Short Rites Poems

awetum
trees bough
before the fall...

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plain boy,easy time
just pine away,love song rites
and be still,captive...

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gratitude breaks through
reflections on historic rites…
yellow school buses...

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Right to a right,
rights all rights.
Can a rightful man
rewrite a right
to right his rites?...

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angry clouds crying
over freshly-prepared grave
soldier is home now


written July 8, 2021...

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rites to the matter 
covet the soil to germinate 
prospering petals


10/13/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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It's bullies Melania fights
The big one is now in her sights
If Donald should stray
His schlong she will flay
And not even give him last rites...

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Religion puts souls high in lights
Evolution cuts down these rites
Relation to ape
On the species landscape
Dynamites man's sites on the heights...

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A propensity for indiscretion
       wedded to transgression
       may lead to intercession --

         potential suppression
         ~ teen rites of expression...

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cataclysmic waves

                                     awaken sailors' nightmares

                                      last rites claimed by sea







Written on 2/10/2016...

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Asparagus
peeps tiny
green helmets
from brown beds, 
looking this way,
that,
to a spring sun
that has come again
like the vultures
to Hinckley,
Texas, settling
down
to business....

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from the chalice in your hands
pour out your life to me
with this fluid essence
award my heart the potency
to conceive
the truth & light
the center of the sacred rites
of night
& all you are...

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My wife always hated holiday feasts
It seemed every year her hatred increased
   This year she stuffed the turkey
   With hard sticks of beef jerky
And smiled when my relatives called the priest...

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No person had relief,
noxious spreading disease,
notorious caused deaths,
nobody quite possessed,
now last rites are given,
noon time clock is ticking,
noose hangs unforgiven.





4-23-17...

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L-itterateur
E-xcellently
W-rites
I-nspired
S-cribe's

C-omposition
A-s
R-eaders
R-ealize
O-ccasional
L-ovely
L-ines

Topic: Birthday of poet Lewis Carroll (January 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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A father buried
in the sand; vacation rites.
Waiting for the tide
patiently, always, I think
as I carry his coffin.




Childhood Nostalgia Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: JCB Brul  
Date wrote: 6th August 2022...

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destroying the syntax
of the intelligent soul
sacrificial rites of intellect
sacramentals of exorcism
packs of savaged dogs
roaming the streets of truth
spring is the pleasant
brother of winter
where is the demon...

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D-edicated
A-uthor
W-rites
N-otable
L-iterary
E-xpression
A-s

L-ines
O-f
C-omposer
H-ave
R-ightfully
I-nspired
D-elighted
G-irl
E-ven

C-omforting
O-ne
L-ady
E-very
Y-ear

Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Far overhead the skyline bids goodnight, 
Bestowing crown to hazy moon on flight
As silent pillows dream, breaths ebb day’s rites

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Silence Contest sponsored by Susan...

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Years to grow a pear tree
Groom it
Water it

Dreams of sending it to college
Rites of passage
First Dates
Learning to drive 

Pop the question

But the pear tree dries up and dies
No seedlings to prove that it was mine...

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To write
Or to right?
Is there a right to write
Or does one write to right?
What is left to write if rights are wronged
Or are rights left when one writes wrongs?
What rites are right
And who writes rites
Or were they left?...

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At times I think,” I wish I would of felt this when I were younger, I would have known! ” Then I remember the “rites of passage”  
arriving in autumn on the the wing of a ring-neck dove.
Weaving light between knowing and unknowing....

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Solfatara plays lumen,
Air hypoxic rites death,
Fumarole punches the stomata,
Coldness fired leaves,
Joy!

A run amok storm dragged trunks,
The warrior of plantae,
Majesty of a tropical mountain,
Every berry has glory,
Hail!...

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Quatrain #511:
NAME


Note as I write in lines of rhymes,
Apt words I cite mimic sound chimes;
Move thoughts as rites of moments dear,
Etch a quick bite in crafty times.

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
04 August 2016
Singapore...

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When you have
an hour to live

what matters then 
is Christ in a pyx

in the vest pocket
of an old priest

called at midnight
by a nurse

who drives miles
through sleet 

and finds your room 
in the hospital


Donal Mahoney...

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