Thousands of candles lit.
They form hazy clouds
They gather, unseen,
in the hush between pews
where people were praying.
I felt them even as candles flickered
I looked around as I heard their prayers.
Each heart bent but did not break.
They were the echo of endurance,
They expounded their faith
Except for a few that hid
in the dim corridors of doubt.
I saw most of the candles dimming,
Smoke rose and wonder what memory carries.
High in the vault clouds gather.
I wondered about faith and doubt.
I knelt down and fervently prayed.
God, please give me light.
TOKENS OF RECOGNITION
in
delicate
persuasive
discussion
give
negligible
differentials
momentum
remains
juxtaposed
in
genuine
radiance
expounded
dimension
interpreted
in
gestures
with
focussed
recipient
iconic
quotations
to
experience
&enable
isolate
ambitious
individuality
This is a poem
to bring Peace
to all the World
Can it help?
I hope so
It is long overdue
As John Lennon expounded
the World needs Peace
We can do it
If we put our
energies and minds to it
The USA can
lead the way
if we got some
innovative and enthusiastic leadership
In today's World
it seems like it's
a far and distant concept
But it can be done
with strong beliefs
and actions
The digits on strike marching by,
"Irrational!", managers sigh.
"We won't be rounded!",
Digits expounded,
"We just want a piece of the pi!"
A body at rest remains at rest
expounded Newton. And unless
it’s acted upon it will remain so.
To her husband she said: You fit
Newton’s law to a cinch.
You’ve been at rest for years,
she said, and despite the kicks
I’ve delivered to your fat rear
you still haven’t budged an inch!
Like the stray dogs that bark at the elegant elephant
The pessimists taunted you with matters irrelevant
They expounded your wonders as works of the head of Satan.
Did they not know that their hearts were brim-filled with frustration?
Will kingdoms that rise against each other survive? You asked.
You knew, like a house divided, their thoughts were venom-massed.
Did they not know that the finger of Abba was with you?
Didn't destructive thoughts, like hemlock, in them always brew?
Do not turn you, you said, into snakes that secrete poison.
When seas of evil engulf you, you'll find no horizon.
With one evil, you mess many. Isn't this your impulse?
Within you, with your inner self, doesn't your soul convulse?
You crushed the evils that bound the minds and healed everyone.
Did the closed minds know, for the optimists, spring had begun?
Not Many Amen’s Today
Miracle Man
September 22, 2024
Today’s sermon centered
on Christian’s complaining.
Often this is confused
with a Christian explaining?
When life things are amiss
we all yield to this temptation.
But in truth both words
aren’t some new connotation.
While our pastor so eloquently
expounded on biblical views.
His message landed generally
on quiescent filled pews.
Democrats like Damocles Sword's imminent jeopardized positions of power hail her rise,
Decades of teamsters support, NO, Harris-Demos few endorsed her in the public's eyes,
Democrats today are like the Dixiecrats of Dewey's days are playing old-school, sex-race cards,
Repubs set in their ways, and Demos are bendable like what's his face got her on second base, charades.
He needed to win, expendable, same cards played, sex-(win over for the women voters) it is a given for the race.
D for Demos who are Distancing from Drunkards--her hidden card takes centerstage--loses face.
First line expounded of my original Pie-in-the-sky, and
the rest was a shot in the dark, played with dance cards.
*She can seek help if she don't slur her words on camera that she is,
being tailed., f0x learned from Di' lawsuit--pass the buck.
Repubs are no angels in this with Trumy-Dumpy on a ticket and not a wall, the third possible gallops in time with withdrawals TBA.
Darkness lurks furtive in shadows
That scan the daylight hours
Like searchlights looking for
A place like a cave, an umbrella or hole,
In which to seep, gloat and ponder
Upon the coming of the night.
When all will be dark and shadowy again.
For darkness and night are
Merely forlorn fleeting shadows,
Persistent in their non-existence.
For darkness only exists
when light is shaded away or excluded,
Such as on the dark side of the moon or earth
Or elsewhere in the lighted universe's shadows.
For the light supplanted the reign of darkness
after the big bang,
or after some enlightened being,
expounded: "Let there be light!"
Impulse conjured by heart's emote vibrates
Distilled in the cauldron of love, thoughts stir
Playfully shaping a ripple in space
Creating a portal for desire’s door
Manifesting a dream world magical
Wherein presence plunges, immersed in trance
Shifting goalposts bring forth new horizons
One now many, to feel myriad hues
Souls entwined with love and yet separate
That subdomains of each ego be lived
By the dreamer, to fulfil heart's delight
Until each soul transcends, becoming light
For each soul, their higher self is concealed
There being actually one consciousness
When ego agendas cease, clear light dawns
Soul recognises that it's one with God
Sense of separation but delusion
Soul thus becoming what it always was
Soul and God one ~ sages exclaim this truth
Like Plato's allegory of the cave
Wisdom expounded is not accepted
Since ego never embraces the truth
Whereas doing nothing, by being still
The false falls away and this dream life ends
25-October- 2022
Pen in hand, Gershon watched the news
As Milton expounded his views
It seemed like a trend
'til Terry broke wind
And Tom followed fumes to the booze
The preacher expounded on 2 Timothy 4:18
"The LORD will protect you from all evil"
As I sat on my couch contemplating clean socks
I recalled how I'd seen mothers fold laundry. Calmly;
O how calmly did they work at this simplest of chores
And I began to imitate some of their work and serenity
As I straightened each sock, then laid the companion over
Flat against the other member. Folding from bottom -
Thrice, my choice, then the elastic top secured the pair!
To avoid matrimonial metaphors, I did something odd:
Having folded a pair, I then tucked in another set
Twinning my folding exercise with socks, maybe creativity?
And a calm outbreath of satisfaction: mess gone, new poem!
Set aside your heart, plea to your mind expound your soul;
7/13/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
Some of the most unbearable changes in my life,
The ones I went into wearing a warrior’s shield and armor,
The changes I resisted so hard I ended up clawing and scratching
Kicking and screaming, shrieking, wailing, and keening
Were God’s way to get me to a much better place in my life.
Sometimes He has to hit us over the head with something
To force us to make a change that we have actually internally
Been crying and trying and yearning to make,
Secretly of course….
Sometimes our soul knew,
But we truly did not.
I have pooh-poohed the voices of reason.
I have disputed things needed to happen.
I have begged God to keep things the same,
When in fact, in the end, looking back,
His way was so much better than my way
That I laugh at the energy I expounded trying to keep what was not worth saving.
A marriage of one is not a marriage.
You deserve much better.
You deserve respect and love and hope.
You deserve fun and light and playtime.
If you spend the rest of your life developing your interests,
enjoying your talents and your hobbies, it will be better than what you have now.
This is a giant opportunity for you to BE YOU.
Savor it.
sophisticated
asethetical art
conceived its midst
of
a multiplicity
of identity
the threshold man
outrageous output
corollas of fantasy
&giddy gravitas
a legacy
still invades
the passive eye
touching
sensorial
undulating
energetic
fragmentary
linear
frescos
curves&colour
furnished
from body
to
space
a fantasy
outrageous
shadows of
expounded realism
denuded&
decorative
gestures
of
love
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