Met you when I least expected,
Breezed past me like a breath of fresh air.
At the time, I didn't pay heed;
Now I drown in despair.
Sent to me just before my dark times,
The light that preceded my darkness.
The light in my life, encompassed by hate—
For myself alone, I must state.
Elegant in stature, I continue to pursue.
I have to give praise where it is due.
Don't choose me.
Don't consider it.
I'll only bring sadness.
I'll only bring boredom.
I truly eclipse your character.
Hate for myself I must endure.
No choice in the matter; I'm simply a flaw.
Cursed by the standards of society,
Failed to comply with the criteria of the world.
Who am I to search for happiness?
Truly a troubled soul.
On the occasion of Shakespeare's birth
Three words from the Bard illuminate more brightly than the sun
And standing in his shadow one is most likely there to fade
As a flickering candle placed beside the light of that bright one
And measuring one's own image thus will leave most all unmade
One wonders whence the ink was drawn that this Alchemist turned to gold
The moment that his sharpened quill touched down upon the page
As genius in sequential thought upon the parchment there unscrolled
Which lapped upon the shore of love where seas of passion rage
And yet the spark still licks the wick encompassed now in tallow
Not giving thought to where it might land one in history
Unlit 'twould render darkness cursed and all to wade there shallow
Should all stand cowed and trembling bowed without posterity
Surely mortals mere as me serve but to burnish what surrounds
The gilded steps up to the treasure, measuring there what still astounds
Plant or mineral or child.? Or older; gunpowder plutonium ' heavy water
That can split boulders.' Time and
Opportunity day through night; many
Gifts are encompassed, if i am but
Half right? elecric, kinetic, frission
And mice.' All grist to some millers of
Averice and vice.. All have been made
Mechandise, bones renderd down, to
Glue for whatever.? Every country each
Town, A price on each atom of life as
Rationale, seems the hallmark of
Achivement to so many; somehow.? I
See it could be different.' I'll propose to
Offer this view.? Damn.!! The cost of such
Exposure; though. Means my initiatve will
Not make it out to you.'
Waking up every day freezing cold
Feeling way lower than low
Feet hurt from walking,
cause you got nowhere to go
Everything you own in tow
Wishing you would have just known how to grow and let go of all of the pain and hurt
that encompassed your soul
And kept you from ever feeling whole
As long as you can remember,
You just wanted to be loved
But since the day you were born,
your mother made sure you knew
you would never be enough.
And every time push came to shove
You always came up short
from whatever it was
shtt fckn rough..
life always been way too tough.
Never known even an ounce of luck.
Trying so hard to give a fckk.
Prayin to have a chance to come up
But it seems ya missed that truck
On a dead end,one way road
.....just stuck
She walks out of the room. There is no script for what's going to happen.
Next.
Equinox. Approaching the shadows of a moment.
I encompassed her with space unconditionally loving
Or
Dear god
At least putting my heart out with this intention.
Time moves so effortlessly forward. When she walked out
This moment felt like a clock striking midnight
When she shut the door behind her.
Her cheeks soiled with tears like autumn leaves soiled
With the streaks of time
To change their colours. It's
This something that brings life even when it looks
Like death.
That something that feels like another painful beginning.
Unfit for the sunlit
Visions once bestowed
Guilt has me split
Where reason once flowed
Circles were brighter
Now a hollow parade
Knots draw tighter
As thoughts start to fade
Worthless endeavor
Half-formed at best
Tumbleweed untethered
Cursed with unrest
No spark to savor
Just the same charade
Endless vanilla flavor
As the colors all fade
No more to barter
Encompassed in grey
Rationale takes harbor
As wishes drift away
'The course of true love never did run smooth '
From 'A Midsummer Night Dream '
We dreamed to soar high flying on firmament
Thought throughout our life, we won’t be apart.
Romance roamed rolled rippled on commitment,
Passion twined with emotive urge of heart.
With fervent fervour, you dared to propose.
Life ought to be majestic marvelous
My ardent ardor honored your red rose,
Haply curtain of pain encompassed us.
Call of family claimed, forced to bid bye
Innocent helpless couple found no way.
We were never knotted with social tie.
Despondency in deep dolor to sway.
The course of true love never did run smooth
Whether to accept or not, that's the truth.
In a forest of clouds, and a handful of snow, the sun glitters,
encompassed by the stars above, flattered by the adoring humans,
glorifying the spectacle of moon's shadow.
How warm is the light of the lunar night!
Only the choir of wintery winds flapping its wings.
From the first time she sees light
the world is flashy light.
Happiness is now a fertile field.
Huge crowd of hummingbirds flock the horizon
praising her arrival.
I repeat their songs of ecstatic flare,
this heavenly bless
Praise be to God and the angels.
It is enough to raise our hands
to the altar of faith.
we all daydream
about this and that
in a make belief world
our character enact
one day however
there was a competition
where we needed to be still
and feel the void’s emission
thoughts and senses dimmed
even as awareness peaked
we sensed magnetic cool heat
reality as we knew it was tweaked
eye of our soul opened
cognising a unified force field
within it floated the multiverse
as power God does wield
our vaporised presence
encompassed the universe
wherein gong of Om resounded
as the noumena’s verse
awareness self-aware
dropped ego from its life tree
all that then remained was light
revealing our true Self free
beyond space-time poised as such
we were in ineffable peace complete
from a centreless fulcrum we sensed
the throb of God’s heartbeat
so the two first became one
then the one became two
becoming the flow of living light
we witnessed the refrains renew
lucid dreaming or meditation
we can give this trance any name
here we are now back again
but we are no longer the same
How slight
The petal of
A poppy,flowering-
So much like us,beautiful,yet
Fragile
Hurry
Takes its toll as
In our daily stroll,we
From deepest ruts of blind alleys
Quicken
Beauty
free from above
embedded in our heart-
His loving-kindness ..ready to
impart
The warmth
Of love's invite
Encompassed my desire,
In two soft whispered words of love,
Be mine !
Eyes closed
As lips caressed,
Mouths joined,impassioned
Tongues explore,in our love's embrace,
Time-framed
My love
Beguiled me,with
Soft sensuous lips,sleek
Long thighs with rounded hips,twinned heart's
Enlaced
Long days
Of August sun
Where nature blinks and shrinks
The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
Held fast
Night chills
the aging bones-
blowing on the east wind
flurries fine and dry settle on
new graves.
These be
the keys to life,
faith,hope and agape,
love,the greatest gift of all three-
to thee !
Desire
welled within-
words became a promise
so sublime,to love now and for
all time.
We had
met and conversed,
a rapport on first sight-
a chance meeting to a life's time
delight
Why do weeds wear blooms of grace,
Hidden in corners in their secret place?
Risen in cracks, in fields unplowed
Stands a splash of color, tall and proud
Unwelcome, they say, as they pierce the rigid ground.
Perhaps in weeds, there lies a truth,
That beauty shines despite its youth.
They grow where no man dares to tread
Encompassed in pink and vibrant red.
They are pulled, yet they return.
In their petals, we can learn.
Weeds, thought of as wild and free
Are Nature's flowers in secrecy.
encompassed
by fog....
fuchsia crepe myrtle
I know Who You Are
you're Elohim
you're more than a star
you're more than energy
you're not so complex
in the burden you're beyond heaven
blessed if I see you it's not with my natural eye
if I hear you it's not with my natural ear
you're my Father I am not alone
for you resonate in my soul
the night is Darkness the Day
is lightarms and compass me ever so tight
Embraced I am I feel not see but the air
it touches me is ever so real I think not both ways yet I think a lot I am a child of a living light
Creator God incarnate in the next heaven on the next Earth I will be in this light encompassed al that's worth
1/27/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2024
I heard the sound of the sea
echoing like a distant hymn.
It encompassed my soul
like a heavenly embrace.
It set me free like a lucid breeze.
It was like a speech of a father:
a timeless speech that never bores;
once a cold, majestic surf;
the other, a patient silence that
frees my heart from all sorrow
I looked around and found no sea;
I found your emerald eyes smiling
as you were uttering my name,
I listened closely as if my name
were a new song, an eloquent piece;
and I got lost in anticipation
as if my name were just about
to be inscribed upon the horizon.
CITRUS GROVES
In citrus groves of sunlit hue,
Fictitious fact farce sounds so true,
Where oranges, plump and captured by zest,
In love affection with the farmer, feeling its best,
But witnessed a twist beyond the rolling crest.
With its vibrant peel and a radiant hue,
Held the essence of the one it grew.
From gentle curve, clean looks to robust chin,
An orange's visage, looking fresh and clean.
Its eyes, twin orbs of sunlight's rays,
Gleaming and bright like summer's blaze,
In vibrant array, encompassed in its gaze,
Squeezed with each squeeze by the squeezer,
Ready to be delivered in the captivity of freezer.
Compromised trust alternate its burst of zest,
Liquidization is the transformation it witness at best.
As the squeezer unleashed the scent tang.
Oranje enjoyed its last caress before hitting a snag
It wasn't a sweet symphony but a fragrant delight,
Juicing out the juice into this citrus sprite.
From that moment on, the farmer knew,
This orange, immense, had a purpose true,
To bring a smile and refreshing to every face,
A reminder of nature's infinite grace.²4
VICK MANUEL POETRY {VMP}
FORM: Rhymes
Copyright ©? December 9th, 2023.
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