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Short Tunneling Poems

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Premium Member Underground

Tunneling
Underground
Smelling
Life
Filtering
City
Grates-
Horn
Cacophony
Plays
Base
Backdrop
In
Temporal
Darkness
Form: Prose


Premium Member stereo senses

owls sit in the dark and listen
for mammalian prey
tunneling

through deep snows
below the
trees

plunging, they seize
their next
meal


len
© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.

Re-Routing Nature

a diamante

water aquatic, liquid bridging, damming, subduing oceans, pools, / yards, continents digging, tunneling, conquering solid, terrestrial earth
Form: Diamante

Premium Member Hiding From the Rain

The hot rain was pregnant with moisture
Atmosphere foretold thunderstorm
Animals began to hide
Burrowing into earth
Crouching under bush
Slipping in holes
Tunneling
Hiding
Safe
Form: Nonet

Morning Light

Morning light seeping in
Like a wisp of a breath
In winters frigid air

Spectrum of silver light
Like sunlit cushioned clouds 
Against paper-like walls

And shadows disappear
Quick, like snakes tunneling
© Jennifer C  Create an image from this poem.


The Green Spice

Searching for
The green spice
while
the gigantic worms are
Tunneling through the
Red sand dunes of mars
thus
Building bundles of lightning
and
Engaging in the sandstorm
until you
Bring me the green spice

Premium Member WORM BENEATH--

tiny worm beneath the soil tunneling spirals mix dampening soil ~ all accountable dirt close to being mud worms ready for fish yah!
9/2/26 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2026©
Form: Haiku

Neglect

Shattered shell the pieces settle, succumbing to time
A spell so subtle.
A fog of complacency numbs the scrapes
As tendrils of memories seep deep-
Tunneling down twisting hard narrow vessels
Until the sickness settles.
This heart will stop-
When healing neglects.

Logical Mess

Citations and revelations.
Each laying claims to names.
What would it be, 
if they were what they're not?
Rather than what they seem to be.
One and the same, 
Different as night and day. 
Always the first to come last.
Always there when needless. 
Always gone when critical. 
Logically muddled, 
Tunneling through
The sea of our subconcious.

Hollow Morn'

morning light seeps in   
like a wisp of a breath  
in winters frigid air  
    
spectrum of silver light   
like sunlit cushioned clouds 
against paper thin walls  
    
as shadows quickly   
appear: rush to these paper walls  
like tunneling snakes  
    
light brims golden,  
spattering dewdrop fields-   
glittering jewels  
    
their moistening of  
blades bending to the winds  
echoing a hollow morn'
Form: Haiku

Victory Or Death

Surrender
stoops in darkness
Defeat
its noble kin 
Valor weeps
on bended knee
Honor lost
— when blood runs thin

***

The Pen

Words attack
the armor
of every
given age

To right the wrongs
all shields prolong
their pen attacks
— with rage

***

Leaving Old Choices

Tunneling out
of mortality
Inching my way
toward the light
Leaving old choices
of dire repute
Trading ill fortune
— for heaven’s delight

(The First Book Of Prayers: May, 2026)
Form: Rhyme

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