Short Shuttered Poems

the last lilly
in a spent garden
shuttered window...

Read More

The tree shuttered in the cold
It had to be so darn bold
It lost the leaves that adorned
Naked, now forlorn



by Phyllis Babcock
20/02/121...

Read More

Cloudy Day
Unfulfilled Dreams
Shuttered soul

Twilight encroaches
Fading Hope
Eclipsed heart

Dark Night
Steady rain
Flooded spirit...

Read More

Venetian blinds shuttered
Vivacious lust a fix
Veins throb crimson allure
Visceral dread repels
Victorian specter
Vexing savoir-faire lure
Vampire's bloodletting...

Read More

Friday afternoon a Jew's week winds down
  His business shuttered
     Tired sun sinks toward the ground  

 A workingman puts away his modest dress
  ~ A newly crowned king dons his Sabbath best...

Read More

the shuttered blinds of the temple, the canopy,
the blank canvas that obliquely shrouds the fire,vvi
its shapes, its shadows, re-invent the canvas..

but do not give it a name. Do not give me a name...

Read More

We could Constantly Become Contiguous,
To many things that may be ambiguous;
Could be cluttered,
We often shuttered;
Ingenious to intelligence is indigenious.

Now you figure that one out.

Jim Horn...

Read More

A valley of hope stares up
   at hills of despair
where shuttered cottages groan
   despite the fresh air

Flowers bloom down below
   in neat garden beds
bright-colored lilies grow
   flinty valley overspread...

Read More

You run and hide standing behind the walls of deception 
Open up the windows and blinds of shuttered eyes open closed mystery demons visit Visions in my daydream~

12/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

Read More

slate gray day's
nocturnal mood
souls sensitive
often brood

upon nature's
whimsy, caprice
yearnings stillborn
know no peace

darkness settles
in forest, meadows
'pon every plateau ~
doused, flames' embers
in shuttered chateaus...

Read More

Genesis Broad-Spectrum

An ethical grey scenery alert
was roused lenses shuttered,
in hues of Red, White and Blue.
Theorem of imagery collision,
flashed old fashioned—PolaROId,
ammunition developed HumanØ1ds.
...

Read More

On fidelity 

The heart, simplistic, gnawed if left exposed
Be covered, shuttered thus pinfold enclosed
Is certain that the fairer, man will draw
And ipso facto balance will restore
With ego’s filled to full capacity
That rip the very fabric; chastity...

Read More

Summer Rain Storm

stormy, shuttered, lightening
I run fast for shelter
Summer's rainstorm


humidity hot
thunderstorms
I wish it wouldn't

6/30/20
WRITTEN WORDS BY James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©
Lune poetry form
3/5/3 Words Count
5/3/5 Syllable Count...

Read More

It’s getting late early…
as I wait for the end to begin
Time folding within itself,
shedding its last skin

It’s getting late early…
a lost voice sings my final reward
The outer door shuttered tight
—darkness untoward

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2020)...

Read More

trapped in my absent mind
Afraid of the words lingering in my head
Words dancing on my tongue
in unknown patterns
Shuttered out of my mouth
in pastels and harsh syllables

Could they make a change 
or just fade into your mind

Dancing into the rhythm of your soul...

Read More

A Beach in Cascais

On the beach of Cascais
Human seals, jam-packed
Soaking up the sun.
Female seals
 are eying each other.
Who has the best tan?
Then they all go home
To dark shuttered flats
The fear of being seen
At home by prying eyes
sits deep in the mind
Of the Portuguese....

Read More

Zeal uncontained, needing quarantine
Oscillating rigor mortis, feigned or real
Madness, the only description saleable
Both for actors and non actors alike
Invested in the runaway train consumers
Enjoy at the expense of real tragedy
Shuttered from public view, until it's not


10/15/14...

Read More

 shuttered light
striates melded skin,
they lie amazed;
an ocean passed
through them
tossed them beyond dark depths,

bore them on frothy waves,
landed them
on a distant shore….

now cloistered,
their bodies gravitate
seek each other,

fold together,
fold apart....

Read More

Young Teenager and Some Stranger

Moore to us is truly some stranger,
Who did like to molest a teenager;
Was so rude,
While nude;
Jesus shuttered born in a manger.

Roy has upset everyone. People
prefer political affiliation of poor,
sexual behavior while we worship
Lord and Savior. 

Jim Horn...

Read More

Behind shuttered eyes
Visions of a mystic place
Drifting aimlessly
Somewhere out in nether space
Moonlit dreams caress my face

In his golden halls  
Hypnos sits upon his throne
Master of my mind
My dreams are not mine alone
Moonlit dreams by his hand sown

Hypnos    Greek god of sleep


11/24/2011...

Read More

Insane
I turn around
an amputee

to live, for not living
fighting the inner war
speared,
lacerated,
like neanderthal in cave

my weapon
the serrated moon
cried in fluted dark

a glimpse of bare bones
the ash of a bleeding dawn
my shuttered courage
in urn
there was only one evening



SATISH VERMA...

Read More

Insane
I turn around
an amputee

to live, for not living
fighting the inner war
speared,
lacerated,
like neanderthal in cave

my weapon
the serrated moon
cried in fluted dark

a glimpse of bare bones
the ash of a bleeding dawn
my shuttered courage
in urn
there was only one evening



SATISH VERMA...

Read More

Failure to say that yes, His Beauty, shall thrust it's sickle
Into her earth soon there after convulsing their solar stars
Angel food cake latter day rains a new manna cannibals await
Carnelian this evil dead of ancient tombs these shuttered moons
Raging flames, inside hell's pain and carrion, they'll awake ? Artemis....

Read More

A quiet, tranquil space
Isolated from the human race
Shuttered from life's obsessive chase
Disappearing without a trace
No itinerary; no suitcase
Fleeting time to erase
Solitude, serenity to encase
A staggered, slow pace
Only my thoughts to embrace
All expectations, challenges efface
Billowy dreams my saving grace...

Read More

The sphere of influence influenced me spherically
With no core
Left brained hemisphere confused
Like right handed athlete
Co-ordination on my medulla-oblongata 
Peripheral nervous system shuttered down
As cranial nerves refused to send impulses 
Failure to interpretation on my cerebrum
Lead to my confusion.

Response...

Read More