Short Thirty Nine Poems

This cast encircles
your leg how I hope my love
embraces your soul...

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New study shows: The teen-aged brain is not fully formed 'til thirty-nine...

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You look at me like you’re happy;
Happy as I am to be sitting here
right next to you ....

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Scratched, though a perfect match
To the scuffed, cabinet at home
Cost only thirty nine dollars
Well worth that price, to help organize our chaos....

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Jesus
W h i p p e d
Thirty-nine

Jesus
C r o w n ed
Thorns

Jesus
N a i l e d
Cross

Jesus
F o r s a k e n
Son

Sara
F o r g i v e n
Sin  

Isaiah 53:1-5...

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Thirty nine reasons,
to say no,

none to say yes,

as yet I do say yes,

I still do not see why I did,
say yes,
but that I did,
has to be defended,
and kept.

help me bury each one of those,
thity nine,

that I had raised,
neat,deep and fast,
as if they never did exist....

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The subject was dropped, but when Billy went out on the next run I 
was with him.  And sure enough, there was number thirty-nine proudly showing 
off her precious little boy. Billy just shook his head and shrugged his shoulders.
	Oh how I love spring!  The renewal of life and memories....

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(Dedicated to Anna Nicole Smith who died February 8, 2007.)

You were blond, beautiful and busty too.
You were very young and America misses you.
You were exactly the same age as my brother.
The news of your death shocked everybody, especially my mother.
People loved watching your show.
You were only thirty-nine and that's too young to go....

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I open up my piggy bank
I bust it open with a hammer
and as I take out the change I count out...

27-pennies

fourteen dollars in quarters

35-nickles

361-pennies

Twenty dollars in dimes

took it all the bank change totaled out to be...
thirty-nine dollars and sixty-three cents


3/24/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2018©...

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She was nine
swinging with prayers
but when nineteen 
found her
she had left
the playground 
far behind
only to return
with a new recruit 


at twenty nine
she forgot how to pray
as she lived in delusions
that drooled on the windowsill
framing a nightmare 


at thirty nine
she rediscovered 
the prayer of life
that was always within 


shes forty now
playing in the elements
and swinging poems off stars...

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As morning washed over me I took a moment, a thought, time...
a child who was no more then a burden now thirty-nine,
never once did I take the easy way, she knew it wasn't me
son off to college,my baby now 13, dose she see?
I found true love, a wonderful wife, and planted my tree
I washed away my sins took what life gave me and let it be,
happy and humbled loved and looked to some one I want to be,
now theres no here to say there proud of me....

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It`s just a little flower
painted red and green
it reminds us of our Veterans
both the living and the dead

In the year of thirty nine
young men went off to war
some of them came back
others will return no more

These young mengave their lives
so freedom they coud save
now they`re buried over there
in the unknown soldiers grave

it is now november and 
thoughts they turn to snow
but lets remember Flanders Fields
wher the poppies grow...

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WORLD WAR THREE

Eleven, eleven, eleven eighteen.
The end of “the war to end them all.”
O1, 09 of thirty nine.
It hadn’t ended all wars at all.

Now eighty years have passed us by
And every day there has been another,
As someone, somewhere has found an excuse
To fight for one cause or another.

And, if there should be a world war three,
That will certainly end all wars.
Because there will be no-one left
To stand up and fight for any cause....

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Other women are fun to shop with.
Not that I would be caught in a store on Black Friday.
I have not done that for over forty years.

But I only shop with a woman if I can help it
Because they know …..
when you enter a store together,
you LEAVE the store together

Neither of you buy a newspaper and a donut
and mosey out to sit and wait in the car

while your wife looks frantically up and down the aisles
for thirty-nine minutes, wondering if you have been abducted....

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The Flood
by Rick Rucker

It's rained so many days, that I've lost count,
I really should know the amount!

The figure might be thirty nine,
Some Sunshine would sure be Divine!

Down the street, a guy is building a boat with many stairs,
And the animals, all in pairs!

And he said that he's forlorn, 
He couldn't find no unicorn!

I went down, and talked to him,
He asked me, how long can I swim!

I'll check the weather 'cast,
Sure hope this rain won't last!...

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