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The Orchid's Death

...O’ withered orchid; once
A blooming child devoid
Of weary, standing ‘midst
The evening sun, beneath 
Its golden smile–now
Thy leaves of deathly bronze
Decay, sinking coarsely 
Beneath the frai...

Bad Writing

...I press keys in a language I’ve borrowed.
I did not create its letters nor learn 
them on my own - or birth the ink 
that stains this page.

I did not mill the paper I blot,
only coarsely abuse...

That Dark Ink

...That dark ink with which you were written
burning so coarsely to leave you with
a calloused and thoughtless destiny
comes now to pickpocket all your smiles
all your loves
and loves there were to...

MUMBLE-JUMBLE DOCTOR'S NOTE

...Written on coarse coarsely written
Mumble-jumble
Words can’t sway, nor delay
Huh!!! Doctor's note


2/28/29
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
...

Clinging to Words

..."Love you a lot."
Words never said with honest hands.

This devilish lip-service
conducted
by defrocked priests.

I will not love myself
until,
I find you in a hole
I also can jump into.

...

In the Footsteps of Christopher

...("The Heart of It #2", 2007, original oil)

In the Footsteps of Christopher

The Bearer of Christ
As man of form and formless spirit
literally, figuratively, coarsely, subtly,
bringing ...

From the Earth's Depths

...Written: September 24, 2023
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In the dawn-like haze—a shriek was heard,
An echo so shrewd, yet birdless, oddly slurred 
I...

Bed Used Without Permission

...So, you thought you have the right
To in my bed pass a night,
Not alone, with your lover,
Vulgar love-making brave,
Sensual pleasures coarsely crave…

You have my mattress defiled,
All night r...

Plum Blossom Haiku Ii

...Are you the butterfly
while in my dreams
I flit after Soshi?
—Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

It's not at all anxious to bloom,
the plum tree at my gate.
—Kobayash...

Trespassing Herdsman

...Ibrahim saw Abraham try to spit 
But about the rudeness thought not a bit:
 Herdsman coarsely attacked with a spittle
And it had no meaning or just little,
Whereas it was Abraham’s wished battle
...

The Writer In Me, Wants You To Know

...Gold or gladiolus or golden sapphire fine;
Delighted, even if I divine light define;
If, like an orange, the details I do not peel,
Will my rhyme-lyric like an angelus-bell, peal?

Like a discip...

Admonishments

...If I could remember the admonishments
of the gods,
then stalkings 
by the fabulous four,
pestilence, drought, flood, and famine,
not to mention the universal decimator war,
would reduce me to a...

Garden Path

...as if Monet had planted water lilies in Babylon

          hanging gardens at the heart of a canvas of joy

                    hiding despair at Speaker’s corner in Hyde Park

debating journey...

Benediction To My Deux Daughters Verse Number One

...(Thy lovely lasses unwittingly 
unstintingly unexpectedly 
taught me selflessness)

Every Holiday time each year, 
a rocketing increase asper
doling out Uriah Heap ping 
largesse imposed upon ...

The Picnic

...The little pygmy named Pixie Poggly was quirky queenly quaintly and quickly, but rarely ever really did much can't you see.

Until one day, a raunchy rascal quaintly and shrewdly, Skinny and slippe...

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