The sun never settles in the dark;
The darkness dissipates one second interval;
Atmospheric change instantaneous;
Start has no place to run;
1 second contingency.;
Lingering spiring shadows;
Have no effect on me;
I am the speck of light;
One ditto, one spark;
Diminishes darkness;
8/28/26
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2026
I Found A Mile-Long Stick.
And When I Touch It...
The Other End Moves
With Each Shiver.
There And Then.
A Mile Away.
Now Is Now.
-Fast! Not Speedy!-
Just Is.
***
It's Not Resistant
To Struggle...
It's Not Made Of
Connections, Like
Grandma's Whispering
Game... You Recall?
No! It's More Revealing.
It's Not A Stick.
It's Made Of Light.
And It’s More Than A Mile.
It’s Instantaneous...
Distance Maxed.
Not Measurable.
That's How It's
Timeless.
But Our Senses
Feel... Which
Needs:
Propagation!
(According To The Propaganda.)
-Gray Squirrel
08-17-2026
An iridescent streak
bifurcates the obsidian
dome,
A incandescent voyager
accelerating through the
obscurity,
Relinquishing its grand,
celestial habitation,
To dissolve into a ephemeral,
luminous fragment.
Conflagrating magnificently
across the absolute infinity,
It manifests with fierce,
unadulterated dedication,
Exchanging its permanent,
prehistoric illumination,
To bestow an instantaneous
warmth upon our souls.
For what is preservation
within the remote cosmos,
Juxtaposed against this
singular encounter in your
presence?
I would joyfully witness the
ancient firmament
disintegrate,
To participate in this fleeting,
majestic trajectory.
Like that radiant anomaly, I
surrender my entirety,
Content to completely
dissipate, if our devotion
remains absolute.
All together or a thread at a time
Instantaneous or in slow motion
We flow with bliss currents divine sublime
Sipping nectar of soma bliss potion
Doing nothing, becoming the ocean
There is no path because there’s no one here
We seek not yet each bliss-flicker is dear
Here there is no time
All is instantaneous in love
ETERNAL
Here there is no anxiety
All is blessedness and peace
UNCHANGING
Here there is no need
All is thanksgiving and fullness
STILL
This is your heritage
You were created here
Although born there
Within the error of generations
Generated through error
Find your way back here
Stay here within
THE MOTION OF LOVE
It will carry and keep you here
You have returned to your Father
Emptied and refilled with God
Liberated from error’s Dis-grace
Surrenderd into Divine Love and Grace
A child favored. Ask to go down
From eternity crevice, not a novice
Embraced in the hearing and now
Energies energies of spirit sound
Asteral present earthen bound
Essence electric from thought
To spiritual realm intertwined
Spiraling fathoms down
Instantaneous creative
Birth in the birth canal
This child shall
Be call birth "new born"
From heaven down the tunnel
From the head and the heart
From the womb to the room
Comes a new spirit into a new vessel
A eternal spirit from the skies
4/19/26
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2026
if i could take your hand
what moments we would be
such wondrous fragments of glass
an anchor in the sea
coldness gently caresses
a stream across the face
no element could marvel
our broken lies replace
love upon an action
though instantaneous it seems
it takes it's time and patience
and visits through our dreams
diffuse
adaptations
discovered
pleasures
vital
full
precise
yet
simple
&symbolic
vague
allegory
tantamount
to
the opaque
instead
of
exact
equivalents
excel
in
objective
intrigue
aesthetic
visual
&verbals
verify
expectations
exceeding
superficial
mosaics
of
perception
both
instantaneous
&
simultaneously
fused
in
eternal
creativity
AI
instantaneous access
to a vast depositories
which include stories
and stories of stories~
to a question of who
is the access-er to all this
amazement
AI says you are~and
further you are a
story freshly told~
as life moves along
a story may resonate and
suddenly the separation
in stories is not
yet the story is told~
another story which
may arise with or
without
AI~~
instantaneous
&cumulative
visuals
implied
choices
simple
useful
yet
mysterious
sensations
illustrated
preludes
to
fascinate
emotions
expressions
intensify
to
transform
imagings
AI
with seeming
vastness of thought~
instantaneous
conceptional analysis
or a new song of morning~
perhaps a "realization" of
the immediacy of everything~~
When heart be quiescent, free from desire,
mind too rests, since there’s nothing to be done,
ego consigned to the funeral pyre,
breath by breath as we slowly come undone,
the heartbeat of God and ours become one.
Ceasing thinking, our head with heart linking,
we attain pure awareness unblinking.
Heart offers instantaneous knowing,
wherein we do not attain but become
the totality within us flowing,
aligned with bliss beats and the cosmic hum,
free from the urge to seek any outcome.
Our soul evolves, when ego we dissolve.
Orbiting our heart, all the worlds revolve.
she had only asked him to come in for a cup of hot strong coffee
an innocent gesture in her mind maybe an interesting exchange
of thoughts on philosophical matters like love death and existence
yet once they had smoked a first cigarette the smoke clouds parted
like sea waters of Yam Suph in the form of spiritual enlightenment
candles flickered and incense filled the room with sandalwood and musk
serenity and pheromones diffused hardship fear loneliness and inhibition
passionate silence of words merged with quivering lips in fervorous action
and the pulse of their hearts raced in crescendo surely missing a few beats
velvet skin like cinnamon bark feverishly exposed unlimited desire
an immaculate conception of wisdom arose from instantaneous Karma
and twenty years later they still need no picture guide on how to make love
"the clouds parted like the pursed lips of desire" and that meant the world
being
that word said
no other words
nor that one
can
interruptions
disrupt the
instantaneous flow
seemingly
but
nothing
is everything
a paradox
or a miracle
or
words
are pretenders
until discovered
to be
appearances
what's out there
and in here
appearances of
The Look Is Fast As The Speed of Light
I got the look!
Instantaneous…eyes snap sidewise faster than the speed of light…
Freeze tag pinned in place…
Duh da da duh… I'm in trouble, blown something…
No question… no room for doubt… Yet not really…
Dad's unique cue… falling in between traditional parenting cracks… Straddling between discipline and time to nip this one in the bud…
That I can't believe _____ (fill in the blank) … I'm annoyed… to… well.. fits almost any category
A genetic predisposition… or inheritance?
Who cares? I got it! It's mine!
The girls got the look…
Doug. He's more than a worthy mention. Countless outcries… Don't give me the look!
Too late, once you said “don't” ….it's fait accompli!
Sherry Barton
May 10, 2024
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