Short Unlit Poems

Unlit votive candle melts smoldering heart....

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Walking around late
In an unlit alley spot
the croaking of frogs...

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Burning a deep hole through unlit skies.
Leaving philosopher kings in complete astonishment.
Just another place to plant a flag never forgotten....

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Memory has a selective ring
    lets slip unpleasant things 

  Basks midst prism's colors, prelude to first light 
    discards unlit alleys, moon-less nights...

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black stones of remembrance
freezing yellow candles unlit
wrong turn at the cross ro-
ads of death
buried in the white of sco-
rching winter
we play like little
children...

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center, open eye

universal moon of life

unlit comes the dawn.

 

(January 20, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

 
(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved,...

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A man was walking
Alone down an unlit street
When a demon came
And converted him into
A Jack-O-Lantern of fear

Entrant into Black Eyed Susan's "Single Tanka" contest

10/4/2012...

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sand dunes sunshiny
 as young fierce camels smoking
 unlit cigarettes
~
dried out and thirsty 
while storing water in their 
humps, inhales puff-puff

5/28/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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After its over,
Will listen to an unsung song,
       say something yet untold,
       light a candle yet unlit,
       behold a painting yet to be drawn.
Stay with me O my friend,
for our chatter is yet to end....

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And when do we speak of passion?
The seeds among the lime?

We walk with eyes unlit
Under the dark belly of the fair.

The few determiners will dour their faces,
Rake with desire,
Digging for light under red moons....

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Not much light in the light.
Not much in the sunny glare.

Stay where the shadows dance,
see the jewel set within the unlit bezel.

Nothing original arrives staring at the sun.
Light is in the dark we shun....

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War kills

Retina less windows
Bodies were strewn on foul streets
A photo of Grozny
Summary execution
Death sways from unlit lampposts 
Friend or foe
Who knows?
Conspiracy of peace
Both sides declare victory
The truth is debris...

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Light/Dark

Light
bright, luminous
blinding, brilliants, radiances
appearing, gleaming, glaring, glowing 
unlit, unlighted, calamitous
ill-lit, dingy
Dark



6/11/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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by the holy river
half naked monks smoking green weeds
un washed hair saffron
red haired girl leaning on the
shoulders of the guitarist
hairless unlit smoke on purple
lips half burnt bodies float stench
of green sins in the pure holy river...

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This winter has brought unrelenting gray
Unlit gray sky is all I've seen for days
Gray snow a relief
From gray rain's dank grief
Hurry, springtime - make the gray go away!

1/6/19

for Same Word Winter Limerick contest
Sponsor: charles messina...

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Rasping like fleas
In August
the barn roof leaked
The plums hummed full of bees
the sweet nectar captivating

The children's heads nodding like flowers
and Mother couldn't care
Her form shrugging away
Presumably she would leave for home, unlit...

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"The light of the world.” 

Those who carry out the Great Commission 
Are 'oft mistaken in their hopeful persuasion 
That truth once spoken will ignite faith outright.
Yet, ‘tis the unlit candle must come to the light.

Copyright 2021 Paul Thomson...

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A dark unlit room
Minimum realms of cold dreams
Reaches my heart crate
Timbers shook the proud fabric
Existing within dream world

Russell Sivey

Entrant into PD's "any poem about dreams.. (old or new)" contest

2/17/2012...

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O Borobudur, I shed  my clothes to  reach the  winds of your dome.
Each footprint marking life’s trails engraved in dampened memoirs
Now, breaths  enter  an unlit mosque residing within  me



Rora Onna/  May 2, 14
Sijo In A Temple
Borobudur Temple, Indonesia...

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When I plucked out my brain, I saw
it had roundness and grooves.
So it was a wheel and fire.
It was also made to aspire.
There were literature and awe
when it would move
like an unlit seed in winter.
I would come to despise its birth.
It lacks a maid, a lover, and call nurse....

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Raggedy vagrants 
alleyways with broken lamps
clomping of footsteps

Imminent danger 
seaside shadows vanish
fir trees bend and crack

Imaginary ghosts
swift legs continue their beat
keep life-saving pace

Sultry night above
concealed moonlight endures
climb unlit doorsteps...

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Soar willing yet stopped darkness in mid flight;
Anger pleasures the premise darkness sights;
Amazing promises unlit paths of night;
My light shore shines in the dark, everything shines right;
I am the LIGHT...



12/2/22                   
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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An empty face
Eyes to see 
That her heart 
Belongs to me 

Numb from pain
tucked away deep
unlit in the presence 
of me 

Can a smile be born 
can a truth be told
even as faint as a whisper 
I need to know 

By her side, i stay 
hand held out
emotions raw 
eyes to see 
that her heart belongs to me...

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Listen your way out of the problem,
  when language goes awry

Each word that’s heard, a fuse unlit,
  whose primer never lies

To think the pieces wholly,
  as new structure comes in view

With time and space in servitude
  —your voice explodes anew

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

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Her eyes look like diamonds
against black holes in the sky--

I am recounting
my random decisions,

and... resting my mind.

I've reached the secret
in this 
warm,
unlit 
dreamscape.

Martyrs shine bright
in the milky moonlight...

as laughter's echo 
rides off 
on a 
faraway breeze....

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