We abuse, pollute and poison
to help us free our minds
pushing our bodies beyond all reason
a starvation of kind
the brain the all important I
the housing just a host
so when the self gives up on life
the spirit becomes a ghost.
Our buildings far from temples
though we think we are gods
the message sent is mental
our roles reversed for dogs
trying to climb the steeple
to dizzy heights sublime
the ink injection lethal
we can't rewind the time.
Sometimes I think if we had paid better attention to basic math
it would be easier to follow our hearts….
and the Earth would be one whole…
instead of broken into parts.
I imagine in elementary school we could not contemplate
the importance of basic math in terms of love and hate.
Even now I have to wonder: as to what might be your reaction
when I tell you love and hate come down to simple addition and subtraction?
I draw your attention to those math lessons…the ones on basic facts…
Love as a plus…adds beauty to the world
Hate, as a minus…subtracts.
And if I may take a moment to extend this view, this perception…this vision
love and hate also relate…to multiplication…and division.
Hate divides us, it tears people apart…
it separates us by color, shape and size
Love brings us together…
it accumulates…it multiplies.
Perhaps some of us should go back to school and re-learn our basic facts
because until their connection to love and hate…we are all able to see
The Earth will remain only a fraction…
of the whole Earth she was created to be.
What you said
Vs1
My hands are shaking
I light another cigarette
My heart is breaking
I wish i could forget
What you said to me
What you did to me
What you mean to me
Oh oh what you mean to me
Vs2
My eyes are heavy
I pour another drink
My stomach churning
I just don't wanna think
What you said to me
What you did to me
What you mean to me
Oh oh what you mean to me
Vs3
My head is aching
I pick up the phone
My body shaken
I can't be alone after
Whatyou saidto me
What you did to me
I don't know what it means
I don't know what it means
Bridge
Trading one addiction for five more
I just don't wanna cry
I'm falling down to the floor
That's when i decide
I don't want to die
Vs4
Self medication
No it will not be the cure
Heart palpitations
I just have to endure
What you said to me
What you did to me
What you mean to me
How could you just leave
How could you just leave
The newest addition to my family
My bro-in-law christened him Milo
Another named him Jimmy
He’s more like a Chuckie
to me—driving me loco
The greenest eyes
He’s pretty lucky
He loves pink salmon
and playing catch
with crumpled paper I toss,
the unwanted poems I scratch
Biggie (aka) needs weight loss
I tumbled as I stepped over him,
A simple little thing
By eliminating gravy ‘til he gets slim
Pet adopting
It’s what the New Year will bring
ADDITION SHORT
I was short on addition
And I couldn’t subtract the different
My heart and mind was divided
2-+2 was 4 no more
And I couldn’t subtract the different
Multiply the fractions rounded up to 8
2+2 was 4 no more
Had to take the eraser, wipe off all numbers and recalibrate
Multiply the fractions rounded up to 8
2+2 was 4 no more
My heart and mind was divided
Had to take the eraser, wipe off all numbers and recalibrate
I was short on addition
4/5/2023
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©Pantoum
ADDITION ADMISSION OF LOVE
He was honest
For within his heart, soul and mind he trusted
her name was Beautiful
He was honest
as he stared through her window eyes
loves passions cries
He was honest
For within his heart, soul and mind he trusted
12/18/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
Triolet
Let's start this meeting with the serenity prayer please
and then we'll read the steps and traditions there of to convey this
no cross talking is allowed so wait until it's your turn
to speak is to spoke of a time table
to speak is to spoke mathematically of a time table
speak is to speak of a spoken time table
mathematically is mathematically speaking
mathematically is mathematically a time table
addition of speaking is mathematically addition
addition of speaking is mathematically addition of a time table
addition is addition of speaking
addition is addition mathematically
addition is addition of a time table
time is an addition of time
time is an addition of a time table
spoken is spoken of a time table
spoken is spoken of an addition
time is a add-on of time
time is a add-on of a addition
a add-on addition is a spoken add-on addition
mathematically a add-on is a time table
mathematically a add-on is a add-on
mathematically a add-on is a add-on addition
time is mathematically a time table
Once the fool, I came to pass
Vowed I’d never stand.
Waiting for the silly ways,
Along a silver band.
Twice the fool, chastised myself.
Never shall I wait.
But here I am, yet as I sit,
Upon a golden gate.
Thrice the last, a fool no doubt.
Try no more shall I.
The loneliness, the darkness,
The fool no more shall cry.
ADDITION MEAL
Alphabet and Number soup
If one plus one is two
And two plus two is four
What is four plus four?
ATE!!!!
?
11/7/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018©
Selfish addict
I wanted everything
Trying to please everyone in glory
I don't wanna be selfish anymore
Let my pride come in the way of love
With fear constantly calling my given name
For i don't know who i am
When will i stop with myself
This is not who i am
Exposed heart, life isn't what it seems
God hit me with a passion that will bring me to my knees
How can my heart understanding the pace of love
I don't wanna do religion
Draw the line i can no longer take it
Oh God
I don't wanna be selfish
I want to be loving unto them
I want to be beautifully addicted to love
just the same ring
with a round of row zees
awash manicured lawns
with generic grass seed
that doth spring
to life with synthesized,
(yet deadly) chemicals meant
to guarantee wrest
ting control might and subdue
so nature forced
to become nsync from in vest
ment plot purchase
as proving grounds to test
a money bagged well paid
laborer at leisure time
sprawled asleep in comfy hammock
a much needed self deserved rest
whereat successful proof
evinces "American dream"
no matter quest
necessitates becoming linkedin
with fast paced lifestyle
attendant ulcer inducing "pest"
keeping up appearances,
where younglings nest
scolding woe begotten kith
if flawless grounds get messed
by clod hopping kids and/or smart pets
upsetting calculus figuring formula
determining trigonometric
landscaping tangential
to maintaining perfectly
squared off turf especially lest
the neighbors cease becoming hospitable
and stop offering gold plated invitations
to such honorable humble guest.
No addition,no where else.
Whether it is right or whatever.
Who never climbed and did not descend.
That's the kind of addition you are.
No addition, no where else.
I found you in the wee hours of sleeping addition.
Things you get in my addition to drown me.
Look at me when you go,I'll be here.
You are laughing too a drug addition.
Your meeting is also an addition.
Where else would you tell,I met you like a drug addict.
No addition, no where else.
Whether it is right or whatever.
Math Birds Colorful
pale vision of sum
the addition of all the
colors dividing
painted on fractions
brillants multiple into...
peacocks algebra
colors divide
all birds counting fowl into
math answers flying
all birds colorful
outside of their nesting
bird mathematics
pale vision of sum
brillants multiple into..
math birds colorful
2/20/18
written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018©
Away from tireless desk job i.e.,which obliged
swearing allegiance, fealty, loyalty within complex
edifice, where obsolete quaint rubric, schematic,
thematic mantra "We Bring Good Things to Life,"
met with gnawing, emerging, chomping
objectionable quandary. The sedentary station
exhausted, milked usurped mental energies
linkedin hinged upon the figurative linchpin
sans contractual mandates. Steady employment
obliged conferring, forsaking, invoking credo,
ethos, hierarchical jujitsu marrying obligatory
penance requisite at General Electric, (which
daily tasks borne with gravitas witness
to crunching numbers vis a vis from gifted
mathematical application, and scientific mind).
Thus decades on end, my father remained
steadfast on this straight and true decree,
whereby dad (analogously applied his
Semitic nose to the whet grindstone)
applying inherent and learned math
ematical/ scientific principles respectively.
He made excellent use of mechanical en
gineering degree (earned free of charge
at Brooklyn City College viz Veterans benefit).
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