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Flight

Flight by Terence Cummings-Smith,
I ride the path ballistic,
        in a screaming, scorching arc.
From perigee in flaming hell
        to apogee far beyond Arcturus.
Neutrons and tachyons spray,
        from magnetic nozzles.
Through burning twisting vortex,

Categories: ballistic, science fiction,
Form: Blank verse

Ballistic Beautiful-

Sticks and stones may break your bones
Promises game Amnesia clones 
Dying in a crowd life alone
Laryngitis quiet a video phone
Painstakingly separated brokerage
Twin birth anxiety twerks
Like in a marriage For Better or For Worse
Beautiful ballistic


3/28/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr  2020

Categories: ballistic, allusion, confusion, corruption, pain,
Form: Free verse

Ballistic

I know a lot of people hate on me 
Yeah it's okay 
I know I'm not the perfect person
I make mistakes too 
Because I'm human too 
But it's not right 
I can't stop thinking about all the stuff that goes around 
You've got me fuming
This hatred I keep consuming
Man I'm losing myself
Man the way that

Categories: ballistic, abuse, addiction, anger, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Healing Ballistic Vistas

Speaking for myself,
at my WinWin best,
My ideal learning life classroom
is outside
in mountain sage
and pine
and birch forests
overlooking a considerably more Pacific Ocean,

Relieved of burdens for future
climate pathology.
Necessary and sufficient
for this WinWin day,
this breath,
this leisurely  walk without undue weight,
And perhaps another
after sufficient rest
from LoseLose unrest.

Where I am OK
not to get perfect WinWin scores
if right and left

Categories: ballistic, anxiety, conflict, environment, health,
Form: Free verse

Ballistic

what breach of faith
has time wrought?
like cannonballs
through ramparts and walls
each day bores on,
unflinchingly through page after page
of sickening drivel.

the sun contentedly wallowing
in its yellow sty turns over
without a snort.

at day's end it seeks other fields
to root and hog.

(undated 1979)

Categories: ballistic, angst
Form: Free verse

Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile

How to make the deadly seem less murderous,
ICBM, AIDS, HIV,
ICBM, AIDS, HIV,
ICBM, AIDS, HIV,
ICBM, AIDS, HIV...
Acronyms make the fatal commonplace,
Eviscerate the emotion, like machine code,
Surgically remove  the humanity...
DOA, MIA, CCF,
DOA, MIA, CCF,
DOA, MIA, CCF,
DOA, MIA, CCF...
Pretty soon nothing will be real,
And fear will be devoured by letters,
We will smile by the bonfires...
CJD, FAM, ME,
CJD,

Categories: ballistic, history, parody,
Form: Blank verse