Let us dream for better days,
When different colors and different shades
Correlate into a beauty only diversity can show.
Our curls caressing the same wind,
The wind that calls for change.
Change—
Has it happened enough to cushion our pain?
We carry in our bosoms,
In our wombs
Til it grows so big it smothers rooms
Encapsulating our souls,
Til they turn a deep — deep blue.
But we shall rise as the sun shall rise.
And the tides of tears flown down our cheeks,
Fill rivers no man can deny.
We are light with room for every color.
But this color is mine.
A silent shelter passed down like treasure.
We don't cry — we whine.
Our hips grooving and moving the waves of change.
Yearning and churning—
For true change.
Stand with us as one.
In formation.
Hand in hand.
As we sing for equality to finally come.
So Close, So Far
Beauty-backed brains,
Ever radiant, ever evanescent
And rejuvenating.. while life's rains
Treacherously try to tear and rent
Rippled holes into men's hearts,
Inspiration comes forth from you
Cajoled by Cupid's love-soaked darts
Encapsulating everyone in your view.
Ordinary folk like me
Metamorphose into a being
Only a favoured few see
Like snowflakes which spring
A surprise on creatures in June
Raking leaves which fell from
Aftermaths of a terrific storm
A giant storm is brewing
Because the wind is howling with the sharpness of the cold
Calculating blades of the great and weak
Destroyers and defenders of oppositional forces
Encapsulating one another in a great deal that starts to die in the great
Fire which burns brightly into the night prior to the people
Gorging their bellies full of drink and food while
Having the storm outside howl with loudness and
Intense beats upon the house of the leader, who we call the
Jarl, that gathers their people in the great hall to keep them safe from the
Killing storm outside of the great house, their concern of
Love is the purest form of respect
Manifesting into something
New and not confusing as it is an
Original concept that needs no
Proper introduction because it is the only
Quick explanation for
Righteousness
Self-less service
Tactfulness and a deep
Understanding, that would shock a person in the manner of a larger
Voltage
Wishing to only become part of a unit that does not
Wallow in the misery of others as the current
X-men focus on becoming different members of the world
Zoo.
Encapsulating Darkness
Covers over the lights
The Moon Rises as the sun subsides
Sets Horizon meets top and bottom flight
~
So is the day dark
As the night Shadows walk, fall and crawl With the darkness sees the light
Descending Darkness well bright
9/18/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025
At the softest push of twilight
the fanged immortal
are roused for the night…
Ice cold in Midsummer heat;
Frenzied I long for the chill
of my vampire’s skin..
My Love let me fill you a drink of me,
under the moonlight it’s so scorching…
Blood wine in proper South humidity;
Can anything else completely
satiate this thirst?
Teeth like popsicles
as they melt across my skin;
Ice cold I long for that chill….
Encapsulating the sky
at the softest push of twilight,
my fanged Love is roused for the night…
In the barn turned snack bar,
I scraped the face of my big toe
ascending the stairs. I didn’t care.
Sucrose sweets, summertime treats
belonged between my loosening teeth
Rotting wood, bumblebees
yellow plastic baseball bats
rolling hills flowed in the break of trees
God was shaking the dust out of his welcome mats
At the time He appealed to me, because
sunbeams were his means to call us home,
His warm tender tractor beam
pulling souls wherever they shone
so encapsulating
so intoxicating
so comforting
Please harpoon me my Lord of Light
pull me in, I’m a prize of a catch.
For every day that I stay here, a chipwich
becomes a less appealing snack.
Take a breath, dip and glide.
Letting silken water slide past me.
Counting breathing, counting breathing.
Nothing from my normal world can distract.
Only my own neuroses, lack of confidence.
Feeling I am holding people up.
In the way, undeserved.
Yet as I glide I concentrate only on
Counting breathing, counting breathing.
The beauty holds me, forgives.
Takes my tensions, and like ripples in a pond,
Allows them to distance themselves,
Weaken as they drift far and wide.
The waves subsiding as my mind clears.
Stillness and calm, despite the movement
as I forge ahead, stroke stroke stroke breath.
Water moving yet somehow solid.
Supporting, encapsulating my body,
Weightless as I am suspended,
Fluid motion, equal forces,
All working in perfect harmony.
The perfect, pure pleasure of
Being at one in the river of life.
May I kiss you on the palm of your hand
Embrace you your holding body revelant
Encase your mind with the loving stand
Embraced kissed feet
May I walk in your shoes of remembrance
May I take on your pain sharing your forgiveness
My sins stands naked before you encapsulating
Embraced kissed feet
Truth those truths so true I want to Adorn
And Adorn in reference to you
My heart eyes sees
My mouth salivates bleeds
Embraced kissed feet
I am the light in the darkness
As I kiss your feet standing strong and tall
Both in His presence endowed in the Father's Mercy's LOVE
Grace and peace Hallelujah
7/7/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2023
Like a dense block of ice
Encapsulating my heart
My feelings are frozen
Until I escape this moment in the dark
When traumatic events occur
I feel my temperature drop
One degree, two degree
It's a autonomic response I can't stop
As I begin to clarify my internal words
The ice begins to thaw
The tears streaming from my eyes
I feel as if i'm being called
Called to love life - live life
Called to let go of all of the pain
Called to serve others
Let the ice melt, life will never be the same
My heart has been revived
It’s beat is strong
I now have an opportunity
To live this life - and be better for it all
You will be blessed;
in your rest;
and in your sleep;
you shall be sweet;
as the favor of God;
surrounds you as the Father's arms;
and His Angels confirm;
engage you encasing;
encapsulating; you in His arms;
and protections upon;
the appointed time His Awakening,
of His New Day Dawn;
God's blessings reigns on falls;
onto you draping you and all your loved ones so shall you'll sleep;;
Beloved good night good night sweet meridian Queen;
4/4/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023
A symbol of vulnerability
with implausible durability;
master at misrepresentation,
a bolster of modernization.
Praised for its lucidity,
nowise for its amorphicity;
such is human disposition,
seldom beholding composition.
A motif of permanence,
marking time’s impermanence.
Encapsulating sand and time,
an hourglass, marking life’s chime.
Made to be admired,
Only to be called 'uninspired’.
Its perspicuity appreciated by the unaware;
coloured, its vibrance ready to ensnare.
Weened to be understood and known,
yet, only misunderstood and unknown;
for such is the mystery of glass,
unable to be deciphered in a single pass.
Shattered and broken oft,
only to be restored aloft,
never seeming to age;
such is beauty when taken from an age-old page.
Behind us, lay five millennia of innovation.
Ahead, shall lie an eternity of appreciation;
for it is important lessons that we learn,
when observing Nature and her glassy urn.
Loving the heart so fond
of love beats on
the travels of those the distance
yet in a trance eyes captures ahs!
reaching inside ones self
even loving ones self
I stand in awe
as I reach up and onto
the tower of my faith
so desolate encapsulating
anticipating I adhere to this present sphere
hating still my sinful self
I ask God to yet keep my breath
for I am yet a broken vessel
a clay pot needing to be remolded
emplace in me Lord God a new soft beating fleshy heart
a loving heart so fond fill with love and repentance and beats on
forever, and ever and ever more
1/19/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022 ©
A spark erupts, setting alight a formidable flame.
Casting ascending vivid flickers of amber gleaming.
Ignited fervor, unbeknownst from whence it came.
The ominous blaze glares through the windows beaming.
A thunderous crackle incites a violent burn.
Engaged by inferno, timber joists integrity weakens.
As smoke engulfs the structural core in turn.
Roaring fevered holocaust ensues the blight it beacons.
Heroic sirens wail in desperation, hastily traversing town.
To cease the fiery devastation, cast upon the vastly disintegrating abode.
With forceful halt upon arrival, a bursting hose aimed toward the chateau's fallen crown.
Blasts of saturation work to snuff the flames encapsulating trusses, frame, and lode.
Now left with smoldering embers, a result of amnesic mistake.
A forgotten glowing candle, leaving destruction in its wake.
I was chasing the storms;
And midst the rains;
Suddenly, lightning strikes;
Thunder cracks;
As divergence clouds witness;
The silhouettes portraits;
Sounds of drums beating droplets of precipitation;
Encapsulating;
Downpours the viper's reign;
8/18/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr.
Swoosh, she vacillates in malleable form
as ocean waves or garden hose splashes,
encapsulating life's nautical swarm
and keeping plants fresh with misty dashes.
In a cup, her shape is held gently in place,
until she quenches somebody's thirst.
Intimately, their insides she will trace,
where her cleansing powers become dispersed.
In a pool she permeates the shape of fun
as a backstroke and flutter kick silhouette.
Like diving board jumps, droplets reach for the sun,
impulsive in action, yet always wet.
From skyline heights, she arrives with a rush
as the carving force within ravines.
Sojourning between walls like an artist's brush,
she transforms herself as well as her scenes.
The Shape of Water Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Craig Cornish
6-22-2021
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