America rewards Putin for naked aggression
excludes Zelensky from negotiating sessions
Trump now says Ukraine started the war
a boldface lie the world will pay dearly for
Europe’s poised to fall again
thanks to a modern Neville Chamberlin
Categories:
boldface, america, betrayal, international, trust,
Form: Couplet
Became because
Background bedbug
Boldface bookcase
Blackmail blacklist
Misspoke backstroke
Bellboy below
Blacksmith bluefish
Backside backslide
4/1/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
Categories:
boldface, adventure, analogy, caregiving, work,
Form: Footle
If only your heart could hop, as a frog
to aim away from the tedium of the daily slog.
Allow love to be the genuine treasure.
Your selected spot atop the magic tether
Trying to outlive your expected lifespan
power with full belief, as an amphibian.
It linked choice and chance in dancing.
Alongside, a dreamy lake of romancing.
An ocean of words is now utterly dry.
Each phrase exists under the sky.
I have viewed them dying in my mind.
No path out or hope, I'm fearful of what to find.
Flow and feelings were obsolete.
You'll be dying laughing as you start retreat.
This is the writer's "block-mayday" warning,
when ideas become too thick for moaning.
The firm-moving hazes took a scenic route.
Amid the chaos, cinders crumble into the soot.
The spirit is gone round on by a whirl of time.
In quest of the North Star in the beauty prime.
never-ending race-attempting dashing.
to draw a fictional approach to finishing.
wiping your eyes and setting boldface on it.
Whatever transpires, foster hope and wit.
Written: November 27, 2022
Categories:
boldface, analogy, appreciation, heart, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Not all the soldiers have returned home,
even the owling wind has a reason to weep;
Cynthia's legs start to shake, she had little sleep,
her dark hair is flapping, pain chills to the bone,
And this heart-torn mother hides her tear-drenched face
within her cold hands lamenting his loss and wit;
Robert left years ago to serve his country with grit,
wearing a boldface admired by all for its enduring grace.
" Son, you honored commitment and valor more than life,
and in giving it up for a nobel cause you earned your glory;
I wanted to embrace you and feel the same joy of your wife:
four arms hugging you making that moment last an eternity."
" Brenda couldn't come to greet you, she's expecting your baby
and she always wished he would have those gorgeous, cheerful eyes
and the charming smile of a caring dad who was called for duty;
we expected to hug a joyful son and husband, not to bear sad news."
Categories:
boldface, courage, death, father, grief,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Sunset
Deep into that darkness sun setting
the termination brought such sorrow
Sky - sky - sky! Lo lowers in the skies
my mind always strays to space darken now the sunset
It was out of place, boldface, sly! yon moon
through which came segmenting, segmenting, segmenting
Goodbye, goodbye! Says I to the sun bye-bye
The homesick horizon hooraying
The splendid sunup shuttling now lowering
Only this and a sundown towards the grounds
While I pondered, last and rundown
Instead I uncovered the astronautics
The moonlit midnight maneuverings
In there stepped a blue sputnik Russia calling…
The soviet plot unsettling America was leading
And the spacemen never cutting
the tin never putting, moon rocks and butter
only this and a sociology
I awoke and flung the realm
Frozen plutonium ice cream?
I crave the current, celestial close
somewhat louder than the prose
to warn me about the day
I crave the sub terminal, Shavian sunshine yet sets anyway
Night has dawn
Light has fallen
As the sun sets…
8/13/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2019
Categories:
boldface, adventure, analogy, sky, sunset,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Master reaping, fear is seeping
You will die before the dawn
Sneaky weakling, Horror greeting
Never to walk the earth again
Soon to be out of life
A provision of brutality, till you’re out of life
Sunken eyes, cotton mouth, splitting skin
Whimper like a dog
Patronizing wrath, demonic eyes
Liberating yourself with consequence tears
Any last words before you die, any last words before you die
Drugged with melting poison
Swollen veins oozing out pain, vessel sickness
Strangling your heart, suffer on the floor
Sinister aggression to a boldface liar to all
A broken mold of a body castded away
An issue to life lays dead
Categories:
boldface, fantasy,
Form: Free verse