Optically Poems


Premium MemberOPEN VERSE 9-10

SENSES
exemplary
  anecdotes
in
memorabilia
 particularly
  impressive
&
 prominent
symbolized
  by
the
 immovable
in
selfless
  love
explicit
with
  ambivalence
&
devotion
a
recast
narrative
highlighted
in
  flux
a
listening
  dilemma
TENSIONS
so
 destructive
can enthrall
&
fufill
become
 lyrical
spaces
mysterious
&
  magnificent
reflected
 symbols
in a
scattered
awareness
 oblique
&
unusual
optically
 true
pictorially
simple
contours
 isolated
&
an
emotional
  gathering
in
  a
    spiritual
panorama
Categories: optically, poetry,
Form: Verse

Mary, I Love You

My most beautiful nomenclature,
An aldehyde of esteric fragrance,
Roses know I give better pleasure, but...
...You are no doubt better than red roses;
Indeed, your presence is catalytic,
Like electrons, you complete my valency;
Optically, you've made me feel isomeric;
Van der Waals could never dare compare...
...Ethane to someone as aromatic as
YOU.
Categories: optically, desire, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Acrostic


Burnt Offerings

Sharp the need
burning the bitter weed
burnt offerings in
fragments of imagery
feeling the spice sweet 
dreams come
nice as the world swims 
out of view 
the light feeds on the pain
as if on cue feelings curl 
around my spine 
as the monsters crawl
were all is pain 
smoldering lighting 
erupts the vain
the poison seeps
on the nerves optically 
burn the sweet spice 
turn feelings 
harrowing or serene 
burrows deep
my spine sharp 
but nice
burning the bitter weed
sharp is the need
Categories: optically, addiction, allusion, analogy, anger,
Form: Free verse

In Plain Sight

The hood is foregone.
Into the past, of fired crucifixes upon front lawns.
   The day has begun, a new dawn.
Bare faced, in the sun's illumination.
   Guised within the roles that make a nation.
Spread throughout vital occupations.
   Where darkened communities suffer from the
bleached cohorts occupation.
   From tainted patrols roaming free on the range
with no scrutiny.
   To deliver captives to like minded counselors 
and judiciary.
   As aesculapian institutions dispense succor to
the most monetary.
   In conjunction with polity, where signed documentation
continues urban poverty.
   Strengthened by miseducation from chameleon educators,
educated with an educational degree.
   Conjoined in unity of conspiracy, waltzing through the
capital of democracy.
   The confederates state their supremacy optically.
It is time for the rolling back of sleeves, to fight
the good fight with bravery.
   Steadfast, and observe closely.
For the greatest trick the devil ever pulled, as evil stands
before you and me.
Categories: optically, america, racism,
Form: Free verse

When It Gets Too Much

Have situations ever got away from you
evade conclusions while dramas protrude
like a chain link fence no time to think
assess why you're tense or reflect to sync
up events with stress to pull the valve on pressure
just endeavour at pace absent of pleasure
naturally adapt to lessen the impact
while facts not exact and the lesson abstract
taking life in just not learnt
quaking within and mentally burnt
then one intense altercation the only
thing in focus expanding slowly
and nothing else gets noticed
optically trained within the scope
and the rest of the world you take no note
suddenly it's draining all your energy
and events around it just let them be
busy searching every angle like a clock hand
around the clock to brain tangling demand
lurking constant and you assert but weary
astounded half shocked continuously nearly
working it out but for doubt in a muddle
evermore dumb founded increasing struggle
shoulder shrugging as your wonder wanders
from blunder to blunder now going under
where there's no sun it's just dark and dreary
you're torn up inside and teary, now hear me,
HAVE A DAY OFF!!
Categories: optically, appreciation, humorous, psychological, truth,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberEyes--

EYES--

a thing resembling an vision viewed in appearance shape
In my relative position I see
These views
Complex optical-system

Collects light from the surrounding environment
Focuses through adjustable assembly of lenses
To form an image, converts into a set of electrical signals
Transmits these signals

My picture perfect cause I see two
Optically I see what's going on all around me
Eye blue the hue of the skies above
Eyes brown visions of the clay, the earth and sands

Eye see two peering at my status Que
visible part typically patterns of colors all round us
Blacks and whites and shadows unite vision of stripe
Must have two to see double once

Sigh!!!
This I spy, as I look out of my eyes 
So envisioned so many different hues and views
I am elated to actually be able to see out my own two

EYES 

5/12/18
by James Edward Lee Sr.
Copyright © 2018
Categories: optically, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Vision

Vision is just an obscure frequency 
Optically tuned into the epitome 
Of soul 
mentally
Constructing and Constricting 
Into imagery 

Whatever you are
Whatever you were
Whatever you thought
Is whatever you saw

Even though we see we never see it coming
Look at the past but the past has become us
What we come from 
Isn't the sum of
What is to come
Stuck
Within the pendulum 

Every lesson is a vessel
Signals sent to check you
Distract you
Or connect you
To paths you pass through

Concentrate
Contemplate
Decide then demonstrate

Disorganized sensory
Sensing things that don't make sense to me
deciphering and encrypting 

This isn't a fantasy
This isn't at all what it appears to be
Categories: optically, angst, character, feelings, growth,
Form: Free verse

Beholding Eyes

Beau’s beautiful belle                                                                                                         is in the optically ocular ophthalmics                                                                                      of the spectator’s spectacle spectation
Categories: optically, allegory, allusion, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOne Tolkien Over the Line

He was a writer, a fighter, an old-timer word rhymer
Always thought free verse was asinine
He was the queerest, the dearest, the tear in your beer-est
and he was one Tolkien over the line

He was archaic, prosaic, euphoric, historic
Made pentagrams optically divine
He was the cheekiest, geekiest, and uniquely freakiest
and he was one Tolkien over the line

He loved cigars and Star Wars, guitars, and sitars
Collages made his artistry torch shine
He was the jivest,  high-fivest, young poet alive-est
and he was one Tolkien over the line

It's not much reward to those who are bored
but are afraid of not acting benign
Sometimes you gotta get riled, and go a bit wild 
and step one Tolkien over the line

November 14, 2014
Categories: optically, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

White Cotton

Snow as gentle as cotton growing in a field

New and freshly fallen snow

Optically exquisite and clean

Wise as the snowy owl

Flakes of white, six points to a snowflake

Loved and liked by humanity, on a scenic winter day

A sunny day melts the snowflakes

Kind views like a winter postcard

Every pedestrian careful on the walkways

Scenic and serene, God's friendship personified


Author: Gwen Meyer-Erlach Schutz
Categories: optically, naturewinter, winter,
Form: Acrostic
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