The night begins to darken.
One by one, the gentle stars
Softly appear before my eyes.
For you, who will someday leave me,
I quietly write a poem here in my room.
Looking out the window,
For you, who will someday depart from my side,
Just as I try to confess my heart to the stars—
Suddenly, from my eyes,
Tears seem about to fall.
The night grows deeper still.
As all the lanterns of the world gradually fade away,
I look upon the very last flickering light,
And as I try to turn off my own lantern,
My heart bursts into tears,
And even the stars drift further away from me.
Black darkness crest
Mountain's breasts
Covenant dressed
Parallel valley crawls
The blackened fleeting moth
Falls lights turned off
It's evening dusk
His darkness demons confess
Midnight dreads
No shining of light
No longer bright
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Pit in my heart Dark Knight
Warrior dark
Midnight black darkness
Mountain blackened crests
Warrior alliance best
12/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
sky darkens
as fuji grumbles ~
signing last postcard
AP: 1st place 2020
the road through
red autumn leaves
darkens her trail
Winter is also celibate. The conscience is moving,
A frozen light in a frozen eye. It's raining much looser,
Down a ripped tree. I couldn't have,
I couldn't have, in this sin-sick tenderness.
___
My face is cracked in my fawnlike fingers;
And the nose betrays an inner child, who
Wouldn't listen to sparrows about being catched.
I just insisted fur was wings.
___
The feminine chill on the palm must be sorrow;
When I think of church bells, or mother-
That I am haunting as raw love.
The sun shines no more
with my eyes closed
but all i see reflects
with no light on
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