white
buffelo
clouds
tall
switchgrass
that
tickle
the
ocean blue
sky
but
underneath
the
other
domain
the
wild
prairie plains
Categories:
domain, image, imagery, imagination, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
G-ood
I-dea
N-urtures
A-rtistic
D-emesne
E-levating
V-ivid
I-magery's
D-eep
A-ccount
©bfa042325
Monocrostic (Birthday of Gina Devida)
Categories:
domain, birthday,
Form: Other
The Domain of Fear
The Devil and hell, all Christians would agree,
Are the fate awaiting non believers like me.
But if you search the Scriptures you’d see,
Both Satan and hell are nowhere to be
Found in the Writings of the Jews,
And to Christians, this is real news.
All dead people went to the place of the dead.
Sheol was the name and there was no dread,
Of modern heaven or hell.
Good or bad, that’s where you’d dwell.
But Christians came up with this permanent abode,
So as to keep the believers cowed.
And the Devil? Nowhere in the Jewish Scripture.
Of The Satan, we have a different picture.
A vassal of God, no power to harm.
He only does God’s bidding, (turn down your alarm).
Look at Job with God and the Adversary.
There is no dissent, God need not parry.
Both concepts are fiction, made up to cause fear
So that followers would obey, listen and adhere.
Categories:
domain, bible, christian,
Form: Verse
I wish I could plug
A flash drive in your ear.
I would wipe clean the worries
Hidden deep inside there.
I know they've been hiding
In camouflaged space.
Your very own virus
firmly in place.
Spreading infection
Every which way.
Squeezing the happy
Right out of the way.
It's time to recover,
Diminish your pain.
Pick up your tools.
Reclaim your domain.
Before long, I promise,
With daily scans,
You'll reboot and function
With plenty of ram.
Categories:
domain, angst, depression, encouraging, life,
Form: Rhyme
Mother Nature, divine and yet so whimsical
Her flowing streams fall warm, healing and abiding
A darkened blue-green sea, maroon and sapphire shores,
cradle us asleep, with your gentle waves
harboring the dour rude awakenings
when eddying rapids currented by the tide
Consume the uncertainty and the lies of the day tearing the heart apart
Suspend judgment and attain tranquility of mind
White light and red, filters a pink-tint, nebulous fringed rose gold
I’m graced in your stellar light, a cosmic pearl
Garnered from my poems:
Mother Me
Weeping Nude
The Ocean Beckons
Human Nature
Lissa Marie
Strayed Sheep
Tell It Like It Is
Self-Existent Light
Woven Worlds Of Alice Lidell
The Pursuit of Contentment
Categories:
domain, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Something inside of me
Has come in between me
It has set me free
Severed my heart from my soul
My mind's embellished reprocess
I am better now
I am in no longer doubt
With the power from on high
I am revisited, I am chosen
I am refound, remoted
Remade I am now no longer a servant nor slave
I am King of Mine Domain
Amen
12/27/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
Categories:
domain, analogy, encouraging, engagement, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
I live on permanent Sundays
with my love from the past
in constant litigation
with my future announced
I'm a renewed hermit
for admired dreams,
my horizon surpasses
the arch of my bedroom....
I am content as i can be
famous poet of my Domain soul !
Categories:
domain, allegory, allusion, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Light Verse
The Crown
David J Walker
I can sense the advent
of the harvest to come
The bees have retreated
High on the nectar of a successful hunt
Home is the hive
Alive with instinct
Survive
The colony sings in a low hum
Of favorite hymn’s sung
To the dead queen
Who can replace her
Among the close cast
The vast number of children
In line for the thrown
A King…in the Queen's domain?
I can sense the advent
Of the darkness of
Another fall
Mistaking
a bitter fruit for freedom
Categories:
domain, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
we often lie about
what we're thinking
deny deny deny
unwilling to divulge
our private thoughts
our inner secrets
not wanting
to be violated
our thoughts are ours
flawed and broken
right or wrong
as they may be
they're ours
and no one else's
we'll share
to a degree
but only when safe
is how we feel
AP: 2nd place 2022
Posted on June 11, 2022
Categories:
domain, angst, confidence, introspection, spoken
Form: Free verse
Wisdom is of greater weight
than valor, pride, or name
It harbors in my deepest thoughts
to rule my souls’ domain
Choices made my kingdom saved
though others yet to see
My heart and mind ensconced as one
—the future mine to free
(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)
Categories:
domain, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Out of a neon jungle the big cats prowl
the wind in the willows unrecovered,
for when the cats and wind begin to howl
I am stoned and the boys truly mothered!
So I rip in and bowl an inswinger
and rap ‘em on the pads…”howzat?” I shout,
pivoting to see a pointing finger,
but the bastard umpire says “Not Out!”.
Behold the shot, the call of “no, yes, no”…
a sledge and slog on the concrete wickets
and puffs of stupefying herb billow
the post-match bar in the oak tree pickets.
For a play and a prey the big cats reign
when the Leopards are loose in The Domain.
Written: November 1992
Pic above is of Auckland Domain.
*The Leopards are a cricket team.
*Cricket bats are made from willow trees.
*Mothered is slang for extremely drunk.
*Inswinger is a type of bowling delivery.
*If a bowler appeals to an umpire for a
dismissal and he agrees the batsman is
out he points and raises his finger.
*Sledge is a cutting insulting remark.
Categories:
domain, friend, games, sports,
Form: Sonnet
dark allure
brash charm
her movements an acrobatic show
mannered rhythm
like her arched back of individualism
my black cat
stealing affection
or holding me at bay
complicated, contradictory creature
with hinges of ease
by the window, she stares at crows cawing
a chatter of secrets
quietly rehearsing a staged assault
like the release of dreaming
feathered intrusions from an other worldly out of doors
twitching whiskers to alarm
her presence
cheekily visible
fur soft, a sheen that elevates her
like the gentle soothing scrub of "purrs"
added to my comfort
a shared commitment
our glue
Poem written March 31/2022
Revised January 5, 2023
Categories:
domain, animal, cat, friendship, pets,
Form: Free verse
When laid inside from end to end.
And there a box reposed my friend.
When heaven's ground is not of earth.
Fear not your God, he knows this worst.
Categories:
domain, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
I fade into the black of loneliness
And disappear in its realm where I fall
Silence surrounds my soul as I regress
To finally hear my heart's emptiness call
From the drips and drops of love's vanity
Which left a coldness in my heart to stay
As twists and turns from love's insanity
Came to tear all that ever was away
To leave a dim-lit world of confusion
Where pieces lay broken, scattered about
Drifting in shadows from love's illusion
It spills from my heart rushing to pour out
How quiet it becomes when love withdrawals
This shadowed domain where my dead heart spawls
9/8/21
Categories:
domain, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
in mouth cavity
she has installed the language
queen of the domain
Categories:
domain, allegory, allusion, analogy, language,
Form: Haiku
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