Aunt, her twenty-something nephew, his grandpa:
It’s after dinner as her nephew tells her, “Mom’s
making dinner but I’ll have a taste,” A couple bowls
later, my nephew and Dad viewing news flashes
coming at them like strobe lights: Carter funeral,
Trudeau resigns, VP Harris certifies her opponent’s
win. Her nephew’s tall stature, shoulders shaking
with familiar giggles (he’s moving in a couple days
to begin real adulting) and he says, “What is this!
I’m going to have to watch the news more often!”
It’s begun already, his days of “The Office,” behind
Him…no, they’re just beginning.
Tune perdendosi purple evening ebbs decipher
Out blotted skies swaddle boats’ cosy slumber
Burst fish femme fins, her brave roe survivors
Immense installation certifies cosmic number
Koi silk sway exhales eggs painless, float lazy
Overlapping orange spheres, sunshine daisies
Tadpole transforms, one prince among spume
Ad interim mermaid melody, in dusk dissolves
Injection unguent jelly, elusive musical neume
Lavender everlasting, ripe ova reptilian evolve
10th February
Mermaid Quite Contrary
anything
on the eyesight
brings a knowledge
apparently; then supplies
a chain command to our sense
of acceptance; then our sense makes
an activities in our brain with some logic;
sometimes this logic certifies these in
practical sense of our mind; if the
insightful mind is prepared by
itself wisdom then it accepts
these beautifully
otherwise it
leaves...
-May 29, 2019 Chattogram
My eyes look for you;
My heart bleeds the truth,
My spirit enters your soul completely.
My body longs for you;
My mind knows none but your grace-
For you are the reason God created love.
So, come here and show me the freedom you desire,
Bestow unto me that passionate fire you require.
I used to fear tomorrow, yet you rescued me from misery,
O, you my sweet beloved, are my perpetual mystery.
For you are the reason God created love.
Be my Capricorn and I’ll be your Aries for eternity,
If by some chance you fly away, please return to me.
I never knew how much I craved for your starvation,
O, you my sweet beloved, are the reason for my creation.
For you are the reason God created love.
Your essence embraces me;
Your hands hunger for my touch,
Your arms long to hold me endlessly.
Your gold ring certifies forevermore;
Your beauty shines with mine.
For you are the reason God created love.
You are all I ever dreamed of-
By doing the above,
Reaching up…
You complete me.
March 18, 2019
You Complete Me Contest
James Edward Lee, Sr.
Jobless failure life
Although not lazy
Active life spend I
Thirty two years young
In others favor
After Study
Institution
Certifies me
As graduate
But for job
Interview
Traps my life
Failure
Loves to
Fail!
-November 29, 2018 Chattogram
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