RESIDENT-
O' there's so much resilience in residence;
People so inside...
vessels, lessons, treasure, houses,
dwellings beaches, farms apartments in caves
Living in dwellings homeless shelters grounds yards sidewalks condemned house trains and boats
Scampi shanty shacks
O' there's so much resilience in residence,
People inside
RESIDENCE
4/16/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025
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Categories:
resident, adventure, allusion, analogy, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Resident Ghosts
"Hello said the Ghost"
I knew it was a Ghost
the semi see-through
sort of a-dead-giveaway
not frightened though
getting on in years~
my own skin quite
thinner, like an aged mongrel
needing a good dinner --
(in a haunting way
getting back to the spirit of things)
becoming transparent to my core --
but it was getting a bit
late, and my
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Categories:
resident, dark, death, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Resident In My Father's House-
~~~home is where the heart is in my residents is always in with God
4/24/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2024
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Categories:
resident, adventure, analogy, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Monoku
Resident Souls
Echoes through the hallway
Of this dilapidated ruin
A stone house made with devoted hands
Ladened once with the life and love of humans
Soft whispers can be heard
An occasional silhouette hazily drifts by
The humans that once lived here
Continue to reside ….
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Categories:
resident, grave, home, leaving,
Form: Rhyme
As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus Years
As a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...
Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradicated rightful breed
of what coalesced into thee Americas.
I experience stir of echoes haunting
Perkiomen Valley, Pennsylvania,
which lands ceded To William Penn
for a song (and lap dance routine)
courtesy Lenni Lenape peoples.
When the concept of land
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Categories:
resident, abuse, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse
The Resident Cartoonist
I am the resident cartoonist
in this residence
My husband is the only other resident
Except for the dogs
and the missing cat
I am the resident poet too
Although my husband wrote poetry first
He has written two or three really good poems
But he likes my poems better
He is a wise man.
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Categories:
resident, art,
Form: Free verse
Heaven's Resident-
HEAVEN'S RESIDENT
I am lost yet found
I dress in my best suit lying down
I need to be viewed this last time
I am related to life yet I have no breath
I vacation here on earth
My job is life eternal
I desire to be alive living with God and Jesus in Heaven
5/6/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
LAMENT
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Categories:
resident, adventure, analogy, bereavement, death,
Form: Free verse
Genesis Resplendent To Me a Garden of Eden Resident Atheist
Genesis resplendent to me – a garden of Eden resident atheist
Avast abundance of life forms
doth snapchat and buzzfeed
a motley fool of indiscriminate creed
resembled yours truly freed
from those scrambling greed
dully sending hotmail google
eyed hungrily ogling indeed
six months later post March 23rd
every herbaceous and woody plant
gets brittle and goes to seed.
Autumnal hint faintly tinges air
finding this mortal
bewitched
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Categories:
resident, appreciation, autumn, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
New York City Resident
I met the rudest librarian.
"I'd like a library card, "I said to him.
"You have to prove, "he said annoyed, "that you're a New York City resident."
I said, "No problem,"
then I stabbed him.
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Categories:
resident, new york,
Form: Rhyme
Resident Refugees
Resident Refugees…
Uprooted, abandoned and displaced;
scattered about in their own homeland—
Irrespective of gender, cultural or race,
the pursuit of happiness seems banned.
These are the ever-present invisible souls
whose living shadows flicker everywhere:
street corners, sidewalks, flag poles;
ignored as if they are not even there.
Not honored to be a vagabond or hobo;
nor a migrant in pursuit of the dream.
Each
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Categories:
resident, america, analogy, discrimination, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
Resident Expert
Resident Expert
Through many of my poems would wade
To see which one had properly portrayed
Central character we wanted to accent
Have others understand what we meant.
At times our feelings end up being hurt
Not considered to be resident expert
Many abilities we often seem to lack
Yet still gave people shirt off of our back.
Looking down road of life things
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Categories:
resident, allegory, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Resident Poem Writing Expert Horn Haiku
Resident Poem Writing Expert Horn Haiku
No money have spent
Expert who is resident
When I will write poems.
James Thomas Horn
Veteran and Resident Expert
Poetry Writer
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Categories:
resident, encouraging,
Form: Haiku
Death of a City Resident
The papers show us
that
people
are demonstrating
about the death of
a black man
who was set upon by police
The cop got off
without any condemnation or
jail time
Was it a case of murder?
Some think so
The tension between
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Categories:
resident, bullying, corruption, murder,
Form: Blank verse
To Our Resident Mr Funny Poet Jack
Jack’s the name of our friend
With him, a joke has no end
He writes about “****”
Gives poor folks a fit
Drives Soupers over the bend!
His wisdom’s coupled with fun
Guffaws you’ll get on the run
Nutso’s and derriers
Hogs and teddy bears
But where’s Attila the HUN!?
You’ve asked that things be kept light
What of us lost in the night?
We all need
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Categories:
resident, funny, tribute, funny,
Form: Limerick
Your Resident Clown
I love to laugh no question bout that
Clowning and being absurd
D'ya hear the one bout a girl and a sailor
Limericks got lotsa bad words
How is laughter defined in the dictionary
Beside it, there's a picture of Jack
With a cute definition that reads like this
Very nice but a bit outta whack
Sure don't appreciate that nasty last line
May
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Categories:
resident, funny, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
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