"Ravished"
Soft soliloquays
whispered to an
undressed screen
the romance of it all
fever ridden
sent zipped
and unzipped
sensually
feather light
precocious tongues
in cheek checked
tickling ryhmes
let your fingers
do the walking
like long legs
wrapped around
hearts saddled
like hors d’oevres
devils on horseback
sauced, sent,
ravished
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
Beyond The Tattered dreams;
Come the Frozen schemes;
Desecrated and denied;
Truth hidden and then I;
Open my mind up to reality;
Sanctioned am I brevity;
Heavenly purpose without a stone;
Messed in raw premised hown;
4/16/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2021
RAVISHED
Ravished with joy, delight,
refreshes my being.
Releases my tensions,
relaxes my senses,
resulting in pure bliss.
Rapturously feeling
radiant and glowing.
4/14/21 Pleiades R Poetry
Kim Merryman
Checked: How Many Syllables
She was cross like a hot dark potato.
I watch her pace. I cry Hey! what's the matter.
Her screams I've made a bad mistake.
The only other sound's the break,
The issue is old, sarcastic and deep,
But she has promises to keep,
Tormented with nightmares she never sleeps.
Revenge is a promise a girl should keep.
She rises from her cursed bed,
With thoughts of violence in her head,
A flash of rage and she sees red.
Without a pause/b> I turned and fled
01/19/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2020
I fall asleep to lullaby of words
My soul released from care and earthy woe
I fly on wings of cherubs in the night
I taste enchantment in an overflow
The words you wrote caress in dreamy form
They lead me to the land of beauty sweet
Intoxicate me as full bodied wine
Then place before my lips delicious treat
I wine and dine on words to satisfy
The longing in my heart for ecstasy
Each word, each thought a lover in the night
I’m ravished by poetic fantasy
With morning light I wake to what is real
With fortitude and strength to love and feel
Eileen Manassian Ghali
The great city
The pride of the world
Lies in shame
All her beauty has been torn
The world watches her ruin
Her children has all been
killed
By the blood thirsty bullet
of the enemy
The little remaining remnant
Of her children
Walks round her fallen wall
Hungry and thirsty
All the tree are fallen down
And all her oceans and
streams
Dried up
The well of tears in their
eyes has dried up
And their mouth has left
wailing for their fallen
brothers and sisters
They look pitifully to the
world
Their young ones now
Beg for alms
Even the suckling joins to
beg
Oh! The once beautiful land
Has been made ugly by war.
Once an innocent child, was ravished by her guardian
I beseech thee keep not thy yam with a goat.
Ada is a comely teenage with an excellent mind
But to pluck a lovely flower is to kill it
It is not love, no. Ada faced a humiliation unwarranted
Don't force urine down my throat because I urinate
Now, each way she goes, the wind proudly flaunts
High the garment of shame
Uche has carved a scar in her tender heart
With a red-hot iron, even the hotness is like unto hell
All-consuming as it first began
Now she is strongly distrustful of men
Her Heart is yet to forgive his sin
It pains so bad that her heart cries in the silence of the night
It pains so bad that her heart mourns in the brightness of a new day
She seriously wonders what life is
She ask in her heart, why this should be
What wrong she has done
Why at her feet the world should collapse
She wonders if she could ever forgive
A man who took a pride she had consciously guarded.
In mournful solitude I sit,
Locked in mine dungeon room,
Light seeps naught, candle lit,
Remorseful gloom.
Awaken I say, confidential tone
Words not heard, merest whim
Another day, I am on my own
No one answered quell within.
Loathing memories, days of past,
Horizons overwhelming
Ephemeral pleasures, don’t last,
Memories unfold, shimmering.
Anguish abounds tortured destiny,
Mysteriously enraged flesh,
Consoles your nature solitary,
Morbid idleness aspires.
Immense aromatic incense,
Tantalizing at best,
Cover perfumed forest scents,
Longing for your breast.
From within dwells dubious fears,
Demoralizing days,
Where have you been?
Ravished heart dissolved in tears.