Short Sorely Poems

The battered rose lay, 
sorely strewn upon the earth, 
as lifeless beauty...

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always stay like this
with God there is love and bliss
His Son sorely miss






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Suits actress Meghan Markle
Dreamy eyes glisten and sparkle
Ex-princess and activist
Quiet Rachel sorely missed...

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Beauty is an empty premise
  Whose truth is sorely tested
Valor's bell chimes crystal clear
  In quiet heroes is it nested...

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Saint Paddy’s Day came and it went.
A gastronomical event.
	the food was spot on,
	my arteries groan
I’m sorely in need of a stent!...

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sorely ludacris
 optimistic rage
 as her purse open in the rain
distain
uncovered head
hair composed of lots and dreads

Purposeful 
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We spent years laughing,
playing, touching, loving-
then
you stole my sunsets.

I remember the color leaving.
and 
miss it sorely.

please return my sunsets....

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The fire’s been out for the longest time,
there’s nothing left but ashes

A pathway scorched, escape route torched
—where light now sorely passes

(The New Room: March, 2021)...

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An alien snatched my wife one strange night,
To planet Speed, they took her in flight.
But the alien confessed,
She'd been sorely unimpressed,
So back home, he returned her, contrite....

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You can only hope
that death provides
what’s sorely lacking
what life denies

You can only hope
that death will bring
the end of Winter
— unending Spring

(The New Room: December, 2024)
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Torn from the moment,
each page sorely ragged
whose ink has long faded
but memory bound

The story is telling,
its magic eternal
inside it awaits us
—a treasure unfound

(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)...

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Sorely drawn to you
  The presents of something stills
Promptly my hearts beats
  In alignment wit 
Yours spirit hearts beat breath


9/19/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Whippoorwill jumping jack
Putting daisies pretty
A lonesome road
A one-eyed toad
Painting butterfly city.

Monkey magic is tack.
Bright moonbeam sorely gone.
Upside down me.
Where is your fee?
Whippoorwill jumping fawn....

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Rain whispers wind against my cheeks
Softly promising Summer secretly
An early taste of April awakenings
The maple has dripped a puddle of sap
To add color to the damp driveway
I am sorely tempted to stand under it
In openmouthed pleasure...

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Trying to write a lyric
my words reduce to verse
The euphony escaping me
adrift as I converse

Though joy is sorely tempered
these letters soldier on
In hope of just one melody
—in hope of just one song

(Bryn Mawr College: September, 2023)...

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Once alive physical comprehended
Hurt sorely missed not understanding this
No longer submission physically
Available miss you ever-so, bye





     -beloved you've evolve




6/14/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Wary of right causes
needing less courage
than the wrong ones
Fate shunning reason
when true glory
comes to light

Humans get killed
but humanity
sorely lingers
The measure of intention 
what is written
— and retained

(To Lord Alfred: June, 2024) 
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worn-out dreams and briny tears
 
hung upon the moon
 
sorely borne from long-held fears
 
they lit the night of June
 
with silvered light of sour notes
 
that echoed from her soul
 
and fell as rain to lie in moats
 
around the life he stole...

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openly harpy
 and rabbit hippity-hop
runs amok sorely
~
hopping through summer 
heat basting trying to find
 relief from Sumner
~
harpy unfolds his 
wings open up his hands and 
takes to rabbit patch

6/16/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2022©...

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Scorching heat fires my body;
Under the sun I have nobody,
Missing a soul that I adore;
Make him come to my open door.
Everyone loves the summer sun
Resonates of kids having fun;
Riveting, exhilarating.
Alas, I am sorely missing
In this undulating terrain;
Not a drop of summer rain....

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The US must generate jobs
And Petroleum Inc. wants mobs
Of workers to toil
Mining more gas and oil
But from the green future this robs

Is drilling the place to invest?
Can fossil fuel use still attest
To progress desired?
The car culture it sired
Drives Earth to a state sorely stressed...

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Blowing a  Kiss 

When irksome day, off tangles, comes unstuck
As  the  sun, behind a blushing sea, ducks 
Thoughts  of you I sorely miss
Pep  me up to blow this kiss
To find you stooping , a red rose, to pluck.



S.Jagathsimhan Nair
For: PD's 'Any rose' Contest

4th Aug 12...

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White chevron squadrons usher in spring
With squawking and honking and flapping of wings.
Their return brings a weekend to revel in fun.
The locals all love it, and hundreds more come!
But the poor migrant snow goose must be sorely perplexed;
Revered on one weekend, then slaughtered the next!...

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I go to the gym most every day,
  my fountain pen in hand

My curls and dips move line to line,
  I press as words expand

My repetition sorely felt,
  more weight I need command

And through these veins my prose will flow,
  —verse flexing on demand

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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That perfect moment.
Quintessential  moment in time
Vibes in exquisite harmony
The planets all aligned


Eyes that glow
Senses heightened
Feelings flow
Mind enlightened

So rarely felt …so sorely missed
So primal and so  potent
Evanescent as morning mist
…elusive perfect moment…


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