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Premium Memberslide

pursuing my goals
one step ahead two behind …
life’s moonwalk
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Categories: slide by, change, life, perspective,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberDipping in to Slip Slide Away

Time drips drops of sorrow like engine oil. 
It coats the gears of yesterday's labor, 
keeping grinding on forward in a regular way, 
slip, slip sliding away.

Tears unbind the spindle of memory’s wheel. 
Dreams, frozen in candle wax, melt in the sun’s heat, 
causing memories to slink and drip, 
slip, slip sliding away.

Hands clutch hard,
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Categories: slide by, care, courage, creation, proposal,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberAs The Dewdrops Slide

Genesis 2

As the dewdrops slide down the tomato
Silent thoughts turn to you 
How you love to plant a garden, eat
The fruits, but not a stew   

God planted a garden for man
Man was given a command
To tend the grand garden planted
Now what happens to the land

Husband of mine still tries to tend
While scientist still
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Categories: slide by, blessing, food, husband, summer,
Form: Free verse

Rye Flower Dance

Seclusion forms into a mountain, 
Practice acceptance of my reflection, 
Eye contact with the water of a fountain. 
Time refuses to push forward if you stop counting, 
Acting seconds out loud, 
Life can never falter if I’ve got nothing to amount to. 

I’m trying to make sense of the seasons, 
Claimants of my portions try
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Categories: slide by, absence, abuse, addiction, age,
Form: Free verse

Poblano hoyt tah Mussie SON OF A BISQUE

128 Gallon of Milk


"The unique medium"
Castile Dermal they spoke
as his name. They said he was
an original person
with some great ideas.
He refused to see past
the frustration
of the word can't. Some saw him as
a great person
, nut others either
needly wished him
to fail or go away.
He would use his knowledge
of science to
make better conditions
were historically
people who had needed
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Categories: slide by, analogy, beach, celebration, culture,
Form: Ballad



Premium Memberlike the ocean

love is always loving you
she says
like the ocean loves the waves

but the road to your heart
is rough a/f
not for the faint of

it's dangerous, too
not many would dare

so many beautiful places
blocked by so many
rock slides
you can't get through

is it too much work
to clear the way

or easier 
just not to feel

love is always loving you
she says
like the
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Categories: slide by, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSlide

On the monkey bars,
riding that see saw;
Always wearing a 
devil may care grin,
Life is a playground;

A game of tag 
that person’s it;
Hide and go seek 
in play at dark;

Laughter whirls
on swing sets 
whimsical; 

Wild turn
about …

slide!
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Categories: slide by, emotions, feelings, happiness,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

Did I catch a electroshock after sliding down the slide?

Could it be,
that you smiled at me?

Or did,
my brain formulate a kit?
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Categories: slide by, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBLACK SLIDE SLID-

Became because
Background bedbug
Boldface bookcase
Blackmail blacklist
Misspoke backstroke
Bellboy below
Blacksmith bluefish
Backside backslide

4/1/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
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Categories: slide by, adventure, analogy, caregiving, work,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberA Downward Slide


Birth to death is a downward slide
Notice the signs every day
My luscious hair is thinning rapidly
Muscles are starting to decay

Eyesight's caused me to wear by-focals
My back's in perpetual pain
Haven't had to use one of those walkers
Don't have use of my brain

On the bright side still alive and kicking
Though high as I once did
Keep exercising and
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Categories: slide by, age,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTectonic Slide

Humming in the air 
the edge of the cliff echoes;
Raised tectonic slide.
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Categories: slide by, music, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberZippily

Zippily, zippity, I slip down
the slippery dip slide.
Zippity-doo-dah, slippily-dippity-do!
Suddenly and nippily, tipping 
backwards to quicken the pace.
Snappily, I whippingly 
swish right off the end of the slide.
I launch into space,
Fly high in the air, arms wildly flaying
like a rocket man on steroids, screaming.
I land with an awfully 
painful jolt, snap and thump. 
Woefully my aplomb
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Categories: slide by, flying, games,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSlip, Slide, Away

I let it slip away.
I held the hand for
as long as I could.
Too weak to draw the
dangling body up.
The hand became limp
and cold, lifeless,
clammy in my fingers.
The head below was hanging
down impervious to
my warm tears streaming
down from my face.
What more could I do?
Exhausted, hopeless, done
I let it slip, slide, away.
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Categories: slide by, depression, hurt,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSurreal Slide Show

I was strolling aimlessly in a park,
where first month pearl leafs swirl,
in a thriving suburb of rapid transport,
transport by urgent deadline promise,
transport by magenta sky vision,
peach tint clouds whispered dream treasure,
watercolor mural boundary abstract or askance,
figment in a coalescent daylight amber moon,
and chalk mark street mosaic,
indigo flotilla of imagination starstruck,
belle chime peal hint from empyrean
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Categories: slide by, beautiful, beauty, birth, character,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberDownward Slide

GOOD
Virtuous…Forthright
Serving…Praying…Loving
Saint…Paragon…Murderer…Liar
Slithering…Salivating…Hating
Slanderous…Sneaky
EVIL

8/8/2022
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Categories: slide by, america,
Form: Diamante

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