Short Touche Poems

VERS LIBRE

Born free

maybe?

ARGUEMENT

touche

word play...

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Death wanders through
                      counting coup
                                   on life's moments...

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small curved hills on face
                                             one touches another
                                            while we talk eat kiss...

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Days grow longer, memories grow shorter
How can I become a memory hoarder
It's important to know
To wear clothes in the snow
 “Aussi, ne touche pas” your best friend's daughter...

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Tap, rack, bang
It's too late
The gun jammed

Wait

Take my aim
Breathe out flames
You are damned

Prey

You're no mate
You're a saint
Use your hands

Pray

I am fake
You create
For your sake...

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I rested thought, 
letting it drift, 
willy nilly,
like a dry leaf floating imponderous.
Felt my heart. 
murmur its seance,
tapping my conscience,
to bleed
true regrets. 
in mantras of 
taut touche touches....

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Wonder what reflection sees
when it looks at me
Cut down every tree looking 
for the forest
Set myself on fire
to stop myself from feeling
My next stupid line 
will follow this
Missing the self
i have never been
living with my unheard scream....

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I hate when someone says I snore
And then I hate it even more
When it is said with mirth and glee
To poke a little fun at me.

We can’t control our sleeping sounds
So ridicule is out of bounds
And that is why I should not tell
My husband that he snores as well!...

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Flaws and foibles, dents and blots, 
all viewed as quirky, cute and nice,  
are mere trifles, that makes us lovable.

How quickly the tide can change,
when sensibilities, foil those foibles
into scruples, qualms, faults and vice,
up-welling into wellsprings 
of misery and strife....

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Brandywine, so warm and tender,
lends me a touch of pleasure.
veins like ivy, beautiful and green—
love an elixir of tranquility.

Vin de cognac, si chaud et tendre,
me donne une touche de plaisir.
des veines comme le lierre, belles et vertes—
aimer un élixir de tranquillité.

9/21/2021...

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Tantalise my taste buds with the taste of you
Oozily snuggle up, so I can feel your warm compliance
Utter sweet nothings in my ear, which hears only you
Cup my hands within yours so I can feel your pulse
Herald our love with bonded eyes, that cannot stop looking at each other

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27 July 2017...

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There's tom, turning turgid today.  Tenderness to the thought tabulator.  Terrible 
torture today, take that to tinsel town!  Twords turn this turkey to  tom's torrid tale 
telling true torch tunes.  Take two tylenol, turn toothsome televivion teleplay to 
tomorrow's tomography, twice told tales tell the truth. Touche'!!
(told ya I iz nutz!)...

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I thought i knew what I wanted
But so I was wrong, it's something different
My heart hides from he surest of faces
Thinking its fear of getting hurt again
Now i know that was only half
Of what I feared haunted
My mind, thoughts, and dreams
These words, you'll find, are true
Son coeur es un luth suspendo:
Sitot qu'on le touche ill resonne...

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Touche 
Whatever however whenever what comes my way;
I don't care
I am not aware
Although you stand in front of me all bloody and unseemingly
This ain't real
It's not here
I don't care
This is rare
It ain't real you're acting so unbehaved
Que Sera Sera
Who cares
Touche


8/5/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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Loin d’ici

Quand votre cœur est perdu
Lorsque votre âme est noyée
Tout
Est loin d'ici

Quand la chanson est perdue
Lorsque la mélodie pleure
Les yeux perdus regardent le ciel
Vous vous sentez, une mort froide

Loin d’ici
À la recherche du paradis
Tous les rêves sont morts
Comme moi, morte

Mon cœur
Est toujours loin

Loin d'ici
Où le froid me touche

Loin d'ici



		Avec toi...

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Been a little
Seen a little
Dreamed a little
Cradled a little
Cried a little 
Loved a little
Lost a little 
Been bitten a little
Bought a little
Sold very little
Been happy a little
Been sad a little 
Felt pain a little
Joy a little
Been belittled 

But rarely of late
Say
Little meaningful 
Or
Nothing little 

Consequential at all

When little matters 
Most of all 

" Touche "...

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I see a clearing
It's big enough to land in
The grass is short
No rocks or bumps
It's all clear for landing

My heart beats in panic
Tears of sweat run down my face
Fear grips my body
In expectant embrace

The engine splutters and coughs
Bangs erupt from broken wings
I hear my own screams

The smoke is acrid in flared nostrils
My flesh burning, stinks

Ah! I savour a touchdown, touche!...

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She struggles with a pen
She is castrated man
Your manic, damned nightmare
She's a dickless sychophant
Overgeneralize
You've fallen for a lie
You're so hopelessly blind
She wields you as a knife
She will cut herself open
She will make you stay, watch it
She will do it again
As long as you're her man
You are not her boyfriend
You are not her husband
She is not your savior
Save your prayers later
You will cut yourself open
But she will not stay, watch it...

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" ...betrayal begins with trust." Quote_ Phish  

Betrayal is the cold shiny sword
of stalking deception,
sheathed in scabbard of trust.
Its two-edged blade is 
honed to razor sharp,
ready to thrust, lunge and parry
a touche touch.

Betrayal is two-faced
and unreliable.
There's a switch blade in
the hand that reaches out
trustingly and faithfully
for more of you.

So as trust grows,
beware that it sows
the seeds of scorns 
in the thorns
of treachery
and bribery....

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