Short Separately Poems

For Sale: Unworn Wedding Bands - Memories Sold Separately

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We’ll be on the road all day long today

Driving separately, racing

Both of us want control...

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One only need look

at God’s handiwork to see

all colors in all forms

can’t possibly thrive

separately...

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Have written over 8,400 poems now;
Am sure that I will get by some how;
My total would have been a lot more;
You can read them or simply ignore....

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We and The Universe.
The above is such an untrue verse,
but that is how many have come to see
the universe and us as separately.
The truth however, in reality
is that we are all part of the universe universally....

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Underneath 
Underneath
Underneath
Underneath My Skin Again 
Can You See What's Happenin
In Front Of Me 
Front Of Me
Front Of Me
So Dark And Lovely
Hollow And Ugly 
Enemies
Enemies
Enemies
Turned Family 
Kept Separately 
Hurting Me 
Hurting Me 
Hurting Me 
It Hurts To Love Me...

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The knowers are the star gazers
Who sit on the corner of the crescent moon
Wildly, wildly
With sparkling eyes

My notions are lacking substance
Lacking grace
Lacking innuendo
Separately I traverse
The same familiar paths
Day by day
Until the paper plates are all used up
And I sink deeply
Into a cushion sleeping...

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water color glass 
                                          red blue...poured separately
                                                     quantity in it

                                                if torch light flash on
                                           same color gives reflection
                                                      quality of it...

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Two friends talked over a term
While travelling by a tram 
One: What a life in me!
Full with happiness, luxury, satisfaction
Other: Are you happy?
One: No
Other: What a life in me!
Full with miseries, demand, deprivation
One: Are you sad?
Other: No
The talking ended at the desired stoppage
No one was victorious
Both were in confusion
They left the stoppage separately and lonely....

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When you live separately,since then,
heartache does not happen, my low.
Without you,without your love.

What do I do now?
How to leave your addition,
no one will tell it now,
Will not or will not be true now.
It's my love to you that I love you.

Eyes See your way,
mind think of your wish,
Where is the consciousness lost,
there is a restlessness here.
Without you, without your love....

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Thunder measures out the distance
between lightning flash, and you and me.
We are still together, though separately,
two birds on up-draughts, treading air.

It wouldn’t be fair to ask
"Where are you now?"
for you are here
and everywhere where I can lie

and hear the roll of thunder,
watch lightning tilting at the dark,
understand whatever tethers you to me
is the secret within the art....

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You rolled your eyes and turned your back
Together we stood, separately
You looked at me and said

There’s nothing you can do
Nothing you can say to take this pain away
I forgot how it felt to feel this way
Now you brought it back again
And this time it’s here to stay

you made me feel safe
Sheltered me from the bad 
Took to my heart like Cupid’s arrow
And there you stayed
What went wrong...

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May I dance
       with your heart;
May I think
       along side of your thoughts;
May we breathe the
       breath the separately 
Same together and apart alone whispers 

THAT PART

Silently agreeing
       alone away from you

THAT PART

Whether together, or apart Alone
Alone
Alone
Alone
Alone
Alone
Alone

THAT  PART



5/24/2022
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2022©...

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SUPPOSE
                            THINK THAT A UNIVERSAL LIFE IS KEPT
                            BY MIXING WITH MULTIFARIOUS QUALITY
          IN A BIGGEST BOTTLE OF ELEMENTS OR OF QUALITIES ETC. AND ETC. 
                     WITHOUT WHICH THAT LIFE CAN NEVER LIVE THERE 
                    EITHER COLLECTIVELY INDIVIDUALLY OR SEPARATELY
                       BUT SURVIVES WITH THE BLESSINGS OF GOD ONLY...

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Words are spoken without a mouth.
I feel dreaded for being dragged so deep in a hole without an escape.
My hands feel tied without a rope on it. 
A heart beats thrice as fast than it should.
I am shaken and too thirsty to sweat.
There are two sides that belong separately. 
One being on the right. 
And one being on the other right.
Will there ever be wrong? 
Neither nothing speaks to me in such volume....

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(31/08/2011)

My shattered thoughts
Crawling helplessly from my painful mind,
Roaming separately in the misty night
This act, I cannot control

My shaken body,
Sweating unexpectedly on my bed, 
Bleeding feelings as I was tortured inside
This one, I cannot handle

Got lost in my own mind
Have I woken up?
Or have I ever left real life?
Adventuring dream or breathing reality,
Which one does suit me?...

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The mad streets roam alone,
the mice people scuttle, just scuttle
lest they be found separately.
Bedlam slips its moorings,
boats are rocked.
Across America the inmates strut
out of the holes in their heads
pick a victim, kick down the heedless,
and the police watch their wristwatches
waiting for the shift to begin,
but none show up,
only the pavement patients,
and the sick souls who need help
to die....

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our photo ripped in
the middle where
our hands held

hold us separately
as if the equator or
continental divide

has tried by trial
and tries us as
seen and been

guilty of being
once     to
gether

yet the parts we
play apart from
one a     nother

are still
on the
same

stage
and then
that's when

i see we haven't
been torn away
it's a crack in

the glass 
of the 
frame's

pane...

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the sky sketches a tastefully delicious poem,
while a symphony of words touch separately

oh- the wait must be intense indeed

~ i know it is for me ~

so when did you comfortably decide,
the time was near,
for a rhyme to appear . .

please tell me-
at what moment
did your thoughts become one with mine?

___________



* because the connection can be that strong *...

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So Many Voices

So many voices
All screaming
Sharing their ideas
Some are good
Some are bad
Some are just stupid
But they all still shout
So many voices together
Yet they scream separately
There are no words of unity
No one can hear anything
All the ideas jumble together
Making no sense at all
So, stand alone
Make your point with wisdom
And do not yell
Someone will listen
And something will be done...

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meeting during chaos and confusion
was a true catalyst for us both
divine time for the brief meeting
the feeling felt very familiar too
something strange was afoot
energy magnetic and strong
it was too short, but sweet
trauma bonding wouldn't be fair
working on ourselves separately
healing heart mind and soul
to move towards building better
so the next time will be for a long time, 
miss you much!



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Synchronized spirits sewn together by silver star strings
Like tethered twin flame torches touching, tinting
Beautifully braided bands of boundless bliss
Sensually seducing sacred sunlight, shining
Delicately dancing around disguised desire
Waxing, waning, wanting, wondering, wandering, withdrawing
Lustful luminary lingering, longing, lavishing love
Fearing freedom from fervency
Soulmates sleeping separately, sadly stifled
Why?
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these songs are about wizards (mostly)
the untroubled child sleeping peacefully

and when the new washing machine
arrives at the same time as the food delivery

you do wonder if the men at the door
exchanged pleasantries 

did they make eye contact
did they ring the door separately or 

one honk of it was agreed
non-verbally, or verbally

or with a wink, fist bump
or a hand sandwich

drive over a cliff listening to these songs
you won't feel a thing...

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Two friends among the distances
One is red and one is blue 
Uniting despite the fights 
The colors choose to fuse

Purple is a pretty color
It's the color we should be
Martin Luther didn't die
Rosa Parks didn't cry 
For us to live separately 

I love my neighbors, red and blue
Black, mixed and white
Men, women, other, too
I love whoever you are, too

To my friend among the distance 
I'd like to thank you
For loving me just the same
For loving both red and blue...

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 A garden
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Ms Ruthie's Garden my neighbour ;
she had such pretty pearl white peonies;
red, yellow, oranges roses and begonias;
~
had a pure immaculate lawn;
on purpose separately grown dandelions;
pick, cut the leaves washed boil them in a pot;
Ms Ruthie dandelions from her garden,
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...tasted as good or better than collard greens  


6/10/20     ©2020
Garden Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear Heart
3rd placePlacement in the contest...

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