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The Race Remix Part 2

8/3/17
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Dealt the hands of fate
A dollar short and day too late

Checkmate
Your ship is sank

Grab you by your cape
With haste
Then followed yellow tape
And not a single trace

Looked them in their face
Then put them in their place

Those who instigate
And discriminate
I eliminate

Same with if any that imitate
And implicate
Then toward them I liquidate

My eye on people when they manipulate
And vitiate
I'm ready to assassinate

Let me articulate
I'm out to innovate
And assimilate
Don't make me reiterate

Before I dissipate
What better time is there to illustrate?


The great escape
And great debate

Lifting  and pushing weight
Willing to undertake
It's all there to make
Lock it away in a safe
And put the rest in the bank
Keep a full gas tank
And work hard toward having an estate
With a keypad at the gate
As well as a pool the size of a lake

Home made cake
Veggies and meats barbequed or baked
Filling up the plate, with or without lobster and steak

An ever increasing rise in the birth rate
Music from the speakers rattling windows like an earthquake
Success on the first take
The blunt was rolled well and burned great

In the past seeds beginning to germinate
Then a certain scent started to permeate

Avoid all the drama
Got to add up more commas
Burning through potent ganja
If I gotta I wanna beat the case
Until the case is beat
They can take a seat
Because it all ended up being a waste
Of time and quite the disgrace

On the chase
A near endless race
Barely ever hitting the brakes
Picking up the pace
Got to get first instead of last place
From here on ground level or up in space

Too transparent and opaque
Not going to shake
The hand of any snake
Or flake

Got to keep the faith
One day ill buy or test drive a wraith
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member rainfall on roses, petals fall

I grew a rose from cuttings
pinched from a loved one's plot,
watered at ground-level, not at the top.
Dung and mulch kept well away, 
from stems lest their collars rot.
In time, it grew buds that blossomed
into flowers, a bounteous bouquet,
with bursts of red petals, blood bled.

It started with a sprinkle 
like from a watering can, but grew.
into a torrential shower
blasting the petals
onto the ground, all around the roses,
which were stripped bare,
to stems, buds, shredded leaves and thorns.
I cried to see all my endeavors lost.
All my efforts lost in vain 
to sometimes rain, falling on my roses,
with disdain of rain, utter and complete.

But, when I looked again
I saw the petals all spread out
as a lovely bedspread quilt 
surrounding the stems,
on the bare cold ground stained by rain.
Their beauty astounding still,
with red blooms shed, shredded, departed, 
garlanded into a ring of petals 
that arose to save our day.

Zombies And Chores

If they were zombies.
Who have no brains so they don’t care about what I’ve turned into…
Maybe they’d be more likely, 
To come back for me. 
I’m not saying they don’t care. 
They just have to do the dishes that I forgot about. 
And vacuum the floor, sorry I never did that either. 
They are my parents but-
Maybe they forgot. 
So here I am, in a place that is like a basement, but is actually ground level. 
Unlike me. 
The floor sinks.
Maybe someone should fix that. 
Maybe I will someday. 
But I’m a little useless. 
I could have done the dishes or vacuumed. 
In here, they do those things for us. 
It’s not as nice as you’d think. 
To have your parents drive away. 
I’m not saying they don’t care. 
I think I’m just a zombie, is all. 
I don’t really think about that. 
I just think about chores. 
And how I miss them.

Premium Member Peach Tree


The ice storm came in January
And gave her the face of a weeper.
Weighed down, nearly to the ground,
We knew that her roots grew deeper.

However, she was completely covered with
Ice, and her trunk was split at ground level.
We questioned if she would even survive.
But she soon convinced us that she was here
To stay, even when ice stood in her way. She
Knew that God was on the inside, and she was
Ready to produce healthy fruit and thrive.

In short order, by late Feburary, she spoke
With the resounding voice of new spring life.
Her pink blossoms said, "Hello, I'm alive and well.  Peaches will be arriving by mid-July".

Premium Member Humility

Humility is to apologize although it's rejected
Showing respect although you're disrespected 
Being humble isn't something most practice in daily life
Most people focus on who was wrong and who was right 
Humility is the hardest quality of character to apply
Imagine being honest with a person who constantly lie
Humility can be shown if assisted by the quality of love
You can't have one without the other their hand and glove. 
Forgiveness is another sign that displays the quality of humility 
To forgive and forget isn't something that's beyond our ability 
We're taught by human nature to be on top and be elevated 
That if you allow yourself to be humiliated that you'll never make it 
Constant competition among the people in the world to be flawless 
Pumped up ego, to be conceited, always being presumptuous 
We do all of this just to be knocked back down to ground level
Is it really worth it to imitate the characteristics of the devil?
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Whuz Up Wit Dat--

Cause his wings were burned off
His own way was strange but it matters not
whuz up wit dat!
The speech pattern of God I ripped off weak rappers jaws
On the low, I still rock my Giraudoux
It's in my blood like the same way I love chocolate
38's 45's all type of Taurus'
whuz up wit dat!
You ratting on the cartel which was nonsense
Goin' into labour date 18 of August
This is ground level rounds echo out the special so clever
That makes you level through the devil
Brain trained on the devil level
Deep concentration break the point on a pencil
whuz up wit dat!
that none of you just will ever know who the N9ne is
Get you in them shiny things
Get in the game you gotta scheme
I am a legend but I'm betting you like who Will Smith
whuz up wit dat!



8/4/19

Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
Form: Rhyme

The sun will shine

Feeling dead
Nowhere to turn 
Dead beat ex
I'm stuck 
No way of freeing myself 

Finances so intertwined 
Like a tumour
Attached to something vital 
"We can't operate I'm afraid.
Too risky"

How did I let this happen?
So insidious 
So slow 
A parasite. Unseen, leaching, infecting, invading, taking, taking, taking.

Eventually, clarity. The alternative.
So often dismissed now better than the present.

But I must pay for my blindness.
I must pay the price for hope.
I cannot be set free 
Like a prison sentence.

And, by the way, 
Don't bother looking up
Don't pray or ask for divine help.

Help,
If there is any, 
Is ground level.
Friends, family, gestures, kind words, hugs, a sympathetic emoji in a motivational text.
You've got this
You are strong
I believe in you.

No choice.  Hold tight, wait for better days. 
Nothing is permanent.
Lean into the love and the sun will shine again some day.

Premium Member The Man In The Elevator CM

  The man in the elevator entered with me from top floor
  of a ten storied building and stood front, close to door.
  Each time elevator stopped, he got out and confronting collision,
  next moment he rushed to enter again taking same position.
 I think, each had doubt, whether his mental condition be stable !
 At last I got scope to ask him , when we reached the ground level.
 
 He explained, her girl friend is waiting in front of the elevator.
 But in which floor she is waiting, he doesn't know so far.
  So he is cheking in which floor she is waiting for her lover !
   He will continue to go up and down till he can find her.
   I wished for him conveying ' Good Luck ' and bade bye.
    He again entered the elevator , suppressing his sigh !
Form: Rhyme

The Authoress - the Author

"The Authoress – The Author"




She parked Silver Lady 
by The Road's side, 
placed the keys in Her pocket
Her hands were warm
Her eyes were cold
She smiled a tight smile
You know, full of passion, full of ire -
Her heart was an inferno, 
inside her was a Wicker Man
Her heart was burning up, on fire


Ferociously She slammed the car door
and walked into the Woods


She didn’t look back
The Autumn breeze had risen
Winter was stalking Her
A Black Crow and Peregrine followed
She was on a mission
Somewhere in the distance
the sound of a laughing 
fat-bellied storm approaching
it’s thunder clapping


A Snowy Owl, far from home,
watching on with wisdom
silent at ground level, decided to 
spread wide it’s speckled wings
to sit in the higher branches safe from
danger and wilder things
Perched safely looking for some Sun
Snowy Owl understood 
this was not a walk to 
Freedom


Some say the Woods are haunted
Dimensions of past lives
Open Portals, 
where misplaced in time,
Lost Lovers meet,
Never again to be seen
In this World, 
what is to be seen is
The Unseen


Somewhere, in time,
where story left poetic rhyme


The Author walked into the Woods
The Author didn’t look back


Somewhere, misplaced
Lost in time
where story left poetic rhyme

Two stories meet
Unseen



(Ladylabyrinth/2019)
gvlm




“Lover, hunter, friend and enemy 
You will always be every one of these
Nothing's fair in love and war 

In life, in love, this time I can't afford to lose
For one, for all, I'll do what I have to do 
You can't understand, it's all part of the plan

Broken pieces of the night 
Sing like hollow lullabies 
You and I, always in disguises “





"Gold in your eyes dancing like fire
Dreamer trapped by your desire"

Premium Member Summers Heat

Heated moisture was in the clouds above.
A love storm hit me on a summer's night.
At ground level, there was a feel of love.
It took control, and I offered no fight;                                                                                                                  
Spun me around like nothing ever felt.
It rose quickly and then slowly declined.
Came upon us suddenly, and then left.                                                                                                            
The atmosphere was touched by the divine.                                                                                               
Crystal waters flooded my every pore.                                                                                                       
Rapid pour-down shower on summer's eve.                                                                                                  
Romantic kiss, not encountered before.                                                                                                           
After sobering pause, I took my leave.                                                                                          
Relationship was never extended.                                                                                                                          
Wisdom knew best, and it quickly ended.

052920psctest, Summers Heat Sonnet, John Hamilton                                                                                    14lines ABAB CDCD EFEF GG 10 syllables per line.
Form: Sonnet

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