Best is to be
Just do your best,
Ignore the rest,
Aim high,
You shall fly,
Be best pals,
Dudes and gals,
Don't roll eyes,
Be a surprise,
You best is to be,
Aim high, you shall see!
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Categories:
future., appreciation, children, encouraging, future,
Form: Rhyme
Shine forever
Focus on talents,
Yours and mine, keep on shining,
Sustaining future.
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Categories:
future., appreciation, art, encouraging, future,
Form: Haiku
I'm The Head Not The Tail
I stand tall, a champion of unyielding might,
A winner, not a quitter, in the arena of life's plight.
A victor, not a victim, with a heart that beats like gold,
A conqueror, not conquered, with a spirit that never grows old.
I'm blessed, not cursed, with favor that overflows,
The first, not the last, with a destiny that forever
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Categories:
future., future, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Moonlight's Bright Tonight, Part 1
Moonlight’s bright tonight.
Let’s go outside and play
In the fields of the village.
Morning’s far away.
Still crisp air holds its breath
In silence as we watch
Moonlit shadows creeping west,
Forever out of reach.
We try to chase the shadows
Running through the trees,
Standing tall like rocket ships
Against the lonely seas.
Come along and run with me,
The fields await our gaze.
There lay mysteries
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Categories:
future., adventure, freedom, future, growing
Form: Rhyme
The beggers prayers
Ye barron lands
I take a glance
Might the whispers
Accompany me
Winters may come
I stand
I fall
My troubled soul
What untangles me
Some may wish
Some may pray
In this world
What do the troubled say
Look to thee
Might the nought undermined
Sweet the gesture
Which appeared warm
and kind
Look to the rainbow
If thyn believes
To morn the fallen
To let folk grieve
People long
From generation to generation
Suffer not
In
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Categories:
future., blessing, engagement, future, i
Form: Ballade
What's in a Star Sign
I'm often asked what sign I am
Leading me to answer best I can
That while I know that signs exist
I try my best to cheerfully desist.
But there again if truth be told
My interest piqued this subject old,
So with new fervor I travailed
The results of which I here detailed.
My secret was I did ensnare
Those I knew well
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Categories:
future., character, creation, fate, future,
Form: Rhyme
With a Gentle Hand - Mystic
With a gentle hand I will comfort you
A promise I’ll keep till my life is through
Baby as you grow
I will love you so
The world is yours, so much to pursue.
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Categories:
future., baby, future, love,
Form: Limerick
UTERO- HOLDER OF LIFE
UTERO HOLDER OF LIFE
Reddish brown hue
Holder of life
So easy to view
Beautiful
Mother’s hold held, life spoil
She stands tall, fertile
Legs sequoia
Woman mother of man
Releasing’s life’s blood
Eggs embryos
Down her limbs
Nurturer, mother of world
Red river life flows through
The womb monthly flows
Utero holder of life
9/3/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©
"from LIFE DISCERN Anthology "
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Categories:
future., age, analogy, appreciation, birth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Psycho-Meditation 301
The whole idea of a ‘leisure class’
is not as distant as it seems
when students prep for life with courses
~ like ‘Meditation and Recurring Dreams’
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Categories:
future., beautiful, education, fantasy, future,
Form: Rhyme
Feast of the Few
Hunger walks barefoot through the streets,
while ministers gorge on stolen meats.
Children suck silence instead of bread,
their futures pawned, their dreams half-dead.
The unemployed queue in endless chains,
their sweat dismissed, their labour drained.
Degrees rot in forgotten drawers,
while power laughs behind locked doors.
Corruption fattens on every deal,
their pockets swelling, ours to steal.
Contracts vanish, truth is sold,
justice buried beneath
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Categories:
future., africa, corruption, dream, food,
Form: Free verse
Mega church earth
Mega church Earth,
Now's the hour, humanity,
Fills days with love, hope,
Peace bonds unite,
Foster futures now....
(25 syllables).
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Categories:
future., earth, encouraging, future, humanity,
Form: Free verse
It’s Life, It’s Time
It’s life
It has to go on
Until we are gone
It’s time
You can’t hold it back
You can’t move it forward
It’s life
You can’t predict the future
You can’t change the past
It’s time
You can’t make everything right
You can’t make everyone bright
But Truly
Things will settle down
When they will find the way on their own
Life happens
When you own your moments
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Categories:
future., destiny, fate, future, hope,
Form: Free verse
Come The Break Of Day
Saw you standing in the club door,
not my normal kind,
something I you just grabbed my stare,
tumbled through my mind.
Had to come and buy you a drink,
had to know your name,
I just want to skip right ahead
past all the foolish games.
All the thing I could do to you,
keep you busy the whole night through,
you and I
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Categories:
future., future, love, lust, men,
Form: Rhyme
1 reason why
I am the rot beguiling the saccharine summer hue
I am the self in selfish sorrow, sullying the morning dew
Sickened with the mortal blips of emotion
To fall with the fragility of flesh hipped erosion
Hipped bone beneath browned bandage
Honed the hand hither, 'ncase fickle flesh cannot manage
T'stand aground the mortal vantage
Health t'sickness, worn to wear,
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Categories:
future., future, imagery, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Be clear on your goal
all decisions won't be easy
who knows what lies around the corner
be true to your ambition
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
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Categories:
future., confidence, future, truth,
Form: Other
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