Became distinguished each flower petal,
And with many people they may mettle;
Soil sticking;
Some picking,
Then laid on ground and soon did settle.
Jim Horn
DISTINGUISHED PROSECUTION
The more you look at me;
What do you really see;
For if I am all I am meant to be;
What are you yet persecuting me
11/7/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018©
Distinguished D.
Deeply, deliberately,
Diabolically,
Despicably,
Disturbingly,
Dubious
D.
Daring,
Determination
Dwells
Doubly in
Dangerously,
Dervish
D.
Deeply
Disturbing,
D.
Determines
Dastardly
Deeds.
Don't detour
Determined
Distinquished
D.
Pall bearers in uniforms, tall and erect,
Taps resonating; eerie, their profound lament.
Freedom lay in your skilled hands,
Troops skirmishing in open fields; brothers, a band
Defend and protect was the charge that day,
Bloody the battle that took your life away.
A casket draped in red, white and blue;
Hands over grieving hearts, in honor of you.
Cannons and rifles, a ceremonial salute,
An act of pride and dignity resolute.
January 29, 2017
The laurel wreath
Bestowed on victors
Every four years
Blood, sweat and tears
In Pythian Games
Honoring Apollo
At Delphi onto Greece
In a classic ceremony
The corruptible glory
An immortal crown
Prized to artists
Public officials
The poets of Rome
And here at home
A rebirth of antiquity
With Apollo's oracles
Music and poetry
Prophecy and medicine
Things of God as things of men
The reform defecient renascence
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