Earthen Quakes
Little earthen quakes
Rumblings of the soul
Missives made of letters
Placed in ordered rows
Tales of ancient ruins
Never told before –
Little earthen quakes
Restless on the page
Telling little tales
Giving it away –
Aftershock upheavals
Pain, that trembles, grows
For the pen that wrote them
Little did it know
Little earthen tremors
Never letting go –
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Categories:
quakes, earth, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Bristlecone
Strong sentinel on high
Beneath a mountain sky;
Called by name Bristlecone.
Twisted tree all alone
With green needles so dark
Life clings stoic and stark.
Worn wood with thin bark edge
Locked to a limestone ledge.
Thousands of years flowed past
‘Gainst snow and wind, a mast.
No sails with which to fly
You grew gnarled by-and-by.
Drought and quakes, you did face
Yet you
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Categories:
quakes, endurance, life, nature, time,
Form: Rhyme
Promises of God In Awe Mercies Quakes-
black blue strata cliffs
skies waiting for the rainbow
promises from God
drowning sea of sins
iniquities forgiven
in awes mercy quakes
mountain forgiveness
valleys embrace my body
seas wash all of me
mountain forgiveness
iniquities forgiven
in awes mercy quakes
7/1/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019
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Categories:
quakes, analogy, appreciation, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Haiku
Brain Quakes
The entire world starts to shake, uncontrollable every which way
A terrible event, first one ever, eyes unfocused, body quivers
Balance banished toward the floor, clenched teeth blood bitten tongue
Ground no memory anymore, though said my body looked possessed
Guttural sounds in escaped breath, foaming mouth dripping lips
Time escaped no measurements,
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Categories:
quakes, cancer, deep, life, sick,
Form: Free verse
Unshakable Psychic Seizures Quakes Oh Man
(no matter extreme global
warming more dire,
then cursing me smoldering
infernal languishing spitfire.)
Shade did adolescent
facade drifts asunder
asper...a major emotional blunder
shielding sensitive myopic eyes
against quashed
then young life, never
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Categories:
quakes, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Makita Iv: Ages and Quakes
Voodoo cryptograms
were the mirrors
alleviating all that is
bred of elementary nature
having spaked in tones
that could quake the bones
fashioning humanity’s frame
furnished by deathly tales
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Categories:
quakes, mystery,
Form: Verse