Short Whitewashed Poems

Sunflower clambers
Over whitewashed fence to kiss
A rose named Sharon...

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Winds wail, whorls of ice
Whispering on whitewashed walls 
Witness winter’s spice...

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Crystal flowers and whitewashed snow
Sky flooded whispers of flakes they blow
Across the trees and grounds below
Serendipitous sweetness they bring in tow...

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Whitewashed windy ways
broken bottle left of a throw up;
bombing the sky
failing to kill it;
sleepy, endless 
we need some color 
the Sun starts to piece
the Mural is released...

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Let’s hang upon a star 
     my friend 
And travel upon roads 
     that have no end
For today I peered upon your face 
     and reclaimed forgotten dreams
Then whitewashed memories 
     of earthly chaotic scenes
...

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white clouds on the wind
whitewashed on lavender scenes
puff cotton balloons
~
abides so they seem
just floating upwardly high
winds white clouds in skies


3/7/22 
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2022...

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Crisp white apron  checquered teatowels
Whitewashed hands dance on the dough
Kneading bread scent of yeast caked skin
Tomato onion and corn simmering folded
Fragrance of  youth smiling whites of eyes
Beautiful  woman  playing  the ornate harp...

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In a shallow grave
Behind a big old whitewashed house
where a tattered flag still waves
beside a small cross made with staves
and in the wood, clearly carved
with the spirit of devolution
states, "Here interned today
Lies the US Constitution "...

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slowly,
her knuckled cracked eons
into buckets
of whitewashed lies
and her sigh elongated 
into dainty icicles
that hung around
her neck
like a noose
which slowly sliced open
Pandora's box
of poetry and she, cried,
sonnets in the winter...

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Distilled sun invades
to project on whitewashed screen their 
chintzy-hotel love,
melding the serenading shades.








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Date: 13 / 01 / 2017...

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A moment (Tanka)

Rain as wet silk falls
On a rosebush which burnish
Until gray sky smiles. 
And there is golden sunlight 
On my cottage whitewashed walls.

Haiku 
Stillness of soft rain 
Dogs sleep in haylofts and sheds
Dream of hunting boars...

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honor those that went too young
uniforms soiled with blood and debris
youth left on a battlefield
learning at what cost the price

resting in eternal sleep
flags lined up in a row
headstones whitewashed in the sun
flowers and memory mark your place...

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Freshly fallen flakes bleach the land
and everything in sight. 
Suddenly, Nature seems so bland,
when whitewashed white on white.

Color change completed
Autumn has retreated;
its pallet depleted.

A blank canvas takes
freshly fallen flakes....

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One tear slides down a slanted cheek
A silver line, the only sign

Of anguish which she does not speak
Insistent smiles, bright by design

Thin fortitude, her whitewashed shrine
Gilded answers rain, lily meek

She lies and says that she is fine
When truth is too fearsome to seek

2/1/20...

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Maître peintre of exulted hallelujahs 
   skywriting's vastly delusional vapors,
whitewashed of stained looking-glass 
     flourished in atmospherical cloudbursts,
beyond hallucinations' unearthly enlightenment
   dreamt 'pon released chimerical technicolor



(Maître peintre - master painter)...

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Whitewashed sterile walls enclose,

Cluttered fixtures and cluttered egos,

Layed to waste on the purgatorial carpet,

After the august ersatz banquet.

 

Yet sporadically in bouts of joy,

Benevolent souls oblige this toy.

Obscenely bright becomes mellow light,

And sterile walls vanish from sight....

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Two pebbles, or pearls, or pills,
Are placed in my palm; pretty are
The whitewashed stones of sleep.

Welcome medication in place of music,
Needing louder, needing noise, needing you.
Too much sleep has been lost to the sound of your silence.

Descend to dreams,
Where I find you in my fallow thoughts
And plant, anticipating growth, seeds for a hardy love....

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I came to 
Strapped to the clock
With wires and meters
Stuck into my flesh

Measuring and monitoring
Dishing out to me
In small capsules
Moments of time

Forced to swallow 
To observe
Whitewashed landscapes
Blurry images in harsh light

Numbed by an eternal today
Living in a moment
The never-ending sameness of seconds
Narcotic of repetition....

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Lore of second chances,
it will be different;
Mouth filled with broken words
not repaired repeated;
You wound with gentle swords;

Lore of second chances,
new day new beginning;
Then it’s just deja vu;
Megalomaniac
parading ballyhoo;

Lore of second chances,
don’t buy into banter;
Focusing on action 
reveals what’s underneath
whitewashed with attraction....

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Humidity is smeared through every molecule.
Whitewashed cotton cumulus dab back droplets.
Isolated from fair winds ,
Roasted willows deep fry in a vat of steaming marsh.
Lizards undercover in a slice of shade cut from a nearby palm.
Frogs beckon grogily for any burst of moisture.
SnowCountry eagily awaits a sultry summer day.
LowCountry  welcomes a quiet,crisp winter....

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When young men meet with
inexplicably sudden and biting ends,
     not the whitewashed passing of those long in the tooth,
     the silver-maned for whom all mourning may expire at death;
that burrowed-under-the-skin ache
where labored breath takes speechless flight
and bids farewell to carefree thought -
that a God of love
carries my heavy heart
seems inadequate in its wake....

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Floating on a clouded breath held deep space 
far beyond where the frozen whispers lay silent guest

Sparkling beyond words timeless rainbows of mercy 
radiating light houses golden warm echoes through the caves 
captured by the gentleness crowning beauty forever a gift 

Whitewashed angel surfacing within ocean reflections bouncing back 
upon the butterflies wings landing Heaven's choir sings out crystal cut...

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Vineyards grow
Beside a meadow
A whitewashed wall
A little piece of home
A peaceful den
Where worries forgotten
A happy place
Where nothing could happen
Vacant road
Now overburdened
Dragging weight
Of hope uncertain
A lost few
Found life in dark
A violent crew
No where to start
Pillage insight
Eyes shine with glee
Inside laid hope
Helps fill the empty
Steals drawn
Sights set
Vicious hunger
The beasts never rest...

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The body and the blood
are of those who inched on their bellies
underneath barbed wire
and never lived to be born again.


Motherlands shackled at the feet of their Fathers.
Who mourns at their whitewashed bones?
Bleached by the desert Son,
Marked with unnamed crosses, they scream the names of Holy Ghosts.


In the silence, my thighs part like the Red Sea
my borders unguarded,
she drinks me
like wine at the last supper....

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platypus features 
      greasepaint pallor weirdo clown
              red nose big honker 
        outlandish shoes flail around 
         crazy hairdo balding crown 

               eyes evoke pathos
    whitewashed face a haunting frown 
               empty seats again 
          last show in his frilly gown 
         tattered circus closing down


TATTERS Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose
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