Trident of Living
...Yesterday is wrapped loosely
in the barbs and silky vapor of memory
Tomorrow is a Mahogony wall of steep hope
slippery anxiety -
the what if ascensions and virtual vertical falls
the Present is...
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Categories:
ascensions, life,
Form: Free verse
contemplating poetic mission
...like the full moon
seeking fulfillment
there i hung
dangling in space—
half empty—half full…
gradually
the tell-tale linking
of the gibbous moment
of truth’s awareness
came in the still o...
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Categories:
ascensions, allegory,
Form: Free verse
the ponding - a period of deconstruction: A Boketto Poetic Form
...an artesian altar stocks
moist manna seized in vast rounds
twice arrested sights cascade
moment instills
reawakening
a sheltered reckoning breathes
no regrets prepped ascensions
~a...
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Categories:
ascensions, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Other
TWINFLAMES
...TWINFLAMES
Obsidian oscillated into lava
slid across syntactic streams
tumbled thick greenwood thickets
impenetrability an intricate illusion wicked
sha...
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Categories:
ascensions, allusion, blessing, character, deep,
Form: Alliteration
A Song Of Gratitude
...In the tapestry of time, where friendships bloom,
Mes amis, like petals, dispelling life's gloom.
Brothers, firm anchors in the sea of existence,
Une soeur agaçante, a tempest, a relentless insist...
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Categories:
ascensions, 11th grade, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Baxter Street Monday
...Anti-Poem — “Baxter Street Monday”
me trudging walking
gripping onward forward
traipsing baxter street monday
and its steep inclines
going up like a dizzy sparrow
passing vertical merry go ...
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Categories:
ascensions, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
Of Blind Cocks
...Of blind cocks
that crow at dawn
Dyeing, drying on
the thorns of humanity
The Blood of non-creation
and criterion of a nation insane
Inhumane and decimates
to the red strains of Children’s...
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Categories:
ascensions, absence, abuse, age, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Fork In the Road
...Widen the chasm
casting call for choice hoped dreams
unbound ascensions...
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Categories:
ascensions, adventure, appreciation, perspective, power,
Form: Haiku
Embraced High In the Arms of My God-
... I have climbed the highest mountains
I have stepped into the lowest valleys
my ascensions high
my devotions high
In my Lord my God
my sadness I lay low twix the horizon
Embrac...
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Categories:
ascensions, america, analogy, bereavement, caregiving,
Form: Light Verse
Send It High-
...I have climb ed the highest mountain I stepped down to the lowest valley
My ascensions nigh?
My devotion it's set on high
2/3/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...
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Categories:
ascensions, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
No Theme Chosen Mankind's Spiritual Quest
...No Theme Chosen Mankind’s Spiritual Quest
An Acrostic by James Edward Lee Sr.
Numerous articles feature.
Other characters feature.
Traditional absolutes overarch.
H...
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Categories:
ascensions, analogy, appreciation, engagement, humanity,
Form: Acrostic
Peeling Back the Bubble Wrap
...Peeling Back the Bubble Wrap
Peeling back the bubble wrap on the ancient of days,
Back to when Nixon was still presiding,
He, leading with paranoid deliberations,
Sold his yeses to the Goldbr...
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Categories:
ascensions, remember,
Form: Free verse
Why
...A friend asked this simple?? question,
which provoked this universal answer session.
Why wake and get out of bed each morn?
My goddess!! I adore each fresh dawn.
For starters - there's life,...
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Categories:
ascensions, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Frank Lane 1877-1913
...Frank Lane
1877-1913
RS was my best friend,
A friend ever to the end.
Together we footed and mounted
The pliant limbs of the Hybrid Tree
On County Road,
And wetfully whistled,
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Categories:
ascensions, death,
Form: Epitaph
Ode To Tropical Island Loneliness
...Oh Sweet Island! Thou tropical paradise:
Miles have I traced upon thy ceaseless reach
Of ocean-choked shorelines owed Heav’nly device
Sheltering I, this marooned guest on thine endless ...
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Categories:
ascensions, loneliness,
Form: Ode
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