Short Unsalted Poems

Senryu Series

~seasonal serpents
       slither in unsalted seas…
             reasons unseasoned

~serpent, psychosis 
      permeate unsalted seas… 
             carnal enmity 

~emotion’s ocean
          many reasons unseasoned…
              thoughts expendable 

For and in Honor of Brian Strand
And contest...

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Dark crown positions an imminent moon,
while the car benign a simple swan tune,
by a male world-renowned steady croon,
quaffs from a sweetheart, abrupt swoon,
as twain souls dissolution, way too soon,
while a solo spirit on, strangely immune,
limits another whose heart is now hewn,
of an unsalted berry to a strained prune.


2019 December 31...

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Canine teeth that glimmer with the moonlights gaze
Open mouthed to taste unsalted tears of dripping clouds
Howls are gargled as they swallow the forlorn
Straw men sit and sift the spaces
that make their shifting frame
Wheat whips splash across the backs
as yelping oil dogs
turn to puddles black
Straw men slowly hack
at chaff offspring
that seem to laugh
Obsidian flame burning in the acid rain
as shadow ghost murmur
their stolen names...

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2/22/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020...

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