Late November and spring rain falls the glen,
dry nor-westers shed pine needle and cone -
and “koork kok” crows the cock pheasant and hen
who outside my window have always flown.
In the thickets and hanging gardens from
calls my ring-necked friend, my avian muse
who, silenced by the Iroquois’s loud thrum,
shines in the dappled sun its copper hues.
Behold his red faced wattle in the grass,
a white collared chromatic blue-green head
and long tail feathers that before me pass
as to the heavens his princely wings spread.
For in these hills in wild and wondrous sound
echo game fowl and the choppers inbound.
Written: November 1994
Categories:
inbound, home,
Form: Sonnet
Ripped from submissive
timing employed empowered
by selfless energies I tired
beneath the notions of hidden
tangible lessons entrusted
entangled by mastery cleverly
designed inbound communication
I catered to endless emotions
that dissipated dissolved on
impact tampering with desire
holding on to the mere essence
of my own adoration beyond what
is next what is covenant what is
protected upon a chess board
protecting the queen’s soul body
and heart at all cost a rapture of
surety creating mastering safety
above all else saving protecting me
Categories:
inbound, allah,
Form: Lento
Losing it... things don't mean .
Can't just make it fit.
Take a knife and make a slit... no... won't do it.
Time to get lit.
Trust it. Don't know yet.
it. Not literally, ...
don't know yet...
gotta stand my ground, unstable,
it's gone, can't be found,
my mind isn't able, not alone...
A storms coming, clouds inbound,
find the cable, tie down, no sound...
take a number, sit down,
it's too late, too soon?
The alarms went off but clouds were already circling... this storm turned into a hurricane
don't want to feel anything ...
get rid of it all just to numb the pain,
Can't fix my heart or my brain..
too late, already ingrained.
Make me feel insane
scream it silently
it's all in vain...
time to let go
and let the others take control before i fumble...
sitting backseat watching the waters rise and buildings crumble...
the game plan was botched who dropped the ball?
I'm giving in before I fall.
I'm becoming locked inside my head but maybe it's for the best...
let the others take a turn while I try to get some rest.
Can they tell it's not me?
I guess we will see... set them free...
so mote it be.
Categories:
inbound, anxiety, conflict, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Losing it... things don't mean .
Can't just make it fit.
Take a knife and make a slit... no... won't do it.
Time to get lit.
Trust it. Don't know yet.
it. Not literally, ...
don't know yet...
gotta stand my ground, unstable,
it's gone, can't be found,
my mind isn't able, not alone...
A storms coming, clouds inbound,
find the cable, tie down, no sound...
take a number, sit down,
it's too late, too soon?
The alarms went off but clouds were already circling... this storm turned into a hurricane
don't want to feel anything ...
get rid of it all just to numb the pain,
Can't fix my heart or my brain..
too late, already ingrained.
Make me feel insane
scream it silently
it's all in vain...
time to let go
and let the others take control before i fumble...
sitting backseat watching the waters rise and buildings crumble...
the game plan was botched who dropped the ball?
I'm giving in before I fall.
I'm becoming locked inside my head but maybe it's for the best...
let the others take a turn while I try to get some rest.
Can they tell it's not me?
I guess we will see... set them free...
so mote it be.
Categories:
inbound, anxiety, conflict, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Losing it... things don't mean .
Can't just make it fit.
Take a knife and make a slit... no... won't do it.
Time to get lit.
Trust it. Don't know yet.
it. Not literally, ...
don't know yet...
gotta stand my ground, unstable,
it's gone, can't be found,
my mind isn't able, not alone...
A storms coming, clouds inbound,
find the cable, tie down, no sound...
take a number, sit down,
it's too late, too soon?
The alarms went off but clouds were already circling... this storm turned into a hurricane
don't want to feel anything ...
get rid of it all just to numb the pain,
Can't fix my heart or my brain..
too late, already ingrained.
Make me feel insane
scream it silently
it's all in vain...
time to let go
and let the others take control before i fumble...
sitting backseat watching the waters rise and buildings crumble...
the game plan was botched who dropped the ball?
I'm giving in before I fall.
I'm becoming locked inside my head but maybe it's for the best...
let the others take a turn while I try to get some rest.
Can they tell it's not me?
I guess we will see... set them free...
so mote it be.
Categories:
inbound, anxiety, conflict, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Losing it... things don't mean .
Can't just make it fit.
Take a knife and make a slit... no... won't do it.
Time to get lit.
Trust it. Don't know yet.
it. Not literally, ...
don't know yet...
gotta stand my ground, unstable,
it's gone, can't be found,
my mind isn't able, not alone...
A storms coming, clouds inbound,
find the cable, tie down, no sound...
take a number, sit down,
it's too late, too soon?
The alarms went off but clouds were already circling... this storm turned into a hurricane
don't want to feel anything ...
get rid of it all just to numb the pain,
Can't fix my heart or my brain..
too late, already ingrained.
Make me feel insane
scream it silently
it's all in vain...
time to let go
and let the others take control before i fumble...
sitting backseat watching the waters rise and buildings crumble...
the game plan was botched who dropped the ball?
I'm giving in before I fall.
I'm becoming locked inside my head but maybe it's for the best...
let the others take a turn while I try to get some rest.
Can they tell it's not me?
I guess we will see... set them free...
so mote it be.
Categories:
inbound, anxiety, conflict, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Why is the middle where I put a book down?
My anticipation dies at that half-read interlude.
I lack the discipline that keeps me inbound.
A famous author's endings should be praised, and not eschewed.
Categories:
inbound, books,
Form: Rhyme
Let the moment continue
there’s no peace to make
no past to refight
or future at stake
Uncharted not lost
forever inbound
the instant repeating
—with memory refound
(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)
Categories:
inbound, self,
Form: Rhyme
(Contest Rules: Use as many words that sound like:
bound, browned, clowned, crowned, drowned, found
frowned, gowned, ground, hound, mound, pound,
round).
On the forest ground, Fred quickly found
a small bird downed and interwound
inside a nest mound- brown twig bound;
looking around- she chirped a sound.
Inbound winds made the nest unbound!
The bird was round, blue feather-gowned,
and must go homebound to rebound-
away from hounds in the campground.
Now, in the background, was a foxhound!
Fred, helmet-crowned- with bird spellbound
inside downed nest- climbed up, branch-bound,
to rebound nest a safe compound.
The once-downed bird chirped thanks abound!
The newfound branch was safe and sound!
For turnaround, Fred was renowned!
Saved the downed bird- blue feather-gowned!
Contest: Nursery Rhyme 3
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Categories:
inbound, adventure, bird, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
NaPoWriMo
NaPoWriMo Day4
Adveristy
Shorts
Termination inbound on the day
Ruminating over the cause
Sudden pain caused by fellowship
Heartstrings hand-plucked, wrought with strife
You take a bow, adversity on your fingertip
Perfectionist performance, chimerical display.
Categories:
inbound, betrayal, farewell, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
to walk in the wilderness how he was lost
in a laid down position I was found horizontal asleep
I open mine eyes awakened by the sounds spoken
the sounds of life posterity around me bonding me
the impoverished I'm inbound in my own self prolific
rubbish incorporating my situation I found provisions
and correlation I turn myself to the left to the right
as I walk from the south to the north it before me east and west
no longer arrested no I'm confessing I'm in just I'm a sinner saved
by grace misplaced yet still lost I found it when I look up I raise my hands and I am redeemed and I'm yet saved I'm found in Christ
11/1/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Categories:
inbound, adventure, analogy, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Dramatic Verse
bliss pulse inbound
joy resounding
surrounds presence
09-April-2021
Categories:
inbound, joy,
Form: Than-Bauk
Just because you came equipped with angel eyes
doesn't mean you have the wings to fly!
You have invisible shackles from down under holding you fastened, keeping you grounded!
Love hurts, it keeps you blind for a time
Wake when the cake wears off
This soul awaits retribution
Why does Karma beckon this consciousness wrapped in flesh?
does this ever end?
as a twenty year old all I saw was red
Since then' two decades of lost sight wandering through a cloud of apathy..
Does it ever end.
Categories:
inbound, angel, anger, angst,
Form: Epigram
Free and unbound, childlike exuberance
Love within bubbling, marking innocence
Earth life’s highs and lows, a merry-go-round
Each time the first time, leaving us spellbound
Soft attention, melting in each cadence
Recognise oh hermit, self effulgence
Flowing in rhythm to the divine dance
Space our garment, yet with feet on the ground
Free and unbound
Ambling thus slowly, with bliss in parlance
Moment to moment, in joyous balance
Beauteous love hues inbound and outbound
Agendaless: no doctrines to expound
Vibrant void our home, feeling each nuance
Free and unbound
26-December-2020
Categories:
inbound, freedom, joy, spiritual,
Form: Rondeau
What does a child know of placidity?
Little heart stirs,
quickened by
inbound
ducks;
pier
is warm,
feet soaking
up excitement.
Grownups pine to be stirred, awash with peace.
8/14/2020
Photo #1
Double Tetractys Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Eve Roper
Checked by howmanysyllables.com
Syllables:10, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 10
Categories:
inbound, animal, child, peace, water,
Form: Tetractys
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