She was plum perfect
Sweet as apple pie
A lavender rose
Hearthstone
Boiling warm glow
Dew drop Olive garden
Warm Glow tulips in the spring
Such a sugary woman
Soul so very sweet
Her very essence chocolatey
Chanterelle strawberries
Sea anemone oceans breath
That woman that girl cotton in a candy
So sweet chocolatey sweet
She's yum, plum perfect
2/4/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
Categories:
hearthstone, analogy, cute love, sweet
Form: Free verse
Afghan, around shoulders,
crocheted winter-white.
Mama’s getting older.
Love her in hindsight.
Quiet, pretty, charming —
wise with snowflake hair.
Little sisters arming
her with loving care.
Forgives couple’s absence,*
our shamed shoulders bent.
Mama’s hearthstone immense,
with violet scent.
Grumpy, petty couple
has no right to frown.
Mama’s silver supple
knees, deserve a crown.
1/11/2018
Joseph May’s 88 syllables
*line is 6 syllables not 5 (error on howmanysyllables)
FICTION
Categories:
hearthstone, age, love,
Form: Rhyme
A pen to scribble, upon thou texture of nature’s art,
Thrashing about, men’s minds of nomenclature prose,
His mind’s turn to rotate with sequential prowess,
Lines of truth within thou heart of endowments,
To depart from former figures, all alleged from necromancy
Was a mirthful hearthstone within a hapless man.
“Writing is the gateway to inkblots of towering intellect, misery and mystery, along with the denial of all humanity that there is such a thing as ascertain expression. However, realize that writing created language, thus the catalyst for such denial in the first place.”
Categories:
hearthstone, 12th grade, analogy, blessing,
Form: I do not know?
The bedroom hearthstone
breathes black ice cream
into our shell.
I scuttle on the floes of insomnia
like a conch shell
knocked into the jealous waters.
You sleep soundly.
Maybe we’ll crack open the mudroom door tomorrow
and comb the yard for your mittens.
My yellowed knee
will crawl out of its cast in fourteen days.
The house mumbles something about abandonment.
Categories:
hearthstone, loss
Form: Free verse