Short Solvent Poems

When the Devil shows his hospitality
And tempts you with your own resentment
Do you flee, fight or freeze,
Or simply laugh and offer your hand 
In gratitude.

(11/20/23)
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I’m Puzzled, the pieces all look the same.
My Glasses, do hover over the aim.
   What was I thinking?
   Might take to drinking!
Bamboozled, the pieces I’ll trash and frame.
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Ah, sighence, indeed quite a puzzly puzzle.
The hypothermical leaves you chilly with a muzzle.
Solvent? I think not,
Stirring up the pot,
Overflow of info, gear up you better guzzle....

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Love Chemistry...

I dive deep in your ocean blue eyes
In pursuit of  pearls of emotions,
Ego,
Self-pity,
Pride,
All dissolved on the way...

I the solute,
You the solvent

WE the solution of Love...

@ 'dusk'.......

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Soft Thud, concrete shakes, yet tower solid--but dread,
                                                             water always wins.

3/28/16
For contest: "In one line (monoku # 10) write what you SEE or FEEL"
Sponsor: Poet Destroyer A...

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A clearing vision fails.
Nothing is what it seems.
Your inheritance, scuffed
lenses, ammonia, sins
of a grandmother’s house.
Of a grandmother’s house
nothing departs unchanged.
Elbows, knees and knuckles
scraped raw by scour-pads,
solvent, sting of scrubbed air....

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Your transparency is like black paint 
Shrouded in silence and deceit 
Hiding in shadows of your own making 
But I see through your dark retreat
You cannot fool me with your lies 
Nor blind me with your fake allure 
Your transparency is like black paint 
But I have the solvent of truth...

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Drowned in the drumming wetlands
We wade through pools of glass,
                     wet smoke and sacrifice

A summer rain, warm as loam
As young fish we tumble
                     in pools of standing water

Solvent with rain, a child`s wet hand,
Diverted by the sea in our eyes,
                     we are more than water....

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I am filling with a liquid loss,
this flesh isn’t solid anymore,
I may be slowly sinking 
in a puddle on the floor.

The emptiness is gurgling
from toe to chest to head,
displacing all the substance,
dissolving the words you said.

This is a wonder solvent-
it can obliterate any trace,
love, laughter, friendship,
this agent for removing grace....

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Madam, long ago
I asked what's stonger than love
Do you recall: pride.

Satan had it so
There was no traction for love
In truth: God is love

Pride dissolves all faith
For it is the solvent of the soul
Where faith's anchor holds

Love can conquer still
For the soul surrendered stays
Too cold: in crystals

Crystals make jewels
For the throne, there God still reigns
Pure as only love...

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WATER
Water, o water!
So necessary you are
That
A world without you
is lifeless
As ancient as you are
You are never tired
Of our demands
You are the source of life.
Father of all nutrients
The number one universal solvent
So useful you are
Useful in the kitchen
Useful in the bathroom
Where not
Provider of warmth
You are the source of life


Eyitayo Lizzy
Motif: Nature...

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(4-9 beat)
The painter said?
I need rollers and work pants I pled
Paint brushes too
Get my brushes now I say to you
Floor sheet I need
Cover the floor do not use speed
Ladder I plead
Spray can the wall done .Time to drink mead
Solvent,I use
Can't clean brushes without it don't lose
Last coat of paint
You definately get no complaint
Hang plants for sure
Free windows to sunlight I implore
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A glowering patchwork of a man
          Chin like the Yucatan
Edges his oak-soaked way toward me
          Imitating nightmares
Bitter cedar emanating from him
          In cringing solvent snares

On his lips is a fusion of shame
          In cauterising flame
Falling porcelain leaves surround us
          Autumn exudes the past
The fugue of memory no chasm
          Our speech returns at last...

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long ovation to trust,
soft Merigold to musk
lover there uncertain a must
Monopoly game should rust
it started with a shield cut dipper
plain to rescuer a real solvent diipper
in my hand sits a heightened flask,
treasure flask to touch
words to clever there matters  trust
unseen matters will trust

you see me throughout the ivy leaves
Freedom
Freedom shore...
soft decay we beg to pray 
it ought not be that way...

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I hear the music of the night, and as the angels  begin to sigh   
the last ribbons of light fall loose across my path 
God , vigilant illusionist of all times 
as you scry the moon for me tonight, the stars  
align themselves, and the Universe thrums  in solvent time;  
Dios, incarnate flash and glimmer of my soul,  
legionnaire of all mankind, you draw me to your heaven  
as if I were a mere reflection of the stars I see tonight...

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You certainly miss,
Your well when,
The water runs dry.
All of the while,
The water dripped,
And ran.
You didn’t understand,
That water that you
Had was a limited resource,
A universal solvent.
Time went on, 
As a result of,
The earth revolving.
You added heat,
To make the,
Water evaporate.
Now you realize,
That you made, 
A big mistake.
It’s too late.
You certainly,
Don’t miss, 
Your well, 
Until the water,
Runs dry....

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While planning which sermons to miss
the fiction-broker static lies
atop a pine-strewn precipice,
his peristalsis boiling skies.

The tumult teething down beneath
the fiction-broker's solvent sighs
concerns the crumbled ashen wreath,
whose burning so the priest denies.

As lanterns light procession tips
sadistic laughs combine with cries;
the fiction-broker slurps his lips
at thoughts of those he does despise.
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By Mark Raymond Miller © 1/04/2018

Brace into frail wisp sleep
To own fear's blind belief

Undertow foils sunrise break
Through misty green storms

Born of censor fatal shade
Smother sands coil space

Hidden present ready fogs 
Distant past regression

Under sun drenched sky appears 
Matters born unspoken

Covered infants alloy thrown 
Under trapped ice overture

Sounds solvent stricture screams 
From children lost at sea...

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I was solvent.
Inside the exterior.
The boy hanging from the ledge.
Cookies burning in the oven.
I was on that distant planet
With one flashing bar
Of battery left.

And in even then,
Absorbed with love.
A flailing brook
Of grammerless
Languageless
Broadside sea spray.
That one quarter left of pina colada.
A dalliance of dozens and dozens
Of dear loved ones.

As I clung there
Like a distant star 
In commune
With a multiverse of stars.
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My Name is Bill!
The mist clears
Lavender green and lavender grey
Again!
On the menu
Creme caramel.
Honeydew dreams 
I remember from yesterday.
 
If only. If only  I was solvent
Again,
My bed feathered
My dog coiffeured
My wife would gaze at me lovingly.
 
 
But it is cold 
And I  am motherless, friendless,
Wifeless!
On the streets: stone cold.
My rockweiler and my lice as my 
Only company.
 
 
 
* To all the homeless living on the streets....

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"The soul's message is to faithfully now;
And internally worship a solvent God;
Hearts desires;
Liken bosoms flowers;
To grow beautiful; 
With the sweet nectar for God's nose nevertheless;
Effortless growing deepening the pedals part while rising;
 fluently frequently flavorful in embracing God's heart;
O' alas so we see;
a soul is just nectar for God's spiritual honey bees;"

7/23/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Loneliness
 Happy desolation passion
 Vexed my mind and soul 
I was lovesick a  longing storm
 Depressed
 and stirred sorrow
 Darkness borrowed
 Marvel Melancholy Unholy
 My hardship quiet 
By myself solvent and then the thickening I stood alone no One here so desolate no one cares I'm upset I'm a single Breath yet I'm in that 
quiet distressed Restless all onslaught 


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   loneliness


Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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Colorless water,
makes our life colorful.
It covers seventy percent of our body,
makes body strong and  workable.
It’s a universal solvent,
capable to dissolve more substances than any other liquid.

Without water 
future can’t be expected.
We need to conserve it as seen the misuse by the bodies.
It’s time to think,
for the purity of the soul, which is within you.
It's time to realize,
for the betterment of the future.

conserve water, save life 
save the world within we lie....

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she was about thirty,Thai, with long shiny black hair
and a body to die for: and I built her mother a house
and we walked together in the rice fields but it wasn't 
enough for her and she asked me to buy a four wheel 
Toyota to "take the family around"

and I thought a while about my shrinking balance 
and growing libido,and a friend said, "cut your losses",
so I finished it, and I was free and solvent and the Toyota 
four wheel became her dream again

(but I must have been crazy)...

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