Driving to nowhere this dashboard, my confessional
My actions are my own doing, always discretional
Finding clairvoyance in love, most days are exceptional
Honest forthright, there is no reason to be transgressional
Live the golden rule, nothing about me unprofessional
I lead this parade, but not a thing about its processional
The chapter that ended, just a prequel of my sucessional
The answers I found, is reflecting becomes progressional
How I feel does nothing to move the costs decimal
Time on its own will always be a stoic recessional
Undeniable justifiable
Surface with a purpose
Validation shallow
Invalid redeemed
Recessional purpose
-- justifiable
12/9/19
Written word by James Edward Lee Sr 2019
The Futility of War
In every little town
The names are written down
Surrounded by poppies red
The young who went to fight
To do what they thought right
blindly followed those who led
To fields of mud and clay
Where lives were blown away
A whole generation dead
“Lest We Forget”---A phrase from Kipling’s “Recessional”
Balassi Stanza
Margaret Foster Sept 29th 2011
Watered wine from the vine is fine.
Mine is for thoughtful hearts, starts
My professional peace. Pieces of arts
And recessional dues are clues to past.
Vast desert dreams and schemes deem
Me to see freedom pressing on a beam.
Seems as though the fro goes through
Me daily, as Paul and Art sing - tingling
My brain, straining to hear by ear
Their muses. I use my own tear
And fear I'll lose my kind mind. Rind
Of orange off the tree nourishes me.
Deep, dark murky dreams haunt the sun.
It's fun to shine, see rainbows in rain.
I'm slightly insane and vain. I remain
True to one God. Above all else fails.
Blue rivers, green leaves, leave me
Wondering how His wonders came to be.
I drink and think of it all, have a
Ball doing my thing. I sing, I dance,
Romance and ponder. I wander in such.
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