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TWILIGHT PASSIONED-

Night displaced
Amongst despair;
Candid beliefs;
No one cares;
I’ve been shattered;
~
Spiritually beaten;
Mishandled;
O’ I’m not the one holding the gun;
I belong to a righteous King;
I am a redeemed son;

6/3/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©

Do You Make Love to a Rap?

One Christmas tree light in a darkened room,
as 45’s spin you grind, shuffle or clap.
Slow drag songs passioned folks with Smokey’s croon.
Tell me now, can two make love to a rap?

Girl over there, “Oh Baby’s,” going too far.
Smokey’s singing and she’s on some boy’s lap.
Motown music reigns as conquering czar.
Tell me true, do you make love to a rap?

Sweet love, love, love made the disks go around.
Such poetry in the words they would sing.
Memories of tender moments in sound.
Tell me, is there passion in rap’s sting?

Love songs are slightly, in a social trap.
Tell me, true, do you make love to a rap?

Warrior

The flawless beat of a warrior's heart
Unflinching in a passioned breast.
Unfamed by drudge and dreary toil,
marching onward in a deathless quest.

Forged by iron in flaming truth,
each beat carved by an untouchable sword.
Unknown is a hero's sacred stance
upon the fabric of time's eternal Word.

Ferry Beach Transformations

What did I take away
from summer camp?

Not COVID
this year,
nor the clap
of one hand ringing.

But, instead
a more resilient health
of authentic sacred wealth

TransFormative dance 
singing integrity's great 
synergetic 
bromance.

Polyphonic men
mind and body embracing
polypathic gods
re-imaging polytheistic goddesses
engaging all us in-between
communal transubstantiations.

My own spirited mind
and strong natured body
transition
has not been solely limited by Others'
lack of win/win imagination

But also,
perhaps primarily
and primally,
by my own 
win straight mind 
lose ***** body 
trauma story,
His-poled v Her-holed history

Mind blaming
and body shaming
Left hemisphere's lack
of co-passioned pleasuring 
Right-now transcendent 
peak co-empathic mystery

More resiliently inquiring--
What transformative longing
does bromance take away
from summer's sacred belonging 
mind and body camp?

the promise

"the promise"

reflective stars
guiding moons
shining suns
wishful dreams
what are these

our glances
our whispers
our embraces
our touches
what are these

the promise is passioned
the promise breathes
the promise is alive
the promise is ours

these we hold

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01-13-24

Renee

shall i love a maiden fair

whose favor i'll not see

or will she grant within her heart

a special place for me



i take no lead in this affair

but follow her desires 

quiet patience tames my beating heart

engulfed in passioned fire



love, reciprocated love

it cries from deep inside

not guaranteed for one like me

brings tears i cannot hide



she is worth the chance i take

i feel she is the one

with arms outstretched my offered heart

for her to take and own



she and time shall both decide

the future of our lives

be separate or two as one

bears fear and hope to thrive



must this love be muted as

a silent castaway

until the time when she'll confess

her love for me one day



i can only hope and dream

until that day is come

i pray the Lord to give me strength

when all is said and done

Valentine Dreams

Valiant suitor in pursuit; for a valentine he has on his mind,
Aching to catch the eye of a lady sweet, fair and kind.
Longing to impress, in his intentions, he must truly shine.
Each day he yearns for a passioned filled fate,
Notions fill his head, with dreams of their first date.
Troubled briefly, that she would decline his advances;
Inspired by February's hearts and flowers, he would take his chances.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained"; hoping his invitation would not be in vain.
 Evening comes, the table is set, the candles glow; dinner and dancing a perfect    
                                 night for romancing.

Restoring Tarnished Virtues

God's oral,
and Gaia's ancient ****
naturally spiritual laws
are win/win discursive,
not win/lose debating,
when climate polycultural conditions
are democratically healthy thriving

Not blaming,
judging,
shaming,
cursive,
as when monoculturing colonizations
of EurAsians autocratically
and kleptocratically sick
and barely monotheistically surviving
curiously endure inhumane denial
of runaway capitalist win/lose
LeftBrain dominant
straight white patriarchal
lose/lose ego/eco-fading systemic nihilism

Repression of ecowomanist mindfulness
lustiness
integrity
bilateral resilience

Suppression of post-traumatic climate stress disorder

Depression
of PolyCultural Sacred Law
for and of
humane sensory EarthTherapeutic Justice

Musical
mindfully mused
meditative medication
as Blue/Green
4/4
Who Are We For?
regenerative rhythmed 
co-passioned 
deeply resonant peace.

Immortal Words

Emblazoned on an unseen yellowed page
In ornate script now hazed by swollen time
The word of poet, master of the senses keen
Tracing fear of death in halting rhyme;
A fearful pen that leavened gracious prose
And grander scenes, and labored in despair
The lumbering, futile spirit to repair.
Immortal words outlast the passioned fear.
Could he not understand the final vote,
Could he not feel that after life had fled
Great men would scan the envisioned words he wrote?

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Love's Vulnerable Pedestrian

Taoists recognize
all outside exposed inside egos
feel watched
when walking through
a new or, some stressed times,
even a long familiar
housed human eco-habitat

But some of us feel marginal,
suspected,
anxious about being judged
and shamed
and blamed
for assumed insufficiencies
at aggressively playing monoculturing win/lose
Straight 
WesternWhite 
Patriarchal 
eco-political games

And sometimes we feel anticipation,
privileged multicultural excitement
and active hope

That the multigenerational family
moving in next door
will have kids our win/win needy age

Still health/wealth co-empathic
feeling ego/ecosystemic healing memories

Of past 
RedYang/GreenYintegrity walking
waking small revolutionary 
repurposing
transportive
transcendent communion experiences

ReStorying Earth's polyculturing just Ways,
PolyPathic Means,
CoMediations of health-felt cooperative experience

In Ego/Eco-Pedestrian NonZero Zones
of active co-mediation,
win/win strategic and healing game designers
bilaterally co-passioned,
walking along 1/0 binomial
double-binary
boundaries 

Anticipating ego/eco-systemic
compassionately progressing
communions.

A Star Rebearing Gifts

Red sky
fades
inside ears
poised toward greening
non-violet ultra recommunions,

So, also
noncommunion ZeroZones
of red
against green,

So
also
red/green
non-violent mediation,
ego/ecotherapeutic,

So
also
red sky fades
inside green/blue
yintegral yang
speaking "green regained"

So too
Christian
green/red
sensed newborn
divine/humane
light/power
ancient eco-messianic solstice 
fertile
non-violent celebrations;

So
also
red sky
light fades
inside ringing joyful ears
poised toward regreening
non-violet ultra
ecofeminist Earth
Green ReStoring Justice

In solidarity with
RedSky Sacred Rights
to worship
unprivileged 
under-capitalized
everyday compassionate princes
and feminist princesses
of and for green/red
co-passioned 
co-arising
co-gravitating
co-operative 
eco-therapeutic 

Red sky fading
refacing
non-violently communicating
healthy democratic 
WholeEarth 
GreenNatured/RedSpirited 
Eco/Ego CoAligning Peace,

So
also
Red sky
fades
inside ears
poised toward greening
non-violet ultra recommunion
solstice redivining...

Centering Powers

All breathing
hearted
living sacred creations
are born of white light
and red power,

Of empowering transparent ecstasy
and vulnerably impassioned fire,

Of triumphant wind
radiantly communing spring tease
and slow burning
Earth-rooted
desire

To restore life-giving powers
of just-right lust for co-passions,
and to illuminate life/death
impassioned powers,
healthy white light polypathic
wealthy red powers co-empathic,

Born of illuminating sacred light
reborn of Taoist
NonZero Sum soul
empowering transparent ecstasy
and co-passioned fire

Yang white light
and Yintegral non-violent red fertile powers
ecofeminist conductive
inductive
seductive fired passions.

The Music of Love

As one who plays upon the lute is she
Whose tuneful touch plucks music from my soul
And weaves each note into a melody
Of love which twines two hearts into one whole.

In serenade I take her song and sing
It back to her with gentle kiss and sigh
As gasping, grasping, passioned love takes wing
And lifts us like an aria on high.

In fierce embrace and ardent ecstasies
We soar like angels on our upward flight,
Creating and performing symphonies
Of love that touch the stars and thrill the night.

Then joined as one, as close as two can get,
We sing our song of love as a duet.

October 13, 2020

Repurposing Anger

At last,
we are angry with each other
coincidentally,
simultaneously,
which may be a coincidence,
but probably not;

Depending on active faith 
in linear cause-effect relationships,
leftbrain dominant yang powers,

And/or
circular dipolar co-arising
co-passioned effective unpolarized relationship, 
causes v effects = effective causal recycles
of rightbrain both/and recessive yintegrity.

Now,
at last,
we have set our synergetic communication stage
to test this ancient hypothesis
that two negatives
are equal to a potential positive co-passion,
as polynomials
may equal not not polynomials

Where positive
also equals leftbrain healthy
and rightbrain safe

And negative anger
equals leftbrain liberally 
communication healthy
when rightbrain feels conservatively safe

Despite never considering this internal hypothesis
because of patriarchal
dualistic
win/lose capitalistic faith
in not not equivalent potential
for ego/ecosystemic win/wins

Despite respite death through life
ego/eco-recycles
repurposing timeless eternity
of unity
more flexibly equitable
than uniformity
of leftbrain thoughts 
against rightbrain feelings.

From My Front Porch

Porches,
attached decks,
patios,
intimate places for alfresco,

These make a difference
between a fortressed house
and a transparent home,
between an ego castle
and an eco-habitat.

We also spread rhododendron bushes
and hostas,
flowers and ferns
around our stone
and concrete bound foundations.

We want stable defenses
but prefer to camouflage houses
in organic color,
life giving and taking shapes.

These boundary vistas
speak of heart felt reminders
our habitat is rooted
in Earth's wilderness

In vulnerability
hidden from transparency
except with those who share our sacred space
inside
and upon,
within our co-passioned present time,

Presence bonding,
double-binding,
re-membering past wildness
anticipating future re-generative
re-storative
re-habituating
re-acclimating
re-bounding win/lose less
for more win/win paradise

Just barely 2020 visible
and silently audible
and fresco fragranced
and tasted,
felt
and so nearly touched
longing into belonging
on our cooperatively-owned front porch.

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