Substance
Solid materials for
grasping, molding, holding
Invisible obscured
Out of sights
Intangible
12/16/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
Categories:
intangibles, analogy, angst, destiny, engagement,
Form: Diamante
avoid the existential
to dare to build forever
grasping towards intangibles
manifest through the culture
eating the creature we must
create, all serpentine with
viral psionic mandibles
god undoubtedly real
held captive in our future
perfect paleolithic
project, a work in progress
there is no time to worship
the only worship is work
the idiot engineers
weave the wireless tapestry
suicide booths and sexbots
born inorganically
beautiful dreams from tv
we do not wish to be here
utopia is at hand
Categories:
intangibles, allegory, america, angst, corruption,
Form: Free verse
missing intangibles
kissing everything
thats
tangled
frozen
robin
feet
claw me
hear me
as we
cry
each teardrop
canyon soaked
caves sponge soaked
with sorrow grown wings
bound
am
i
each drip
of
sorrow has me
consumed
still we breathe
still we breathe
still we breathe sorrows last breath
exhale me she cries from depths
screams echoe my throat walls
sound circles into my lungs
this pain is beyond mines
grinding into me deeper
deepening me scream
each echoe echoes
tormenting me
traveling
voices
hearing me
this poetry
hissing
man
handles
missing intangibles
?
Categories:
intangibles, art,
Form: Lyric
Who doesn’t love the presents or the sound of joyful chorus?
But have you felt His presence or the greater gifts here for us?
Who doesn’t like the lights or the brilliance of the season?
But contemplate the night when He gave the newborn Jesus.
We enjoy the food and drink and when loved ones gather round
But there is more to this I think; gifts beyond the sights and sounds.
There is the treasure of your life! You were made to know His love.
To give and to receive alike; countless blessings from above.
I pray today, that the intangibles will transcend your worldly realm.
His love remains unchangeable, let His goodness overwhelm!
Let thankfulness and peace and the joys of life in Christ
Be so fervently released, that you will celebrate your life.
Jesus came to seek and save every soul that would receive Him.
Simply take the gift He gave: a whole new life when you believe Him.
Categories:
intangibles, bible, blessing, christian, christmas,
Form: Couplet
I am a man of simple taste
An island child
And talk to my neigbors face to face
Where lush trees beguile
Birds, not man.
I have seen trees smoking
In lime kiln fires
Just for crossing a man's desire.
I want more than ashes
Plumed
In the kaleidoscope of fire.
Here with dull keyboard
That cackles clicking strange
Sounds, I make sterile music
That communicate to living
Breaths of fresh air
In far away places I do not know
And wish there was a riverbank
Our flesh upon the soft grass
Come to pass
Like an island dream
Hidden things unwing the mind to fly
Comrades behind a distant screen
Of chips and fragmented light
Fall alone
Each divided hour
Do I truly yearn alone
To meet my friends
And make a paradise
Forever?
My only hope of immortality here
Is what you remember
Of my peasant songs.
Categories:
intangibles, friendship
Form: Free verse