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I am going on an expedition I told my family sweet.
I might FaceTime, Zoom, Twitter or maybe tweet.
But I have to seek my fortune, so backpacking I will do.
I plan to go to Europe, Scotland, Ireland and maybe Timbuktu.
Can we send you with some food? My mother asked, alarmed.
It might get moldy, I replied, but with her offer I was charmed.
I finally agreed to ice cream bars which did not last the day.
I ate six of them in the bus station before I made my get-a-way.
My baby cousin tried to sneak into my knapsack, so he could go.
I told him I would videotape myself, and give him a weekly show.
I may ride an elephant in India, I will bring you a jewel doll.
I plan to stop by the shrines, especially the Taj-ma-hall.
I may stop in Florida and dance with glee
I said to my sister, and swim with a manatee
Don’t’ worry; I will send you a postcard,
Before I dance with a London guard.
Do you have time for lunch? My mother asked.
She wants me fed good and hard, it’s her ut-most task.
I can down a bit of soup, but then I have to get to Donner’s pass.
And Stonehenge and Shangri-La, before I fish some Scottish bass.
Will you be stopping in Rome? Asked my cousin Shasta.
Oh, definitely, I said, and I will see some igloos in Alaska.
Is there any continent you will not visit or be?
I hope not, I told them. And I was off toward the sea….
Zinnia Grandiflora a golden beauty
Yellow Prairie Coneflower conical cutie
Xerophilous plants designed to survive
Waterlily attached to bottom soil to stay alive
Venus Fly Trap grows wild in marshes
Ulmus grows wild along with birches
Texas Bluebonnet cover fields with hyacinth like joy
Shasta Daisy white and yellow who could ask for more
Rocket Larkspur projecting a backwards spur
Queen Anne's Lace root add to pot and stir
Purple Coneflower helps strengthen the immune system
Oriental Poppies held captive by morn's dew glisten
Nasturtium are symbols of conquest or of charity
Maximilian"s Sunflower withstands weather's serverity
Lemon Balm Mint lovely the citrus scent
Kalmia Carolina reaches to mountain ascent
Johnny Jump-Up a delightful surprise
Indian Blanket Flower a short lived prize
Hollyhock short-lived six to eight foot beauties
Globe Gilia blue clover-like cuties
Foxglove's foxy tubular but poisonous flowers
Evening Primrose has been used for food and medicinal powers
Desert-Marigold a blessing and curse
Chocolate Cosmos fills the air wth scents to nurse
Black-Eyed Susan Rudbeckia a delightful fall addition
Annual Baby's Breath to end a southern garden tradition
Inspired by John Lawless' contest First Ever ZYX Contest
Written: October 10, 2015
A mixture of wildflowers and other flowers and ideas..
SHAZZ HAZZ JAZZ-
Come sup wit me, Come sup wit me
Come sit here under my tree
Come time wit me come dine wit me
Shhh! Smoken
Ahhh! Smoken waters , cooling brezze
flown, come here sir dance wit me
Come Tago in front of the ocean
Come fly away, in the skies with me
Just flowN, floating
We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz in jubilee
We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz
We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz
We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz in jubilee
We have it, we got it, we got this smokeN fire
We B jamming rhythm got ta beat, rhythm got tha beat for hours and hours and hours
We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz
I am the Lady Jazz
Mine name is lovely as
I hazz jazz, we hazz jazz come rhythms wit me Shazz hazz jazz
SmokN fire, hearts desire
Music meaning I juz keep on singN
We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz in jubilee
We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz
We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz
We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz in jubilee
We have it, we got it, we got this smokeN fire
We B jamming rhythms got ta beat, rhythm got tha beat for hours and hours and hours
We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we hazz jazz
We got it, come git the beat
We got it, come taste the sweet
We got it, we b come cool in the heat
They be sweeping at our feet
We B danceN like Cholly Atkins
We got it, we got this
Cool as it is, we got this
We got it we got this what we
Cause what we got we got is Jazz
We begot We hazz Shazz Jazz
3/31/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025©
Jazz a Little Later
Unforgettable the feelings of such right
Astonishing pleasant evening nights
Hollow are the darkest shadows
All that really ever matters
Is that when we’re gone, so, so long
~
It won’t be long, for we’re settle
All that is better
When we leave it up to Him
If by chance I bid you a do
I’ll see you later in a vivid dream view
Upon this closing night bliss dim
I leave you a little better
Until the dawn, new days light…
Jazz you a little later
9/23/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
From anthology #1 SHASTA JAZZ Dedicated verse for Shasta Simms
Capture by them sounds
I was caught up
Axed chained up beat
just dancing slave, dancin to tha beat
~
enthralled capture in retreat
peepers and rocks boulders
climbing hugging broad shoulders
just dancing slave, dancin to tha beat
~
I was captured caught
In slaved by the
...rhymes call a drum
~
drum beat away from
a tribal warring brawl
who am I chance
~
Why am I entranced
mid the entrance
I am movin
just dancing slave, dancin to tha beat
~
Sultry grovin
synchronization move or bust
move at best
just dancing slave, dancin to tha beat
~
I am captive to
the rhymes rhythm beat
Dancing slave
~
and I'm shackle to my feet
dancing to tha beat
we're just dancing slave, dancin to tha beat
1910 Asogio slow the music, as the music freely slows
Heart ears hearing the abundant free flows
Jazz bebop axe percussion drumming a beating
Pirouette on point one foot tappiN
Cadence ragtime Hallelujah
Be it that, rat a tat, tat, tat, tat
Music speakiN ta ya, baeBy (baby) it’s all fat
Seize the night, Seize the night
It’s in full bright, out of sight
Cool jazz step air check arrangement backbeat Fusion Bridge
Time to ad-live come again as we dance 1910
Seize the night,
It’s alright right if you go back to where I’ve been 1910
You and I me and yours all our friends
Dance, dance, dance, until day dawns begins
Asogio slow the music, as the music freely slows
Heart ears hearing the abundant free flows
Jazz bebop axe percussion drumming a beating
Pirouette on point one foot tappiN
Cadence ragtime Hallelujah
Be it that, rat a tat, tat, tat, tat
Music speakiN ta ya, baeBy (baby) it’s all fat
Seize the night
Seize the night,
It’s alright right if you go back to where I’ve been 1910
It’s in full bright, out of sight
From day to night
gitN down you and I us end friends
pas de Bour’ee
It’s 1910
Seize the night
I hold you tight, we gittin it right
Beginnings not the end
Cadence ragtime Hallelujah
Be it that, rat a tat, tat, tat, tat
Music speakiN ta ya, baeBy (baby) it’s all fat
Seize the night
Seize the night
It’s alright right if you go back to where I’ve been 1910
Seize the night
It’s in full bright, out of sight
From day to night
gitN down you and I us end friends
pas de Bour’ee
It’s 1910
9/19/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
From SHASTA JAZZ dedicated verse for Shasta Simms anthology #1
I am circulating my anticipating
Foot ached fever broke bout' ta step out
Not out of my vessel, yet my voice is in session
My lungs, frontal lobe, feet and legs wanna dance
FOOT LOOSE
CUTING UP, SHIFTING FROM SLIDE TO SIDE
Faster
Faster
Faster
Fast step come on jazzy
Step fast come on jazzy
Step up, step in, step out, come to come through
Faster
Faster
Faster
Fast step come on jazzy
Happen stance, I gotta dance
Step on, step off
I carry the thought
Of what's up
To the form of getting down
How long can I be found singing
just, just, just jazz
Fast step
What a trip
Must insist you enlist come bro, come on sis
when I sing, you gonna dance
When I move ya wanna dance
Faster
Faster
Faster
Fast step come on jazzy
Fast step come on jazzy
Fast step come on jazzy
FAST STEP come on JAZZY
8/24/24
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024
for SHASTA JAZZ DEDICATED VERSE FOR SHASTA SIMMS ANTHOLOGY #1
BEBOP BLUES Dedicated verse for Delores Matthews-
How do ya! Do Rebop blues
Them there, tied up shoes
Crampin’ my style rebop blues
Like a misbehaved child
While far away
Them their prey
On the innocents
Of the human frails
So sad, ain’t no way mad
Souls glad, B renewed
N them rebop blues
Angry disarrayed
Purposely arrayed
How you do, what cha’ choose
Bebop blues
So closed
Let loose
Striding lies
On the innocents
Angry disarrayed
Purposely arrayed
So sad
So mad
How do ya! Do Rebop blues
Them there, tied up shoes
Crampin’ my style rebop blues
Like a misbehaved child
Chorus:
Jazzin' N Jivin on a Saturday night, feelin' oh so right
The rhythm's swingin' sweetly, the vibe is oh so tight
Rebop blues in the air, groovin' without a care
The trumpet's wailin', the piano's sailin', in a musical affair
Midnight groove, in the city blues
Lost in the moment, no time to lose
Re, re, re, re, reRebop Blues
Ya, ya, ya, yah can’t loose
When ya choose Rebop Blues
Saxophone cryin', drums keep tryin'
In the heart of the night, the music's flyin'
The bass is walking slow, the guitar starts to flow
A symphony of soul, where the spirits all know
Rebop blues whisper softly, secrets in the air
Melodies intertwining, in a jazzy love affair
Bebop blues
09/3/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2024©
Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks...
studious skinny scruffy scribe
Scathing, scolding, screaming,
scorning, searing, sing,
sociopathic sarin soaked skewed
squirt, sputtering, squawking, sleepily
staggering, stabbing, swaggering
sweltering sadistic, sarcastic,
savage, systemically systematically
stigmatized, supersized saber sharp
schick shaving, shunned, sabotaged,
scarred, scorched, smote, sanguine,
stippled, speckled schizophrenic
sensibility, spurring, seething,
somewhat stultified, sophisticated,
spellbound spirited scabrous
schlemiel schlemazel, stenciled,
sundered sniveling sanguine storied
snakebitten sojourning smartass,
skeptical shoddy sophomoric
screwball, subtly sagacious,
stunted, sclerotic, scrappily
shuffling short, Shylock
styled sideburns Semite,
sainted Shasta sipping
shriveled sad sack,
sullenly syncopated, synthesized,
slobbering sybaritic, scruffy
sheepish sketchy scalawag,
Socratically scrutinizing, seizure
stricken, stoically sneezing,
shamed Skidrow skeezer, shifty,
sweaty, sham shaman,
supremely spidery, schmaltzy,
sylan seeking subsidized succor,
self shuttered, sequestered,
sidelined, shiftless, shabby,
semantically snazzy, soldiering,
shrieking, skulking, somber,
stooping, Segway scootering,
schmart spendthrift, Swahili
speaking, straitlaced, streamlined,
spongebobbing, sandal shod
sealegs, squarepants sporting
spectacles, sedate, sensate,
sentient, ship shaped,
shanghaied, salubrious,
slithering, snakish, stuttering,
sluggish, smashface scarred,
sober, solitary, sangfroid
skidamarink singing, Shamokin
speaking scrivener, scuzzy,
spunky, starved, submissively
suicidal, sunburned,
salaried shuffling senescent
snoutish soundcloud shutterflying
snapchatting schnorrer.
I will turn back the pages of time,
to mom and to when I was a little girl;
mom would fill my pool and in I jumped,
she called me pixie and I giggled.
Then, she turned to her garden,
trimming black-eyed susan;
and white shasta daisies,
and I helped too.
I had my own tools,
and I worked hard.
She gave me a small patch in the sunshine,
with bright petunias and yellow marigolds.
Mom planted coneflowers for the monarchs,
I planted columbine for the hummingbirds;
and yarrow for bees,
oh, I loved the garden.
Then, mom said we need some rain,
so we prayed and waited;
and the beautiful rain showers came,
gently falling on all the flowers and my columbine,
petunias, yellow marigolds, and yarrow grew huge;
and some crazy creeping thyme I had planted !
This is a treasured page
in the book of my life.
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June 20, 2016
Poetry/Free Verse/And The Rain Came
Copyright Protected, ID 16-9955-17-0
All Rights Reserved. Written Under Pseudonym.
Submitted to the contest, Sunshine and Showers(old/new)
sponsor, Robert Haigh
Honorable Mention