Short Soled Poems

A pilgrim's shoes are laced with faith
    if soled with doubt, nails fall out

  The journey requires not stick, but staff
    his offering ~ a tender calf...

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There once was a picky young troll,
Who fussed over his supper bowl.
He loved human meat,
But disliked the feet
That came off of salty soled souls.

Until one day, he was cajoled
By an ogre out on a stroll.
Who said, “With some heat,
Those feet become sweet.”
Thus our troll was sold on soul’s soles.


For sweet and salty contest...

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"Tripping the Light Fantastic"



Dance?

She said,
romancing
the lost agenda

You’re so
left 
sold

(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)








“Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from Heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.”










sold
soled
souled...

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                 The Oak
                   Maple
                   Apple

                    each
           i hear them speak
        as each mine neighbors
                  tramp by
        each their soled feeets
               causing each
           mine crimson leaf
                their plead

                   "each
                    ouch
                    ouch
                    each"...

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Hopes not dead
God has said
Believe in Him and there shall be
Loves not lost
It's at no cost
Believe in Him and you shall be given
Eternal life 
Don't be fraid
of what you've said
Repent and believe
And receive what God's offering
A child of God
Forgiven
Never let the sun go down on your wrath
Don't be soled
not even boiled
For angers not the way
Be silent
Be silent and pray


09/21/07
written by James Edward Lee Sr....

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What’s your name Isabelle
with long flowing brown hair
and skin so fair
yellow dress billowing
in the wind
flat-soled Nike 
shoes
sitting
reading the news
with a look of 
sorrow and despair
the land of the free
has punished your already
tired eyes
and smoking your cigarettes
you punish the skies
in return
the clouds rain disease
and bring an already famine
Earth
closer to it’s knees
in prayer
to a God that never
seems to answer...

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