Short Starters Poems

Ranged rain,
Clearing to starters day,
Long waited shafts and  open slots,
Near mergents of lines....

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Just for starters a chocolate ice
with Vanilla fudge,a penny a slice!
quick,it's going at half-price....

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The hotel in Ibiza offered fruit, 
For starters and for dessert,
So I had it both times each day, 
And never did then revert....

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Birds wake with the dawn
Early starters in the light
With license to sing
They mingle mirth by themselves
Wind and wings hum as mute elves...

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Listen to poem:

Foolproof recipe faux fudge

Who wants to be called
foolish even for starters?
Every dummkopf can read!
Proof is recipe's enunciation!...

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When Moses parted the waters
The mud squished up to his garters
So a crocodile said,
"If you'd rather be dead
Then guess where I'll chomp for starters!"...

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If I had a status msg,
This is wat it'd b.
"Writ'n a book of poems,
Dedicated to Ms. D"
What will I put n it?
For starters there's FD
And many others on here,
But only time will T....

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We saw here when she had been singing, 
While playing and happiness was bringing; 
Beside field and beautiful flowers were seen, 
And soft straw did drift with grass so green.


For starters....

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It's amazing cars now have “remote starters”
As long as they don't drive off in a premature departure
Hey wait! You ding-a-ling
Independent damn thing
Next we'll be given tickets by remote coppers...

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It's amazing... cars now have “remote starters”
As long as they don't drive off in a premature departure
Hey wait! You ding-a-ling
Independent damn thing
We'll soon be given tickets by remote coppers...

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It's amazing... cars now have “remote starters”
As long as they don't drive off in a premature departure
Hey wait! You ding-a-ling
Independent damn thing
We'll soon be given tickets by remote coppers...

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It's amazing... cars now have “remote starters”
As long as they don't drive off in a premature departure
Hey, wait! You ding-a-lings
Independent damn things
We'll soon be given tickets by remote control coppers...

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A thorn in the flesh of the green, green grass
Between the line painted straight,
And sometimes bended.

The reek of the starters gun so black
The bulge of the rippling calves, sometimes slack,
As spikes rip through the blades
Of turf so lovingly tended....

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Fresh starters for the new year,
A new goal for a new month,
Markers for a day.

The poet's calendar, 
A door to a new timeline,
Planning versus life's hurdles.

Vicissitudes and mysteries,
Tomorrow's questions,
Dawn harbingers what we see.


January 4, 2023....

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Salvage yards hand me down
 throttle starters transmission brawls 
Clutch drive spent wheels ravages 
Four-wheel drive, five-speed Savages, 
all this going on in the Salvage junkyard tow yard
Just 500 feet from the freeway?

2/21/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2022©...

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And They’re Off

His words
worn sneakers soundlessly
pound the parchment
of life
leaving faint imprint
on passing
flowing
in seemingly effortless
struggle
lost
in the acrid fury
of the starters
pistol.



©12/20/2018

2019 Poetry Marathon Mile 1 Poetry Contest
Mark Toney sponsor...

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It is the closer’s job to shut the door.
We don’t want the other team to score.
Relief pitchers take over where the starters depart.
When assuming this role, relievers need a lot of heart.
In the last inning, get them out one, two, three.
It feels so much better to leave town with a victory.
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Here I am

On the brink of greatness

Unable to take the first step

Here I am

Standing on the shoulders of giants

A legacy passed on by baton

Here I am

Anxious to hear the starters gun

Deafened instead by the silence

Here I am

A race of slave workers

Who built an empire

Here I am

Climbing out that valley

To that mountain top...

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I love my third hand iPad
We have a lot in common
It can't handle updates for starters
Anything after 2013
Right after I turned 40
What you see is what you get
It's happy to be connected
Mid sentence looking something up
It will forget everything
When asked to do anything
It's sometimes just too much 
And it shuts down

It has a few dents too...

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Christmas brings all kinds of things
Happiness for starters and Christmas bells
Ringing loud make us want to sing
It also brings great smells
Smells of pumpkin, cinnamon and spice;
Turkey, rolls, corn pudding, dressing done so well
Most of all this birthday of a child; Jesus Christ
And what it means to believe in him; we’ll tell
Stories of his life.

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Right from the starters the dinner looked sumptuous 
Lovely taste and variety 
An attractive look covered all the food 
Smell was tempting tidy
It was totally mouth watering 
Of sheer flawless splendor 
Wonderfully cooked
Of a higher class
Eating hurriedly to finish everything
Spellbound feelings 
Suddenly;
Removing the rubbish from the eyes
While opening eye gates 
To see my wife 
Standing with a cup of tea 
Saying good morning?...

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For starters I'll order the tripe
Wrapped in dark blue plums, just ripe
Painted with a bright red-white stripe
Dabbed with green spots from icing-bag pipe

Next, I'll have the fish, grilled just right
Flambéed with whiskey set alight
On a bed of cockles, shut up tight
Wrapped in seaweed. What a sight!

For sweets I'd like the chocolate mousse
With eggs, cream and bitter lime juice
All gooey and creamy, sure to seduce
My cravings for sugar and a cup of Seuss...

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Love's forlorn curt sojourn, forsaken when shaken
By trifle of qualms, charms and alarms
Withers on vine, no fruit to crush into wine
Besotted by starters, but becalmed when main course falters
How often love's hors d'oeuvres flop and scuttle main course and sweet dessert
The seeds of like, first sight thrill, and eye to eye sparkle and interplay
Sprout too fast and wilt in the light of day, 
Spurned shoots thrown down the gauntlet, deflate, die and get flushed away....

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Life is up,
Life is down,
Sometimes you get dropped on,
But we turn it around,

Keep your head up,
Because we all fall,
But your heart,
Will keep you a guide,

From now until our days are our,
Friends comd and go,
But you can only control yourself,

Life goes on,
As I say,
At times while it's junk,
But you still have friends like me,

To hopefully make you smile,
And to see it shine,
Their are ones that love you,
As of me for starters,

As it will be so divine......

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Click-clack the sound of the ref’s shoes hit the floor 
Tick-tock the clock starts 
The coach closes the swinging door
The team parts 
With the starters on the court
The crowd ceases to chatter
The team claps in support
For the team and the game that matter
Players slammed the ball down 
And hit the ball up in the air
Not one girl had a frown 
Never had there 
been more effort for that win 
wows and yays erupted from all 
Everyone had a grin 
For the game they would always recall...

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