Angie, you smile at all things in your front,
Envy escapes from what you do possess;
Because You Can't Always Get What You Want,
Your heart just shows humble indebtedness.
I grasp that you are not Under My Thumb,
For you freely form your own decision;
You just Paint It Black or white in outcome,
Because life brings both mirth and depression.
You view that I am not a Tumbling Dice
To be thrown, to land wherever they may;
Even Wild Horses can never devise
A force that can madly drag me away.
You are not as those Honky-Tonk Women
With wild and uninhibited lifestyle;
Nor a Ruby Tuesday to be ruined,
Instead, as Rolling Stones, you are worthwhile.
Categories:
indebtedness, tribute, woman,
Form: Rhyme
And a routine, a habit not done
A self-care or a part has done
Emphasizes value of the moment
Also has a pleasant aftertaste
A process help notice a result
Embodiment to thank for oneself
A method to cultivate happiness
A journal to write indebtedness
Art for tool to thank for others
An expression to create family.
Categories:
indebtedness, character, passion, thanks,
Form: Free verse
Remember those people
Who help you in your nothingness
Who shield you in times of your storms
They're your true and precious friends
To have them, you're the most lucky and blessed.
Cherish every good moments
While you still here on earth
Smile and be good to each you meet
Life is a story and it should be a good one
For if we depart, we'll continue afterlife as we ought it should.
Don't lay up treasures here on earth
They're the cynosure to the evil eyes
Treasure here will rust, it will be stolen
It will make people proud and shrewd
Rather, gather treasures that will lead you to where heaven is.
Categories:
indebtedness, character, love, money, people,
Form: Free verse
Debit
Liable, obligatory
Owing, paying, pledging
Indebtedness, deficit, salary, bonuses
Receiving, banking, depositing
Affluent, prosperous
Credit
April 28, 2021
Categories:
indebtedness, business, money,
Form: Diamante
What makes you think
you can mortgage a heartache
What makes you think
your payment’s unique
What makes you think
your indebtedness special
What makes you think
—you can leverage the pain
(Dreamsleep: March, 2021)
Categories:
indebtedness, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Our forever Sky Dancer peace parades his Paradise dance on soaring
silky clouds kissing a milky blue tender sky, sun on high, breezes on low
all giving way to cautioned Winds of a coming Change. That cosmic window closed upon those giving nations of first earthly born supremes on this, their planet Earth of everlasting life; a being of quieting calm, an eternal indebtedness to and within oneself, with all nature in tune and a universality of spiritual life lived--ever consuming, enduring, inhabiting all that is known and will serve to be.
Categories:
indebtedness, america, education, endurance, international,
Form: Free verse
Who lies now by the wayside stricken,
sick of body, sick of soul?
His eyes are closed, his ears are deaf
to the somber bells that toll.
I knew this man now sadly stricken
in happier days when blessed by wealth,
famed for both his strength and valor,
his soul and body in best health.
He saved my kindred, then the stricken
by persecutions, death and war.
He bound our wounds and brought good fortune.
Why lies he now at sorrow's door?
Shall we pass by the mighty stricken?
Ingratitude, this world's poor loan?
Those once helped must now be helpers.
No man or woman stands alone.
Categories:
indebtedness, friend, humanity, sympathy,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
A debt comes not only in money terms
Taking and giving debt in other forms
Indebtedness involves in many ways
Doing the same to the donor who may
Going in aid of parents all come repays
Categories:
indebtedness, caregiving, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Ever gonna praise Him
You know you ever
Ever Gonna praise Him
In sorrow glory
In indebtedness glory
In problems glory
In happiness holy
In all badness
In all gladness
Ever gonna praise Him
Ever gonna praise His just…
because
repeat 2x then fini
12/22/19
Written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2019
Categories:
indebtedness, analogy, appreciation, conflict, confusion,
Form: Lyric
Birthday Poem for Mother Leonora
8 April 2015
For only now I understand
The meaning of endurance
For the gravity that you held so grand
I would this day take as compliance
Though I would like to see you
As still young and vibrant
A prayer of another birthday to come through
Your glowing presence is my ritual chant
For all the love and sacrifice
I cannot repay, my life is my indebtedness
For a wonderful lady, there is so much to rejoice
Starting a life with you in the constancy and absoluteness
I am longing for your embrace
I am still the child by your side
Looking every cloth you crocheted, it was time you outfaced
Your sweat of hard work has made great strides
Today is your birthday
Happy Birthday, Mama Leonora
Wishing you a bright, blessed 75th birthday
We love you, our Señora
Categories:
indebtedness, appreciation, birthday, dedication, happy
Form: Rhyme
Heavy taxation is not thriftiness,
exempting themselves from indebtedness!
Oh, Congress is comical...
making us hysterical
through economic hardships!
Categories:
indebtedness, political, social
Form: Limerick
There have been great men of lofty stature,
champions to grateful populations
with virtues others struggle to capture,
they constantly surpass expectations
and are heroes to envious nations.
Yet, all men who inspire to right and good,
cannot ignore their debt to Motherhood.
Categories:
indebtedness, life, love, mother, son,
Form: Rhyme Royal