Standing in front of a mirror
An unbiased jurist of me
Heavy wrinkles on the forehead
Typifying the crossed thresholds
Where did the soft textured hair go?
Turned brittle with the patchy beard
The skin lost glow and grew pallor
Represents the bygone decades
The eyes, still with vitality
Token of the contented life
Place: 3 rd
~ Beloved Woman of God I am your journalist Scribe;
A professional copyist I shall;
My duties theologian, a jurist,
May I verse hardcopy speaks life?
What you say, you speak life too;
A scribe in term, inspired words;
Gleaning those of Father’s lessons;
You have learned, inspirational;
I be your journalist scribe transpose record ;
That of what’s in the inside out;
~ In the name of Jesus Christ;
Be your personal, clerk, transcriber;
Your amanuensis, recorder;
You’re in season record-keeper;
May I be your personal professional theologian?
Penman jurist documenting mallam, Hallelujah and Amen!
Scribe recording dictated you and Our Father’s verse;
History present tense impressions, for now and always;
I am your journalist Scribe;
-------I shall be your Scribe;
9/21/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
In halls of governance the elected rule
by vested interest and insider rort,
and when last ballots are cast me and you’ll
be no wiser whose allegiance is bought.
In jurist action lawyers plead their case
as God is their witness on the bible swore,
but justice has a price and has a face
and you will pay both in a court of law.
On dark lit streets prostitutes bend their rack
risking life and liberty at each leer -
that screwing whore on her uncovered back
robs us only of a ride paying fare.
Three whoredoms and three professions,
all confessors of seedy confessions.
But what that pro does to us all hot and wet
the other two do every chance they get!
Written: November 1992
Mother Mary Horn Haiku
sky seemed so starry
had heard that Mother Mary
baby Jesus carry
heard was audible
we had known was possible
also plausible
when God did insist
Son on earth is purest
and a great jurist
to us always dear
have no fear Jesus is here
later reappear
we did endure
while we always knew for sure
there could be a cure
when wind blows and blows
my runny nose always knows
am in state of repose
do sure what we will
thrill of skill which we would fulfil
then did remain still
Jim Horn
No word “yes” and “no”
Never revealed just a fiddlesticks
Never clear and shouted “hang on a mo!”
Emphasize public should demand to jurist
For seeking one by one lines
To avoid mourning forever
Clause by clause just a black nicks
Blunt down and pointed upwards
Vide! Marginal are always oppressed
In-between the babel of a troubled soul
In abeyance, the thought of neglection arose
The blood boiled, the body cooked
The figure fell in flat command
The jurist justified themselves unjust
multitude babbled, the wise bundled
Oko-Oloko dun Pokete
Prita Iyalaaje, Aloo apaamo
The world, the storyteller
No baccalaureate for success
Potentials would have been seen
We fear no test or challenges
Drive not us like cabby
We own our world, we rule our world
in pain of the real, you laugh
Children will clap it in moonlight story
Our mouth will be open in laughter in your tears
The world will read the reality
Painting life like it has no remaining
Hope traded for bread, hunger present
Faith traded for cloth, nakedness covered
Sleeping-waking, friction projected
They laughed our wacky life.
bijou, tiny, miniature, mini
small and little ego of ones' self
unseen isolation of bondage
makes I (me) grow
ever so increasingly cruel, savage, and mean
i do believe i am not
vegan anymore in my heart
for i want the taste of bloody freedom
that comes with the spilling of blood
and the eating of raw meat
my teeth are not sharpen
with jurist committee knowledge
but only hope that my own blood
will point the way
and show just how many sharks
are stirring in
the entertainment entertaining waters
I maintain and contain
a passion for compassion
It's so convenient
to point a fast finger
of condemnation
at those whose path
we have never walked
Or to talk a walk
we've never ventured ourselves
If we do surmount the pass -
It is but by the grace of God
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