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Premium Member Weather Forecast Winds of Fury

Mostly sunny today,  hot
With a high of ninety two
Chance of precipitation later  on
Possibility of severe weather in some places

Though the  sun shone brightly and skies were blue
  Scattered thunderstorms were expected too
An easterly wind gently blew
As nomadic clouds floated through

 But later that day dark clouds loomed
A roar of thunder underscored the gloom
The sky lit up with lightening strikes
Water poured down like a broken dike

The howling wind   sounded  like a train
approaching,  speeding towards our terrain
We could hear its destructive fury
Tornado touching down as for cover  we scurried

Thunder pealed and skies were gray
Destruction struck that very day
A mighty wind fiercely blew
A deadly  tornado had just roared through

contest name: weather forecast
contest by: Joy Wellington
© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.


Premium Member FOR THE LOVE OF HER I'LL FIRST ASK GOD-

For the love of her I’ll first ask Father God.
Oh!  My soul rejoices
I am honored by her help
And ever thankful for her presence

Ahh, a sense of deep reverence
Ahh, a special person in my life
Ahh, seeking Father God’s guidance and wisdom
To a commitment honoring cherish life
My souls so rejoicing
Such a sense of honor underscored
She has a ever blessed honored impact on my life
I thank God for her

For the love of her, thank you God
Such soars my soul rejoice
High on eagle’s wings I fly
Embraced by my Father in the sky
I am honored by her help
A help mate she is
An ever present blessing, thankful present she is

7/22/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©

Pretty In Pink

Pretty in Pink

Far more pretty than anything
i have ever seen before nor since

Read or wrote about or underscored

You are the flaming grass of winter

Blowing across my neighbors lane

That never feels the same

To either you nor i

When looking up at cloud formation

Wishing we we're dreaming

Of nothing and eveything forgotten

That brought us to this point

Because far to scared to face our future

We we're far more scared to confront our past

For fear of colliding on the marmalade sawdust underneath
the Circus Master's Organ

Scared to death of Mother scowling

And whether she would tell Dad
if in fact you had been good or bad

These are the bygone day's 

Of a pretty young girl dressed in pink

Dreaming of a white wedding

Divine Catastrophe

I'm a divine catastrophe, an unplanned event moving
through time & space
A wormhole opened & I emerged from a one on one
cosmic interface
Space & time are as relative as any fact, but I know we
exist with all forevermore
I've come & gone at will under pain of death to live a 
life of pain that's underscored
I perceive the world from a higher perspective so I'm 
able to see & draw the lines
This overstanding is internal guidance within a broken 
system that inner stands borrowed time
Rewind the lines to consume the words with a hungry heart
& listen with starving ears
I'll be judged by a constructive God but won't accept the
judgment from any of my peers
Be free of the fear of controlling chains that attach themselves
to mind & soul
You can't be bound if you know you're as free air & it's you
that's always in control
Form: Rhyme

Happy Birthday Matthew Scott Harris Parturition

Yours truly an aging baby boomer
long haired pencil necked geek
trademark disheveled characteristics
whipsawed ever faster around sun.

He (best buddy and alter ego of mine) 
snapped, popped, and crackled 
firstly his crown out cervix
subsequently skinny arms and legs
(I'll spare ye the bloody graphics),
whence obstetrician able, eager, and
ready underscored with italics

to pronounce hosannas  
regarding garden variety
generic wrinkled newborn
emerging out birth canal 
asthma noggin heralded 
scrawny newborn, now celebrating lxiii
plus deux orbits around nearest star,
which birth sported an ordinary

uneventful, nonetheless miraculous
biological secrete heave reproductive tricks
immediately screaming
without assistance courtesy
Gran Prix (now pronounced as pricks)

also envision Dolby surround sound
nsync with spastic kicks
'o mine straggly mostly
gangly lovely bones mox nix.

Within some nondescript building
named The Christ Hospital
location Mount Auburn
Cincinnati, Ohio 
(the buckeye state)
record number C57587 
gingerly handled courtesy
Doctor James Mackay McCord
(ushering none other than me
into the wide webbed world)
bestowed upon bosom of Harriet Harris,
thy young mother of prolonged labor
as his bony ass easily
slipped out uterine crypt,

whereby with Vernix
caseosa, the waxy or cheese
he appeared made rather dipped
in tallow, thence unexpectedly whipped
minuscule fist ready to bump.


Earth Day April 22nd 2018

an inner conflict dust brew
within this scribe, who offers ye to chew
(like sweet treats metaphorically) thee do
tee incumbent, when Doomsday clock 
     counts down minutes few

according Al Gore rhythm  
     unstoppably ticking, 
     when life gets turned to global goo
tenderized viz Doctor Zeus 

     if not Horton Hears Hoo 
then most definitely The Lorax 
     (couching urgent morals underscored 
     by satellite photographs 

     showing melting icecaps or igloos,
which planetary sos, sans in extremis 
     requires joint effort of Gentile and Jew,
plus every other sectarian credo, 

     dogma, ethos...knew
clear family, and whatnot 
     to become linkedin with Linda Loo
yes, we moost not forget 

     Old McDonald with his moo
moo there bovine creatures 
     agedly hobbling along, or new
lee born, cuz juiced one day 

     per three hundred and sixty five 
     (six with leap year - 
     to appease ghost oh Rachel Carson
     imagine dragons festooned leotard 
     with brand name Oroblu)

or poor ole Whinny The  Pooh
eternally stuck in Rabbit's 
     hole sum Hutch as a queue
doth loosely form dreaming up and rue

mien hating solution 
     (burning the midnight oil) true
lee trying to remedy plight 
     of said bear character,

     perhaps unstated message being woo
king in tandem solutions to resolve 
     wretched condition of world wide web 
     possible by bridging differences 
     between me and you, and you, and you...

Flotus Flaunted Einstein Visa

In March 2001, Melania granted green card
   asper elite EB-1 program
intended for renowned academic researchers,
   multinational business executives
   (linkedin with Uncle SAM)

or those in other fields, such as
   Olympic athletes and Oscar-winning actors,
   who demonstrated
   “sustained national and international acclaim”
   until...now, when (FAKE trophy wife)...
   besieged with WHAM!

The Don whips to defense of
   (legal residency status),
   sans his third wife
imbroglio finds the president flat footed
   regarding spouses' granted citizenry permission rife,
where details concerning former
   in vogue Slovak model now cushy life

challenging her right to live in The United States,
   the most Democratic nation
plus concomitant abrogation
   afforded robber Baroness admission

   dispensing hot button issue of CHAIN MIGRATION,
where sentiment underscored verbatim
   "Some people come in,
   and they bring their whole family with them,
   who can be truly evil. NOT ACCEPTABLE!”

The above on record as authentic Trumpian tweet,
hence quoted with poetic license,
   a prime example how two
   (or more faced) president didst react to un seat
fairness, which November twitter

   allowing parents with bearhug he did greet
   legal residency of her parents,
   Viktor and Amalija Knavs, as Elite
   who received figurative green light
   despite riding piggyback
   Nsync with military beat

ting back pesky atop flimsy green card,
   the freedom appetite got whet
scrutiny, and now a ironic Gordian Knot set
tilled and solved making mincemeat to pet

files, particularly equality
   for those skeined alive in the DACA net
ready to boot innocent offspring
   of supposed illegal aliens on the next departing jet!

Pieces of You and Me

"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"      John Ruskin, 1853

It was just another memory
 the aftermath of time and life in brevity,
recovered in the dreams of night
 slipping on the imagery of true delights
where two lives lay quietly subdued
 holding tight to leftover pieces of me and you.

Some of those memories liveon  in bliss
 easily tucked away in destiny's first kiss
held fast like a first unexpected experience shared
 was it a hit or miss when we paired?
Now, as time has marked our years
 who was the first to cry love's tears?

That first encounter was just my arrogance and pride
 in retrospect I see,  how well I lied
I said I didn't like you and you were just being kind
 but your touch clouded my soul and mind,
those little occurrences that too easily slipped
 reasured all was well lived as my wings were being clipped.

Pressed in the photo album,  notes and pictures underscored
 the pictures faded and blurry but still endures
with rose petals brittle, dried and brown
 apologies of when I so often played the clown
kept safe and secure, each memories are retained,
 only now, can I measure, everything we've gained.

The cards that said I love you
 the notes that we'd get through,
a lock from our child's hair
 the first report card with an A 
petals from her wedding day, 
 a dried tear from when she went away.

These are the memories that together we recall
 when you and I had given it our all
the joy, the laughter, the sadness and the tears
 scattered melodies of our rhythms seered
in life experiences no longer here,
 sleep restfully, every dream can still be near.
© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Fishermen's Lament

Angrily, rain enfolds the insular rise of lawn undulating. 
Anglers dream, envious fishermen, inside looking out urging 

apostles, who elope within imaginary onslaughts, hooked unburdening's.
Aloft, thunder encounters lightening's insistent taunt, oracles fearsome uttering's.

And still, each fisherman's innermost summoning orchestrates this untoward
atmospheric downfall, each drop induced, prayerful, outpouring is underscored.

Admittedly many envious housebound inmates seek oceans, lakes, unexplored
although, the earthly torrent interferes pitiless, onerous, rainfall unleashed. 

Absent the energizing rays introduced by ordinary sun, undone 
are these enigmatic men in rooms, oar less, ship-less, landlubbers unconsoled.

Another day encases them indoors mooning over fish uncontrolled.
A trophy earned, stuffed, indisputably shows offerings untold.

Ah, fishtails energetically rise incensed by objections never unabridged 
absent their earnest wives, imagination rolls on winds un-curtailed.
Form: Verse

Premium Member The Alleys of Virtual Municipalities

The Alleys of Virtual Municipalities
By David J Walker

I love walking 
the rutted roads 
Running in 
hidden groves 
Through  
      the residential jungles

the rambling 
backyard boulevards 
dividing the
single file plies of
dirt and gravel 

A straight line between 
Picket fenced fortresses of 
Flimsy privacy providing
Trash truck Sunday drivers with a
A No man’s land-bound with trees &
Treasures found by 
dumpster divers

I love listening 
		To the feral catcalls
in the last stand of 
wildland 
Overruled by skulks of city foxes 

I love trekking 
	The pioneered turnpikes 
On fast mountain bikes
Riding & reading between 
the telephone lines 
mapped by

XYZ Municipalities and
The vague virtual realities of
An alley’s informalities 

I love the 
	Tell all tall tales
Of what fails to be 
Needed anymore 
Underscored by
Overflowing dumpsters
Form: Rhyme

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