I soul love you
You spirit mesmerize
My heart eyes
Enjoying the views
Radiant your enter view
Inquisitive your mind hue
Eternalize you're intangible
This first I can't see
This is why first I loved thee
You belong to God
Yet such you're on loan to me
Beautiful Beloved
Hallelujah
8/13/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2024
I've come to the seashore before the night
to imagine far lands with purple skies
welcome serenity into the twilight
redeem my soul as I eternalize
To release dark Angels from their disguise
and finally, heal and not be mournful
as I stand on grains of sand in the tide
seeking peace at a sea I don't control
I'll find reflection while counting the waves
and search beyond the oldest scars I find
to free me from my darkest yesterdays
where they've hidden in my silent mind
today I came to seek and discover
to heal my soul from all I uncover
Killers
Thinking before death and planning killing.
Transform your plans into breath by breathing.
To eternalize your progress that sheds light on your future.
Killing the baddies of the past for evil pain.
Sleeping with the sound of matter approaching for death...
Counting your steps after death!
Calming down in your new position...
Feeling unchanging body functions without followers...
Deluged with the nostalgic era of you,
Your lush verdant scent lining
Wistful sentiments upon idle reflections
Scattered in fragments and fine dustings, as
I acquaint myself with futile intricacies—
Devoted to your unwritten absence,
Wandering in a haze of misty wastelands,
While you eternalize your presence in our
Heart of hearts and in the
Cavernous corners of our souls, with the
Delicate air of you—spilling your love—
Memorializing the tidings you’ve nurtured,
Within our once piteous existence,
Endlessly rising in honor of you.
Consider, dear artist, quite carefully,
the subject you seek to eternalize.
Glamorous glories; bright youth so carefree -
these often capture first glance of the eyes.
But if you decide 'pon showy delights,
those feeling such things won't look to your craft.
Their eyes will not rest in their neon nights.
Till they've turned to tears when they've loved and laughed.
A soul seeking art is quiet, alone.
Oft it needs healing from earth's wild ways.
So show it something in honest blue tone.
Solitude, then shared, escapes the malaise.
Passions burn and cool much as does the sun,
Night is your battle; day's already won.
12 March 2022
*Image of Rose & Ring by Amazon.com
Advents A Door
Sweet be the fragrance
of a rose bouquet
that passes a nose
which hungers after
Assured vow of a fond scent
A steady pace of careful steps
using the heart to guide
eternalize reciting words
ennobled within the eyes
Advent, whereto, the velvet case
Parts a smile for whence 'tis seen
look to heaven, cheers felt
now fronts a door, hand lift
a heart-beats away at wood
Open, hugs, echoed words, Oh yes!
2019 May 21
*1st Place*
A BRIAN STRAND Vers Libre
~~Brian Strand: Judged 2022 March 07
From the earliest desires an earthly fires,
Walls have fallen,
The chains have broken,
Spirits envision an escape,
This lent body that vessels me is weary,
Reality is seeking happiness in my ancestor’s footprints,
Trials of misled passions has formed my faith,
Dreams have been banished by failures command,
Conformity has become a slave to commercial processes,
Shall i eternalize my stagnation or just become a civilized drone?
Purged souls are predestined to kneel on alters of bullied repentance,
I am the melody of chaos,
I am the imperfect human...
It only takes a tiny drop to touch and stir a placid pond
Little recollections that wake and shake the blues in your silent heart
As gentle winds carry away The Sands of Time before your tearful eyes
Passing by like a breeze are The Moments impossible to bring back
It only takes a little rain to garb and gloss an ugly uneven path
Fine drizzles dab and pat the track that bare your soul and its crack
You can’t hold forever The Indelible Times that slipped out of your hands
Grey shades and shadows you can’t bridle but are ever fixed to you and I
It only takes a metal or a wooden frame to eternalize a mortal soul
Every photograph is an eternal time machine, a sonnet to tether time
Your life is another diary out in the world, Shared Memories put down
Nostalgia wanders the universe like grains of sands from shore to shore
It only takes the break of day to fold darkness and shut out the stars
Sudden burst of sunrays begins to flirt and fondle your skin as you lie
When Good Memories return sometimes you want to summon the night
You know heaven or hell won’t open up for your yearning state of mind
The thoughts of the wind eternalize my being
only a light of such brilliance could overcome
Aching bodies are not yet finished
but those who settle are done
Open the casket and see what is left
there is nothing but an empty chest
You can rip open their soul's and crush it in your hands
they barely notice and sew up their pain
I reach for more, to be changes
some want nothing but to stay the same
Their eyes are castrated, gone none the less
the pin has dropped, no sound was heard
Listen once more to the sound of your heart
does it beat fast? Or refuse to start.
I am one,
i am alive,
i will survive,
i am eternalize,
i breathe truth
i walk with paddles of peace
i give a pray of love on knees.
chorus
i am alive
i am here to love
i am here to give
i am here to forgive
i am here to be with you i am free
i love you in my heart
with truth i rise
verse2
i am a big whale
i am so in love
i reside with compassion
i look in the sky
i see rainbows
i love in harmony
i am the answer.
chorus
i play as a child
i heal with a smile
i let you seat on my body
the ground of comfort i be
i live to laugh
i live to give joy
the more i feel the more i grow
chorus
God gives me gifts of talents
i know so because he spoke
he told me so when i saw,
the fish swim and jump
the bird singing and squirrels dance
infront of my eyes
i look with passion and i finally see, the truth in me all around me everything is
one
everything is God
everything truth
i now bloom
i cry with innocence
i honor the immense splenddid pleasure
the treasure
love of God affection
copyrighted 2007 penny lapsley
24 daily hours:
I think about you.
I dream about you.
I remember our projects,
your lovely face,
that we changed affections.
24 daily hours:
I eternalize our memories
I remember as you laughed
and your frenzied dance.
I love you! You told me,
while, on my finger, you put the alliance.
24 hours before our marriage
you finished the enchantment
and said:
IT IS THE END OF OUR LOVE!