Endurance Poems

Oh how my spirit is groaning
And the tension round about me is mounting
It is the feelings that you get when you
Passion is running high and 
you want to leap and touch the sky
I want to reach out and touch someone
But...Read More

The Orphan

At a time a young mother and her secrets knew,
that a infant boy in her life where counted days in few.
A priest helped her to put the child into an orphanage he knew,
a Saint Franciscan home with facilities for...Read More

People are wandering around the town
With their heads pointing to the clouds
People are wandering about the town
Looking like fearful clowns
Nasty men with hard backs 
Are walking about the park 
Harassing the women in the boiling sun
They have no shame, they...Read More

I saw end the mirror pensive consideration, help us Lord
Destroyed spirits of my generation dissensions, help me Lord
How long, lonely I mourned the musing. Lord help us
Down, down, down into the darkness of the missing, Help them Lord
Gently it goes...Read More

TEMPEST AGAINST THE STORM
"faced with each other, the tempest up against the storm, equal brothers"
Indiana Shaw...Read More

CODE RED LIPSTICK 

Nobel Flower Petal: Tear ducts  permanently swollen from too much stolen Joy.                        ...Read More

aurora blue truth
an own, nocturnal shores looks
whilst watching the land

red eyed blowing sands
covers the meek lands Satan
walking among winds


1/22/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©
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“SILENT ONE” – inspired poem
I
Musicians unite for a cause, no cause celebre
But small nursing homes not on maps, or Frail Care facilities -
Magically coaxing ancient responses and memories, 
Ancient civilizations, loves village by village, bequeathing antiquities

II
Once, at a prayer meeting,...Read More

I remember the day well though long has it been
Tied to the cold stone slab as I am
Buried in a cave made of sand
On a vanishing isle of heather
The memory hastens me back to happier times of mead, 
Food and...Read More

When the pain labors in begging,
and the spirit is abused by ego stretching.
All wise words given not truly absorbed,
and the curriculum divine is distorted.
As pure lover, souls need to reach and apprehend,
all conditions of mental faculties have to descend.
The pre...Read More

Your passionate, unneeded pride...
Is hard to swallow, so I’m waiting for another tomorrow
Going along with the rowdy ride
Still feeling so low…but I must stay high, you know?

I want to glow bright and grow and not feel this hollow…
Break the mirror...Read More

I just can’t get over this unsettling feeling
 That has my spirit reeling
I just cannot get over this unsettling feeling
That keeps me yearning
If someone had hit me with a stone
Then I would have taken the blow and groan
If someone had...Read More

Maybe I was made to achieve something greater than I can be able to think of now
Maybe I am being prepared for worse that is yet to happen to me
Honestly, I sometimes feel like I should give up
Like I need...Read More

Some say I'm a daydreamer
Someday, I will get better; whatever weather...
Someday, I will be...with you forever
Some say never, but never say never

I've been drifting like a feather in the sky these days
I've been wandering in many ways…
I sway today, today
My...Read More

Now that the task has been done 
and victory has been won
I am waiting for you to ask me to come
Now that the task has been won 
And the battle has just began
I am waiting for you to take me...Read More

Let not the church, nor the people, 
Let not the songs, nor the steeple. 
Cause my firm faith or love to flee, 
For my spirit remains in thee. 

As I look up, to azure skies, 
Or listen to the birds...Read More

Protecting; To the Last Breath
(a dark moment)

My dear friend told me I was a good mom today. 
I went into the bathroom and tears sprang to my eyes. 
I had no way to express my sadness. 

He has bad shoes....Read More

The Goal of Life:

"Finally, my fellow believers, continue to rejoice and delight in the Lord. To write the same things again is no trouble for me, and it is a safeguard for you. Look out for the dogs [the Judaizers,...Read More

Yours truly whiles hours away
reading out loud... tis not hearsay
cuz ears of mine relish... neigh
feast hearing spoken words, I do say
plus eyes (mine) drink one
or more letter combination yea.

Aforesaid pastime doth rarely
if ever tire hungry bookworm
whose ravenous appetite manifested
within thy...Read More

  images are slow to fade; where did they go? why were they here?
  pensive pen and ink, a gentle man of measure
  pipe-smoke wafting cool blue persevering pleasure
  cartoon humour designed with careful modest pride
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If I ask you to come and get me tomorrow
Would you turn down my request to come?
If I ask you to come and get me tomorrow
Would you lay down your burden and come?
Tomorrow might be sorrow, tomorrow I am free
Should...Read More

VERSE  1. What is my story;
Where is my dream;
Who will have love me,
I just saying...

CHORUSWhere is my glory
am I done
Just in the mist of my suffering

if Jesus cried, then I must cry
If Jesus died, then also I...
If Jesus shed,...Read More

You heard me complain about this and that
Today I glorify in being at the Food Chain's top
Neither sacred bulls, cows, or holy hen are safe
From my predation; they are prey, my target

Until one summer, brother Mosquito terrorized me
Maybe it is...Read More

A solitary wren perches on a perfect arch
And warbles a pitiful tune 
A domed silhouette is cast against the moon
The faded cerulean crown

Pillar upon pillar, arch upon arch
Magnolia marbled magnificence resides amongst concrete 
But where history and metropolis meet
St Paul's...Read More

I’m hanging on like branches of the trees
Blowing back and forth in the breeze
I’m hanging on like a string of a kite
Wavering in the air, trying to keep sight
I’m hanging on like that last leaf, alone
After all the others have...Read More