Short Revision Poems

removed for revision. 2016 election diamante, last view 758...

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"Avoid being divisionary and diversionary: take Dominion for The Universe paid for that already"...

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I sold my memory
for a present reframed 
The past in revision
—the future in shame

(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)...

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A life for a life,
far too many were taken;
Difficult lesson; 
Two towers fell we stood tall, 
revision of September....

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peace before a battle
taut for the trample
in the breeze petals shudder


*thanks Debbie for the revision*...

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Mystical crystals
Frigid snowflakes from the sky,
Ice on the cold ground,
A white blanket from above;
Crystalline white everywhere....

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         Do you have skeletons in your closet
           I have a few in mine … 
 
         They jingle, jangle, jingle   
           ~ a frame for my composite
...

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Its not a book of diction
The common dictionary
Thus I propose revision
To our vocabulary

For the next edition
The fitting title will be
- 'Webster's Unabridged
Definitionary'...

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The Catholic Church, in a major decision,
made with considerable thought and revision,
has brought in, with care,
more reflection and prayer -
and not so much pomp and circumcision....

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Michael Degenhardt noted the short count for my first Pine and Pond haiku posted today.  
Here is a possible revision:

Pine beside the pond
Shadow across the water
Lengthening the days...

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A constant murmur,
with bickering voices
and occasional shriek of glee.
All when I'm trying to revise,
down in the library.



[written in 1988 - do they still have libraries in universities?]...

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Shared
Seasons
And the years
Dawn, day, dusk, night
And sharing a dinner by candlelight

Revision:

Months
Seasons
And the years
Dawn, day, dusk, night
And sharing a dinner by candlelight...

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In the Time of Trump there was much division,
Embracing ignorance, and lack of vision.
While steering a course aimed straight for collision,
“The Constitution,” claimed he, “needs revision!"...

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nymphs unfold first wings
together and right on cue. . .
an all-male choir sings

For the Magicicada Poetry Contest of Maureen McGreavy
5/7/5 checked by Howmanysyllables.com...

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Decision To Have a Collision

What we did decide  was to make a decision,
And avoid colliding with Trump in a collision;
Would survive;
Remain  alive;
In terrible trip had to make a major revision.

Jim Horn...

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SUPERVISE
I am lving through hell for your paradise
Nothing can change our compromise
Let's talk about the revision revised
Is there anything to set the fire to supervise
Tr?n Minh Hi?n Hien Tran Orlando February 9, 2017...

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Time
conveys,
one must have
sound wisdom and
be adequately
prepared to handle life
efficiently, forge ahead
and pursue a worthwhile purpose,
then it remains on one's comfort side,
or else only revision soothes the soul....

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Ten-thousand deep-sea divers standing on me
  
  ~ Twenty-thousand legs under the sea





______________________________________ 
Revision of a 'Speed Joke' heard within the last
month on WGN Radio, 720-AM, Chicago, IL...

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Open up
I say to thee
obey the voice
of destiny

awaken now*
to summers fare*
and taste the fragrance
in the air

awaken
out of long remiss
lay aside thy chrysalis

Open up
I beg of thee
open...
open sesame!


* these two lines revised...

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BREATH

Wind belongs to the Earth,
Wind is the breath of the Earth.
Earth, with little revision and
Be-ing added is breath.
Breathe.
See and hear the symmetry
Brethren of Earth.
Breath is the wind of Man,
Man is the wind in the mind
Of the Creator....

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A Programmer Man Called Phisher-man Sam

There once was a man who liked fishing.
He said, "See the lovely phishing!"
It was computerized,
Not good to dress or fry ,
He couldn't resist the revision.

6/10/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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some thin
king dark clothing
dark face
dark place

may    be
but more

a see
ing a sensing
of life's realities
superfic'alities

aware
to find

deep mean
ing and singing
the sight
of light


Collection: Experimental
Written 9 January 2020...

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The color of the skies;
The brightness of some one's eyes;
 So the feeling of dismay, a saddened heart;
All of these factors hue- color mark;



 Blue 






1/30/21
8/21/23 revised revision
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr ©2021, 2023...

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"Contemporary Haiku" by Catie Lindsey:

children play and scream
in a world at war ~
school bell rings


in a war-torn town
where a child screams for his mom. . . 
a school bell rings

(I've removed this revision for Catie from the contest and am using the tanka above it on my poetry page!)...

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Hex jam in zinc plated steel on our fingers
wound 'till the skin broke in edges and splinters
Promised to bind any rust eye or fissure
cauterized smoking of thus
We are the cogs in the wheels at ignition
fluid in motion except indecision
Bliss like a novel in last stage revision
Unusual vehicle: "Us"....

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