Best Engaged Poems
In the good and bad times
It's a lack of friendship sometimes.
On a new year's birthday
it's one less friend
with a nice word to say.
A lot of talking on the net
all engaged to a web.
Friendship colour changed
as a chameleon with no face.
In the good and bad times
we look at many sides.
We open our heart
for the ones we trust,
we give a soul's part
to be treaten unjust.
In the good and bad times
we look for friendship signs,
but in the meanwhile,
we search among the lines
carefully, for the good friends
not to expect bad ends.
Looked at the obituaries
saw that I was dead
Thought I felt tired
so I went back to bed
Try to call my number
but it was disconnected
Maybe it is for the best
now I won't be suspected
Going to the drive through
my order did not go far
Apparently for the drive through
you need to be in a car
Told my pooka friend Larry
I just couldn't bear it
Larry smiled and reply
I like orange carrots
I daydream nightmares
while I'm wide awake
I collect broken snow globes
cause I don't like to shake
Lava Lamps bewitch me
slow globs colorful glows
Chaos in a bottle
that never overflows
Tanka
Folk Heads Down in Flocks
waders stoop heads down
feeding uncoupled in flock.
like texters bowing
heads down to worship screen folk
disengaged with here and now
Heads Down, Engaged to Screen, Remote
Like waders at dawn sifting mud
with heads-down stance,
Modern folk in flocks with heads down, peer at screens
With thumbs a-tapping, eyes engaged
with friends on screen remote
But what of the here and now?
Those poor folk you are with, are ostracised,
displaced by 'You've got mail',
subplanted by there and then.
It is worrying how screen worship
has become such a priority.
It is infectuous when others all around you do it.
Interuptions to conversations now an accepted interlude,
not seen to be rude, when message calls
with bongs and rings,
demand heads-down bowing stoop
to worship screens.
There he blows
on his way to the gents
Book in hand
we all know
this is where
he shall be occupied
for the next half hour
Imagination envisages
him making himself
comfortable
There for a duration
Intent on sinking
his teeth into several chapters
of the latest James Patterson
Belt slowly snakes
to the floor as he sits there
concentrating
on task in progress
with trousers half mast
supported by knees
Book on lap
A certain familiar
thunder echoes
through the house
Stench slowly seeping
through under door
Leaves mum running
for the air fragrancers
Doors and windows
are opened as mother
tries to ‘air’ the house
as she goes about
her business cleaning
the house until it shines
bright as a freshly minted coin
Eventually father emerges
Fresh and relaxed
Missing one gas mask
Mum trepidly takes a breath
and dives into the bathroom
Intent on finishing her work
disguising Dad’s omissions
Bathroom engaged again
Mother’s work never done
and yet as she vacates
a beautiful flowery scent
followers her through
The empty room vacantly awaiting
Welcoming next guest.
Strong waves batter the lighthouse; these are soldiers engaged in fierce battle.
The obsessive narcissistic lover of hers
climbed the hill of challenged.
Beating his head against a brick wall
for his pure love was damaged.
Whilst meeting they seemed to get along,
with common interests per usual.
Neither proudly advertised;
for this was unconventional.
Upon leaving he stirs and slurs,
left alone she questions again.
Uttering muttering "women",
naming blaming "men".
Pick up their phones to call now enraged,
only to find each other engaged.
THE MONARCHS ENGAGED US
The monarchs engage us. We amazed them. We’ ‘the colorful butterfly people'' saw silent fluttering hovering overhead, their duty to the flowers n trees was now shared with us, eight colorful and vibrantly intoxicated them with our passion fruit. We amazed them, we the beautiful colorful, butterfly of people...saw silent fluttering, hovering overhead. Riding on our rhythms as we danced. They remembered us from millennium's ago. The butterflies thought we were amazing. The butterflies danced with us... We think they watched us watching them. And then joined in; they were riding on our rhythm, that music that we vibrated through the air, the lake was also keeping a beat with the chopping waves. As 8 black women celebrating life...out in the woods, suddenly bonded with the butterflies. Monarchs on a mission, swarmed on us like friendly bees dancing in formation;
We unknowingly extended an open invitation.
They danced over us excitedly to: rolling on the river…
Obviously, ‘the butterflies thought we were amazing''!
The monarchs engaged us... We amazed them... Their duty to the flowers n trees now shared with ''the colorful, people they saw. We saw them silently fluttering, and hovering overhead. Riding on our rhythms as we danced, they remembered us from millennium's ago with us... We think they watched us watching them. And then joined in, riding on our rhythm, music vibrated through the air, the lake was keeping a beat with the chopping waves...8 black women; ‘’dancing to our chosen selections, celebrating life...dancing out in the woods; butterflies converged on us like sky swans diving in formation then hovered. It was then we unknowingly extended an open invitation… obviously, ‘the audience of beautiful monarch butterflies thought we were amazing''!
As we danced and sang to the SUPREAMES.
If I was engaged
Could I be enraged
Depending on how I was engaged
I have been engaged
Was never enraged
Wed the lady who I had engaged
My fight was engaged
From being enraged
The fight to which I was engaged
The Hedgehog wedding was the talk of Dry Gulch Creek.
There were moles, badgers, chipmunks and mice that squeak.
Cheering commenced when the bride bent kissed the groom.
Then the couple took a giant leap of faith over a broom.
The bride was a hustler, the groom was a cook so great.
The provided their guests with veggies and rib eye steak.
Heinz 59 said the bride, nothing too good for our guests.
Wedding party agreed the food they served was the best.
You have got yourself a great man, the cousins told the bride.
The groom’s cousins were giving the bridesmaids fancy eye slides.
By end of the reception, three more couples were engaged.
I guess being married to male cooks is now all the rage.
A true sense of love isn't a fluttery feeling,
It isn't easily enamored or your heart thumping or your thoughts reeling.
It isn't that someone has captured your heart or captivated your mind,
It isn't that you adore how sweet their words are or that they're one-of-a-kind.
These descriptions above are happy, are good -
But a true sense of love is one that still loves when he or she is in a bad mood.
A true sense of love doesn't wander off when times get tough,
True love sets out to find that diamond in the rough.
If a true sense of love comes easily to you, then you're in luck,
For I have struggled to remain hopeful when my emotions get stuck.
Pursuing to truly love someone brings you face-to-face with yourself - and you
uncover how selfish you can really be -
I have been loved in a true sense of love and this has opened my eyes to see -
How truly fortunate I am to have found someone who will love the deepest parts of me,
the ones that not everyone would be willing to love -
the ones that, sometimes, I wish I could be rid of.
How lovely it is to be loved in a true sense!
How I would like to love better with or without recompense...
Youthful Israeli embassy couple,
almost engaged,
gunshots fired in the May DC eve,
murdered sweethearts,
hate, it never pauses,
almost had hope,
shalom to the world. ~
Real Not Fiction
A hole is a hole said the Mule
As he stuck his stump up a slapper
This saying was mirrored by another
Who told a story of his friends
And what recently happened
One long term friend has a gal
They’d been together 7 years
And planned to get married
Spending a lifetime together
Already lovers and more
You know how it goes
So to be happy in bliss
But a big problem arose
Another old school pal
Caused a fuss with the gal
Who was a guy before!
So now you’re a gal not a guy
How did that come about?
A trip to Thailand and cash
Lots of cash from her rich family
The school pal seeing the gal
Wasn’t aware of any of this
Just that he was in love
Happy and going to be married
To a gal who was once a guy
He was oblivious to this
Unlike the other ex-pupil
They gave the gal guy it
A week to tell her fiancé
All of the truth of they’d do it
I told the pal who knew them all
Make sure the guy who
Knew them all
Never killed the gal
Who was once a guy
Like the American one
What will happen
Within this week
Happiness or war?
A hole is a hole
Even if no kids
Reality not fiction
The Mule was right
Your new fiancé is displaying her diamond solitaire.
She is so happy while traveling almost everywhere.
So you’re tying the knot and getting married away?
I’ll bet you can’t wait until that happy day.
The important thing to remember when you propose
is that the ring goes on her finger, not on her nose!
i was clothed yet bare
footed I went outside in
my front yard i walk
~
on the grass to a
tree I opened up my arms
and engaged a hug
8/9/23
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023
Shinning brighter than the rock on her ring finger
Trust thicker than those thighs
Diving forever into the depths of your eyes
Heels on and all the curves are real no warning so I had to cuff her at my own risk
And “love” has failed me a couple times before so I had to cut down the caution tape around my fractured heart, in order to cut in and ask her wings
can I have this dance
Then tell her if you give me a chance we can fly past the clouds
First time I saw the ring I knew it was the one just like the first time we came together I had won
She is my queen, my answered prayer
Please forgive me if I stare I know it’s the first date but I was so unaware that God was going to bring me you
I saved up two years from the jump; I saved the movie ticket from our first date to give to you on our last date
It was different and like they say sometimes you just know, and her eyes never lied, your silence told the truth from the beginning
I hope that by the end I was everything I wanted to be for you because you deserve heaven on earth
Yes it has been rough sometimes but you can’t get a diamond unless you dig through the tough
Yes I get mad at my boo but I could never stay angry with everything you give and bring me
You melt me to a point of weakness that is only strong enough for us
It is hard to do things without you now a day but together the world is ours, the moon, and the stars
Down on one knee for the first and last time
Never looking back because my queen is in front of me
p.s. happiness feels a little different now that I am betrothed to thee…