Short Vantage Point Poems

bright shiny eye follows

          digger ---  shrub close vantage point

     wise hungry fledgling...

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Holding the handle
Touching the toe at arm’s length
I see what you see

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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misshapen bell-curve 
disproportional distribution
of misconceptions made 
as a result of faulty representations 
within the view point from an underground 
vantage point...

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       crescent moon frowning
it seems, from my vantage point ~
                                     p
                                     u
             my head tilted 
...

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celestrial stars 
sparkles ever so brightly 
from afar they are 
~
stars ever trinkles
ever moving shining so
from a vantage point

12/25/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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perched in heights above
with a good vantage point

a feral cat howls 
in desperation
at the full moon

longing for its mate
gone missing in the night



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Posted on April 15, 2025...

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My world moves parallel to yours
Try as I might I cannot reach you
I may understand from a vantage point
But I’ll forever wonder
Try as you might you’ll never reach me
You may only imagine
But you’ll try to help anyway
And that may be enough...

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She is afraid of suspect spaces,
with sparse starlight, ancient arches,
abyss-steps, swinging lanterns &

comforted by a moonlit garden,
an expansive sky of navy blue,
glitter-stars in an elocutionary’s box.

5/20/2023
Bitsize Contest 64
Sponsor: Line Gauthier...

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How strange it must seem
when each thing becomes clearer
seen from a distance…

Perhaps the eyes have more time
to see every point of view

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1/19/16   Contest: "Syllables of Wisdom"
                 Sponsored by Silent One...

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one moment 
can change 
your perspective  
point of view 
vantage point 
this change can 
be very important 
it can cause the puzzle 
pieces of life 
to rearrange 
move around 
to create a new 
picture of the future 
that was never there
before this shift in 
view...

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inadequate inaccuracy
never hit the mark 
no matter practice 
no matter efforts made
just a hair off the goal line 
just out of range of the target 
never able to get a clear shot 
something always got in the way 
of the vantage point from which 
the target should have been visible...

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From our vantage point,
with bliss we anoint
the form we ensoul,
that we may feel whole.

In our body prism,
divine magnetism 
drawn in from vast space,
is purely God’s grace.

As the all there is,
radiating bliss,
form becomes God’s light
on a wingless flight.

13-February-2023...

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preference change
vantage point moves
perspective shift 
experience alters 
years overlap
within this existence 
glass half full turns into 
glass half empty at times 
dependent upon mind 
set at the time of occurrence 
dependent upon the maturity 
level of the present state of being...

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Our future he impacts
Social issues he just stacks

He gives educators the axe
Keeps piling the load on our backs
His stance on illegal immigrants lacks

He took a loose stance on tax
Mud slung, he seldom retracts
From his vantage point he acts

Lives in a mansion while we live in shacks
 Lots of promises, few facts...

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you could never understand,
what we're denied 
from the vantage point
on which you stand,
your privilege

your money, power,
your cap and gown,
block this from view
when you look down,
from privilege

you cannot see, or you forget,
that all was built on
the blood and sweat 
of those that you now stand upon,
with privilege...

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Play-rewind; rewind-play.
Something's at play, I can tell that much. Very strange! 
What was that all about?
Like I've been here before, living twice at once. 
Adorned, with a snapshot of a crossroad. 
Memory in telepathy. 
In a vantage point empathy of a particularly significant
thing. 
But why it's significant? You got me.
Sure got me. Whoa...

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HAVE TO GO TO BETTER PLACE
weary compassion death address them
didn't get to say a last goodbye
laid here beneath the fill
of golden brown dirt and sod
at this vantage point nothing left
to say is O' How we will miss you so
A better place, a newer life you now have to go




9/3/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©...

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I have love
and children
and one bicycle too many
and memories,
some happy, some sad;
too many memories
of a girl by my side.

I have faith
and a God
of my not-quite understanding
and I'm seeking a vantage point
where I can see
how the pieces all fit together
as I watch them fall apart.

I have tears
and smiles
and an appreciation
for these silent murmurs
from my soul....

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rolling clouds aflame

anticipating the storm

 of late night passion

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blushing at the thought

  of his admiring gaze

from high vantage point

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     yielding to his touch

beneath the vermillion sky

  the gown slithers down

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Contest: October Sky (three headed haiku)
Sponsor: Skat A
Placed 3rd...

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Early Days

The highchair beside the kitchen door
my domain, vantage point of my world
on the linoleum checker board floor
I played until my knees were sore

The center of the world to me
I learned to know as my mother
cooked and cleaned while I was free
to grow into what I might be

A world consisting of black and white
as appropriate as the days television
images remembered vivid and bright
raised by my mother in love and light

Stephen...

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Life on a cellular and corporeal level seems to be
A relationship of complex interdependence
Where each living unit acknowledges a central theme
And concedes that theme to be more important than itself 

This principle of functioning interdependence
Expresses the “will” of a conglomerate yet separate living organism

Should we assume this general principle stops with us
Merely because we no longer have a “safe” detached vantage point...

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Seasons pass with no apology,no pause...
thoughts hibernating with whispers so loud
words migrating,their drifting so subtle somehow
the horizon's stretching my determined focused view
the wind's singing so softly now,from my vantage point to you
and the clocks are just dragging,all this time away
you scream it in your glances,screaming for me to stay
jumbled puzzle pieces,that I must find
buried memories,haunted pictures...thoughts left behind...

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The masked intruder burst through my front door.
	While exiting a window, I heard pops.
	He missed, but he pursued me as I fled.
	Without my cell, I couldn’t call the cops.

	Fear moved my legs; prayer led me to a place
	to hide. From my safe vantage point I saw
	him re-enter my house. He robbed me blind.
	I wrote of this when feelings were still raw.

fictional write

68 WORDS--March 6, 2017

written for Laura Loo's What Doesn't Kill Us Contest...

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The queue curls;
Serpentine. 
Crimson faces
A woman exhales!
The last breath of her cigarette.
Takes her place:
at the tail end.
Thin silhouette, vital teeth missing!
We remain at the vantage point; watching.
Food bank: a new entry
In our dictionary.
A kindly man hands over green apples, a loaf of bread
And a tin of soup; indistinct!
To the mouth of the serpent:
An adolescent mother
With her babe in pushchair.
I usher my babes away;
Eyes moist!
 
 
Yasemin Balandi...

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We're halfway between the Earth and the Moon
Riding the sky in a hot air balloon
All through the day and well into the night
Me and my gal on a romantic flight

Floating aloft on an Easterly breeze
A vantage point over deep salty seas
The two of us engulfed in such pleasure
An experience beyond all measure

On this voyage is well worth defending
But sadly now it's time we're descending
So down through the clouds with nary a sound
The tale we can tell when we hit the ground...

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