Best Hillside Poems

( Mum pictured in her Welsh costume on St David's Day)

I wrote these words to fit the well known Welsh song melody 'Calon Lan' as in the audio above.

Wales to me, through childhood vision 
calls to mind a country home,
full of welcome and adventure
where I...

Continue reading...

Replenished with rain, it rushes on,
Its brown water pours and spills
Like vinegar from the pickle bottle,
Tumbling over, bubbling through
The jagged jumble of rocks,
Those early plants pushed aside to let it pass,
Its running melody ringing clear,
Competing with the robin’s call,
The stream pushes on, its cheerful song
Belies...

Continue reading...

Upon the velvet hillside
and in the breeze that swirled,
I gazed down on the valley
and lavender unfurled.

I felt you deep inside me,
you stirred me with sweet song
along my spine a trickle like 
a brooklet skips along.

Your fragrant spice within my breast
that teased my senses raw,
your touch...

Continue reading...

I stand alone on a hillside barren
Of trees and rocks, and similar thing,
Once they were lush with foliage green
But now they are stripped of everything.
Ancient mountains verdant ripped away
The price of greed more than evident,
By harvesting narrow top seams of coal
Crushing heavy equipment came and...

Continue reading...

The fresh air delivered no scent at that dawn,
When i was awaken without single yawn,
Saint trinity's bell was sharp-slicing through mist,
The last of the doubts in my dazed mind was gone
        By all that is holly I wildly...

Continue reading...

I

A stand of timber
Each tall tree
Talking with the wind

II

Clearcut
How quietly the wind
Blows

III

Thousands of seedlings
Planted one by one
Reaching for the wind...

Continue reading...

Suh yuh gaan, walk gud ... up the hill again
Nuh worry bout wah get leff pon line
The likkle bway will bring dem out of de rain
An de rest of wi will just be fine, fine
Yuh hear. Dat hill slope all de way up to high
But...

Continue reading...

-----------
On the slope of the forest where the nightingale nests.
There, on the downhill,
where is a hundred-year-old oak tree.
Barely embraced by your tender arms.
In Hadrian's shrine shade.
*
Our garden is right there.
Your embrace is a garden to my being.
Shelter for the soul, 
food for the body.
The game...

Continue reading...

THE CHOICE OF THE HILLSIDE

God did not choose a mountain so lofty and so high
To be the place of suffering whereon His Son would die.
God did not choose an island so far out in the sea
Where Christ would pay the ransom and die for you...

Continue reading...

Bottle a vase Full of Flowers Picked from the Hillside - A Haiku

hillside steep flowers 
green bottle stands placed in vase
flowers picked placed

all arrangements in
inside of a bottle green 
swimming in water

while outside all’s wild
betrayed by birds steep flowers
they pick, pollinate





8/4/19
Written words by James Edward...

Continue reading...

As she sits alone on the hillside watching the sunrise
Silence is golden, movement is absent
Upon the grassy fields she sees shadowing darkness
The freshness in the air surrounds her intensely

Silence is golden, movement is absent
Dawn breaks, the skies come alive
The freshness in the air surrounds her...

Continue reading...

HILLSIDE And  ALBATROSS A Haiku

cliffs black blue strata
hide grey in the undergrowth 
albatross dying

6/13/19...

Continue reading...

Hillside Dairy Cube - A Haiku

inclement hillside
a single, joyful cube skips
whilst watching the cheese

steep stoppage hillside
around, dairy pebble stands
beyond the hillside

5/2/19...

Continue reading...

Water falls off the hillsides;
Vapor mistily spits drops;
Within the moment of sunrise;
the lightening stops;
~
Water rains down again falls;
From the cloudy skies;
Evaporates air, dries;
Thunder shakes and stalls;


6/3/19...

Continue reading...

steep snow storms hillside;
as excellent lorry prowls;
under snow showers;
~
mountings blizzard storms;
covering grounds hills valleys
accumulated 
~
white dust sparkle specs
falling downward down to ground
steep snow storm hillside


1/25/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021







...

Continue reading...