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Fathoms Deep

NOT WRITTEN FOR A CONTEST

I often write about the ocean's secrets,
of its crashing waves that roar in apogee
and the treasures it washes upon the shore.
I've verses founded on tales of sailor's lore.
Stanzas about fragile seashells and abalone
and of gulls noisily squawking in cacophony.

I've penned Sonnet filled with romantic notions
in which mermaids live in depths of

Categories: fathoms, ocean,
Form: Rhyme

Fathoms

the shimmered gaze

          had drowned to dim

               once deep, the ways

     one yearned to swim


lost now, love’s words

          he’d

Categories: fathoms, analogy, death, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme

Fathoms Deeper

"Fathoms Deeper"


What are these strange creatures?
They swim in skins
not their own

calling us 
into them 
they amuse us

we are fathoms deeper

they 
are a long way 
from Home

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)


Swimming with orca in New Zealand, 2/3/2016.
https://youtu.be/JQ3mDXF3bcE


July, 2022. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Orcas.
Billy Bain, Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/865795424/videos/pcb.10166246143865425/1057112558247174
 









https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/killer-whale

https://www.livescience.com/27431-orcas-killer-whales.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca

Categories: fathoms, beautiful, life, light, mirror,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Fathoms Touch

familiar hands linger on my skin; you’re gone; this is a fathom’s~
touch

Categories: fathoms, first love,
Form: Monoku

Fathoms Real

I see light darkness runs away 
I see dirt and yet it's really clear
 I hear noises it's quiet still 
Fathoms are sincere they are real



10/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020

Categories: fathoms, analogy, imagery, imagination,
Form: Rhyme

The Fathoms Deep

Prose on one side, verse the other
—distance in between

The bridge has burnt, the Muse now two,
each seeing only green

The breaths that flow are then contained,
no synergy allowed

The fathoms deep between their words
—whose river both endows

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)

Categories: fathoms, muse, writing,
Form: Rhyme

Fathoms Cries Humanity--

Fathom, I the stars shine;
Reaching high;
My optics visions cry;
Where are you brother suicide
Mothers why won't you cry;
Daughters go back home;
Sons why do you deny;
Papa yet you rome;
Reaching high;
My optics visions cry;
Moon beams surround the skies;
Angels and demons battle;
Christians and sinners say what's the matter;
The animals cry among themselves Jesus is coming;
He's parted the first heavens;
While

Categories: fathoms, analogy, engagement, spiritual, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Dreamtime: 29 Fathoms

I landed on the bottom of the deepest lake on earth
My will to live had escaped me
Eyes wide shut, tho my spirit remained
Confused in death, much as in life
Green specs of membrous memories floated under my eyelids
Happy thoughts- skipping flat, smooth, dolomite discs
Into Lake Superior, screaming "watch me, watch me"
To mom & dad vigilant on

Categories: fathoms, dream,
Form: Lyric

Wisdom In Fathoms

Poetry is a body of water, 
With the title being its' surface;
The context deep or shallow. 
It's as far in the water,
One chooses to go...

Categories: fathoms, philosophy
Form: Personification

Wisdom In Fathoms

Poetry is a body of water, 
With the title being its' surface;
The context deep or shallow. 
It's as far in the water,
One chooses to go...




____________________________
Inspired by a good friend of mine.
Conor Jordan's artistic eye and 
Spoken knowledge helped me greatly.
His wisdom speaks oceans.
Our first collaboration of many...
There’s wisdom to be found,
In the depths of a

Categories: fathoms, philosophywisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry

What Fathoms Boast

Splen'drous verse in silent tongue-
The arias of the night,
Their strains a'sail 'pon saddened seas
In dulcet tones of yearning
To this lonely dance some comfort bring...
For what fathoms boasts the myst'ried Deep
That Love has not the greater?
What fragrance speaks Spring's choicest bloom
That Longing's not the more?

Categories: fathoms, introspection, lost love, love,
Form: Blank verse