Short Stamps Poems

Was it always better?
Before emails, we wrote letters,
Always had stamps and envelopes,
 Before computers, we did cope....

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Coins and watches 
keychains 
old newspaper clippings 
Necklaces and chains 
stamps 
baseballs cards and old pictures 
all thrown into one...

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fiddler speeds music up
dancers are getting dizzy
crowd claps and stamps
you are in hillbilly country now
make some noise if you want to live
bluegrass is real here...

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There once was a short man from New Haven
with collection of stamps he’d been sav’en
He put out on display
Neighbor's goat came his way
and chewed up stamps with much misbehav’en...

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My Jimmy Hendrix stamps
        are colorful.
They are not mine, for I cannot
        buy them,
but I will use them
        in my mind
        just the same
Whenever I wish to make things
groovy....

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Time could be afforded,
There was no guilt,
Opportunities other than
Thirty dollars-worth of stamps – 
For two, ninety-five
Could be found on the inside cover
Of match books…
And fun meant more than mutual drunkenness....

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Postage rates were rising;
we didn't mind one bit.
We used a bit of buck sense
and slid right in the groove.

We bought lots of forever 
stamps and didn't take the hit
and Uncle Sam went wanting
when push came to shove....

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It's time to cut the grass;
And along the beaten path;
~
a whirling blade of brass;
Metal touching Nature's staff;
~
Wayward stamps a bluegrass;

4/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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The night mare blows
and stamps a hoof
A shiver shakes inside
She tosses head and arches neck
So instant terrified
A step and mount
A fearful wreck
For yet another ride
Of constant pain
with useless rein
The bit is bitten through
Again...

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Let your words pile up
like laundry on the floor;
don't sweep crumbs of thought onto a page
I won't read the letters anymore.

Don't calligraphy your love
hoping I will break;
peel the stamps off your envelopes,
Your letters I won't take....

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Borborgymic and gurgling,
he tried to go a-burgling,
but when he snagged the diamond ring,
his eructations stole the day.

So now he watches seminars;
he's learning how to play guitar.
He even hums a couple bars,
stamps license plates for play....

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Passion fish and apple dots and gold stamps kissing mountain tops.
Wood deserts and cat tail suits and flowers licking parachutes.
Marble caves and lemonade, I think I'll join the light brigade.
Candle mice are twice as nice as gold fish orange twining....

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‘Princess’
in mess

Flicks hair -
Beware

Bad mood
Is rude

She whines
At times

She pouts
And shouts

Mummy … 
DUMMY!!!!!!!!!!

Stamps feet
Retreat!

Can clout –
Watch out!

Prissy 
Missy

Spoilt brat –
Hate that!

5th June 2015...

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Bring me back , not to the past, 
but present oracles  done and sung
come now, gardenias
parade among giant trees 
while torchbearers gather to kneel
upon the ground that stamps
this mad maiden’s feet.


Spring, I yearn for your touch,
be gentle, if you please....

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She stamps her feet and whistles loud.
She will not be ignored.
Starting her reign, mighty and proud.
By most of us, not adored,
Though by her theatrics, we will not be bored.





for nettes "Personification of January" contest
 by Francine Roberts    02/01/2012...

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Cronkite did the talking.
Nixon started walking.
Through the rabbit's ears 
we saw it all.
Windows down by cranking.
Kids still got a spanking.
Food stamps were on paper
not on cards.
Pryor told the jokes.
Everybody smoked.
Man things were different
way back then....

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The greatest skill a writer learns
Is licking stamps on envelopes, 
And what goes out, too soon returns:
A boomerang of battered hopes.

Revise, rewrite, submit once more,
Until your tongue is dry
From posting manuscripts that bore
The editors who (won’t/can’t) say why....

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Poise wears a voice
Soul utters choice


Style prompts a smile
Soul stamps firm pile


Seed grows a need
Soul fronts sure feed


Plain words heap gains
Soul reaps clear strains


Stake joy that makes
Soul strings calm take




Leon Enriquez
19 January 2015
Singapore...

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Giant elephants 






Flappy ears, Ivory tusks and long trunk,
Huge elephant swirls and boom,
Cheerful, royal as a drunken chunk,
As he trumpets, stamps feet, vanishes the gloom,
Now try putting him in the room !





Written Sept 3rd, 2015
Sponsor- Nathan D
Contest- giant animals 

Awarded HM...

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Just when the quick peruse
Turns obtuse
Thereby roundly refused
That noose for an excuse

We made the day quake with paper
Gracious allowance
By overwriting the undercurrent
Betting down for stamps in the sky

The commander brands his mule
Make the work horse a tuning fork
And finance a forgotten tomb
The evidence of genealogy...

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My blue topaz ring dances as the keys are punched
Ruby ring gets jealous and stamps some U's and I's of her own
Do they also have minds? If so, is it a dual mind?
I ponder my hands as they get busy
Typing yet another poem
I did not authorize or expect
They probably laugh at me at night
While I sleep and they continue dancing...

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Long legs travel faster
                   Incendiary post:
                 Checkered past,
               Knocked up.
             Eager ears!
            Tell me more!
          Yodel across the valley...

        Soap box
      Platform.
    Lick more stamps!
  In conclusion, gossip
Travels lickety-split!

4/6/2018...

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Inconsistant and Persistant

Many companies appear to be inconsistent;
Higher ups do have great wages persistent;
Have thrills,
Paying bills;
Equally spread wages around  are resistant.

Jim Horn

Listening to MSNBC and how employees 
of certain companies are on food stamps.

You have assonance and should have reasonance....

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Bag filled with books
eyes filled with tears
passport full of stamps
soul full of scars
Another journey begins anew
from pieces of heart left with a few hearts
I went to the place where I once knew her
she was with same smiles and joy belonging to someone new
So I turned back home in void of heart
To another journey anew

-Ravi...

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With an array of foreign stamps 
send me a postcard message please;
Take me through those vibrant cities!
Let me see all the rustic camps,
stories of long hikes and leg cramps;
Don't leave out forest oddities!
With an array
of antiquated outdoor lamps 
brighten a dark dead of night breeze;
Show me scenery that revamps
with an array....

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