Home
Home is more than just a house.
It is a place we can be our real selves.
We can dress causally or not at all.
Listen to our favorite music at any volume.
Have several partially read books lying around.
We can watch TV or write poetry.
The list is endless, but the best part is
home is truly a place to live.
Categories:
causally, home,
Form: Free verse
"Emotions connection vesting liberation
Expressing beautiful sense of trust
Comfort and freedom in someone’s love presence foundation
Basking in their warmth touch
Consensual sensual love course
Causally I set my mind to the wind
Cordially my heart’s eyes see visions
A deep and heartfelt understanding glean
Conveys of sense of ease, and trust
Joy in your presence tense moist
I love you yes
Causally I set my mind to the wind
Cordially my heart’s eyes see vision quest
Continually wrap your arms ream around me
Caring and engaging embraced yet free
I love having you around
I’m spirit surfaced
Placed in vessel once fallow grounds
Continually wrap your arms around me
Caring and engaging I am free
Basking in their warmth touch
Emotions connection vesting liberation
Expressing beautiful sense of trust
Consensual sensual love course
Comfort and freedom in someone’s love presence foundation"
8/13/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2024
Categories:
causally, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
When in love, you gift a red rose.
Red roses symbolize passion and desire.
When in love, your heart drowns in passion and desires.
It's nice to gift or receive a red rose when you're in love.
Red roses express your love, so don't gift them causally.
Red roses can be vain and refuse to be gifted casually.
If broken-hearted, pluck the petals of red roses,
Because now you are loveless.
Categories:
causally, desire, love, passion, red,
Form: Free verse
A little conversation and a cup of tea
A cube of sugar with cream to please
Speak of the weather, gossip causally
A little joke more silly than funny
Talk of a book both forgot to read
More conversation and another cup of tea
He married her how could that be
The dog had another litter of puppies
Share a secret which is extra juicy
More conversation without the tea
Laughing to tears getting lively
Say something it's not believed
Suddenly it seems all was to deceive
Time for everyone to get up and leave
No more conversation and a cup empty.
Categories:
causally, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
I needed this so much.
A little alone time.
Designer jeans.
T-shirts printed with out the blue sayings.
A moment to ourselves home alone.
Wasting time just you & I.
Causally stretched across each other on the couch.
Commercials filled with Wal-mart families.
Insurance companies. Lawsuit claims.
Your sugar fills the space between shows.
Your head leaned back on my chest.
Neck twisted in a kiss.
The TV more so watching us.
The wait of working all week for this moment of relaxation.
The anticipation of butterflies, late night texts.
The vintage shows we grew up watching, still our favorite.
I really missed you.
Your shoulder my favorite pillow.
The extended twenty-first question of our 21 Questions.
Sitting here with you.
Soon to fall asleep with you in my arms.
To wake up and do the same exact same thing.
To let you know that I made it home safe
Categories:
causally, black african american, black
Form: Free verse
Just jumping in.
Everything comes to a halt.
The first few moments don't seem as bad.
Depending on length.
The line of cars.
In a sea of metal
Something wow happens.
Metal crashes into metal.
Causally passing by.
Everyone is okay.
Making sure to see what happened
They drop speed.
The police attempt to make it through to the scene.
Little to no debris.
No never-mind to the expensive cars brought to a halt.
The Mercedes Benz, the Porsche out of place slow moving along.
A Black Nissan Sentra with two kids playing in the backseat.
The other side is free to go as they please.
Compared to most places this is nothing.
Try New York. Atlanta. Texas to name a few.
You just jump in, moving from point A to B.
Life is admittedly too short to walk a great distance.
A two car pileup a few miles ahead.
Bumper to bumper no one gives space to breathe.
A Cadillac honks in frustration.
The Black Nissan honks back in attempt to get over.
Inching closer to maneuver it's way in front.
After everyone takes a glance at the pileup.
Traffic is back to normal.
The two kids continue to play like nothings happened
Categories:
causally, black african american, life,
Form: Free verse
Her lips take me to all of the places that I haven't been.
My tongue peeking from behind teeth.
The secrets inspired by us and us alone.
Exploring the world with our eyes closed.
All at once.
We too leaned against the cathedral
The very moment our eyes opened.
We wore each other's look.
Suddenly surprised at the places we came to be.
The sights we longed to see,
Now our favorite.
The bongs our heart made,
Discovering how big Ben really was.
The chimes always with us.
Through her shoes I felt her heart race.
Opening my eyes once just to see what beauty looked like.
This infatuation wrought in iron.
Stacked high to establish how far up we've come.
The lights that causally lit up along the way.
The fold indented in her neck.
The way she couldn't pace her breath.
81-stories up.
Our tongues the guide which produced the path we walked.
Convinced that we were the silhouette cast from the buildings we admired.
We pulled the shade on the Windows of the world.
Discovering something much more.
The sunset in each other's eyes
Soon as we opened them
Categories:
causally, black african american, black
Form: Free verse
The black clouds are abundant this warm, August night....
An approaching summer storm slowly makes it way past...
I can smell the rain, yet it's not quite here.
I hear the distant thunder, as lightening's shadows casts...
It could go around us depriving us of rain...
It could dissipate before it's fury slams and tosses us...
It could simply disappear showing naked, blue skies...
It could pass by like a stranger on a crowded bus...
Oh.There's the cool wind. Are you coming soon?
Are you coming to drench us, or will you just causally loom?
Categories:
causally, life, weather,
Form: Free verse
Sheep gathered in the moonlit field, as I watched from the grassy hill...
I tried to be silent, stealthy, and crouched; remaining perfectly still...
The hunger swelled up inside me; urging me to kill...
Tonight I would eat well...
I would get my fill...
Instincts took over and I began moving in; looking for the young and weak...
I spotted a lone, lost lamb in the grass, and I proceeded to causally sneak...
I felt no malice, rage, or blood lust...
Only an urge to survive...
But when I suddenly heard the man yell, "WOLF!"
I had never felt more alive...
Categories:
causally, destiny,
Form: Free verse
He waded through the salty water…
The constant breeze pulled in the waves…
The full moons light danced upon the endless sea…
In the nights beauty he was bathed…
Although his heart and mind was troubled,
This scene always calmed his soul…
He let all his darkness drift out with the tide….
With his mind void, he causally strolled….
Categories:
causally, beauty, sea,
Form: Rhyme
As I stood out on my doorstep,
these figures caught my eye,
two women on opposite sides of street from each other,
but it look like they were walking side by side.
On the far side was a younger women,
maybe in her late teens,
On the near side was the older one,
i'd say mid to late 50's.
I don't know why but I stood there and watched,
as they both walk on by,
Just looking at the differences between them both,
imagining life through there eyes.
The younger women stood tall and proud,
as she causally strolled on by,
With her slender body and really good looks,
she tuned at me and smiled.
The older women walk with her head to the ground,
at a fast pace it looked like she walked.
With a plump round body, and bright red face,
she never even gave me a look.
Now if the roles were reversed,
would it be the same,
one walk proud
and the other in shame.
Or is there another factor here,
that only one perceives,
the old are wise,
and is the young are just naive.
After all the streets they walk,
aren't the safest place to be,
not in this town anyway,
labeled one of the worst in the country.....
M.Mahauariki © 2012
Categories:
causally, funny, life, people, women,
Form: Rhyme