masqueraded as you like it
most cleverly wooed under a suitor's guise
played up most compelling disguise
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
G-ood
L-ife
E-mbraces
N-ew
D-ays
A-bout
C-herished
O-pportunities,
L-etting
L-ively
A-ctions
D-efeat
O-bstacles
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Monocrostic (Birthday of Glenda A. Collado)
Much I marveled lament a favorite kiss
The beautiful amity a beautiful bliss
And the embrace never-ending cuddling
That moment my soul grew laid
While I pondered wandered wonder romance and shade
What could there be more purely displayed?
Parade
And as lovebirds never coquetting, unbaiting
While we pondered worn and renegaded
You warned me about the shade (once more)
Deep into that finish darkness flaming
All impaired infatuation incorporating
As my whole soul within me shaming
How will I be claiming, proclaiming inflaming?
Love as natural
Compelling gave
Love is a
Parade
11/2/2022
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©
Compelling rapture, laser beam
It is our wake up call
Benign bliss currents within stream
In this storm, we stand tall
All’s enabled, here now
If free will does allow
Love magnetism to wow
Thought cannot capture
Compelling rapture
23-March-2022
Quietus
it's always been a mystery
why i am so moved day or night
at the sound of native drumming
when loudly my heart thumps in rhythm
hammering logic with every beat
stirring deep primal emotions
awakening dormant passion
releasing unchartered tension
setting free inner vibrations
beneath layers rising chanting
echoing way inside my head
is something more mysterious
than rumors of previous lives
they say we are meant to have lived
i ask why do i resonate
with the heart of a native teen
when riding a river by canoe
haunted by the call of the woods
enamored by nature's wild scent
the water the sun the forest
and the grey heron in full flight
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
A vision legendary among Native Americans...
glimpse her in your mind’s eye
young Shoshone woman
with a papoose on her back
stands on a precipice
surveying the wild panorama
Her presence treasured by these explorers
she who guides them across the west
human drama wraps around
Sacagawea-- destined to survive
in her people’s imaginations
so enigmatic, simple, safe
Envision this mysterious legend--
a female, intelligent, pregnant
walking along the Yellowstone River
looking as if a native princess
translating to the tribes
fearlessly saving the expedition
To notable explorers Lewis and Clark
Sacagawea is survival
Captain Clark calls her “Janey”
how he values her acumen
If you listen, you can hear her...
in the wind she whispers,
"Everything I do is for my people."
watch her walk into the misty morning
pursuing the future
Difference between crazy wildness and genius
may be soundness of deeply revolutionary resonance,
win/wins discerned and discovered
through transparent co-arising communicants
within a symbiotic multiculture
of appositional paradigms
co-gravitating me/we consciousness.
I can't say for sure
as I live in a less win/win intentional,
more win/lose conventional,
tribe of mutual thoughtful secular knowledge
v felt sacred wisdom,
each mind v body
denying our complicity in BusinessAsUsual
v HolinessAsUnusual
cognitive/affective dissonance.
Difference between angsting cognitive dissonance
and anticipating affective assonance
appears to be a resonant not null set.
While we take pleasure in the glory of the Lord’s handiwork
Satin’s tireless henchmen seek prey in unlikely places
Compelling the hand of God to run his fingers over the earth
Visual 2 For Andrea's Sijo contest
Compelling and Swelling
When you have something to do which is compelling
Will it always seem like your head is swelling
Like poem wanting to come out and be written down
Which sometime in life may become world renown.
To write poems as hard as I can will always try
But what you should do is significantly simplify
So I never, ever will create some scene
And make it easy to create icon on my screen.
Now a whole lot easier everything will be
And I will not feel trapped and finally free
Much easier your program I can utilize
More quickly than you would ever realize.
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Fear, always a compelling and daunting adversary -
To sanction fear in my life is to reject the power within.
That I am made in the image of God, I must believe!
~*~
The sky is a shade of dark grey now
It seems as if our depart has caused this terrible scene
Adjusting to the fact that you aren't right for me
I can recall the day you told me that we would never work out
My brow arose in an instant
My heart fell burning with shame
I had gave you everything
My brain knew this was for the best, but my body did not
It craved him with all my being
My body longed for his touch, but I new it would never be found
It made my soul crack in an anguishing anger
My hatred for you flared intensely as I cried day and night
My mind is racing, tracing, and erasing the thoughts we once had of each other
I walked into my mother
Not paying any attention
I was too busy thinking of you
I decided to talk to my mother for some closure
Just to decide this was for the best
Driving up the coast, heading home
I notice your car out back
I walk up to the door and in a breath
You are on your knees
Begging please
I look into your eyes and for a moment I think you might have changed
But to catch a quick glimpse of compelling satisfaction in your eyes
I walk away, to awake out of this dream
I remember the time-freezing moment
When Lieutenant Dan made his peace
And opened the dimension of gratitude
The audience experiencing the quickening
I myself have come full circle
And found a tranquil harmony
No longer griping about the government
The church, or scapegoats on TV
How immature for me to think
That fairness grows like a flower
Our souls MUST experience injustice
The reference point of abuse of power
Without a garden of universal cruelty
How could we ever understand love?
So with a heart of gratitude I give thanks
For the blossoming of this compelling bud
Islamic,
Fundamental morality,
Based upon human sanctity,
Where a person follows,
A principle of welfare,
There he confirms,
What he eats or
What he doesn’t eat.
A Halal as he confirmed to eat,
Where an animal dies,
As blood flew out,
From a cutting nerve,
Very slowly in drops,
Death takes patience.
That believes,
Meat is free from blood.
Islam warns a Muslim,
If he is Muslim,
He is n’t allowed to suck blood,
Not only for animals,
Also for innocents,
When a person does believe,
In his massage of God,
Where he is saviour for all?
When his believer challenges him,
He comes without any notice,
To deliver him a punishment,
A man must need to learn,
Who is obeying his rules?
Otherwise, God who believes,
In mercy and forgiveness,
Allah couldn’t be so cruel,
When his followers are in discipline,
Taking a fast for their goodness,
And they feel their impurity.
He came to deliver Earthquake,
To kill Thousands,
Why did he do that?
A Person needs to learn,
Who is compelling him?
To deliver such disasters,
To treat a human as enemy,
Or to treat a person as friend.
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