Short Transverse Poems

Adverse.
Converse?
Perverse!
Transverse universe....

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A big butt is my sister’s curse 
Her landmark is legend of verse
Small minds would unwrap
As sun it would sap
Her clothes need a map to transverse...

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Cool thoughts plopped into
moving waves of uneven
motions transverse beam

( I've never been to Tasmania but a photograph of the sea water inside the cave inspired me to write a haiku. )...

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The only time I am truly honest,
—is in verse

The only time I clearly hear his voice,
—is in rhyme

The only time my salvation appears,
—to transverse

The only time my heart really bleeds,
—so sublime

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)...

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It’s a great day,
Just you and me,
The Sun I can see,
But you’re in the way!
 
I have lots to say,
Places I need to be,
Like the roaring sea,
But it’s turned to clay!
 
We walk and we sing.
With jumps and skips,
With the joy we bring,
But we are two ships.
 
It’s all transverse,
In a parallel universe!...

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my life, could i chew it out.
so i can forget the cuds of the ghostly,
the deadly and happy,
dome and my home, dad pray i roam,
the inexhaustible labels of it fall,
my name plastered on the wall, think i but none
many took me fun, in my toddled ninny,
all i do is forget the transverse to my God i canvass....

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Scared the life out of me
is a weird expression
what does the life leave
and is the me not my life
but anyways
what if there are other ways
charmed the life out of me kinda works
so does cried
most emotions that i have tried
lie the life out of me
has a darker side
but the transverse
makes me smile
Lived the scare out of me...

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Man like to travel
From one corner to another corner of the earth 
Transverse the longitudes and the latitudes
Similar to an ant
Wondering when can he finish the mission
But 
He may travel in books, in movies 
By internet, by study ecchange plan
By communicating with people from other parts of the world
With reading
Man even travei in history and space...

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“Time is money”
“Time heals all wounds”
“Time is what you make of it”

Truth, somewhere in the ticking
corridors we daily and nightly
transverse (Poe said brightly
and dimly dreaming) -- ticking echoes of
walls man does not see beyond
without visual aids of Faith...death 
the sign of exit.  

Time is a game of Hide-n-Seek.

Life may not be the only conscious
player…....

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I ponder if I have said
most of what I have
to say; for no one seems 
to go on when lacking 
purpose – 

and true poets,
like their words
their breadth,
their width.
their height,
their depth
are nearer their
Source of being – 

each syllable
a heartbeat...

every phrase
a Soul's incarnate
journey – 

we compose our ships

to transverse 
chapters of 
uncharted
imagination –...

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What is a soul, this universal Source;
which crosses cultures?
Few among us will deny least forced
the existence, the Sculptor.

Is soul the essence of minds eye;
or, the one true reality mind denies?

What is a soul, a precious gift or curse;
which crosses scriptures?
Ego’s sole vessel to transverse;
the Work in progress, conjures?

Is soul the essence mind denies;
or true vision of celestial , I....

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Boys whose, curlews virtues
my, my, my
And girls superb views
Transverse views virtues
Firms whose diverse views
Oh, no
Term used to sell venues
Pay dues to entrepreneurs whose of work crews
…defuse
What do you know, Oh, my
Clerks whose payments of church dues
Not nearly a down payment on those church pews
Now you see
Wooh is Me

9/14/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©...

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We are as much mind
as we are body – 

I have run with the wolf...

Flown as an eagle...

As much as how and what
we feel, we are what we
breathe into our thoughts – 

Airs are all around us – 

A universe to transverse...

The only distances too great are
the limits we put on imagination
and our will to succeed – 

Man is incapable of thought
that already does not have
a solution... We are what we
dream.......

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the soul's amber light filters the depth of darkness
shining a thread woven into the stillness of time
it is there where we met, in a universe long forgotten
merging with the peace of a dawn breaking
I've known you in worlds passing,
before I cried in a new birth
when the spirit rolled like thunder, needing to be heard
you are the emptiness I feel until we meet in every journey
where we transverse the arc of time, once again...

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Before each new glory
is a mountain to summit;

a sea to transverse – 

a valley floor needing
lifting...thus expanding
our horizons, revealing
greater arcs of Light: 

When at our best, we are
priests; warring against
dark, willing from the formless
spiritual clarity – when at our
worst, we are the back-and-forth 
egg vs chicken – his crossing of
the road...our retracing footsteps,
forever unresolved 
without a God....

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They take tiny steady steps,
Harmless little creatures,
Unperturbed in their countenance,
Peaceful in their gathering,
They hop flapping their wings,
Celebrating one another,
Making joyful felicitations, 
Who will these amiable creatures harm?
Or who would want to do them any harm?
For they gladden the heart,
They bring sunshine to gloomy moments,
They soon take flight,
They transverse the sky.




September 27, 2022....

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