I DESPAIR
I despair
Was sorrow
Led me to your knee
My cheek won quiescence
Though my heart
A hunted hare
Did not share this stay
My courage once true
Has beat a hurried retreat
Your eyes I would not provoke
My undressing
To cast upon the wounds
I champion here
And I despair
Resolute, my devotion
My soul conquered
A driven stake
Flies your standard clear
To know another bested me
Without need of staff or blade
The formality a duel declared
Will curse my name
Now must I bear
Through bloody battle
Through weary journey
Was your heart
Not metal plate
Blessed me safe
Your sleeve held near
Nights I could not wait
And I despair
Your silence is my shame
Your tear has drowned
A flame I know we share
And I despair
He was perceived inadequate
Acostic and accused interactive.
Convicted guilty the free will
Unapologetic even still
Shown bested to be a king
In his own mind such a thing
8/29/26
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2026
Dr. Frankenstein surely tried
to make, for his monster, a loving bride;
but the woman he produced,
could in no way be induced
to marry a man with a brain, sub-par,
though she said one thing bested most, by far.
sorry, I was here first, she said, plopping down
the mouse was irritated, at this person, new in town
she looked like a human, they are arrogant you see
think they deserve better than you or me
He thought of biting her arm or leg for a bit
She smiled at him then, that intelligent chit.
He smiled back, and found another mushroom house.
Knowing he had been bested, that humble mouse.
Failings are what i owe
Sorrows are what is in tow
Mournings are coming to and fro
But a light shall pierce the shadowed veils woe
Bested by guilt
But drawn to lies
Inner peace escapes
Peace's bonds that ties
Frantic for glory in an over glorified stage
Meddling the words forgetting to turn the page
In sight of the conquest but forgetting that you're free
That with loved ones, here and now is the place to be.
It vexes me
I toss and turn
I cannot find the words to describe the beauty in sight
For I am a humble man of ink
New words have to be created to describe the fraction of the beauty that you are
But alas I do not hold such power
For I would have created a whole library
Just to describe your beauty, my love
Forgive me my love
For I cannot describe your beauty to the unfortunate who didn't see you
Else the Emperors would have cried and gave you their empires
Just for you to be at their funeral pyres
Some say Aphrodite cried the day the Titan made you
It broke her, it made her irate
She punished the Titan severe
But the Titan was rhapsodic for he knew he bested her
And so you came into this world
Amongst the quarrel of the Gods
Like a ray of light
In my empty life
Soft lavender dreams wafting in air
Cuddling my nose my eyes my hair
Sleep is the door open to fantasies
What will I see in tonight’s reveries
Will I be well rested when I awaken
My heart bested by desires forsaken
Will I feel red lovely warm sensation
Like I’ve been on a tropical vacation
I refuse to believe in nightmares again
I run my dream world in it I’ll always win
My muse is asleep and she’ll wake before
I’m ready to part with my pillow and snore
she could hear the skittering and scratching around the oak
her allies and army were readying themselves, squirrel folk
She had been raised by them after being abandoned by man
Squirrels were at her ready, when she gave the command.
Some call her Anguish, but she is truly full of love and joy.
She had been raised by the curly-tails, a young girl and boy.
They showed her how to use her feet to run around trees.
Living in the forest with these creatures, was a breeze.
Squirrel Girl was ready to begin her new battle cry.
Thanos was after her, and she kind of knew why.
She had bested him along with her squirrel friends.
The confidence she had was enormous, it would never end.
trying to disguise or hide my dinosaur
made my mind weak and sore
I tried to camouflage him as a tent
hundreds of dollars not aptly spent
I made him a costume, dressed him as a tree
He laughed, danced, wiggled, and said “look at me!”
He spoke English? This was an enormous shock.
I had brought him from a Swede way down the block.
Why not let me be me? The dinosaur suggested.
This idea had all of my ideas totally bested.
The neighbor kids now come over to play.
Each one walks Dino on a different day.
soft and spoiled
devices well-oiled
spoonfed babble
in protests, they dabble
convictions untested
by reality bested
today’s mudslingers ~
tomorrow’s right-wingers
Paul Hogan now..A battler thats true' tall tails and long days,
The crocks could tell you.. Also' painter on the bridge
Over Sydney town, tested and tried.' Yet still not bested.' The taxman wanted to make him
Pay up' yet in the end?? Houges; just shot 'em down.'!
I bought the world.
Can you see where the merchant likes to sit?
I wanted to buy, that strange thing that pearled.
I offered my heart
but it wasn't enough.
So, I offered my spirit,
for they should never be apart.
But he would not trade for it.
The shady merchant offered me riches in gold.
envy of people, a life that was bold.
"Please look away!"
he said as my gaze fixed on the globe.
but I decided to say
despite the questions he would probe.
I could see deep into the ocean's waves
and smile at the creatures she saves.
the lives that flutter and pass us by
the wings that soar and touch the sky!
I wanted it to be mine!
I offered my breath
I offered my Time
I offered my death!
"Give me a name."
the Merchant requested.
"I have always been the same.
But I want to be something new.
I want to be you."
that is when I knew.
I had been bested.
My name is yours to hold alone.
and then, my words turned to stone.
I traded and won.
now before my life is done
remember the place where oceans waves curled?
In that place and when I was young, I bought the world.
To the treasury note i lost with
I was without exotic notes
Taught in hardened testaments for quote
And speak of troubles i would have
Save the bested efforts tilled by young
Haddingstone and young it was
Countered verse lustra’s bugs
From grand ire back long to nepal
She granted means
Leaving no measures
Destroyer of rain
Remover of wash
Sleeping sees
Ossian’s loss
burried and cured in sod's wallowing gallow
ground as tender flower of wonder
reading worlds into the hands
mired in swallows and clawed
she began trunks of brooches
for her second son
to flee the falling failing rakes
bested in deserts earthen ovens
rebuilding the gingers shant, easily
carnate fury, easters menage
blurry tests to bleak to smear
exposed to a heartless ember of septs
reticent snakes frail and drunk
back to the chest my second sons hum.......
county claire, connaught, easter risings
sub test
bested friscans, outed
not a vow about it
sheens and dreams
cameroon once held blooms in truth
never hid out in bosnia long enough
with opened hands
looking be kind at him
israelly waters eyes so himilayan
an trapped
too wrapped in his daughters heyday's
brazillia soo wild and repressed
from americaint pick up the bodies
melted frets in my brush
strokes forgetting
english frustraiting the curved bowties
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