Short Voyages Poems

Sinister or right
wrong and proper, in a way
– similar voyages!...

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striving voyages
anchored old ship turned to ash
made out of firewood...

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Just are



































Narratives
emotional voyages
reflections 
raining upon our hearts
another day
dawn...

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Voyages

In our voyages 
Since infancy                                
We have ridden 
many currents..
To Recognize..at last
All of of these currents
Seem to hide
Who we have been 
All along......

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Eternity never seems to last
Viewing life through misty windows
October winds wrapping fears
Love dancing with lonely tears

Lost in dreams
Other illusions scream
Voyages all but gone
Eternal voices, lay me to rest...

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To write
Scribble words across the sky
Etch them in the surf smooth hard sand
Shout into the roaring white breakers
Come now
And capture me
Release my words
That they may tell
Of voyages
Shipwrecks
And salvation
...

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I feel like a tumbling kite
I don't know where to hid
I have neon colours 
to paint five o clock shadow

The Pontiff has paid my full fare
Im voyaging down South
I need to afford my back
for the weary strings of yesteryear...

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Salmonic urges,for life threatening voyages;
Not something new,been going on for ages.
 
                                                     --- Princefreakasso
                                                     (Artist and Poet)...

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In early hours she types 
pages she's felt and known
beyond words ,elements ,time 
What has been ,what may become 
Encircled in body and soul
Connected rhythm and rhyme 
Picks beyond words she writes 
To unwritten voyages she roams ......

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Blessed herbs cut cords,
Short circuit spells, cast off for 
Clockwise voyages

From fire elementals
The dead receive their summons

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I was given the prompt of writing a tanka with these words or phrases: 
elementals , blessed herb , short circuit

Bah...

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Then, he’d looked quite impervious, 
Now, you can see: damned nervous
The present soon the previous,
Past triumph no more envious,
His change: shamefully obvious…

From ‘impervious’ to ‘nervous’
Journeys end in the grievous;
Like voyages perilous:
Satanic and mischievous....

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I n time designed a
M agical perfection
A natomy of 
G enuine mysticism
I mpressive imagery
N avigation of mind
A lleviating stress
T houghtful escape
I ntense visualization
O bliterating Bordem
N atural entertainment

O verwhelmingly 
F acilitates

V olumes of voyages
A cute artistry
L egions of amazement...

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as I see the pain
in your eyes tears rolling down
you're saddened by those

fears you cry alone
tempted by the voyages
sailing on misnomens

dry those eyes stand up
hold on to the promises
fear not given you

let fear fear alone
be not as it may stand up
give not unto fear

9/11/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

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Email filed a case
In the Town Court.
He told Magistrate;
“Your users use me
carelessly non-stop
to carry messages
to their lovers far
some too near here
Others send me daily
on risky dark voyages 
across the high seas.
My case is, as laborer
my wages are not paid
and rights to privacy
are not respected.
What should I do?...

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Walking on My Cloud

celebrating victorious 
high-flown elevated verse

of desperate desolation
voyages grand black anger

of calming spiritual
passages reflecting light

then…

surprising realization
a personal revelation

the house is the same
as you have lived in
all these 
years






© Kim van Breda—19 October 2014...

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memories of subway sleep
on voyages to and from
the college castle keep
lights wiz by, I see with half closed eye,
the subway smell so unique,
like dirt, and hurt, and
something mysteriously sweet
it's hard to vocalize,
cause words would cheat
it's strange implant
it left upon my brain,
so many years ago
I wonder why,
will I ever again,
ride that train?...

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“Sweetheart” is what we call her, 
Cause she always makes our day;
Dropping in to comment,
With inspiring words to say;

Taking us along with her 
On her voyages abroad,
Giving us wonderful pictures 
Of all the lands she’s trod;

She’s the perfect kind of friend,
Inspiring and upbeat;
And with a friend like her out there,
No other can compete!...

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 "There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew"- 
 Marshall McLuhan
              
 
 Spaceships explore the universe
  On voyages light years away
 Galactic wonders so diverse
  Spaceships explore the universe
 Where twinkle of stars intersperse
  With new planets seen day by day
 Spaceships explore the universe
  On voyages light years away...

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On Reading

Voyages ‘pon seas
Of ink and tide
On journeys
O’er oceans wide

In time transported
By imagination ferried
To exotic ports and 
To treasures buried

Made of paper and page
A fragile craft
No more than a hand span 
From fore to aft

But a transport no less…
Through both space and time
Crewed only by a lone
…And inquisitive mind…


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Mystic mystical seas
Wayward soldier
 it's not yet over
over yourself is just 
being gone over
 on the rising raging seas
 your voyages just begun
Binding me and in raging seas
 high at nautical pace your journey's
Journey course 
it is of course 
nautical lacrosse
at the raging marsh a
Nautical Navy soldier

2/5/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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They are  living daydreams,
dressed in clouds of  light

brought into being
from stardust
a lost race

 Eternal, childlike

No -one knows the star
Or, from how far they travelled

To pause at the edge 
of myth

To fling bright peonies into
gray oceans

to turn hopeless allegory’s
into voyages of promise

A STRAND (1060)
Contest Judged:  1/27/2022 11:35:00 PM
First Place...

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At night I feel a peace inside me
I can almost feel an arm around me
At night I feel safe

At night I see you gazing at me
I can almost hear you whispering softly
At night I feel special

At night I venture with you into the great unknown
I can almost feel you holding my hand
At night I feel alive

At night I dream of us together
I can almost feel your heart beat
At night I feel loved...

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To thee I pledge a life
Of voyages and unexpected finds
freedoms, winding garden paths and laughter 
Walls of musty, well-considered books
the occasional bottle of mustier wine, carbonara 
And an even mustier dog snoring with content, in front of our fire
Of peering through leaves at different skies 
Or the same one, and seeing the meaning in either 
walking the same road, or diverging
Always by your side...

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One that dazzles minds
questions everything, anything
argues without ceasing
looks at world upside-down
builds mountains from moles
makes ordinary extra-ordinary
eyes as sharp as sword
master of doubts
creates something from nothing
challenges common wisdom
has no feeling for feelings
has burning tongue, cold heart
50 years old but 100 years in thought
discovers new things without voyages
stands on dead men’s shoulders...

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Inside a harbor inn
Where fateful voyages begin
An old man waits for me…
I enter, recklessly.

The barmaid brings the jug
And pours him out a frothy mug,
And lights a lamp for him
To read by, in the dim.

The old man wears a mask;
I hear him humorously ask
“Perhaps you care to look
Inside my ledger book?”

Instead, I flee that place—
For he unmasked a grinning face
Whose every crease and line
Was mine, was mine, was mine....

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