IN THESE BABYLONIAN TIMES
...IN THESE BABYLONIAN TIMES PS
(A Palming Allegorical Rendering)
With elephant ears,
And the keenness of giraffes,
Let’s become as owls:
Divine wisdom and guidance,
Eagle-winging us justice:-
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Categories:
palming, allegory,
Form: Tanka
Of Paper Moons, Foxes, and Blood Oranges
...I. Sighting
I saw you
through refracted light-
a prism of chance
splitting ordinary into spectrum.
Wind-tangled hair
terra cotta and rosemary beneath your nails
th...
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Categories:
palming, dream, innocence, journey, loss,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
New Sort of Wave
...A - rresting beneath dancing fingered fronds palming zephyr's touch.
B - each building sand castles throughout dawning sunlight.
C - rumbling granules of fate in the noonday sun.
D - esigns creati...
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Categories:
palming, allusion, analogy, beach, beautiful,
Form: Abecedarian
Corner Boy
...Wonderous creations
Flowing across nations
Filled with positive vibrations
That would lead down a path of negativity
Once Intune with one another
Unified by a dream
Each
Hoping to ac...
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Categories:
palming, age, anger, art, black
Form: Epic
Valentine
...Valentine’s straddling bikes, hiking it to the mall.
Youthful and carefree; passing trees in revelry
as the sun plays peekaboo through its leaves.
Half a heart, each. Each pounding the busy str...
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Categories:
palming, valentines day,
Form: Narrative
I Sip Those Coffee Irises
...i sip those coffee irises
which beckon my core
sans a resounding wave
or bawdy utterance
the strong, robust urge
a breathless yearning
i stir that drink
with a flirtatious cream
i lean in...
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Categories:
palming, imagery, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
The Almonds Incident
...THE ALMONDS INCIDENT
We got back from our power walk
about an hour ago
After changing clothes, she sat on the
sofa with a fizzy juice cocktail and her
novel of the week
Remaining in the kitch...
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Categories:
palming, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Deconstructing Orange
...Oh you peel the rind
from me
in the gentlest manner
and it falls away
in fleshy strips
of bitter
citrine madness
where calloused there
in orange despair
it wrapped
a fancied ripeness
y...
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Categories:
palming, birth,
Form: Ballad
Bedlam Becalm- -
...gavel, raffles,
travels unravels.
palming, bombing,
becalm, embalm.
death on-death on
becalm, becalm
2/9/20
Written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©...
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Categories:
palming, analogy, conflict, confusion, environment,
Form: Footle
Peter Piper
...Peter Piper pickin peppers
Pick your pockets
Potential profits
Purely pleasure
Plan on passin on, Puttin all
Personal belongings
In your purses or wallet
Because peter's plottin,
Poppin up...
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Categories:
palming, betrayal, business, character, crazy,
Form: Alliteration
A Crescent River Bend
...A crescent river bend
Exiting from bathroom
Perhaps to set a trend
As nude as a fresh bloom
Down the dancing stairs
Did she leave her gown
In a room downstairs
She is looking like a chair
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Categories:
palming, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Formation
...Honesty blankets the sour taste left
That positions itself between conscience
To the right of promise beside honor
Behind targets farther from wonder and grace
Closer to our faith we fail to act ...
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Categories:
palming, religion,
Form: Free verse
Nautical
...NAUTICAL
a gale of tidal
nautical waves
nourish the shoal
hand palming moist
as wet sands drain
lungs fill with the
beauty of usage
swallowing it in
throat soaked
spheres float...
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Categories:
palming, ocean, parody,
Form: Free verse
Chakra One: Muladhara--Roots
...Here I am
Base of spine enmeshed with
earth ruddy like my cheeks and
bloodshot eyes
feet--firmly planted
take root where home is,
where nourishment, like a crimson bag of waters, is.
Humble,...
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Categories:
palming, beauty, nature, red, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Untitled
...Pretty face let me touch you
Warm hands of experience...
Serving the holy triangle,
Times rhythms expire...fire...desire,
words re-molded a man to a higher --
transcendent fashionable sculptur...
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Categories:
palming, allegory, imagination, romance,
Form: Ode
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