As I heard a sad
story of a woman named
Elysée,
I am standing to tell the entire world about it.
The woman who knows her value.
As some mercenaries called
M23 entered her house around
a day and foced her to lay on the ground
while looking at the sky.
She listened to them and laid easily
on the floor to avoid to be slaughtered
or shot publicly.
As she refused to sleep
with some mercenaries,
She was hit,
raped,
and mutilated ...
her eyes gouged out
in the presence of her children
and husband.
I can say loud, "
Woe to these heartless
Rwandan mercenaries."
As the women celebrate today
March 8, 2025.
My call to you dear mamas and sisters,
" feel the pains of Congolese women
Oh wise women of the World.
Stand with the women of Goma
and Bukavu who are victims of daily atrocities.
So sad as many women of northern, southern
Kivu and ituri continue to be preys of some rebels
and mercenaries.
The fierce owl preys at night, wings spread wide
It's dusk and the winds howl a warning
Rabbits, and rodents scatter to hide
The barred owl will hunt until morning
It's dusk and the winds howl a warning
A crow swoops down to protect its nest
The barred owl will hunt until morning
The hungry owl soon leaves, knows it's best
A crow swoops down to protect its nest
Rabbits and rodents come out again
The hungry owl soon leaves, knows it's best
In a tree the crow is perched in vain
Rabbits and rodents come out again
Rabbits, and rodents scatter to hide
In a tree the crow is perched in vain
The fierce owl preys at night, wings spread wide
5/7/2020
I originally wrote this for Eve's contest but then realized it is not written in personification form. I decided to post it anyway, but not for the contest.
even when the lion preys
it prays
for a feast, a animal to feed on
QUESTION?
SIN PREYS-YET I PRAY
even when a baby cries
it prays
for his/her mother to constantly nurture them
QUESTION?
SIN PREYS-YET I PRAY
it preys on the innocent
sin does
it preys on the righteousness
sin does
it preys on the good and bad choices
it preys on the silent and the vocalic
ANSWER IS...
SIN PREYS-YET I PRAY
...and what do I prey on Satan git thee behind me
in my closet in the still of the day and night
I pray
to my God
constantly
feed me O Lord
sincerely
Sin preys this is why I PRAY
2/19/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©
Malignant dreams tapestry displays;
Distance calls yet rhapsody preys;
Listen as the screams of humanity;
Malignant spirit hovering sways my chances;
Consistent, forbidding, indifferent pageantry;
Vision dripping of my enigma dances;
Thinking of visions figmented imagination;
Indignant humans and demonic nonmalignant;
Existence, forbidding,
Sufficient, trans shipment's;
2/6/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2020©
an old ripped tarp argues with the wind
the NO TRESPASSING sign trembles
an underdressed scare crow ‘crazy dances”
mocking a city dweller manically hailing a cab
the warmth of the red barn lies to the field mice
offers only the emptiness of progress
sad hollow hope of grain-less silos
silent feathers watch as hunger preys
upon the return of every sunrise
an old ripped tarp argues with the wind
©1/20/2019
Postmodernism’s the fashion ne’er manque.
We must study Foucault and his scribes.
Get reason trapped and do not court delay.
You need to find your intellectual tribe.
Where is the goose which laid the golden egg..
Invented meta-talk and fairy tales?
Which narrative is balanced on a peg?
Which philosopher gets re-homed by a whale?
Where is the whole truth and the nothing but?
Whose ‘ the eye which sees reality?
Who ‘s the judge who makes the final cut?
Where is the God to whom we owed fealty?
Now nothing is what anyone can say.
I understand it’s meaningless to pray
Below:
Vertiginous
fish, foraging for flies
that hover above the water
level.
Above:
An eager eye
calculating, swooping
down with deadly talons splayed for
killing.
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