Did you go
to the gym
the Poet asked
Or write
weakened
— words untasked
Vowels and
consonants
stay unflexed
When verbs
atrophic
— their letters vexed
(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)
Pumping iron, jumping rope
don’t agree with me
mainly because
I’ve two problem knees
But 16-ounce curls
with a cold can of beer
move me to sprint ~
to any restroom that’s near
Prepare
Stretch
Then lift
Dumbells and Barbells
Up and Down
Focus and Concentrate
Let a Personal Trainer illustrate
Pain and Gain
Results will show and remain
The mirror will show the proof through the efforts
Your clothes might become loose
Body Chemistry in effect
The better you
Exercise in follow through
This is what pumping iron is all about
You probably doubt
Pumping iron will work it out.
Darkness pumping
Essence feeling
a full engaged and centered
passionate heartful full
of feelings engaged
and centered passionate
ever reeling banner bendor
Darkness pumping
Essence that's so tender
nourishing cuddling
heartwarming cherishing
I love less--
the loveless heart
2/28/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2021
Somewhere in your heart it is everdark
Through all its pumping terrain
Red on the river flows
Blood lands ever tart
Germinates the flowers grow
Environmental fathoms start
Red rivers pumping heart
8/14/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
Pumping Fast
Beautiful trees.
Green leaves shadow underneath.
Like a canopy.
A small natural spring.
With natures rocks.
Covering life’s drinks.
There is not much grass.
Much pebbles, trails, then sand.
Birds chirping.
Peacefully walking singing.
Heart started pumping fast.
Just a deer that ran past.
Pumping irony through the veins,
A heart of double entendre quips,
A plasma TV burns remains,
Deceiving smiles upon the lips.
Smoking guns are hard to find,
When they don’t exist at all,
Civil riots flood the mind,
Kicking statues as they fall.
Jumping Jesus on the box,
Money is all evil’s root,
Still, this church it rolls and rocks,
Send in all your hard-earned loot.
Pumping irony feels like heck,
Flexing muscles of despair,
Veins all corded in the neck,
Clotted vessels going spare.
Cartoon capers cause affront,
The offended seeing red,
In return for such a stunt,
Terrorise and kill you dead.
For a true untrue portrayal
Stereotypical and dumb,
In revenge for such betrayal
Blow you all to kingdom come.
Pumping irony of the truth,
In a lie that still persists,
Finds the inconclusive proof
If it’s true that truth exists.
Gather round and all be friends,
Multicultural global village,
Indulgent of one’s trends
For terrorism, murder, pillage.
It’s politically correct,
A fog of smoke and TV screens
Warfare just as you’d expect:
Politics by other means…
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