("Peyote Moon", 2018, original encaustic)
The Great Toad
At the gateless gate
I met the Great Toad
Sitting tall and wide
And in his gaze
All my needs were known
And met
And in that moment
I passed beyond
Without a trace
(8/17/25)
Categories:
gateless, extended metaphor, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Right out of the gate
the world grows eyes on the inside of time.
A banana tree as tall as an eyelash
bears bunches of fat yellow legs,
clusters of pendular legs are called hands.
Contradictions serve to jog you out of your mind.
Try not to think of babies kicking their own toes,
or ponder too much
on tarantulas and small venomous snakes.
Lifting the rusting machinery of a primal brain
can be hard work if you’re not used to it.
nevertheless,
raise a blink that takes a snapshot of a life.
After much rehabilitation and recover
feel free to postulate
that life seems much longer than it really is.
Most mature bananas are about the same length,
this simple observation alone
will make you unrecyclable forever.
Categories:
gateless, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Ah, to love again, rekindle lustless flame
too long allowed to fade in embered chill
renew within my heart forever's name
empty the space that only she can fill.
Oh, heart, how long the cold has had its way
smothering the warmth of touch or sight
imprisoning in endless gateless gray
love's gentle breeze adrift upon the night.
Must I, in solitude, accept this fate
resign myself to acquiescent fear
or rise and in my solitude orate
in whispered penitence into her ear.
Oh, love, would you embolden me once more
imbue me with the fervor of thy flame
admit that she's the one I so adore
and whisper to myself my lover's name.
1/25/2021
Categories:
gateless, feelings, love,
Form: Verse
Death now sums
How end comes
Chilly crude crush
Breeze broken blush
Fatal final flush
Sad sorry state
Glimpse gateless gate
Face final fate
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
10 January 2021
Singapore
Categories:
gateless, change,
Form: Rhyme
My passion is the open passage
Passages open up the door
That moment my soul turned pedestrian
Passages open up the doors
Deep into that darkness open
Passages open up the door
A room skyline in brim
Darken blackness coal black as the heavens
Knock, knock, knock
Passages open up the door
Opens the door, gated community
Locks are draping
The gateless gazebo gaping
Free the robins and the squrielles, please
The out-of-doors overpass operating
Automobiles Beep, beep, beep…
My mind always strays to storms
Knock, knock, knock
Opens the door, gated community
A wonder that I can sleep
The thundery tempest transitioning
I heard an empty, naked holding
My skin out of body experience
Passages open up the door
Passages open up the door
Doors are open once more
Passage open up the door
2/1/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©
Categories:
gateless, analogy, anxiety, creation, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Away, Melancholia
rhymless
life striken root
Away, Melancholia
you
dandelion sun
terrace shadow
want of want
Melancholia,
gateless fable
withheld of word
of that unwalked path
Melancholia.
you are owed no
explaination,
have no spoken rath
but still
I walk through
your time
to tell your story,
I am sorry.
Leave me.
Categories:
gateless, november,
Form: Free verse