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Treasure Chest

To find my hidden treasure 
No need for a tape measure
“X” does not mark the right spot
Treasure hunters get one shot

Unravel my hidden code,
and watch my treasure unfold
The key is words you utter
Express, exclude the clutter

Experience grown riches 
A broken heart now bridges 
Unlock yourself at my dare, 
at our reward we now stare 

Open my chest, find my beat 
Drum with me a love so sweet

Copyright © Just James | Year Posted 2016



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Love Vortex

love bleeds into me and now becomes life 
 Light fractures into rainbow’s  not  hate 
   Warm rises  from  my  lonely black  
     Rain summers life from past cold  
       Old  tear  filled  eyes  now  dry 
        Soft dreams make me young 
              Single    was    hard       
                 Two now pair 
                     We’re one 
                        Love 


” spiraling effect” of vortex by antonyms in following line 

Copyright © Just James | Year Posted 2016

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The Penguin

It is so simple its black and its white 
Make a simple decision wrong or right
Every new day you chose your path to him 
or maybe you take an ice cold love swim?

So many but only one with your ring 
Your love struggle is beginning to sting 
Look deep  into your heart and see my face 
It should be easy to find my embrace 

a Penguin is so simple and so sweet
Never seeing any reason to cheat
For ever and ever a simple choice 
Your decision is something to rejoice 

This decision brings you so much tension 
Why humans can’t even do "the penguin” 


- for Jan-

Copyright © Just James | Year Posted 2016

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Age of Innocence

He seems dizzy and sometimes very still, 
yet she sees her father’s hand leave his will 
and then connect the cheek of her mother 
Yet still her eyes lead back to her father 

Every night she sees her mother’s pain tear 
It runs down and is wiped away in fear 
Her cries fade with the colour of her dress 
The bruises on her mother signs of stress

Every day a child errands to the fridge 
The key never to spill even a smidge 
Her toil seeks to release his broken heart 
and reveal to him his little sweetheart 

Nothing can change her one love endeavor 
Her daddy’s love her target forever 

- inspired by Nicola's poem-

Copyright © Just James | Year Posted 2016

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Code Red

Syrupy smoke leaks from her corner lair 
Ruby red lips lick your name in the air 
Short skirts lead any man’s mind straight to sex 
Probably any man’s instant reflex 

a Black short dress covers something in red 
Back widow spiders share this fateful dread 
Long nails mark her toxic territory 
Enter her den and your end is gory 

Her scarlet smile painted in most excess,
Beware this code for your later distress 
Webs of streaming lies entangle your fate 
Caution your minds state; never take the bait 

A smarter man would have played simply dead 
Heed code red, you may already be wed!

Copyright © Just James | Year Posted 2016



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Pokemon Go

Pokémon Go! please! 
My life now in freeze

Copyright © Just James | Year Posted 2016

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Garbage Man - Satire -

Busy shadows follow him on his route
Eyes collecting people dressed in a suite
Every sweat filled day he tells his story
His love’s labor for family glory

In his job syringe needles are not strange
Trash piles giving us a life in exchange
Pill boxes color putrid plastic bags,  
torn and ejected body’s broken rags

We must remove what life has rejected	
For families we mend lives affected 
We endure when families are in need 
Much more than just our families to feed

We deliver no matter the day’s length 
Families depend on their father’s strength

Copyright © Just James | Year Posted 2016

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Hot Sauce

You tantalize senses
Breaking down defenses

You sting to attention
Breaking all convention 

Caution this spice of life
She will not make a wife

Copyright © Just James | Year Posted 2017

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Phoenix

All human life on earth starts in a school! 
In my case I was born just left of hell 
It was a simple time but not that cool 
This hell was time spent in a hot jail cell 
I went and suffered on my own through it 
Hell was about soul survival, not strange 
Hell did have this one thing going for it
It was a time in my life of great change 
Basic painful change is all I could see 
I think it could be the fire burning part 
In a way this was maybe good for me
We all hate to change and make a restart 

Again, I think it’s the fire burning thing 
But Phoenix had more surprises to bring 

My small world became a much bigger space 
This was the time I discovered schoolgirls 
a Schoolgirl did not have a woman’s grace 
but newly discovered power that twirls 
Almost like a boy with a BB gun 
Unfortunately I felt their focus
Maiming with no regard and just for fun 
Resisting their girl power was hopeless 
This dangerous girl behavior left boys, 
hormone affected and with fearful scars 
They did not realize feminine poise, 
and their girly ways left boys seeing stars 

Boys were toys and fun for a single day 
They polarized boys closer or away 

Schoolgirls had developed body buffet 
I was drawn to this newfound girl candy, 
in n moth-flame kind of a fateful way, 
forced to band aid rip my eyes off Sandy
Speaking; walls of China to overcome 
Yet I needed to open my Colgate, 
but words got stuck in my boy bubble gum 
With corporal punishment a pain fate, 
we did not question we just noticed breasts 
This obsession became a migration, 
but teachers had this thing with passing tests 
This interfered with my destination 

Burning in girls flame game a man collected
They Phoenix-ed the man my wife selected

Copyright © Just James | Year Posted 2016

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Just Smile

You agonize over your body shape 
and stress about eating a single grape 
Every new mirror day you try to change 
This unhappy concept is for me strange 

Your organic DNA your parent’s gift 
Is it your very life that you would forfeit? 
Embrace your true precious genetic worth 
Your reflection is a present at birth 

Acceptance of who you are is the key 
Nothing else could ever be as sexy 
Pick up your heavy brow and notice me 
You’re a princess and this I can see 

No weight scale can ever try to measure 
Your smile your only true happy treasure

Copyright © Just James | Year Posted 2016

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