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autumn I fall for you
ever so are you're beautiful
you are a star who sparkles
a sun that's risen
darling you are my perfect vision
a seasonal woman
So colorful beautiful
I fall for you autumn
Ever so you are beautiful
11/820
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2020
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Your hair trembles, so do my heart,your hair like the wheat farms in the april wind my heart like leaves in autumn.
Your lips are burning, so do my heart, your lips like the sun, red with emotion, mine like a corpse,awaiting for the ocean to hug.
Your hair is yellow, so do my heart, your hair like sun flower sepals my heart like the face of an ill.
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Lips kiss and whisper
Transmute our power
Create windless tunnels
Tornado of faith
Blizzard of hate
Summer of love
Signal decay
Tell me it is the end
And I have gone too far
Autumn has begun
An eclipse revealing
our black star.
Divulge the truth
Her Transpiration
Explodes the sun.
Cold winter
exists within
unsaid words
we are destined
To rule our worlds
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Through the wee hours of the dawn
On a cold autumn night of
February. The harmattan harsh
And dry breeze blowing
I overhear the leaves weepy-scratchy
Noise. Still but almost conscious,
Generously, her angelic face
Came, flashing, over my memory
And those valentine that passed,
One whom cannot be forgotten.
Smiles as tender, Rachael,
Emenaha says "all the best".
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Hint of lavender in the air
Scent of roses, shoulders bare
In the corner woman fair
Ivory skin, light brown hair
Eyes meet mine, inviting glare
Approach her sitting in her chair
Walk into her blue-eyed stare
Time and senses unaware
Unblinking gaze, a touch we share
For me none other could compare
With nothing left for me spare
I kiss her lips right then and there
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Imagism
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Once my love, was a time
When I could quote line for line
The lyric of our love
Still this day I think of you
Beautiful Sky
The baby blue, red, and orange hues
Leaves of autumn
Come another day
You remind me of yesterday
This lyric of love
We brought to life
With smiles, laughter, and happy eyes
Pleasant Avenue
Run away again
To the hills, and into Beautiful Sky
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Suite Elegance
So refined
Reused spiritual
Fines so
Soradic fluorescent
Are the waves of misshapen
Broken hearts concave
And alast Young Beauty scorn
Cherishes is the Dew drops
Of early Autumn mourns
So I reverence as I caress this somber presence I'm a Witnesses floral flower essence
Beauty my spiritual love
11/05/19
Written word by James Edward Lee Sr 2019
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Romanticism
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My name is season.
Come rain, sunshine, I will always be there for you.
Come spring, summer, autumn or winter, I will always be present.
I will always provide you with warmth from my bonfire of happiness, provide you strength with my pillars of motivation engraved with your name on them.
Just like a mattress, I will cushion you with joy and a fountain of never ending laughter for you’re my source of joy that streams down my heart.
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Sometimes we’d run under the sun
Sometimes we knew that we were wild
Sometimes when our living began we thought that we owned the night
Each year comes under the sun moving and changing our lives
Those days when our love had just begun we loved each second of life
I hold your hand under the light of the moon now our years coincide with the night
But love you I always have done through my spring, my summer, my autumn and my winter tides.
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cloaked in the sparkling light of your irresistible ebony eyes
i walk on our carpeted foliage dreaming of your soul in mine
settling upon prussian autumn skies with your cotton candy embrace
the shimmering sun of your gold heart shines within my crimson soul's eyes
amidst fluttering ballads of butterflies and magic of autumn
your intense gaze is like a warm fire of deep incandescent passion
feeling the depth of love beneath a cozy blanket of gilded stars
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To exist in the presence of a goddess, is to breath in moonlight.
To love her as I love her is to give devotion unknown to humankind.
She is my life, my priority, my utter existence.
I promise you eternity my love.
When the sun warms my face, when the birds sing in the morning, when I see the wildflowers, when the air smells of autumn and you, are the moments that remind me of how much I love you.
I cannot verbalize to you how much I truly love you,
But I pinky promise my goddess, I love you most
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May you bring love
filling my night with stars
when the moon is lemon yellow
among celestial silver bars...
Come when the sun sets
the evening mellow and gray
or if you wish
come early in the day...
Embrace me when you're sad
and feeling full of grief
float into my arms
like a falling Autumn leaf...
Be the first wind
the Springtime blows
the morning star
as it flickers and glows...
You are dark my love
on my shoulder you may rest
my ebony nesting dove
always bringing out my best...
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People desperately trying to find love,
It's okay person,
You'll find it one day,
Stop chasing it now my dear,
It will come one day,
Just like why the sun sets in the West
It's surely gonna happen one day to all of us,
We either let go of said opportunity or don't,
It's still all up to us.
I have done both,
And I regret both decisions,
But I know one day she will come to me,
One day I'll give her the warmest of embraces,
One day she'll smile at me and see the world's happiness,
One day I'll see her smile and see my whole world.
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Somebody recently asked me
"how are you?"
GOOD question:
I don't have a satisfactory short answer.
I think I am ok
Its a strange thing,(this elephant in the room)
my past is never really far enough away;
a bit like leaves in the autumn wind,
it settles
till the next gust comes along.
Should I just lie,?
and say ok thanks ?,
I am caught-up
between the two worlds of his and hers
what support structure that is available in the UK,
you must find for yourself
takes years to get help and advice
from official sources
till then, you are left to swim,
against the tide,on your own.
Only the strongest survive.
Elizabeth alexander 18/1/2016
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The sweet songs of birds,
We hand in hand across the
lawn,
Pansies white yellow and violet
Tossing their heads in the
breeze.
Somewhere the sound of falling
leaves.
The sound of squirrel cracking
the walnut.
Calm weather warm sun,
White fluffy clouds forming
different shapes,
A passenger flight in the blue
sky,
Sun born in the horizon and
about to fade in the horizon,
Both our heartbeats echo
inside of chest,
Shutting and opening of our
lips,
Your unkempt hair flying
backwards,
Yellowish west sky.
Heart shaped fig leaf's shadow.
If I could stop this world from
spinning,
I would do so,
Just to be with you
In this autumn evening.
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B Bequeathed by the autumn of fading imposture
E Enrico gathers his baggage torn by the storm
A Alights from the grotto in contempt of the darkness
U Uncovers a few pennies for thoughts and for dreams
T Towards the crest of a canyon topping wild waters an
I Indigo crown transposes a solemn prayer once he gently
F Fulfills the promise of third season’s third eye
U Under a canopy of foliage in sandalwood’s sentience
L Leaves gather as they turn shades into colour
F For a moment of harmony Enrico tips forward
A And loses his balance just when the message seemed clear
L Levitation from the cusp straight into a hospital bed where
L Luscious Lucy touches his heart – what a beautiful fall
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Oh, my gracious one
My beautiful
Lovely vow
That I this is how I love you now
Beautiful love
You are now
the way of your thinking
Your spirit is soul beginning
You may ask continually
Peace, love and blessings
You invade my mind day and all through the night
Let me compare you to Liberty
As and beauty your boldness has set me free
Your love hits me
Toast as such is the joy of August
All the way through summertime
But until the early fall from Spring through Autumn
So how do I love you
Let me not show you I love you
Though through your body's mind
As and so spiritually I hold our time
Embracing you but in all of God's days
Ever and always
8/28/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
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You will not see my misty eyes gazing down
on the road as I leave the car, throbbing.
Like a fool of a cursed world, our last night
of autumn shivering would not hold me here,
torpid in your arms, unable to resist
sharp nails of discord you had placed precisely
through mocked words, certain of my fall.
Like a fool, I mask this wounded pride
from sight, yet once the dust settles anew,
upon your rage and empty heart, torn leaves
bleed away to follow me, yet you will wonder
who is the fool, the fool, when the crimson light
streaks across the sky. Lady, it is mine,
as you tumble alone in the cold--- acting
like the real fool, afraid of love's road trip.
For Rob Carmack---Lyrics II - The Black Crowes
--Poem based on the lyrics, ' Descending'
June 2, 2016
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HAND IN HAND WALKING THE CRIMSON LEAF RAIN SOAK PATH--
Autumn walk red crimson trees holding hands;
Walking rain filled path;
Dips the drops like math;
One after other drops of water-rain;
Trees darken the walk;
Step by step we talk;
a beam streams of light guides our way out the dark;
Darken is the path lit by sunlight's rays darts;
dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, dips,
Those full blossom leaves are red such fire
Hand in hand walking;
Alone just talking;
Bronze and reds it's brown surrounds our desire
Trees darken the path;
Step by step we gasps;
Promises warm tender hearts not damp or wet
HAND IN HAND WALKING THE CRIMSON LEAF SOAK PATH;
dip, dip, dip, dip, dip, drops,
5/12/18
For contest: QURINAGE ANY TOPIC POETRY CONTEST
Sponsored by: Gregory R. Barden
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Those seasons,
Have come and gone;
And so have I;
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Alas, I love you beyond;
Why? because I just do;
Whom, am I to say;
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Shalt I ever go away;
Physically sure;
But yet my hearts pure;
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And in the springtime;
One of the solstice changing;
dawn comes free,
Winters fallen behind me;
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and I've loved you before the buddings
and I've loved you beyond the trees
and I've loved you before the harvest
and I've loved you before autumn
Before the falling's of the leaves
and I've loved you in dew season before spring you see...
Alas, I love you beyond;
Why? because I just do;
Whom, am I to say;
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Shalt I ever go away;
Physically sure;
But yet my hearts pure;
this much I am sure
I love you more than nature
3/5/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©
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Texas Rose:
You're my Texas rose in the morning, I count my memories one by one.
You're my Texas rose in the summer the way you shine in the mid day sun.
You're my Texas rose in the autumn, when the sky's turn cold and grey.
You're my Texas rose every minute of every hour of every day.
You're my Texas rose in the winter your like snow falling from the sky.
You keep me warm and cozy, You know I would never lie.
You're my Texas rose in the spring time, the only one that has changed my life.
All I'll ask of you forever would you promise to be my wife.
Treat your Texas rose like a flower, she will always be in your view
She will be a Texas mother that's a gift from her to you.
I'm not just a Texas father. I'm a man in every way.
I have my Texas flower, she is mine she is here to stay.
My Texas rose.
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If you are the world's greatest
I'm the shutterbug bagging your every moment
Every triumph; Every applause
Every glitter in your smile
Every sway of your hips
Every coruscate; of the corundums in your strides
Your every queenly bow of acknowledgment
If ever the epic of stage lights besieges you
The autumn flicker will be the snapping of my Pentacon Six
What lays in the black of your eyes
Burns wilder than a wild fire
If ever the green winds of change
Merge up in whirls of umbrage
and surge on to wreck your burgeoning soul
May the fabrics that rest on my shoulder
Corrode in the brimstone brooks of your tears
Together we'll chase shooting stars
Until we lose them to the horizons
And watch the sun heave off its blanket
I will watch the rainbows with you
And see you tap energy from the wonders of creation
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I saw her speaking but only heard music.
And wondered of the sanity of love, whatever it is that love might be.
I heard Mozart’s violin concerto number three.
I heard her speaking it to me.
The Adagio, like the rhythmic tides in a ternary form at eventide on the rocky shores of the Hudson.
Such is the splendid D major as the crickets play one octave higher with the wind playing an A major.
I hum in A sharp and the fog horn in the distance a forlorn B minor.
The wine works quickly, tempers the mood.
Too drunk to write so we sing. Too tired to dream so we think. To weary to wish so we wander.
Lest the moon forgets to show us the way, we will set up camp beneath a bench staring up at the wild Verona sky like so many years ago.
Her jet black hair has purple hues in the moonlight.
Her red lips yearning in the chill of an autumn morning. Many years ago.
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A wise and sentimental one
Who lived and loved some years ago
Had crossed my path along the way
As i recall that Autumn day
By happenstance of lucky charm
As neighbors, then good friends we were
Though she was of another time
We found our words would always rhyme
A turning point that was for me
A home to call my very own
My life was just about to start
Forever called to gift my heart
She taught me not to fear my age
As life awaits then passes by
To always laugh and find the sun
And share my love with everyone
Though she’s been gone these many years
And I’m now where she was in life
I oft remember our exchange
When my world turns so cold and strange
Of many themes, we’d share our thoughts
She helped me grow, to find my strength
Yet one remains above them all
“Into each life some rain must fall”
For Harriett
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What is it called?
When thousands of bats
Come pouring out the mouth of a cave
For the black gold of sunset?
Like that
The late autumn leaves tear from their branches
In a spooky warm gale
Misplaced this Halloween night
Buries the party of cars parked on the street
For the last three days of vigil
Tending to 100-year-old Lillith
Next door
Her bedroom window 30 feet from me
Where I stand in short sleeves
Amazingly
This time of year
I too wait for news
As I watch the tree tops crumble
And the puzzle pieces of starry sky
Connect their arms and fill the gaps
Creamy river Milky Way
Maybe they are holding Lillith’s hands
Asking her questions about the beyond
And knowing Lillith
She’s ignoring them all or mumbling
Oh yes yes
Peering outdoors through her curtains
Listening to my wind chimes
Ding
Like a harbored sailboat’s mast
Lashed by its pulleys and hoists
Nothing left of Lillith’s sail
Of course it would be a wind like this
On a magical night like this
That carries her away in its arms
Over the roofs and pumpkin streets
To the new October stars.
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