Laugh when all else fails
Laugh even if your ship doesn't sail
Laugh when you rather cry
Laugh while you're saying goodbye
Laugh in or out of season
Laugh for reasons or for no reason
Laugh because laughing is medicine
Laugh and release the frounds within
Laugh and live; Laugh and love
Laugh with joy born from above
Laugh privately or in a crowd
Laugh quietly or laugh out loud
Laugh when nothing is going well
Laugh when there's no water in the well
Laugh whether you are strong or weak
Laugh both in wins and defeats
The fight in which you can't understand,
As love proceeds to hold your hand,
On purpose with precision, precious in his eyes,
Keeping every ounce of you hidden protecting your heart inside,
Like a treasure to keep or a door to unlock,
A place to hide when the heart's had enough,
We live out this life with everyone knowing,
And yet forget the heart that's privately showing,
The love that we so desperately want,
That quietly reassures us we are more than enough,
That stands by our side that doesn't need to be seen,
And loves us no matter what whole heartedly,
Sitting by the river
There are lovely urban views,
But it’s more fun to people watch
And check out the tattoos.
A dragon snaking up an arm,
Some flowers on a calf,
An eagle near an elbow
And a wizard with a staff.
A Yankee logo on a neck,
Some words etched on a chest,
A tiger and a postcard with a stamp,
Neatly addressed.
A bird, an anchor and a leaf
And much more, I suppose,
Well-hidden from the public,
Meant to privately expose.
2025.3.08
Happy birthday to you all.
To everyone who was born on this day.
To International women day.
It is a wonderful day to celebrate.
Privately or publicly.
You shall have at least a present if not two.
No matter where you are at this moment,
You deserve to enjoy the celebration.
As you are one year older
You should be a bit wiser.
Did you know that,
Wisdom grows every 7 years.
I wish you could see your love one,
To wish you Happy birthday in person.
And giving you some birthday presents.
Best wishes. Happy everyday and always.
Only in the wretched
Broken locking
Of the safe
I was beaten into
Which refuses
To hide
Privately, despised by standards
Breakthrough! Simple
To be your sickness, in fiend
In the fiend you
Rusting edgework of him
And her and his fathers and hurting
Me better
Thanking myself always
Your cursed reproach of silence
Uncontrolling the illness
People please themselves in the dyes
Quiet as kept,
I crept by the door where my neighbours are sleeping.
Stepped on by,
I think I overheard select whispers of a movie still speaking.
The silent disrespect,
My ears are erect,
Intruding where there’s no right to be peeping.
Metaphorically speaking,
There’s a gate we’re socially inept of leaping.
Introducing ourselves to the theme of silence broken by creaking.
Cracks in the walls where defiance of security comes leaking.
My ears are tuning into a day of the lives of some strangers weeping.
I know their lives behind four walls and a closed off ceiling,
Probably better than any friends and family that they’re still seeing.
The plot lines come with twists I’m privately critiquing,
And I jot rhymes,
Following every line repeating.
Until now,
My technique broken but somehow still keeping;
Pace.
Poetically I’ve now removed my very own base.
SOLEMN SABBATH
(Alone in You)
Father Alone in you
In your solemn
In your ever present quiet
Your peace, love and joy
Solemn SABBATH
Nothing but you *Lord*
Remember that in the quiet, you can find peace, love, and joy, and that God is always present, waiting to connect with you.
2/15/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2024
Scriptural reinforcement:
- Exodus 20:8-11: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy...For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day."
- Psalm 46:10: "Be still and know that I am God."
- Matthew 14:13: "When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place."
Blessed
Happy
Sabbath Day
declarations of adoration
flood the net
inviting envy
perfunctory comments of support
soon forgotten
as people get on with their mundane lives
yet again illustrating
that highlights
are fleeting in the larger scale of existence
moments remembered are seldom accurate
distorted
.............to suit............
the narrative
when things go pear shaped
the fallout is public
and wounds licked noisily
I long for the good old days
when I could burn love letters privately
seeing my hopes for the future
go ...e...
...k...
up ...o...
...m...
in ...s...
snippy snappy sneezy snarly snail
met Melton Mickey, a piece of mail
preening privately in potter’s pail
saying Selena’s son Shawn should shortly sail
allowing alloys, alligators and aliens ale
believing beyond bunker boy’s blueblood bale
kicking kindhearted kiwi into kangaroo kale
amusing snippy snappy sneezy snarly snail
playful prancing pixie Petula Penelope
prancing in a parade beside Patty and me
preventing platitudes from distracting playboys three
privately pestering both Patty and me
We’re manufactured girls,
designed to be beautiful and pointless.
Everything we tell you has to be true,
we feel we can open up to you.
We’re decorated and prepared for sacrifice.
We can touch your tender isolation
and reinforce your inadequate truths.
We can mirror your internal struggles
and help you shape your damnation.
You’ve caressed our powerless distress
a thousand times, with sleep's dark hands.
Don’t feel your destroying something beautiful
You know, when privately accessible
in the darkness of your man cave
our soft, immediate shapes
excuse extraordinary behavior.
That’s all we want.
.
.
A song for this:
Genesis. by RAYE
Time to buy a new vehicle , where do I start
The possibilities are endless, the only I know for sure is that alot of money is about to depart
Should I invest in a foreign ride or one from my own country
So many types to choose from,which one might it be
Should I stick to gas, go electric, or maybe a combination of both
Having to decide on a small car good on gas, or perhaps an SUV considering our family's continuing growth
I guess I have to choose a color that would appeal to the whole family
Should I trade the old girl in, or sell it privately
A decision has finally been made, off to the dealership, time to rejoice
With the stroke of a pen and shake of a hand a new vehicle I am about to depart in
As I pull up to my driveway my family awaits, everyone hops in,we go for a spin
People, at least in the modern world,
Have trouble even accepting
The existence of evil in this world.
But what is the essence of evil
If not the enslavement of others?
And all around we see that happening
Privately, publicly, and
Even within our own minds.
(1/16/23)
CONCLUSIONS
reinvigorate
the
erudite
stamp
of
modernity
&
coexist
with
the tradition
derived
from
transition
to
the
common
phenomenon
privately
resolved
in
a
strategic
pause
I pick up their idle chatter five days of the week.
Conversation with other passengers, I never seek
to learn of a secret one of them might privately leak.
But try as I might, I cannot help but overhear
a new recipe she tried, or the reason for his fear.
Sometimes, I wish I was deaf, at least in one ear!
I try reading my newspaper and ignore the prattle,
but often it's louder than the train car's rattle.
I'm not interested in the gossip of their tittle tattle.
At least the man with the cigar, smokes it outside,
or I'd take another tram. Cigar stench I can't abide.
I live in the burbs, so it's a long way home I ride.
Today, there's a young lady who wouldn't take a seat.
She looks worried, or at least somewhat browbeat,
like the people I work with down at Dun & Bradstreet.
I often wonder what's on the young conductor's mind.
Does he despise his job because he feels confined?
I'm off at the next stop, where I leave them all behind.
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