LOVE-????YOU WHOM I
LONG TO HOLD
I love you whom I long to hold
Holding you it's not impossible
But I inhale when I look with my eyes
When I exhale I am not surprised
Because it's you whom I long to hold
I am holding you in my thoughts
I am holding you in my dreams
I am...
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Categories:
analogy, caregiving, confidence, desire,
Form: Lyric
LOVE-????YOU WHOM I
LONG TO HOLD
I love you whom I long to hold
Holding you it's not impossible
But I inhale when I look with my eyes
When I exhale I am not surprised
Because it's you whom I long to hold
I am holding you in my thoughts
I am holding you in my dreams
I am...
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Categories:
analogy, caregiving, confidence, desire,
Form: Lyric
Friends
Categories:
caregiving, dedication, friend, friendship,
Form: Acrostic
TOMBSTONE MANORA place of peace and calm
Miles upon miles of graves sites
Memorials telling their life stories
Souls lifted up to glory
Lived in the flesh
Endless rest
Sleep on in your years
You lived to preserver
Their tomorrows arrived
Now they slumber
Days, years and nights numbered
Their names gathered
Eternity mount
Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust
The Sun rises casting shadows over each tombstone
Smiles seen through...
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Categories:
care, caregiving, character, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
I Love You AnywayI held on all that time, believing your lie,
Thinking you were using me deep down inside,
When I questioned things you reassured me and made me believe,
That this whole time you were in love with me,
Just one question after I sacrificed my whole life,
And the response was I don't know if I want to be with...
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Categories:
blessing, caregiving, courage, devotion,
Form: Light Verse
The Mirror
When I look in the mirror, I don’t see me; I see who I used to be.
A little lost girl who was so abused and so misused,
so ashamed of who she was, so helpless and so selfless.
Yet somehow, she refused to give in...refused to give up on life.
Even though she tried.
She used her books to...
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Categories:
anger, caregiving, change, character,
Form: Narrative
I'LL BE YOUR EZER-I’LL BE YOUR EZER
Beloved my chosen our Father
Has placed me in your eyes
I am Ezer
Your promise
Your help
A beat of your heart
Your rib I’ve come from
You are mine duly chosen, I am beholden
I am the rib that protects your heart
I am the help it’s me, sent from God
Help that you can’t do without
Darling, beloved I am...
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Categories:
appreciation, caregiving, character, how
Form: Lyric
I’VE MOVED ONI’VE MOVED ON
They had me in a box I am movin on
I am moving on my Father raised me up
I am moving on I stand above the clouds
I am moving on was in despair
I am moving on I’m out of there
I am moving on graced and peace stares
I am moving on My Father cares
I’ve risin...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, beautiful, caregiving,
Form: Lyric
In a Coat of PainI’ve knocked on every door of medicine men—
doors painted with hope.
Swallowed pills of every size and colour.
Been told,
“This one never fails.”
Another promise—
fulfilled only in disappointment.
The body that once felt mine
now feels like a stranger’s—
still wearing my name tag.
I sleep early,
trying to rinse myself from pain,
but wake up
still dressed in it.
The coat I wear?
Pain-stitched—
by a tailor...
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Categories:
anger, anxiety, cancer, caregiving,
Form: Spoken Word
A Mother, a SoliloquyThe best compliment I have ever received is, “You’re going to be a wonderful mother one day.” I adore the idea of having children, treating them with love and kindness, nurturing and caring for them even when it’s hard. I daydream of dancing, playing, laughing, crying, and everything in between. In the very midst of...
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Categories:
baby, caregiving, child,
Form: Free verse
My Name
I want to buy a wardrobe,
And in it I place my name
In the top left corner
Of its darkest spot.
I want to buy a wardrobe
And in it put a billion chambers,
To keep my name safe
From vultures aimed
To pounce tiger like
And tear it into pieces.
I want to hide my name,
From the sadistic...
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Categories:
caregiving, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Fair in My Heart-Ode to My Grandparents
I was just a girl of six or seven,
Stubborn, wild, yet touched by heaven.
Mornings woke with fairs in bloom,
Joy would dance in every room.
Only from Nani’s hands I’d eat,
Her love was warm, her touch was sweet.
We'd stroll through lanes with hearts so light,
The world felt safe, the sky so bright.
But if she left for work...
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Categories:
blessing, candy, caregiving, childhood,
Form: Lyric
WITHOUT YOU-WITHOUT YOU
Without you it will be no Liberty;
Without you it will be no eyes;
Where I could see;
Without you it would be obscenities;
Without you there'll be no peace;
Without Elohim ;
there would be nothing;
Creator of all;
He's Almighty God;
All Father without there would be nothing
6/28/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025
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Categories:
analogy, caregiving, missing you,
Form: Free verse
I’m Sorry
Categories:
caregiving, depression, emotions, how
Form: Haiku
I LOVE UThree words so powerful that it sends us over the rainbow, I love you, can inspire our world.
Like the feeling of sweet ice cream, we love the words, I love you.
They make everything better, the words, I love you.
Like the smell of our favorite food can make us drool, I love you,...
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Categories:
america, caregiving, garden, god,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Caregiving Poems
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