,
And feel the cool air above
Then, BOOM! I saw you!

Your face, the radiance of mankind
That killed my breathing, paralyzing my heart
The beating of my heart, so faint
As to be almost imperceptible
Everything swam before my eyes!

When I saw you, and saw love,
And envisioned the joys of the world
That we’d have together
If we give love a chance to lead us
Onto the day of our union…d...

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"Crocodili" 


I swim in your holy water
basic rules for survival
shed the skin 

like a baptism
immersed in saltwater
the lower vibration

lifted 
removed 
from that prehistoric place

the dermabrasian stings, 
raw, we walk out together
new creatures

into fresh certainty
soft thuds clawed suckling 
on uncertain shores

the feelings
begin
solitary, rapturous

natural selection
resurfacing 
singular in plurality

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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