Short Unlatch Poems

The raccoon is a burglar … 
There’s no door he can’t unlatch.

Baby hand-prints in the butter?
You can bet Raccoon’s found that!...

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before I walk, I unlatch my shoe laces;
take off my shoes and socks barefoot I walk;

7/18/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.© 2020...

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An ATM laughed at his check,
so Florida man said, “The heck?”
He took out his hatchet
to try to unlatch it,
So the cops bounced him onto the deck.


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Actual headline: "Florida Man Attacks ATM with Hatchet After it Refuses to Take His Check"...

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Turn off the alarm before you unlatch,
Don't count your chickens before they hatch
No two snowflakes, they say, ever match
Sneaky shysters are very hard to catch,
Don't ruin torn jeans with a brand new patch
If your taffy won't stretch, try a new batch.

Written September 6, 2021...

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When I have zero days -
a chill fills the hearth, earth-pillow’s under my moan;
hushed hallways.

Of zero hours -
can’t hear them pray, the silent tone
devours.

The tick -
seconds to own…
sick.

My soul follows the blaze.
Unlatch the pearly gate - milestone
click.

4/8/2022...

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Listen to poem:

Fledging child grows to unlatch
    to turn back on parents, to find own way.
Child's hand uncupped, snapped away, rebellious.
But in time, parents and child reunite
    as adults with a different relationship,
    with mutual respect for independence.
Though parents still cherish the child, as child....

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Release the hasp
Pull back the mask
The key has turned
Your face to learn

Unlatch the lid
Reach down amid
What’s hidden deep
—your secret sleeps

Confront the lie
The souls new stye
Wash clean the pain
With loves refrain

Commit your faith
In God remake
The time is now
—all time is now

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Across the broken days of pride
unlatch the door for the boreholes
Her freckles shine in the emerald sun
Her hopes are the same as yours
She runs
solace is what she prays for 

A veil of tears ponders
ran naked through the flames
and burnt like you
until unbuttoned 2 became one
eyes to eyes
catherine wheels they span
now everyday is a haywire alone



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Baggage within 
      trappings of illusions,
love packed away
  in neat little compartments
gathering cobwebs at
     makeshift improvisations, 
dusting intermittently
      if by chance a light
           should shine,
never wholly untangling 
    the snare
mid a labyrinth of
      transparent entrapment,  
as violin strings continue
      to unlatch the same old key...

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friend’s bet…
   a threat

d r e a r y
          e e r i e

haunted
daunted

             gate creaks
                  fear speaks

alone
no phone

old house -
ghosts rouse?

             unlatch
                strike match

dark throws
shadows

a dame
in frame
               eyes dart!
        my heart…

   loud wail
i bail!

back off
bets off

rafter -
            laughter


3/17/2022...

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