Before I knew your name, you spoke to me.
Before I saw the contours of your face,
or learned about your talent, or the place
you call your home, you'd touched me lastingly.
Before I understood your shifting moods,
or touched your lovely skin, or heard you weep,
you were already in me, buried deep:
this never was some shallow interlude.
I loved you though I'd never heard your voice
or stroked your hair. It was just meant to be.
In some unknowable realm we made our choice,
without recourse to hand, or heart, or eye,
for those are carnal things which fade and die:
and I have loved you for eternity.
Categories:
lastingly, love,
Form: Sonnet
I need not touch you, for you to feel my ire
Ash to ashes, results so lastingly dire
My split second actions bring change to the worlds landscape
Devastating, ruling continents find no escape
I am divine light
Vicious, day or night
Instantaneous when I make a path to ground
Notorious preamble, to bone chilling sound
Exquisite, ruthless, random, my path dominant destruction
Living energy, a natural marvel of seduction
Inconsequential is your desire to stop me
Given just one strike, does it fell a full-size tree
Hammering down rebirth by electrical spire
True, as Canada burns, I started that fire
Categories:
lastingly, fire, natural disasters, storm,
Form: Acrostic
Zero encloses life,
void is full if bits from nothingness break away,
striding strife.
You can’t empty
life’s emptiness, lastingly stays
full free.
God’s stilled
grace keeps soul’s bay
filled.
Zero encloses life,
life’s emptiness, lastingly stays
filled.
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April 17, 2022
Syllable count checked on HMS
Contest : Let's Minichu On Zero
Sponsored by : Mohan Chutani
Categories:
lastingly, analogy, life, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
F-A-I-T-H-F-U-L-N-E-S-S (DOUBLE ACROSTIC)
F- Fidelity is the finest stability of mind surf -F
A- Anomaly can't reach to its alpha to omega -A
I- Inner heart remains loyal to know its true ‘I' -I
T- The virtue lastingly comes by knowledge to lit -T
H- Happily it bows the entire unit hailing all truth -H
F - Fallacious light can't destroy its reliable proof -F
U- Ultimately it finds out the goal to enjoy thru -U
L- Light of life it drives with liberal moral soul -L
N- Nectar of relations it serves to it decent nation -N
E- Ecstatic welfare circumstances only its empire -E
S- Sure we all be blessed if sustain faithful bliss -S
S- Soul will be eternal being in devoted assists -S
13.05.2020 Chattogram
Categories:
lastingly, faith,
Form: Acrostic
Disbarred from the encompassing
Travesty...
Color TVs and refrigerator
Combined together makes ice pictures
Filled with yellow ketchup mustard
Contemplating something
Distorted glass melting diamond rings
Frozen displaced clutter
Washing machine wringer
Dolphins laughing there're such singers
Lastingly...
Encompassing from disbanded
Travesty disbarred
8/21/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2019©
Categories:
lastingly, confusion, feelings,
Form: Free verse
In repose, my dreams flowing by.
I wake in alarm. For you are gone
Not gone from this woeful world, only mine.
And not by your choice; my own.
Our trust lastingly torn
I can’t accept your friendship, but
I want to learn from my mistakes.
For all I know, my greatest err
was letting show the heart you’d take.
Though I’ve closed the door
I hope my feelings soften
‘fore resentment wins,
‘fore the burnt bridge collapses.
‘Til then, let us grow apart.
4/18/2018
Categories:
lastingly, friendship, growing up, hope,
Form: Free verse
Meeting you
Was tailored by Fate,
As if the world only revolved
To stop at that one moment
Where your wistful eyes
Were to meet mine.
And the smile that followed,
That calmed your face a-sudden
And smoothed the creases of your frown,
Had come at an instant
That it was lastingly etched
In the pages of time.
Time has passed, life moved on;
Our lives intertwined with lives
That has come and gone.
And though our paths branched,
Our footsteps return with persistence
Towards each other.
Now the very same footsteps
Has brought us to a place
To begin the life-long travel,
Though the road ahead be crooked,
Where our paths shall be separate
No more.
Categories:
lastingly, destiny, love,
Form: Free verse
Before I knew your name, you spoke to me.
Before I learned the contours of your face,
or came to know your talents, or the place
you call your home, you'd touched me lastingly.
Before I understood your shifting moods,
or pressed against your skin, or heard you weep,
you were already in me, buried deep.
This never was some shallow interlude.
I loved you though I'd never heard your voice
or stroked your hair. It was just meant to be.
In some unknowable realm we made our choice,
without recourse to hand, or heart, or eye,
for these are carnal things, which fade and die.
And I have loved you for eternity.
Categories:
lastingly, love,
Form: Sonnet
Goodbye is just a word
Brought forth from the lips;
And though you may depart,
The memories we keep.
Lastingly immortalized,
Your presence in the mind,
And Love forever stays
Embedded in our lives.
Categories:
lastingly, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
I was lurking around but she finally found me,
We're watching the clouds and lying under a tree.
Saying words to be outspoken,
Worrying nothing even the glass is broken.
And I will lastingly love her because she's with me.
Categories:
lastingly, best friend, blessing, friend,
Form: Limerick
Oh moon!
in night you stroll
amidst stars,
a silhouette a day,
why?
Oh moon!
to eulogize, an exemplar!
in night, a guide!
albeit this honour,
a form a day!
why?
night, if you’ve gone astray,
no joy for us,
oh moon!
form, beside the point,
come unfailingly,
to entertain us!
come lastingly.
Categories:
lastingly, moon,
Form: Free verse