Short Unearthing Poems

~~~soft undercurrents
my tender hands unearthing
raptures of delight~~~...

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melodramatic
dramatizations 
reenactments
of past scenes 
brought to the 
surface by the 
unearthing of 
the graves of 
past ghost...

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Twenty-four hours
goes by very quickly.
A lot to be done,a lot to be said.

We're all moving,
unearthing the world's treasures.
Everyone has a goal and a train to catch....

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Roots

Unsheathing the bloody sword
Unearthing many sorrows
Gathering countless pains 
unveiling selected illusions
With roots and roots 
of wails and dreads 
devouring guilty minds 
...

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eyes see the golden 
squirrel chitter-chattering
uncover his nuts
~
let still babbling
forward paws unearthing such
near noon must be lunch


4/16/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2022©...

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Dreams are secret
Wide and global
Tiny and huge.

Dreamers are fast
Discover it
As long-playing.

Dreams diappear
As I thought it
It flew away.

To everyone
Who's near, who feels
Dreams seen by eyes....

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From the hilly tops
We once were crested 
Stilled and embedded 
We were once nestled 
But a gentle tap
With a gentle slide 
Started the great fall 
Sending all down 
Yes down
With a bemused smile 
Unearthing hidden canines...

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Eyes
contact,
brief at first,
then a shy smile
as gentle blushes
tint an ivory mask,
unearthing bygone colours
long since buried ‘neath fallen stones.
A light touch of skin ignites a spark,
tentatively stirring a sleeping heart.



*** for Andrea's 'Etheree Me' contest...

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Unearthing blind roots, cyclic thoughts
spin round again
as if they had just come to me,
and had not been arriving forever.

Abandoned living-spaces excavated
from under the forgotten foundations
of elsewhere.
Places we leave our sweat in,
litter that never goes away,

stuff in pockets that once belonged
to a best jacket.
A best life thus far – but when?...

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Let me touch
your furrowed brow,
etched deep the painful trace.
Apply the balm of peacefulness,
raw memories erase.

Let me warm
the chill felt now
within your troubled soul.
With soft caress and lover's kiss,
retrieve the fire she stole.

Let me mesh
my heart with yours,
unearthing treasures rare.
Release the turmoil deep within,
and let me linger there....

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Let me touch
your furrowed brow
etched deep the painful trace
Apply the balm of peacefulness
raw memories erase.

Let me warm
the chill felt now
within your troubled soul
With soft caress and lover's kiss
retrieve the fire she stole.

Let me mesh
my heart with yours
unearthing treasures rare
Release the turmoil from within
and let me linger there.
...

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The joy and the pain
exist only within this moment
flowing as the melody of a song
birthing the strongest of passions
unearthing feelings
that were long forgotten
 Many times
not seeing
or knowing how we feel
one thing wishes will never change
words may grow old
but there power continues to move
hearts, minds, and souls
as a song it may end
but the fire of them is still there...

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Grandson discovered a magical land called, "under the bed".
Unearthing a tin of jingling coins. 
I told him:
"The Big one is the king; all the rest are serfs".  
He looked at me baby baffled, then let out a baby burp...
Without warning, he tried popping a serf into his mouth.
I pried it from his tiny mitt, and he cried.
so, I soothed him with a little lullaby..
~Little king-little king always love the serfs.
A good king would never eat the serfs. ~...

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Sun kissed roses and moon cast shadows,
this garden holds dark beauty.
Shifting eyes are ever watchful,
seeking me out with devilish glee.
Haunted castle looming above,
with it's banshee filled towers.
Crimson tears and scarlet pain,
these are the colors of my world.
And still I must go on,
unearthing buried secrets.
Dancing down the darkened halls,
the sprites of winter surround me.
Frozen emotion stills my heart,
and now I join the skeletons in the closet....

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11/20/16
The Planting

The fields of America were tilled.

Wolf in farmer's clothing donning 
Red hat while
Sharp tongue cut grooves in the
Soil of humanity, violently 
Unearthing constituents needed for his success.

White hooded hate and prejudice,
Previously buried by years of reform,
(now nurtured in sunlight and fertile ground),
Take root once again.

Reform meant to propel humanity forward.
Damaged in the time it took to say:
 “Build a Wall”...

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It’s  July … fragrant  honeysuckles  remind me
Of  summers young when innocent passion bloomed;
Unearthing glances,  confidences  --- a  throb my heart first held
Until  desire turned into precious  love,   we ignited
The ambrosia of moist lips, the blush  of intimacy:

Many a time, I wonder about him… fondling our space
While in  eves quite , his kind laughter drifts    now and then. 



Written for Silent One's Seven lines of romantic heaven 
6/23/2018...

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Love is climbing the rainbow
With someone at your side
Unearthing pot of gold
And making her your bride.

Love in walking hand in hand
Along the colors of  your dreams
And find she’s still beside you
As the sun spills out on morning’s gleam.

Cautiously you amble on the arches
Sympathetic to the tenuous  tones
Find surrender  in the lust of love
And capture her with  arduous moans.

Treasuring the time
Lest  the colors wane
Fearing might the magic melt
Like vapor after rain....

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