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Premium MemberSplendiferous So Simply Succumbed

"Every enigmatic environment enlists enlightened emotions" Quote by The Poet

Spectacular silvery spangled, star studded sky, so serene.
Under universal utterances uniquely unabashed, unseen.
Wildest wind wails when weakened, was welcomed warm weather. 
Trees towering, trying to triumphantly touch together.
Serendipitous splendor soothes soulful scenes.
Gracefully groomed, growing greens.
Lustrous light looms, lasting like lingering lanterns.
Youthful yellowing, yet yesterday yearns.  
Moonbeams meander, mesmerized midst melting moments.
Extraterrestrial elements enlist exponents.
Frenzied fireflies flutter, fulfilling fanciful florescent flashes.
Sparkling, swishing splashes.
Sycamores sway sweetly, so subdued, sounds softly sweep.
Calm clarity closely causes comfort, combinations creep.     
Sporadically straying, sadly sets sorrow so steep.
Categories: enlist, environment,
Form: Alliteration

Guardian Angels

Daily duties done to suit the King.
His benevolence soothes over everything.
We serve with joy but He calls us Friends 
Adopted to be a daughter or son,
Our hearts, minds and wills He has won.
Jesus, Son of God shows The Way
In His family forever to stay. 
They are preparing a New Earth and a home.
Soon they will manifest, we no longer roam.
Now, in faith, we settle there
In peace and blessing fair
For Guardian Angels really do exist
As with them into God's army we enlist.
Categories: enlist, angel,
Form: Rhyme


stop gift cards

Gift cards, can it be stopped
How the swindlers begin a nice letter understand 
The problem you have because of the pension that does not allow you to hire a person to help 
Yes, they are so helpful, they can help if you send
Them gift cards instead of cash, they will help
It starts with a sum of cards at a value of 1000 euros, so you send the cards and, not wait they need more gift cards to cover the cost. Ok, so you send them the card and they promise to send you a packet with money
So you wait, but then they want more gift cards at a value of hundred euros, by now even a dick head understands he has been swindled 
The next step is to alert the law, but the swindlers have flown away leaving no trace. They even enlist your own family to rob you of your savings
Money set aside to pay for doctors and home help
And so on
Categories: enlist, anger, angst, depression,
Form: Blank verse

The deal dance


In the maze of commerce, a tale unfolds,
A deal both juicy and complex, as the story is told.
A buyer steps forth, with hope and trepidation,
Wondering if this purchase will bring jubilation.

Was it the allure of a bargain, too good to resist?
Or the pressure of a deadline, a contract to enlist?
Perhaps the buyer, is stuck in a rut, sought a change,
A rollercoaster ride?, through a market so strange.

With status on the line, and decisions start to shatter,
The buyer pondered deeply, what truly would matter.
Would this be a a calamity in disguise?
As the purchase came to fruition, under watchful eyes.

Yet, through the plummet of doubt, and the rise of belief,
The buyer found solace, and a sense of relief.
For in the dance of deals, both ruinous and grand,
The heart of the buyer, held steady in hand.
Categories: enlist, adventure, imagination, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhat is this Love, Actually

What is this love we seek to find and hold?
It twists and contorts, resistant to enfold.
A surprising elusive shadow, that pops up from the mist?
When we least expect it, to enlist when kissed.

This love actually, defies logic and common sense!
For whom we love, truly deeply is beyond any pretense, 
Any hope that its stickiness can be shed,
With a flick, a kick, a denial, once, twice said.

Love is persistent, won't go away, or fade.
Its inception is the exception that once made,
Is burned or carved into a tree trunk or rock,
As an emblem, a shout, broadcast around the clock.

For love is a joy, a delightful happenstance!
A meeting by chance, then with poise, to prance and dance.
Categories: enlist, love,
Form: Sonnet


She


For one, I am small and increase the body of reverse
As love and hate enter space and time without poles
The largeness of sleep and dimensional reality
Going into a law of consistent inconsistencies
Raw the cost never leaves into laughter
By his own facts which enlist varied gods
Sex is the validation unto which is declaration
To make intent stronger and mind no speak into the certainty
Twisting and turning where skills are refused
War seems skill
War seems knowledge
Also fight
Yet experience makes cry and far as you run
The earth makes sure of variation
To watch through the glass
By expectancy and obliterate
It has been the patriot to call love
So the squeeze will leave as rendered outside of the king
Available as throwing the towel in
Because the lights among us would offer rationale
As tossing in self sacrifice is the magnified gain
Old friends make more dinner in adverse
Guessing without a train nails part
Mission would herald the boarding bite so clear
Categories: enlist, absence, age, atheist, body,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStarman

I'm Glinda, the Starman Fairy, 
or, if you want, I can be the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio. 
I'll be whatever you want me to be,
You paid your consulting fee, so 
I'll show up as someone you know. 

You've got a pretty nice planet here,
better than my home planet - the nicest one I've ever seen.
I would sure hate for it to disappear.
Oh, the grape, the apple, the tangerine, 
fields of wheat, seas of aquamarine.  
 
You're facing an existential threat.
Don't take it from corporations or politicians they enlist,
climate change will get much worse yet.
Check the aliens on my client list.
They say, ask independent scientists.

Your people have created wonderful things -
the Great Pyramids, Taj Mahal, Shakespeare, and Machu Picchu - 
and you, too, have nature, from which man springs.  
Well, I must depart, and I'll miss it so - 
would you be sad to see it go?
Categories: enlist, environment,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn A World Where I Do Not Exist

(This poem may also be read backward, from the bottom up)


In a world where I do not exist

There's a place where I'm yet to enlist

Where my yearning cannot be dismissed

And my soul reaches out to be kissed


One day there, where I will re-exist

After crossing that bridge in the mist

(If life's demons I chose to resist)

Lifted high through that Heavenly midst


There, my loved ones hold hands and subsist

On that day, I will join them, assist

In rejoicing the peace we had missed

To this new world, my efforts persist
Categories: enlist, inspirational, paradise, world,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberFAST STEP come on JAZZY-Dedicated Verse to Shasta Simms

I am circulating my anticipating
Foot ached fever broke bout' ta step out
Not out of my vessel, yet my voice is in session
My lungs, frontal lobe, feet and legs wanna dance

FOOT LOOSE
CUTING UP, SHIFTING FROM SLIDE TO SIDE
Faster
Faster
Faster
Fast step come on jazzy
Step fast come on jazzy 
Step up, step in, step out, come to come through
Faster
Faster
Faster
Fast step come on jazzy

Happen stance, I gotta dance
Step on, step off
I carry the thought
Of what's up
To the form of getting down
How long can I be found singing
just, just, just jazz
Fast step
What a trip
Must insist you enlist come bro, come on sis

when I sing, you gonna dance
When I move ya wanna dance
Faster
Faster
Faster
Fast step come on jazzy
Fast step come on jazzy
Fast step come on jazzy
FAST STEP come on JAZZY

8/24/24
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024

for SHASTA JAZZ DEDICATED VERSE FOR SHASTA SIMMS ANTHOLOGY #1
Categories: enlist, analogy, appreciation, blessing, dance,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberGreta

The world's biggest problem?  It wasn't going away. 
One fifteen year old girl would face it.  That was just her way.
She didn't give us fantasy.  She gave us action.
Demanding from leaders of the world, satisfaction. 

Politicians insulted her, saying, "naivete",
stating she oversimplified, that's how they'd portray
her.  Whether she was popular - that she did not care,
as she laid bare their smoke screens with clarity so rare.

She had things to deal with -  Asbergers and depression.
The brave way she handled them teaches us a lesson.
She turned depression into action. her courage to enlist,
making a few enemies, but none were scientists.  

Climate awareness was not this girl's only impact.
Backing the campaign to fly less changed the world in fact.
Sweden dropped four percent in domestic travel by air.
Pretty good work for a young girl with the grit to care.

Greta Thunberg, just a girl, also influenced me.
I keep my carbon footprint small, I don't go on a spree. 
I vote.  My money's in a fund with a low MSCI,
inspired by the young girl who won't let the planet die.
Categories: enlist, environment, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCELIBATE-

Just woven wooly natural woman silky hair
My eyes are open yet I do not stare 
There's no lust but there's a prominent site 
God adorned Beauty it's magnificent

So as she stands before me 
My eyes  envision yet and still 
My eyes are celibate as the miles win 
Traveling soul sprase three heavens
Cooling breeze blows 
My ears hear the whispering of the flow 
My ears are celibate
 I hear her soft voice yet still 
Gazing I enlist my heartbeats in unison with hers 
My hands and arms are celibate 
I do not want to touch nor hold her embracing I must not For she's not mine to touch
~
 I stand before her celibate and with each and every breath and Walking forthward each and every step 
I draw myself 
Closer to her she is a Child of God 
~
Of age to praise 
I stand before her and into my next breath I inhale 
And exhale and even in that I'm celebrating
And constellation for the duration I surmise 
~
That my physical body as well as spiritual side 
Remain celibate for she is not mine 
She Belongs to the Father God 
And in that all is purposeful

6/2/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2024
Categories: enlist, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberAnd That Is War

There’s no film set
There’s no Tom Cruise
Everyone dies 
In front of you

And that is war

They give you a gun 
Sent off with the meat
Shoot you in the back
Cos we never retreat

And that is war

When you enlist
They tell you it’s great
The army’s job is
Teach you to hate

And that is war

You’re free to kill
You’re free to rape
Do what you like
Coz there’s no escape

And that is war

There’s lots of booze
And a line of coke
Everyone will lose
And that’s the joke

And that is war

David Cox 21/05/24
Categories: enlist, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEpitaph-Unraveled Words



trickling streams   enlist fingers stroke
translating silent stares script air bubbles

soul skirmishes   dying   and breath twitches
her amort jabs shatter blind eyes

soft breaths   linger aphonic   sighs
surfboarding alongside rocky creeks

you wish to decry me with   metaphors
whispered secrets   shared solely betwixt us

words untied    weighed by fireflies glow
bemoaning to aurify   amid fiery   solar flares

hoping for air in a pathless stream
let me shed words from   balm of dry lips

you said that   you might catch them

I've seen the way a glass dances, though
slips through your fingers   and shatters 

I hear a forlorn violin   pluck its strings
catacombs lurk in a hollow cage

when it beleaguers, it wails and shrieks
an uncaged spirit walks with a dog

left, just a beshrew echo in a silent world
Categories: enlist, silence, words,
Form: Free verse

manifest destiny

manifest destiny

pros say 'tain't reasonable expecting
change overnight involving much money
besides military needs more funding
to destroy north bear and make days sunny

peace is not exceptional agenda
when free market needs secret stimulus
what you expecting us to surrenda
this for your edu-loans medicare plus

an endless list of green infrastructure
yielding us nothing but more inflation
count your blessings get new jobs' their lecture
enlist now if you love our great nation

do well not to breathe or call it all greed
just believe china's slow printing out need
Categories: enlist, america, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Sonnet

Just a Few Steps


Dreams of tomorrow leave nothing to chance,
Work is not wasted on far off romance.
Most people won't stop for a second glance
As they walk through life in a foggy trance.

Today can't keep up with days that can't wait,
Time's the enemy to which some relate.
Those wishes in life only resonate
With the thoughtful few and scenes they create.

Some seek the shelter from a falling mist;
Others roam the streets, their hands clenched in fists.
The battles outside call us to enlist,
To farewell maidens who've never been kissed.

The birds will escape from the coming storm,
They'll be far from home before the next morn.
Writers and critics will never conform
And masses will leave like bees in a swarm.

Ev'ryone will have a story to tell,
Some put it to song and sing it so well.
Yet there is one thing on which we should dwell:
Life's but a few steps from Heaven or Hell.
Categories: enlist, death, life,
Form: Rhyme

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