Conflict is something
we must exist with
on a daily basis
in this modern world
It can be verbal,
physical or a
clash of ideas or
governmental ideologies
Violence should always
be avoided and never
used to resolve anything
There are too many
conflicts in the World
today between countries
So many unnecessary
deaths and suffering
Military conflicts should be
avoided at all costs
Nothing positive comes
out of them
only negative destruction,
death and mayhem
BUILDING BLOCK
Temporal they are higher power,
unveiled to me who are temporary obstacle
that's temporal derailing me for abating power
If this be meant to be compliance unequivocal
God has the triumphant power
Always to turn around man's power
For humanity strong tower
Will fall
When El Shaddai calls
Governmental bricks will fall
6/11/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025
Celebrate all week long, let your spirit soar,
His goodness and mercy, forever outpour.
All life long, His faithfulness holds true,
With grace and mercy, as He walks beside you.
The waters are stirring, with healing embrace,
Miracles flowing, transforming lives and pace.
Rolling mountains bear witness to His majesty so grand,
As His out stretched arms create treasures untold.
All things are possible, with Him by your side,
He will never fail, nor abandon you from His sight.
Signs and wonders will follow you, His gifts unfold,
As heavens display His glory untold.
As governmental mantles fall, surrender your sight,
For His wisdom is behind you, in every arrow's flight.
With focused attention, aim true and steadfast,
He will guide your shoot, ensuring you get the bullseye.
But, dear soul, in this new season to prevail,
Learn to shoot moving targets below their mark,
As the Lord directs, let your arrows gather speed
In celebration, see His mercy enduring indeed.
Disruptive Don could not get along
With the fake folks who wish to prolong
The failing notions
And crazy potions
Of governmental plans proven wrong
We are finite beings in an infinite space;
We are thrown in at the start,
Pushed into the unknowable depth
Of the darkest waters, without warning.
Sometimes we take pause,
Allow ourselves to admire
The things created for us,
Things we created for ourselves.
The ineffable beauty of the cosmos
Can be found in the melody
Of your favourite song
Swirling on repeat through your mind.
It can be found in the laughter of friends
Bound by the trauma of ageing together,
Getting older and cackling
In the face of the inevitable.
Sometimes it is shared in a gaze
Between lovers, when pupils, thoughts
And lips collide in mutual admiration
Of each other’s spiritual and corporeal form.
Other times we mark it in ceremonies;
Graduating with that desired 2:1
And £60,00 in governmental debt,
The world more open than ever before,
Or the ritual of shrouding in black,
Sending those we love
In Charon’s graceful embrace as dust,
Back to where we came from.
We clock in to our allocated slot,
Repeat tasks of beautiful mundanity,
Surround ourselves with little treasures,
And at the end of it all, clock out,
To be set free amongst the stars.
STEPS ASIDE
They’ve banned the “step counters”
Outlawed the treadmill and stationary bike
Banned jogging (aka fast walking for the elderly)
Sports will be limited to “non-aerobic” activities
Tiddlywinks tournaments will be Government funded.
Scientific research and investigation
Funded by the “stay inside and die sooner” chapter
Of the “Governmental Gottcha Groups”
Has conjectural and anecdotal evidence
That the heavy breathing induced by exercise
Increases the carbon dioxide emissions
Of those engaged in anaerobic exercise.
Suggested alternate activities are:
-Daydreaming,
-Scheming (aka conspiring with imaginary friends)
-Meditation…without chanting
-Astral Traveling (with or without passport)
-Thinking, but only about the things presented in our booklet
-(also known as “Talking Points)
Or the “Rip Van Winkle” solution…
Go to sleep for twenty years
and hope it’s all over when you wake up.
John G. Lawless
©2/24/2023
1.Audios include interaction with journalists.
2.Audios include conversations with government.
3.Audios include conversations with military personell.
4.Audios include conversations with the premier military head.
5.Audios include personal and governmental dealings.
6.Audios include interactions between the first family and extended families.
7.Audios may include conversations with serving judicial appointees.
9.Audios include engagements with foreign dignitaries.
10.Audios include directions / orders by personnel involved.
Note.Hopefully this release will bring betterment to Pakistan..
TEEN PREGNANCY
In hospital and streets
Estates and villages
Huge boards
Printed and written
But worldwide it still happens
Every morning and every night
With none taking responsibility
Its like curses and evil ghosts hailing us
We hate young girls
We cast them as cheap and lust filled
They have done what they intended to
But they were forced...the other gender forced them
It has come to close eye under search
It has ruined the close relationship of gender
Yes you taught them in school and non governmental houses
But they had no choice for resistance
May be poverty fumed im all corners of their homeland
And the option came with consequences
They took risk for rescue
Don't cast them out of their fathers gates
Lets all stand and confess for hatred
Lets love them and give company
Support where necessary
For what happened and gave a result is an achievement!
Dafina
Fightforgirlchildforever
#poetryforlife
Lives a poet in the United States
Who's sick and tired of insolent ingrates
She went on a diet
And thinks you should try it
It doesn't involve the food on your plates
You're not allowed to talk of politics
Can't claim elections were stolen with tricks
Headlines are taboo
Evening news is, too
The country is a mess and needs a fix
Trump's big lie is never to be swallowed
In the mud he's slung, regret you've wallowed
The truth always comes out
Of that, she has no doubt
He's not a good leader to be followed
She will not boast of President Biden
His mental faculties may be slidin'
Age has taken a toll
On not reaching his goal
The road to Democracy must widen.
The diet will not drop pounds from your weight
But you'll be happier without debate
She's not being a schmuck
And is no longer stuck
In quagmires of governmental stalemate
In this so-called modern world today
There's lots of cause for apprehension,
And all the crazy stuff that's going on,
Like the hubbub up in Washington,
Where no one's getting nothing done,
Is only adding to the tension.
It's not that I don't care about
The cost of healthcare, global warming,
And homelessness, and poverty,
And gender inequality,
But sheer governmental lunacy
Is what, to me, is most alarming.
I express my views as best I can,
Never preen, or preach, or yammer,
Keep disdain in check, reproaches small,
And strive through verse to rise above it all,
But now and then when gentler words begin to gall,
I'm rather glad poetic license lets me call
Upon the recourse of bad grammar.
People are obedient to the power they serve
the source of all conflict and war works for the devil
No one in governmental positions ever calls for peace
they put sanctions on nations to fill their own ill bred pockets
we all can see clearly that greed plays its hand through bloodshed
Those old men sacrificing the young to do their dirty work
cowardly office boys sitting on their laurels hiding behind a desk
the mask has slipped revealing back stabbers
hiding behind a smoke screen the true origin sits
Pay the piper to play a different tune one with hope for the future
this destructive path the world is on is driven by fear
believing in something without evidence to back it up as existing
Slowly many will awaken to find it all is to late
when a majority can no longer be achieved without conflict
sad state of affairs as many have avoided learning
from the past mistakes tyrants and dictators work against God
Covid caused sickness and death.
Government caused all the rest.
Sickness and death were guaranteed at birth.
Choices ruled the rest, for what it’s worth.
Fear is the choice chosen by so many.
Fear is the fuel that feeds conformity.
The practitioners of governmental authority,
Understand this human reality.
Using fear to drive an agenda,
That promotes their power forever.
How is love abundant
in the world full of snares
in a conglomerate oasis of identity faces
A coalition of humanity unraveled unhappy
Poor the souls adventure forth unknown
caring not for one another no one claims
Their sisters or brothers phallus hierarchies governmental force
Hatred on Earth a living hell
Love lost humanity hatred as risen its course
The complexity of the anguish and the pains
Yet remain humanity at strange
Demons forces inspiring grabbing embracing the hearts
Those the hearts of the living devouring the souls of the Dead
How can these misplaced individuals be offered off so they dread
In a confinement of denial love is held hostage place in a box and the key is lost
What have we now we have failed ?
Hatred on Earth the living hell
For love no longer exists all that exists is hatred in hell
3/1/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
Jill couldn't stop thinking about the blacks
she was just so hot and red so mad
But she could never forget the feedback
That morning, Jill was shocked by the sack
She had to calm herself with a tread
Jill couldn't stop thinking about the acts
Those acts of violence against her African-American friends
Later, Jill was spooked by a plaque
She tried to focus on the sacks (over their heads)
But she could never forget the feedback
Boxes filled with rags
Marching wit flags, White supremacist
Jill took action like a crack
The black was like a toxic head
But she could never forget the feedback
tried to distract her with a packs
Said her mind had become too overhead
Jill nosedived like a bad stack
Her mind became dangerously dread
By those people colored medium dark brown
Jill couldn't stop thinking about the blacks
But she could never forget the feedback
Why? Her father was a southern governmental segregationist
12/16/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2021©
A.I.’s coming my brothers and sisters.
In fact it’s so already here
So sit back and enjoy the ride while you can.
Without trepidation or fear.
Governmental mistrust, it divides us
Religion caused, terror is rife
The purest religions are those doomed to fail
Do we need such a crutch in our life
Media controlled mis-information
A plandemic brings folks to their knees
Their aim is complete subjugation
Disguised as a viral disease
Spread the lies of the monied elite
Have them think that we’re saving each other
Locked down in compliant control
‘Til we fight tooth and nail with each other
There’s a world of mistrust rightly earned
Satan seems to be never too far
From the iniquitous music system
To scandals extreme near and far
So, care for the state that you’re in
The state you’re in, cares so for you
As your Country and also the World
If you’re part of the Elitest few
‘Cos Silicone Valley and the powers that be
Are here, for to serve only you.
Or is money their God and corruption their game
Sermons read from an unholy pew.
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