The Featured Twirler
...Oh that Lily, she the epitome of a
Golden Child as I watched her
Exuding effortless grace, a liquid-silver baton—
a Haddon Heights Garnett.
a Blazing Comet /
enchanting /
popular and ...
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Categories:
pearling, confidence, desire, feelings, high
Form: Narrative
Grand Opal Views
...Beseech me to grand opal views oh blessed moon
and take me to that place where pearling light
resplendent of the sea, adorns my life's festoon
With just one shake of ray from you my sight
wil...
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Categories:
pearling, appreciation, moon,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Black Pearl I and Ii
...By inclement seas, malevolent sands bob
Lashing atrociously in their cyclonic hurl
Assent to winds that beat wild, Oceania!
Can the derelict heart reclaim its pacific,
keeping latent hurts as a...
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Categories:
pearling, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Love Things of Floridness Sake-
...Love said I
the things a floridness sake
he warned me about what's at steak
and his eyes have all the pearling
I am shorn of my remake
much I marvel this slack
A flame you war...
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Categories:
pearling, analogy, angel, love, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Peach-
...Peach
Ripe, skinless
Talking, pearling, tattling
Ever so overripe
Dish
7/10/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©...
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Categories:
pearling, analogy, appreciation, fruit,
Form: Cinquain
Jewels of Africa
...Jewels of Africa.
The saffron Queen spins the lilac sky,
her rays flick crimson cinders into Royal Blue Oceans.
Submerge, sizzle, frizzle...going, going, gone! ...But Not.
Cumulus clouds drizzl...
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Categories:
pearling, africa, appreciation, culture, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Blood of Martyrs
...The Blood of Martyrs
“He stood aloof the ***** youth
What of his future?”
Peter Abrahams
When the guns thunder
In Cameroon or Côte-d’Ivoire
In Mali or Burkina Faso
Limitless martyrs
Disa...
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Categories:
pearling, patriotic, peace,
Form: Free verse
Blighted Happiness
...Blighted Happiness
Our love is like a withered leaf
That lies on the brink of the river
Waiting for the winds or the waves
To swiftly be scattered and driven
Or for heavy rains or pearling dus...
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Categories:
pearling, lost love,
Form: Free verse
My Heart
...My heart is like a swollen stream,
a current strong and swift,
beside which banks the mountain giants
their rugged forms uplift.
My heart is like a wilderness,
a darkening wood, a desert sand,
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Categories:
pearling, character, emotions, feelings, heart,
Form: Lyric
Lost Love Deliria - Part 3
... Part 3
9th Delerium: Emptyness
Water wheels in wastelands... turning,
drowning relics in the slum
Rumpled rags of fashioned burlap... burning,
lit by bandits blind and dumb
Pastured...
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Categories:
pearling, lost love, time,
Form: Rhyme
Sun-Block
...SUN-BLOCK
Your sunset-sanctioned skin ignite melody to boredom world
Your gently pearling smile charm the attention of morning sun.
Your charmed souls burn in nuclear passion
To absorb the bombardm...
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Categories:
pearling, art, inspirational, on writing
Form: Free verse
Back To My Origin
...The nagging thoughts of my sleeping heroes haunt a chamber of my hearts
Weary of guilty mind, I decided to appease the heads of our string
Like a prodigal I walked as stormy cloud envelop the tranqui...
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Categories:
pearling, black african american, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Sun-Block - Joseph Osita
...SUN-BLOCK ( Collaboration with Joseph Osita )
by~JOSEPH OSITA & I~LINDA (p.d.)
Your sunset-sanctioned skin ignite melody to boredom world
Your gently pearling smile charm the attention of morni...
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Categories:
pearling, devotion, me, light, light,
Form: Free verse