PRETTY AUTUMN FLOWERS
pretty fall flowers
orchids golden ray lily
transvaal red daisy
cock's comb burning head
arum-lily dahlia
pretty fall flowers
chrysanthem bloom
yarrow, yarrow white flower
pretty fall flowers
9/6/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018
My soul was ruptured by crystal soprano
As I walk from door to door
Try to outpace my welling tears
Noble silver - perfect jewel
Reduce a man to burning fuel
Untill I spellbound dont exist
Your voice a bell , my disbelief
That could summon men to wander off
To dwell in wanton pergatory
and kneel in wonder of a eucharist
A radiant flame of holiness - an arum lily
The palor of thy countenance
Taste of Russian Ural honey
Lift me to the stratosphere
Never was heard a sweeter sound
I was born for hearing this
Surpassing every ounce of elegance
Surrender meekly to thy song of godliness
Remove the clasps of mortal chain
My fateful grip of lifes lust and see again
The twisted rag of martyred flag
Delicious breath of freedoms chant
I hoist my banner of unspeakable joy
And release the dove that tells my love
Those demons have been cast into the sun
A cloak, a staff, a crown
Too much the moment
So far I've come
Dream for me my watchmen
Dance for me my doe of spring
Rehearse my song -
The Beast is gone
A chorus of daisies that sing for me
philharmonically
Arum lily aria empowers me
The zest inside
Spilling over infecting one and all
I find your eyes among a million souls
Can it be true?
Oh only say it is
All this would be upon our reconcile
I imagine you
always, for the first time
burgeoning like an
arum lily
Some exotic flower
falling off the back-end
of a truck, floating
with the breeze
into my hands
I imagine you
as I do, in certain dreams
statuesque in your movements,
so float towards me
as a dream,
I am a non-existent entity
propelled by your perfume
and midnight gardens light
When I imagine you
eternally, in the mirror
of my eyes.
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