The Weight of Time
...(“Depth Psychology Merit Badge aka The Myth of Being”, 2015, original oil)
The Weight of Time
Experiences fall like snow flakes
Full and soft, floating down to settle gently
Building...
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Categories:
bergs, identity, memory, psychological, time,
Form: Narrative
Spring Giants
...I watch this high drama
Complete with giants,
Eventually, reduced by wind and waves…
Bergs driven south
Enter our outer harbor
Reach for a refuge but instead are
Grounded on massive, rocky sh...
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Categories:
bergs, break up, spring, weather,
Form: Acrostic
The Dogs of Spring
...THE DOGS OF SPRING
Days get menacingly long;
Pristine azure heavens feel the threat
From the sky’s cloud-throng,
Leaving shrunk icicles with wet regret.
Exhausted, the heroic shards...
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Categories:
bergs, animal, spring,
Form: Imagism
Artic Sand Dune Glatures
...ARTIC SAND DUNE GLATURES
sand ice-bergs sand dunes
a whole, awesome mountain hides
enjoying range hills
2/24/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2021...
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Categories:
bergs, analogy, mountains, nature, surreal,
Form: Haiku
Forces of Nature
...Hail Torrential Rain
Violent Storms
Raging Seas
Tidal Waves
Tornadoes
Thunder & Lighting
Thunder Claps
Lighting Strikes
Snow Storms
Snow Drifts
Blizzards
Ice Bergs
Ferocious Bush Fi...
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Categories:
bergs, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
Brighter Than the Stars At Night
...Brighter than the stars at night
Nature is colour, the vastness of space,
The roll of the thunder, the streams gentle waves.
Goodbye fellow being, be gone to the lost.
Cut down by life, we a...
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Categories:
bergs, farewell, humanity, light, loss,
Form: I do not know?
Within Unbroken Love
...that was night of round moon
fairy moon;
fully beauty
twinkle stars
were far away
white clouds bergs
were running without any cause
I was wandering,
wandering to the sky
weaved by th...
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Categories:
bergs, love,
Form: Free verse
Ole World Woo Is Me--
...OLE WORLD WOO IS ME--
…tender valleys molded clotted mounds of bergs;
Grasslands hilly breezes of summer’s burn;
Man unnatural forest bush fire,---
Rapidly the swaying trees do hide...
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Categories:
bergs, analogy, bereavement, world,
Form: Ode
How Deep Can You Dive
...this void is consuming my every bit of energy
preventing me from being satisfied
with anything my hand touches
arms expanding forward
I reach out to thin air
and grasp the emptiness floating
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Categories:
bergs, cry, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Blank verse
Goldie Locks Gets Another Visit
...Trudging through the snow, her cubs lag behind...oblivious
Haven't seen a seal for days, perhaps weeks
There are few ice-bergs left to hunt upon
Adrift in the ocean...think again
It's not a c...
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Categories:
bergs, environment,
Form: Light Verse
The Painter
...The painter
The sky this afternoon was odd clouds
looked as ice-bergs floating on pink air
the seagulls kept their distance.
A grey wolf scratches on my door
I let it in
had a leg of lamb it...
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Categories:
bergs, allusion, blessing, books,
Form: Blank verse
Cosmological Fantastical Imemorial Lil Opus
...aswirl within tremendous maelstroms
universal united uninhabitable cauldron
tempered with analogous:
outrageous, portentous
thunderous cacophony in tandem
with thick mucilaginous fog
metaphor...
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Categories:
bergs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
A Drop
...Deep in a dark cavern,
where dove morphs to raven
and flawless white it flaunts,
sullied in grim darkness
in that cave's chest,
i swell from a deep well
the source cursed,
not chilled bergs,...
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Categories:
bergs, dark, pain, riddle,
Form: Personification
Wacky Towns
...I've visited many towns and cities as I've traversed this old orb,
Their culture, their food, their beauty and architecture to absorb.
Istanbul, Tokyo, Athens, Casablanca and London I fondly recall...
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Categories:
bergs, city, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Deluge In My Heart
...A Deluge In My Heart
My heart is a titanic in the middle of the sea
Waiting for the ocean waves to rise monstrously
Emotions have now become ice-bergs
As my sightless heart crashes into the ber...
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Categories:
bergs, best friend, betrayal, boat,
Form: Couplet
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