Short Tercet Poems
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Lightning illuminates a tornado
A double image of furiousness
Primal
Diddeaux O tercet
for Debbie Guzzi Haiku Wannabee
She gave from the garden tended with care
He gave his time was little to spare
They gave thanks for all they could share
We were born on the downside of everything
Opened our bright eyes to ruin and rot
Fresh coal to stoke the coming hellfire
In whispered winds, the world grows still,
beneath the moon, a quiet thrill,
where time is lost, and hearts stand still.
Blank empty pages stare at me
as my words pour and drip like red blood
in my tattered yellowing journal to wait, wait
Born feline and left forever free to run;
Try but they’ll never be domesticated;
Feral life filled with unequivocal absolution.
An angel wrote with a golden pen in the marble book of fate.
The ink she used were the tears of men;
The words she wrote: Too late!
indigo echoes unravel the equinox air,
a lone key glints where daylight thins,
guiding you toward the quiet that waits..
Some Fallen quest on sunbeams
The eastern winds steer them all home
They reconcile upon warm sand
How can I be mistaken
Eaten as a mis guile piglet
When I embellish bacon
8/21/26
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2026© Tercet
I want to talk to you like lovers do
I want to dance in the rain in Gene Kelly’s shoes
It’s my birthday but all I really want is your presence
He likened death to sleep
Safe in God's memory keep
While those without hope weep
2/11/2020
F F I series 72 tercet
Brian Strand, sponsor
Everyone hates harassment; but some take the risk.
Let's hear applause for heroic, valiant voices
who are not afraid to step up and speak the truth.
A small stream gurgles,
a cool brook babbles,
the river meanders along.
The sea waves crash,
the universe whispers,
it’s all part of nature’s song.
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winter’s breath still lingers here,
February whispers soft and clean,
hope ignites as spring draws near.
We've read of Hendrix, Joplin and Morrison and thereof
I want to introduce you to the Green Bay Packers 27 club
Of Starr, Favre, Rodgers and (tentatively) Love
GLOBAL VILLAGE
Look,Look,I want some of that over there
IMMIGRATION
Too late,the stable door was left open
HUMAN RIGHTS
It's always about mine,yours do not count
Cracked lips and dry skin
Why does the winter treat me,
Like a corpse long dead on ice?
Perhaps not for hate
But trying to save my life
Seeing me through until spring
I hate it when a flea
takes a liking to me
and keeps darting in front of my eyes.
I try swatting it away,
but she thinks it's play,
and so keeps it up - till she dies.
The flowers, the flowers
Will bloom in three hours
I really don't want to wait.
The flowers will bloom,
If i may assume,
If they don't bloom too late.
Oh, that I might
fly like a kite
in a sky with clouds a-swirling.
It would be such a great joy
for any young boy,
especially if he had thunderbolts he could be hurling.
Three ubiquitous English words known throughout the planet
Coca Cola, Titanic and God, they did not make the Dolch set
Have faith, hope and charity because this is how I end my tercet
dawn drifts in on soft gold,
gathering gratitude in its glow,
holding the moment still.
memory stirs like warm wind,
carrying whispers of wonder,
holding the moment still.
WHOLESOME ONEDERFUL GLORY
Wholesomely we wander with worthy
warming wisdom;
Our onederful oneness overcoming
oxymoronic odds:-
God’s great gleaming glory glooming;
greatness generated:-
I’ve fewer days ahead of me
than those I have been blessed to see.
Time moves along so rapidly.
God still has plans for me, I know.
He’s guiding me as to and fro
I move through life with goals in tow.