Short Well Nigh Poems

Hue and cries fly high,
A raging storm when blows by,
Not when dies, goes by, 
It's human nature well-nigh,
If you wonder why.
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  Senryu | 03.03.18 |...

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Limerick: Once a measly Miser in Mumbai

Once a measly Miser in Mumbai
Liked watching dancing girls on the sly
He went to Bolly-Wood
Though he felt jolly good
His loot sucked by Bombay Ducks well nigh.

© T. Wignesan – Paris,  2013...

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Silence speaks nothing it used to,
It is now well nigh dead,
You turn less sane,
And perhaps ultimately mad,
Quiet now chills the bones,
It portends ominous,
Singing dirge tones,
Hush now means sinister,
You do not know for sure,
What medicine others may administer,
Beware when you are talking alone,
that all round you may be hearing,
just to see you buried and gone....

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Remembering you at last,
the memory had faded,
your image was well nigh jaded,
I cursed my brain,
racking each grain,
slowly you emerged,
as if sunk titanic,
had risen again,
the rust layers fell,
you shone bright like moon,
each feature handsome aquiline,
suddenly amenesia clouds gathered,
I was raided by many issues,
you were enveloped,
and your memory was lost,
before it could even develop....

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Shhh! quietly I nodded off nearly sleeping;
Hush!! Dogs barking outside reeling;
While I nodded nearly napping;

Mom looks at me as I’m breathing heavily;

While I nodded nearly sleeping;
While I nodded well-nigh sleeping;
Fell, fallen off the chair yet still sleeping;

Sleeping while I nodded nearly;
 
While I nodded nearly sleeping;
So I nodded still well-nigh sleeping;
As I am falling to the floor intimately sleeping;

1/7/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020...

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i dug,dug and dug deep,
it could not be found anywhere,
i flew the sky limits,
it still was not there,
i swam ocean depths,
yet i could not reach its depths,
i talked to millions,
it mystified me still further,
seers,sages,saints and philosophers,
could not get me anywhere near,
commoners said they lived with it,
yet did not know where it was,
hopelessly placed as I was,
"life" itself walked up,
one fine day,
and said,
you will know me where "I" am,
when you are well nigh dead....

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