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pictured rocks

statues in water 
painted by suns heated rays 
cooled by moons night beams

Categories: pictured, moon,
Form: Haiku

Pictured rocks

Water reflections 
as boat cruises by them 
show casing beauty

Categories: pictured, water,
Form: Haiku

Pictured a Freed Verse

PICTURED
apparently
in sombre
retreat
 the
literary
affirming
&
celebrates
the
  portraiture
with
some overlap
 to compare
perhaps
 contrast
&
reflect
the
sensibility
 of
 space
 with the
representative
&
extraordinary
captured
with
intimate detail
of
the
 slight &
spectacular
 character
 in retrospect

a
 cherished
collaboration
is with
the extraordinary
in
 a unique moment
of a
 moving experiences
of
transformation
meets the gaze
of memory
 of vulnerability
using traditional
cultural
 face to face
in
conversation

Categories: pictured, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Melancholia Pictured

MELANCHOLIA PICTURED
Deep
waters
whirl in a
melancholy
pool

the
eyes show
subjection,
&
a
resigned
acceptance-
yet beauty shines
through.


Duel Ekphrasis -inspired by both
 the Whirlpool by Isaac Lentan
&Head (portrait) by Watteau

Categories: pictured, art,
Form: Ekphrasis

Pictured Flowers

The taste of the jasper petals
Laid a breast the landscape
Sweet vapor mist gently kiss
a forest surround sound
the rocks side like metals
Trees dancing in the wind scape
Flowers smells grips the air filled bliss
Pictured flowers

8/8/78
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018

Categories: pictured, analogy, appreciation, flower,
Form: Rhyme

I Pictured Myself Screaming This

hey so most of you guys know that this isn't really like me.. i uhh i guess this is something thats been on my mind for a while so.. listen to me 
do you hear me?
are you listening to me?
listen to me!
through her eyes i saw a scream
she was in there, wanted to be let

Categories: pictured, absence, addiction, conflict, confusion,
Form: Ballad

And So I Pictured Peace

…and so I pictured peace


…and so I pictured peace.
the lea of the meadow at sunset
meadowlarks chasing invisible bugs,
unfelt breeze riffling the tall grass,
the halo of summer warmth.

unknown to me a battle raged
within the gentle stillness,
a struggle for balance, for survival,
for continuation of the species,
the struggle to achieve stasis.

…and so I questioned peace
and its aberrant deficiencies.
its

Categories: pictured, metaphor, peace,
Form: Free verse

Pictured and Captured Memories

Effortlessly now as we battle the darkest battle with those known as the greatest powers
The race is not won by the stronger or swifter, have you ever heard of the one who is called The Deliverer
God has handed the poor man a  plot out of poverty, And He has heard the cry of the

Categories: pictured, nature, war, me, voice,
Form: Free verse