Short Trappings Poems

Finest woven trappings of silk thread
Along her path he shouldn’t tread...

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The
tinsel
trappings
of poetic
pride
too often
inhabit
forms tested and
tried
and
leave truth
abandoned -
with nowhere to
hide...

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The
tinsel
trappings
of poetic
pride
too often
inhabit
forms tested and
tried
and
leave truth
abandoned -
with nowhere to
hide...

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It’s not what you put on
  but what you take off

Each trapping a hangman
  —and choking its cost

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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Anxious to be my Huckle bearer
Of my last breath wishful ensnarer 
Anxious for my ultimate demise
So to my earthly trappings burglarize 
Dishonest wife stealing philanderer
...

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overworked cog in capitalism’s ever-quickening pace 
bastard son of middle class
dressed in proper trappings
yet blinded 
by economy’s firestorm
little chance to tie my proper shoes....

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Trappings..

These are the persuaders 

For the reign of separation..

Trappings appear

As words and stories

Memories and plans

Which are called home..

A home built on endless

Trappings.....

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The trappings of
a Poet …
or being a Poet 
They’re each something
different
remote and distinct
The tweed jacket
wood paneled
image deceiver
Lays claim to what
only
—enlightenment inks

(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)
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Built for Better



we're failing to fit in with

this world's standards



but truthfully we

were never meant to



because we're built

for such finer things



and not by those

worldly trappings



10-1-09...

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There was a time
I can attest
A window to the future

Joy was there 
As many others
Happiness came as her tutor

As we jumped 
In and out
Our hearts all a flutter 

What did we find
But the trappings of time
We had landed betwixt each other...

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Trappings of femininity
Cagey breasts, Alexandrian perfume
An act of seduction
Not stupid in blunt fingernails
Painted rose a caressing owl
Scratches blood and snatches wallet
In crafty hands Love towels roll
clod in time my flesh intersects
the heat, boot and crawling insects....

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Wisps of Sanity
Like gossamer filmy wings
Fluttering on my face
Cannot be touched or they will fall to ruin
Fighting to keep up so I can feel
The soothing graze of normalcy
Running, face thrust upward
Pushing against trappings of the truth
Losing the fervid feeling by the moment
Knowing it will quit me soon....

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Mama if I'd known you're gonna die
I would have done, better
Daddy if I'd known that you would have cry
I would have done better
and now I'm so sorry, sorry I've did obeyed
As my minds trappings parlayed
I would have done better
If I had known


4/24/18
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
Copyright © 2018...

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land of midnight sun                                                                                                                                                          having drinks with a grizzly                                                                                                    my bearings are off...

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With flowing robes,
pungent herbs,
arching doors,
organic walls, 
and eerie lights,
you take on trappings
of one thought evil.
Yet in you beats
an open heart—
one always skirting
curdled customs,
sterile allegiances,
trivial tyrannies—
one ever seeking
reunions with roots,
transforming spaces,
raw possibilities....

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Trappings

Smoky bars
are my den of iniquity
not social
filled glasses
with conversational 
immunity.

Stinky fumes
as my frequent
rolled papers
with cancer
And desperation
lament.

These smoky bars
are just the bees
in fact
you can walk right through them
if you please
but never passed
least not with ease....

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Once one's dreaming of gleaming things
becomes a screaming game of scheming 

Acquisition, that becomes obsession
calls the truest passion into question

Hearts of two, that once were wrapping
round the other, give way to trappings

The price of giving's the cost of living
with no misgivings, may all debts be forgiven?...

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Perilously dangling, 
One toe over the edge
Dizzily drawn to hover at the brink
Eyes closed and arms stretched out 
Into thin air
I know that I am going to fall, yet I resist
Trappings of stability wrap tendrils around my waist
But they are frail and will not hold…
Leaning forward, against good sense, but unable to reason
I fall....

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Some , believe that rich folk have made    ... IT

And never need worry about what a thing  ....COSTS

Sadly , many of these people have absolutely..NOTHING

Except the trappings ,  which  they  cling     ... TO

Poor me ,with just a fun pen and a readymade ..SMILE .



Inspired for D-A end line contest by Iolanda's humour blog ....

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Unremitting responsibilities 
Aspirations tampered by reality
Relentless quest for more
Beautiful wife, children, home
Cars, boat, vacations, clothes
All requisite trappings
Abundance of wealth and success
Colleges, tuitions, mortgages
Debt free, substantial savings
Old age, sickness, infirmity
Dusty, unplayed
Fender Stratocaster guitar...

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A Gentleman's Trappings

Crisply pressed suits hang in a dark closet
Starched white shirts lie untouched in dresser drawers
Bland ties hang limply awaiting his touch
Highly shined black shoes and socks neatly arranged 
These trappings of a gentleman gone to the grave
All waiting to be claimed by the Good Will thrift store

Copyright ©2008 Don Tyson...

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She walks, her high heels tapping
Has all the guys on the sidewalk rapping,
an audience dancing, clapping!
Turns her head and sees wots happening,
gets in the groove, thigh slapping!
I was only out to do some shapping!
Bought some heels and all the trappings,
me Mrs took one look and burst out laughing!

'She Walks', not for the contest!...

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S uffer no more in this soundless night.
L eave all the trappings of your world behind.
E ase into comfort so softly it falls.
E ventual darkness as you begin to recall.
P osition your limbs as they begin to retire.
I llusions of daylights die out with the fire.
N ight has enveloped the walls all around.
G oodnight and dream sweetly until morning comes 'round....

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In the depths of my being, there resides an relentless craving, a repulsive need to surpass the shackles of humanity.
A siren song beckoning me to shed the trappings of mortality.
So I continue on, fueled by this repulsive need to be something more than human.
To transcend, to evolve, to become a force of nature,
And in doing so, to claim my place among the stars....

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So like dreadful ebony sacks of bones, 
Tethered and harnessed we are with memories
Grim and Gay both…
Desperate to cut away trappings 
Just as determined not to forget
Our loads melded together with a single fraying seam
From constant pulling for opposing purpose
We cling to hope that is a dry as the dusty bones in the sacks
Revealed in all that we do not say....

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