The hillbilly hoe down is in full swing
We are all trying to be crowned the king
We put up our dukes to everyone we see
Jumping into the fray is my Uncle Lee
I am pummeling my brother and two strangers too
One has a red face, the other one is kind of blue
My brother say “hey! I am your bro, you crazy boy!”
“That’s what makes us rednecks, what brings me joy.”
The hillbilly hoe down is held in the holler west.
I brought my own whiskey, my moonshine is the best.
Auntie tastes my barbeque sauce that burns off her tongue.
This hoedown in Tennessee is all kinds of fun!
POISED IN FULL NOURISHMENT
Sitting here content,
Heart, mind, and soul, all nourished:
Warm poetry soup, fed.
My cup is overflowing!
Here I sit, saucer sipping!
I am standing in full view but I dont make any sound
I am standing in full view but you dont know im around
I am standing in full view and I watch the young and old
I am standing in full view when its hot and when its cold
I am standing in full view in the night and in the day
I am standing in full view and i am never far away
I am standing in full view and you know that I exist
I am standing in full view and in my hand I have my list
I am standing in full view until you take your last breath
Then you will see the true me I am known as death.
Frugality with economy of words
hoping you will read between the lines
silence dishing out the obvious
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 3rd place 2025
Blood, sweat and tears
Through Christ Jesus, we can conquer our fears
Through His death, we can discover a new breath of life
His life was put under the knife
This was to give us new life
Paid in full
So you and I can fulfill our destiny and
Exhibit the magnificent Grace bestowed upon us
Death could not hold him
A new family was born and grows forevermore
He is the cure to our deceitful heart
He did His Part and
He will be praised Forevermore
Paid in full
So you and I can fulfill our destiny and
Exhibit the magnificent Grace bestowed upon us
Paid in fulfil to bring us back to him
What was left unsaid,
was felt as a vibration,
echoing the heart’s desire.
Pristine love conspires
with the universe itself,
to display an orange moon.
Crocodile picked up the fiddle and began to play
Rabbit and raccoon began dancing a jig right away
Other animals came up to the bayou to have a sing
By the time night fell, New Orleans jazz music was in full swing.
I stare at the pristine white blank page
She intimidates me, I know she feels my fear
I am not the enemy I say
If you crumple me up, I will bite you, she says
I remember my last paper cut.
It was not fun.
I need to start typing
But fear holds me back.
Come on! My muse says. Don’t be a pussy!
I am intimidated by her too.
She can be demanding, commanding.
And crazy? A voice whisper in my ear.
Damn fear!
She is here in full force today.
Tjhe Cretans have centered there
intentions
made foly of the traditions
stood in the Pool of Rightousness
to drink the wines of endearment and affection
callously they decieve
for those who belive
and shall rub the ointments
of victory in there losses
Might the moon emcompass the
straddlers
to brring them into aligment with
Talus!
There they shall stand as men
before the God of Wrest
each seed sown
to bare the friut
the bark of the trees
to make the leather
the presious metals smelted
formed and trimmed with
the gem stones
Talus stand before me
that I have labored
and am Champion above all!
Talus recognize me attop all these men
that I am Champion of
Champion
on every coast
in every feild
to sell every conseccion
That I am recognized
to all men as best
before me no other
and after me the same
Champion
recognized by such adornments!
the muppet party was in full swing
Kermit was there doing his thing
Miss Piggy was absent, zingy zing zing
Confetti was popping with a pingy ping ping
There was food on the table fit for a king
A jukebox in the corner was going ching-ching
the muppet party was in full swing
Count Dracula was there heavily counting
Where is Miss Piggy? Asked the Halloween king.
We do not know, Kermit said but I have her sling.
Give her a call, so Kermit gave her phone a ring.
But she never turned up, zingy zing zing zing zing.
IN FULL BLOOM SOUL I AM-
Where are the heart shine
And when at lights in my soul
Will I ever be fine I am so so I am glow
I want to know how did the sky turn gray
And is it meant for me to be an abundant praise
While I'm in dismayed blossoming praise
~
So my heart my yes sees in the dark
In a different realm I am suspended
And all that I am covered in this explicitly starts
And blessed I don't understand why I am ever blessed
Even a man but in this eclipse I am
All that I am I meant to be I am
Blossomed I am a flower of the I am
~
Father in full bloom I so am
IN FULL BLOOM SOUL I AM-
9/3/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2o23
Wild lavender flowers bloom in bunches
inside the circular garden
Surrounded by colors of emerald green
The Tiger Lilly rise above
with bright, orange curves and detailed markings
All is silent, petals are still
It is a perfect image on the hill
where the wind blew all these seeds home
- Life is in full bloom -
Heidi Sands
8/15/23
The mushroom head dance is in full swing today
With a hidey high high and a heydee hay hay!
Mushroom heads love dancing like bees love to buzz
We are jiggling and wiggling with a friendly fine fuzz.
Some are doing high kicks, I try to keep my feet in the air.
Some of the non-mushroom head people give me a stare.
I shake my bootie so hard, it nearly breaks a table in two.
My aunt Mable says “Child! What next will you do?”
I am shaking and quaking and giving a tiny roar.
I dance upside down and forward, and then out the door.
The rest of them are following me, and showing me up.
I care not at all, having no need for another dance winner cup.
Requesting
forgiveness
from the dead
My will
crossing over
no longer misled
Requesting
forgiveness
my debt was set free
Destiny
reckoned
—atonement complete
(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)
The bucolic scene spread before her full white hair
That stupendous beauty whose silver did flair
Overlooking the planted fields, waiting for harvest
Youth, prodigious life in the past waiting to go the farthest
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