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I was walking down the neighbourhood,
reminiscing how it all
used to be where we made believe
that we were nymphs in a wood,
except the once moist earth was parched,
and the once white air was brown...
and footpaths and landmass
were suddenly under a filter of grey...
Here I stop by this grandfather tree,
one in my eyes would be older than me.
But when I touched the bark
and the lowest leaf,
it whispered, "Speak, child of Eve,
now that I'm awake from my sleep."
I walked backwards,
scratching and tilting my head,
wondering what was messed with my senses;
had climate change really gotten into my head?
Now although I am shocked,
and my mind can't think so fast,
my tongue does the work for me:
"How have you lived this long?" it asks.
A wind blows, and my eyes take up,
imagining him stretching the rusty spine of a trunk.
He then speaks, in the gruff and cranky voice:
"You humans do whatever you want,
kill what you see with your eyes,
and spare what they think would fit their design best."
My eyes wander, to the settlements gray,
and remembered, the green kingdom where we'd played.
"Do you ever miss them?" I wish I hadn't asked,
but there is no way of turning time, and I continue to ask:
"The others of your kind, the ones that fell,
were they family, or friends at best?"
The grandfather shuddered, cold and angry,
I could feel his thoughts, how he wished
that I'd not reminded of what sored him.
"But what good would it do to think of the dead all day?"
He adds, "Isn't that what your mother always says?
Best ask her yourself, I'm sure my answer would be same;
for though you'd branched out early, we share one ancient family name.
But for now leave me be, your kind has hurt me enough,
to be sworn enemies, still, I'd rather sleep it through."
I turn around annoyed, wandering what tricks my fancies play,
then I stop so suddenly, with one last question to say:
"How do you know me?" I ask, not expecting replies,
but he says in return: "I used to watch you as a child,
"And in your early days I'd hold you when your limbs weren't so ripe,
I'd watched you walk, then I was worried,
when my own limbs tripped yours.
I'd thought since that misplaced root, that you'd never come back.
But now that I've talked to you, I feel
weirdly warm and comforted to sleep."
*MAMA I REMEMBER THEM THOSE DAYS-
Mama, I remember the those days;
When you and grandma prayed;
We stayed in a church, them days;
Mama, I remember when we’d dance and sing;
Those this was be the joys, I’m now reminiscing;
And O’ what a time;
Seasons came around;
You in the kitchen;
Makin them pies, my, my, my
Mama, I remember them those days;
Mama, I remember them those days;
you teaching me my ABC's
you showing me what I need;
you holdin and huggin me;
you reprimanding, scolding me;
And O’ what a time;
Seasons came around;
You in the kitchen;
Makin them cakes and pies, my, my, my
Mama, I remember them those days;
01/03/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025©
A beach ball stuck in the rafters
Been there for seven long years
Filled with air from the lungs of a stranger
Reminiscing about their past peers
Where now still lies some pieces of me
Felt like wind passing by, but not seen
A presence waits there yet I never came back
Until returned by those with whom I'd been
Something I've done or a saying I've said
A memory held and kept by a friend
Can I find them and ask, who was I then
Those moments in life, time that we spend
Are these pieces more than the air that I breathed
A forgotten day conjured back in my soul
Someone who was once, pieced back together
From the rafters, in a beach ball, kept whole
The sun rises where it pleases and sets where it is destined to go
And there is nothing that you can do about it for nature knows which way the water flows and where the sunlight glows
and when the people join the line and the rain come suddenly and wet the earth’s appetite the moon and the stars will dance in the sky before the asteroid falls to the earth and die.
Here I am sitting on this rock reminiscing all the blessing that America has got, it was not founded upon the sea or on the oracle of Noah and the mysterious golden ark or men struggling in the dark, nor the fountain on which mad men prevail.
America was founded on the blood of innocent men and women,
that fought with sticks and stones, swords and weapon and tarry day and night to conquer the blood stain land upon which the American dream stands.
Millions fought for it and thousands died for it; and when the north and the south were in doubt and the people began to shout, they settle the matter in the open plot with swords stuck in the ground, until the miracle is found.
We have opened our heart to everyone and dedicate our land to the fallen ones, we have invited strangers to come along, but you have sunken your teeth in our children’s flesh and if it wasn’t for mercy you would have strangled them to death and when the nights are cold you run errands to crucify our soul.
We open our border for you to come but you brought the multitude to sing a different song, they start living above their means and so they stifle the American dreams, I will lay the cards on the table once more and open the doors for those that will protect our shores, they too will have a story of how love for our country catapult them to glory.
Here I am on this day, looking far away hoping that good things will come our way, and everyone will meet in their different groups to settle the score and throw the devils through the door. Our foundation is still strong and we will continue to fight to defend our land for this is where our destiny stands.
Keep this day close to your heart and it will remind you of the distance you came and your life will never be the same.
If I never loved you before I loved your now
Reminiscing of playmates and playground bouts
How I never forget your loving smile
My friend my friend never leave me now
I resist all the others growing through the years
Yes my heart ached and my tears stood still
To see you to see you again
Bring back memories and bring them back again
Tell me tell me how you still feel the same
My heart felt so lonely sometime I would go in a rage
Mysteries and subjects to unfinished plays
I was so confused and how I could this day
Bring my love my love oh how I had to pay
At night I fold like a child without it's clay
But now I am standing still as a flower change seasons
My love my love give me a reason
To hold your hand and walk across the park
Were it all went down one summer what a spark
Trust me I will never leave I will never let you go
I will kiss your for head and message your toes
Tell me love are you ready for an everlasting romance
Sand castles and evening glasses can you give a chance
Are you ready for someone now you can trust
Who stopped everything and got on a bus
I learned my lesson and I miss you at my side
I miss you my love my love let's take this ride
Across the seas and oceans to respond as waves
My ship is ready to sail with you this day
How your hair it blows with the wind
And how now I shall not be bent
On every one else and what they have to say
My playground my love I have found today
I can breath and move on like life it never stopped
My heart beats so fast it was going to pop
So I stopped and took another glance
We gather under stars
Reminiscing, what’s going on
How our world seems so far
Strange languages in strange songs
So long we’ve been gone
Missing familiar traces
Hoping we can live for home
Sharing earth in far off places
Our achievements scribed in official tomes
No place on earth we won’t roam
Fought battles we were told
Made it back to the States
But something changed I was cold
Your different, hold up wait
Patience turned to hate
Home’s a memory
That’s where I left my heart
Gone was the fantasy
Truth pushed apart
My soul, my dreams, where to chart
I walk the streets alone
No place of my own
Hoping God would take me
Then my sins would be atoned
Form:
“Be not led by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
Supremely silent, so succulently swept,
Oh heart of mine, incumbently wept.
Furtive floral fronds forever flowing.
Sheer delight of guiltless tears are slowing.
Grasp my hand that I might feel you.
Heartfelt hints help heal horizons hue.
Composing the chorus a poet bleeds.
Sycamore scents sending somber seeds.
Oh heart of mine, the gladness peeked.
The song my soul never seeked.
Rapture reminiscing rivalled respite.
Dictating dialect, dawn's dearest delight.
Destiny delivers drab dust dreaming.
Soul seeks splendor, sweet scent streaming.
The song my soul never sought.
Hear these hibiscus hymns hauntingly caught.
To listen to the trill of this heart's hymn.
The notes of ecstasy filled to the brim.
Oh heart of mine your Janus faced genus,
a violin verse between venom and Venus.
The crescendo hit, I kissed an opera octave.
A lilting tune blissfully reversed to enslave.
Love exploded revealing lavender so vital,
resistance released rallentando reduced recital.
Oh heart of mine my hymn is ending.
Warmed with wishful waiting was wending.
Culminating coda, classic cadence concludes.
Perfume from the musical bouquet exudes.
Their conceit gone high
Clouds try scale a lofty crest,
Break down, tears roll by—
Of fallen false pride in haste,
All Nature laughing in jest!
_______________________________
Musings |08.06.2021|Tanka
Poet’s Note: What happened at Nilgiri hills long back came to my reminiscing mind. I had a vintage seat on a far off hillock. Sun was on its downward journey in the West behind me. In East hovering over me were a few tall crests. And I saw some greyish white clouds rushing towards them, trying to leap over, but failed and got broken to smithereens, their tears getting sprinkled all over me. It set me thinking, and this Tanka resulted from my musings.
When I met you, I was contaminated, my whole life was blurred, you brought vision into my life and helped me escape my prison.
Your my Queen, your my everything, and when I stumble and fall,I hear your voice whispering in my ear, I'm hear to pick you up, spread your wings, cause I'm devoted to our marriage, I love you, your my King.
Many words were spoken in the past, loathing inside of our emotions, and put together what's broken in our lives, but I truly believe you were chosen, to build a better me as a person.
Using the past as a lesson, and question every suggestion, because in this world, they can be angels or Satan's, to build or break our foundation.
Now that I'm writing from prison,promising us both a new vision, until the day we stop breathing, we will create a new definition of living, when when were dead asleep dreaming, we will meet again kissing and joking around reminiscing,
As I'm gazing into your eyes and caressing healing all the pain we suffered, but together, we fly like two birds through stormy weather's, your my soulmate, past, present and Forever.
You and I, we are,
two polar petals, laced with
arctic blue moonshine
of soft sweven-hymns
and sunburst apricity
of aqua-gold tides,
reminiscing mauve
hours, when our love waltzed in teal
faithful lakes hued with
ivory ink of
coral kismet, shimmering
in wine-auroras,
but now we just trace
poisoned pixie-dust, upon
each other's frail fate,
sinking in folklores
of shaded red canopies,
as I bleed stardust
in ebonies of
hellfire heavens and we fade
like smoked-ash comets;
for you and I, are
we Hemlock and ivy, swathed
in swan-shaped ballads,
floating like hail on smudged graves?