Digestion liquesces peppermint. I chew
the leaves for both of us, an aftertaste
when stillness is an afterthought.
Dust gleams like the raised plastic on a debit card.
Winds seem to bank and then burst through a window
in a venetian blind-slatted sunshine;
bars slit across you on the floor.
Strangers make front entrances where shoes scuff the rug.
The briefest, jagged arcs of light play off your skin,
or more likely, I've been shocked out of daydreams
to come to grips with my shaky hands
gleamed from your hair as I'm brushing
with a sense of care you'll no longer shoulder.
Your doctor rests a hand on a wingless clavicle.
You are so there, on the rug, you're here
in my ear; an undeveloped word swishes
overhead like a bird. It's time I step aside.
Your dictionary, alongside you on the floor,
I can only guess what it had meant to you,
a foundation, whispered, wind-flipped pages?
Your scars had patched
what's hatched in red.
A professional
laminates you
in one zip.
Categories:
laminates, bereavement, community, confusion, death
Form: Free verse
there’s a light that shines
mist the wet skies laminates
sparks drip drops rainbows
~
sprinkles glitters of
colors bright sparkles delight
shines light therefore bright
10/29/2024
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2024©
Categories:
laminates, appreciation, beautiful, celebration, color,
Form: Haiku
God I wish I believed in you.
I can't think, my brain is numb.
A mortal, zombie, robot;
just trying to find another way to cum.
Aces slide on tables
and dice hit walls and fall.
Somewhere is my future
but today I think I'll stall.
There's misery in my brain,
which doubles as my soul.
There's happiness there too
but it doesn't seem to show.
I can't wait another day
to see what that day will bring.
I'm so impatient to die
but I'll miss everything.
When I leave, it's for good,
it's never coming back,
it's shoulders slung with guns
and ammunition down my back,
it's cries against and down to hell
a swirling mess of hate and pity,
but all of you will follow soon
you just won't even know what hit you.
I have so much time left.
Oh god I really do.
I want it all for everyone
but I'll take my share of it too.
Fair enough is fairly against
anyone not borne blue
it's sad what this world is,
but everyone already knew.
Paper cuts and birthday cakes
ornamental laminates.
Rain on Sunday rain in May
but why always on my parade?
I miss what I've left behind
but I gotta keep it moving,
nothing ever catches up
I might find disproving.
Categories:
laminates, angst, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, sad,
Form: Rhyme
more more
bigger better
hairspray laminates the hair
parachute pants rule body
music louder
jewelry glitter
Madonna reigns
singing sexy
like a virgin I dance fearless
vivid makeup paints all our faces
Ocean Pacific
is choice
t-shirt scattered among break dancers rave
cabbage patch doll fights between moms
Ray-bans framed my face shading the sun
neon blinded the world highlighting love
and friendship bracelets worn
elevated excitement perfumes the
air with
soul power
TwentyNet-80s
Magic of Decade's Mood Contest
By Kristen Bruni
Categories:
laminates, nostalgia
Form: Verse
When I was merely coal beneath the crust of evening,
Reflecting only twilight and bruising cerebration,
I mused a lonely paradigm, a dream of warm persuasion
For something to envelop in my lonely contemplation.
And then in random prospect the pan dipped in the current,
Trammelled something passing, nomadic in migration,
In laminates of dirt inhered the single glister,
A diamond in the dark in splendid isolation.
Then I, no longer coal, morphed and sympathetic,
Became the mirror image of beauty in creation,
Had sought and thus revealed a destiny in nature,
No longer lone and black...but vivid in salvation.
Categories:
laminates, life, love, passion, lonely,
Form: I do not know?