Best Earnestly Poems
From central part of whirling fast unsteady cloud,
I hear the sigh dissolve with many annihilated loud,
They want to swell certain promises truly bore,
Make earth anyhow sumptuous, inventive and charitable door.
It doesn't mean, what the world would give us,
Our dealing towards nation pride always be curious.
Forget not, took pines those providing this prosperity,
Inflamed torch link human hands aggressive honestly.
Must fade black force stunt diligent power stir mind.
And extend scope for wonder by questing regions blind.
Level debts upon soul, I earnestly advice,
Peg down the system limp just suggestive pattern choice.
Papa ...
Why build your walls so thick?
Did you fear the world would tumble in on you -
Find you as vulnerable and discomposed as the rest of us?
I think your TRUE battles - your wars - took place within
An Id so ambiguous and at odds with itself
That you drowned it in substance and sin and mortality
The edge of a knife too jagged for shrewd application
Visceral impulse, your fine compass
Those paths and bearings felt the prow of your words
Perchance the movable feast was NOT Paris
But rather the light in you - Paris as you lived it, in the rain
You and she, shining, in tremulous unison
Tapping keys with the lethality of your favorite rifle
The point of your pen invasive as any needle, poisoned
Ravaged and gored by the demons of night
Yet passed untouched by the bulls of Pamplona
Your world was raw on the half-shell
You, with Tabasco and a paring knife
Beauty found in muddy fields and mustard gas
As deep and compelling as a Caribbean sunrise
More taken by the grainy texture of a pear on your palate
Than by all the gods of humankind
And THAT, that easy allure -
That sublime simplicity ...
Is why ... I love you.
Written and submitted on November 24, 2019
For the "Your Favorite Artist" Poetry Contest
Chantelle Anne Cooke, Sponsor.
Hardly I think of you
Rarely I not pray for you
Honestly I just do
I so much always just love you
I can't bring myself
To deny what's this
It's you I insist
To be onto you,
Earnestly I ever so do love you
And as my beating heart
My lips so do part
speaking of the love of truths
To be onto you
I so much always just do
I just earnestly honestly so
Love you
2/18/2023
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
Like rare things not the secret be
i need somebody to come and set me free,
it's value-less when it was vividly clear to all
you shouldn't has think of it, not at all
you told me love is beautiful thing,
but all i can see is pain;
it's love illusion i recall
i really don't know love at all.
if you don't love me let me know,
if you don't need me let me go;
don't only hold me not to fall
love me earnestly or don't love me at all.
if you really want me to stay
show me your love and care day by day,
don't just show feelings through phone calls
show me your love or don't love me at all.
R-each the zenith
O-f your hope and faith;
W-ith love in highest degree;
E-very move is so great.
N-ow reach the zenith, rise above the crowd;
A-ugust twenty-ninth Tuesday, fly up and above the cloud.
P-ut your trust in God,
E-agerly pray underneath;
R-aise your wings and soar,
E-arnestly reach the
Z-enith.