My half-sister is in Texas
and she cannot use THC.
Her mother moving her there
planted that dark seed.
I am fortunate to remain
where I can smoke it legally.
Their legislators are incapable
of seeing things clearly.
A park, fresh aired; and blowing.
Offers a friend's push.
The soul of a boy
Higher does upbuoy!
A green dark, thicker shaded.
Shooshes creek's own rush.
Though what scares boy more
Has just bursted o'er!
A homeward track; squelch by squelch.
Laughs with leaves down-flush.
Found; this boy at last.
As back from the past!
If through power of music
Soul's rising feeling
One vibrates in
Love's voice, heavenly relief
Itself does bring.
Despite lifting the mood of
A home's atmosphere
Am still earthbound there.
Bursted, brighter smiled when this
Angel-softness hear!
Not as that, sweet fountainy
Rainbow-shimmered
Sounding for whose own distress
A day's, rain-loud.
To be pitied, O, as much
The boy referred
Who strives to plug what aspects
A bursted cloud.
Sometimes love makes no wink a prompter
That steers nothing in proverb
Just as accusation bets to cluster
To course lie a divest herb
Sometimes love fears the acclaimed politician
In whom assurance is reach an Everest
Forfeiting the maimed academician
Which arouses hope but to shatter it
Sometimes love is cruel
To affirm its case off benefits
Bursted out of the duel
Wary of trust on high twists
Sometimes lust is loss
That looses heart's crown
For servant chances toast's roses
Rolling to set sighs off laughter fun
Sometimes love consumes
It costs aging kindness be thrust
To foster blindly for homes
And key the heart's distrust
Sometimes love fume to entomb
That gladden craze; fists doom pleasant
The untold fair treatment costume
Never ceased to coil craze just
Before that comes to being
One must have neglected many a warning
That signals letting go as bravery
Which would have been savory
Watch the doubler tongue
Foaming adaptively to stung
once upon a time,
May be the world was a dot,
Put in space by vast energy,
Where none of us existed at all,
That grew up in size by million emotions,
Putting on pressure to every point,
Where galaxies remained unknown to world,
Where oxygen and life flourished in steps,
At some point emotions bursted,
Control was lost by every piece,
Millions galaxies found their way,
To lit the path of life and light,
I was born far from that emotions,
To get the reason of explosion and bang,
But, still a joyful family and bae,
To explore the earth and milky way
Poetic injustice kvg .
Yes, I Remember Her Venomous Sting
The newfound rock the size of a baseball
I throw it into an angry window
To hear with bursted ear and see glass fall
This hunchback world what the hell does it know
People, crowding earth with their rabbled lives
Amidst this decay, this old dying heap
What of ones' life is happy, does it thrive
Or just a junkyard were rotten trash sleeps.
The newfound rock the size of a baseball
I am itching to throw and break something
Are my nerves frayed you ask, not at all
It is that I know the hurt of her sting.
The newfound rock the size of a baseball.
I throw it before supper mother calls.
Robert J. Lindley, Sonnet
May 14th 1972
Flipping back the pages of my time
I realised I messed up some times
Given a stage in a dance hall
But kicked myself hard in the balls
Wrecked in the shame of my fall
A loved one I can no longer call
I'm sorry for the truth untold
And for the lies that bursted in the cold
The lust that maimed me I allowed
An own goal that should be disallowed
The man in me drained and left me in hallows
It wasn't a game I wanted to play
Was a trade I thought we would gain
Faced with a scene that was insane
Ought to be a night of solace
But ended up a slap on your face
I know this apology is long delayed
I just hope it's never too late
I cant stand the shame I brought to your space
I apologise for the shame I caused
For the pain rather than love
Heartbreak and the rude shock
It wasn't what it's worth
Wishing I can do this in person
But can't stand the judgement of treason
I goofed, and I had no reason for that
No matter how long I freeze my woes within
My apology won't have the best of season.
I regret my actions and inactions
And I hope you heal and forgive me
I'm sorry please
Wasn't my intent to cause you hurt
She was hungry so was I
So we went to look for food.
We spot people who look her in the eye
And mommy thought they were good.
They gave her a pineapple
Which she peacefully ate
Though t'was a little hard to grapple
She gladly chew it down her fate.
Then there came a boom I solely heard
It was firecrackers down her throat.
Her mouth bursted, her eyes blurred
But I did not feel her loathe.
In pain she looked for a safe place
Thinking about her biggest fear.
She ran the streets like in a race
But my heart she can no longer hear.
She reached the river to ease the pain
And asked what's the pineapples worth?
My death told her not to suffer in vain
It's worth is heavier than my birth.
You are a sniper
You gave me equations to destroy the future
in pretence I embraced love with fear
just to hide from a dark cloud
I am not a terrorist
with hope in tears flooding my cheeks
I was denied and rejected by family
my grief and sorrow wisdom abode
you made me an orphan in my land
how many are you?
my heart bursted in a cage of furnace
cured with unlimited saliva
I worked super hard for a cent
just to support my best friend
she's now half a score
where have you been?
I neglected my faith for years. It was a planted seed that needed water and fertilizer to grow and bloom. When I finally nurtured it, it bursted up from the roots and has been growing ever since. It has made me resilient. When adversities bend me like a horseshoe, I don't break because I've surrendered to God's loving grace. My faith is now strong and unwavering.
I'm resilient
My faith is unwavering
Surrendered to God
My Faith Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Regina Riddle
Dates written: 07/06/2020
As stardust sprinkle falls
Across my eyes causing
Me to get very sleepy
While I slept
I had dreams of sugar plums
Dancing in the air
I watched and giggled
With excitement, like a child
My dreams are
Like a story in a book
Next, I had visions of Santa
Stuck inside a chimney with
Christmas gifts in his hands
While, the reindeers band together
To free him
I saw m&m’s candy
Break dancing on the
Dance floor
Spinning upside down on
Their big round heads
Chocolate falls hard and
Cracks her shell
Pieces of her were
All over the floor
Later, I was trapped
Inside of a giant bubble
It bursted, sending me
Sprawling to the floor
Which cause me to awaken
Foolishly I looked around
Thinking it was real
Thousands of people lay dead,
Countless corpses, countless teary goodbye.
Umpteen people are helpless,
In the hands of an invisible monster.
Places once bursted at the seams,
Has now turned into a forlorn, desolate place.
We are constantly fighting,
An inconspicuous Frankenstein.
Once called the "Queen of all Seasons",
Has now turned into a deathly realm.
When will this come to an end?
When will we breathe again?
But we are all born as a fighter,
Let us fight together,
To defeat this deadly monster coronavirus.
Till then, stay safe,
STAY AT HOME.
Lost balloons
Sunflowers blooms
Groundhog says spring is long
Iris
Daisies and dandelions florist
Sagebrush and Timber weeds
In the heated desert
Bursted burnt balloon
1/27/20
James Edward Lee Sr
Max is mad at Molly
Samantha’s sore at Seth
Freida’s freaking out at Frodo
While Hobbits hold their breath
Jack jokes about poor Jill
She hits him with her pail
Humpty cracks open Dumpty
For drinking all his ale
Mickey Mouse and Minnie
They both make quite a scene
Playful Pluto gave her paw
and stroked her jumping bean
Rub is furious with Dub Dub
She has another man in his tub
His bubble has been bursted
So he scrubs Dub with a club
Cats in cradles cows and moons
Forks running away with spoons
Coyote catches the Road Runner
In the end we’re all Looney Tunes
Nothing makes us happy
Sticks and stones me oh my
Kryptonic grade destruction
Broken Superman can’t fly
The Beatles Battled Yoko Ono
Because she broke up the band
They sang ‘Give Peace a Chance”
a dream they didn’t understand
So I walk down to the River
John the Baptist please begin
Separate me from human nature
Cause I’m tired of our sin
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