As with the begging night,
you tease
engulfing me
with a passioned kiss
carried in
through the vagrant breeze
crimson drops of honey
dipped in pleasure
pristine, pure, enriched
mysterious bites
hushed breaths
brushed across
two lover's lips,
seduction of oral intent
where light flickers
into recesses of mind,
slipping in and out of the shadows
lusting after poetic lines
leaving no word left behind
Within this ossuary of our breath,
Where time devours the very vows we swore.
I seek a love that triumphs over death,
and haunts the shadows of the evermore.
The sun is but a dying ember’s glare,
as midnight creeps to claim our fleeting light.
The heavy scent of sorrow fills the air,
And pulls us down into the hollow night.
Yet, let the worms consume this fragile shell,
And let the heavens turn to bitter stone,
If in the furnace where our spirits dwell,
I need not face the blackened void alone.
Though all the stars to dusty silence part,
I pray my love, to hold me in your heart.
If malevolent roses
were blue passioned red
And malicious violets
were red pleasing blue
Then contentious autocracy
would have a whole lot less
malgovernance to do.
moon - ‘fore you wink those cornflow’r ‘byes
please sing her blues - hues sewn with sighs
to splice your beams, my dreams made hers
and ghost those twilight-twined messieurs …
(your pleas to please … my passioned purrs).
Copyright © 2025 Gregory Richard Barden
( photographic art created by yours truly - filtered at Prisma )
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©
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.
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"
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
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
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.
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.
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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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.
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...
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.
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