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I
I search myself within skeletons closeted sunshine
Sick from love laughing leers sick from tired lessons lesions clichés
Sick from smug smart snooty soldiers in a war without enemies
Slaying hope light flashed in the whisper of a child’s heart
I beg for the dream again when magic was sown in my soul
II
Now only the outside answers nature wind
My mind suffocates secrets suffered slow
Pitching prayers in the dark room empty
Lights stretch snips of longing on the split wall
In corners perfumes perform mirrored operas
III
The monster changes the law and sows lands
In dust time will be a new hand reaching back
Deserts will bloom gospels pouring beatitudes
Walking religiously toward the thrilling purple sun
Night is a bath of stars boiling life and lust spinning
Happy hour
Cheap drinks
Two for one
The regulars line up
For chicken wings
And small talk.
The real drinkers
Look straight ahead
Pretending not to stare
At clouded images
In the mirror
Secretly hoping someone they know
Will come in
Start a conversation
Tell a bad joke
Or do something
To ease the boredom.
The bartender
Talks with the old timers
About this or that
Newspapers opened
To any page
Beer getting flat
While they sit
Passing time
Waiting for the next check
In the mail.
The wait staff
Get ready
For the night
When the place changes
Jukebox on
Loud conversations
Tables are backed up
Kitchen busy
Reservation recommended.
Everyone knows the house rules
The same scene plays
Out every night
When the hour is over
And drinks are more than two for one
The happy crowd melts away
To a place
They'd rather not be.
Formed in a desert
A true friend whom you can stand
Waves may put me down
Still, I raise you in near place
To show you the vast ocean.
I have pallid skin
Yet, aids to build your pillars
We’ll be elated
Surrounded by a cold breeze
My soft dust-grains feel your hands.
Storm waves rebuild me
I remain in windswept place
Of natures’ embrace
I feel God in you- His grace,
‘Tis inspires and gives me strength.
What Am I to you
If I am only like hills?
Despite life’s changes
For you, I’ll always be there,
To show you my love and care.
March 12, 2014 10.20pm
First Place
Contest: What Am I
Judged: 3/15/14
Sponsor: Poet PD/Linda (my greatest & fave)
Have you ever noticed?
Noticed when everything changed
When all the sudden
Everyone has something to say
Everyone but you..
We all know everyone has changed
That's a part of growing up
But when did it start
When did we all start caring about what people had to say
Cared about what thought
What they thought on your life
Your decisions
Your choices
Making your path for you
Slowly but surely
Closing all the doors you had open
All the windows
Anyway you could possible get out
It's easy to say just don't listen to them
But it's hard to do
Its hard when they have control on your life
Really you know you can make your own decision
But all you want is to be liked
To be wanted by someone
One day things will change again
Again for the better
Or worst
But we won't know
Know until that time comes
The time when everything changes again.
In the beginning a girl meets a boy
A connection felt like shock waves
An entire lifetime seen in each others eyes
Still only babes barely out of school
Will you come with me and dine with me
Dinner just for two
Time passes on but still feels like only yesterday
What was challenging is now made easy
Together boy and girl grew
A night on the town, a little playing around
Dinner just for two
Moving on in the world, finding their places
Never straying far from each others hearts
No longer does just a girl meet just a boy
Emerges woman to man, innocence gone
Responsibilities now playing their role
Days changing all on their own
Sacrifices made a sing song trade
Dinner just for two
Life continues somewhat different from the start
Younger days gone and spent believing
In each others arms days and nights spent
Memories of a lifetime built together
Days of yesterday the same in their eyes
Destined to be together for all time
Fate uniting their hearts and souls
Stolen moments, quick kisses, sweet embraces
Dinner just for two
Learning to hold on tight through life
When everything around you changes
Sometimes time stops when the rainbow ends
The pages of their journey's story still evolving
Reality and fantasy trying to hold their own
To make for an interesting adventure
Waves of emotion wash over each other
Come let us run away, get away if only for the day
Dinner just for two
Written by: Shannon Deane
Written: June 19th, 2011
For: P.D.'s Poetry Assignment
"Can honestly say that was the hardest form of poetry I have tried to attempt to
date, I don't think I did enough justice, but this is the result of my rough copy, my
apologies for the rough attempt"
A child as grows enjoys rainbow of joys,
Many a marvel in a wondrous world,
Joys mingling with toys getting bouncy buoys,
A world of birds and butterflies unfurled.
As comes his youth that changes only toys,
Rewards of life so naïve staying no more--
Boys chasing girls, and girls giggly at boys,
And soon mid-age knocks at a blissful door,
Clay pots as if in kiln get to ripen,
Realities reel out nigh hard and keen,
The joys of old times no more enliven,
Time knocks, nudges him to kneel, look within,
In hope he grows old, fulfilled life to find,
But grows blasé, bliss of ere left way behind.
___________________________
Sonnet | 08.09.2014 | life, reflection, childhood, youth, joys, old age
Note: As one grows old he tends to reflect on his past
Autumn winds chant a soulful tune
Elusive songs they choose to play
as maple branches bend and sway
Aspen trees drop their leaves too soon
Hues of umber, amber and gold
as seasonal changes unfold
Across forest floors they are strewn
Russet carpets to lie upon
when in repose a sigh is drawn
Then comes the sad cries of a loon
Haunting sounds foreshadowing death
She calls her mate with one last breath
Like withered leaves, a life was hewn
Taken from loved ones in the night
A cherished soul risen in flight
Pale light spills from a sallow moon
Beneath its glow we weep and mourn
Grief pierces like a sharpened thorn
Autumn winds chant a soulful tune
Aspen trees drop their leaves too soon
Across forest floors they are strewn
Then comes the sad cries of a loon
Like withered leaves, a life was hewn
Pale light spills from a sallow moon
September 19, 2022
In Remembrance of Connie - Autumn Theme Contest
Sponsored by Suzanne Delaney
“Oh Emma, my cherished and unholy soulmate;
Woman of air! Raw phrases leap with love and hate.
Behind glasses seethes a romantic, daring the night
August child of gothic verse, lines we all recite.
Yet , when soirees roll, your flame the men desire;
It surprises me how that glance changes like fire!
In class, we ignite our teachers’ ire with naughty quirks
Creating romps as the batch mimes our theatrics.
Tonight, we pluck more wild seeds of younger memoirs
Still coloring our lives as time waits for girl- hours.”
.........................
* Emma is a dear friend way back in college. As an activist,
writer, and down-to-earth woman, she graduated with cum laude
honors. We regularly meet up to bond and nourish our friendship.
Emma Contest of Juli-Michelle
November dear, chart the end of the year
just sixty days to shop before Christmas.
You honor Veterans who volunteer
while we rejoice, they do not enlist us.
Halloween's his ‘try, all but the candy,
enough for you, November, till the end.
Election also done, we wait, AND we
speculate - what will such changes impend?
Tell, what bides in the ides of November?
what unknowns, what secrets will you reveal?
Political passions we remember
likely need at least two more years to heal.
Thanksgiving time, at last comes to this rhyme
gratitude to God, highlight for many.
Dear November, extra days-off are prime
but better blessings God gives a ‘plenty.
November 9, 2022
And cooling November in the midst of dryness rage
In a place in the fields you wouldn't want to change
Nightmares visions on the naked lead tree branches
Hovering hanging over us like spider web granted
November's autumn nightmare dares
Seasonal changes Renaissance humanity doesn't care
Wiry and sticky clinging to mInds are frames and flesh
Like are rib cage covering lungs we breathe a breath
These gravel roads that have long since been pave
Memories of springtimes ice cold glass of lemonade
November's Autumn nightmare dares
Renaissance seasonal changes humanity doesn't care
So very subtle seasons change unorthodox values
Sinning people losing their lives and souls what have you
November midnight autumns nightmares place
Winter's forthcoming call snow giving Grace
Which of the brothers and who are the sisters which ones will make it which one will stay
Caught up by the solar flight while losing sight death issues it's foray
Running to be caught up just to catch up to not be the only one
For the dark and nightmare November autumn turns to December's Winters snow
November's Autumn nightmare dares
Seasonal changes Renaissance humanity doesn't care
Mindful yet so blinded and blindfold in this Huawei
Cleve's to the spirit winds Winters coming nature's death is upon us
11/28/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021