A. INTRO
AMERICAN CINQUAINS Adelaide's answer to the Japanese haiku
Poems
in shapely form,
displaying syllables
or stresses in a versatile
refrain.
B.DIDACTIC DISCUSSION
TITLE completely optional
FORMAT
FIRST LETTER OF LlNE CAPITALISED
line syllables/stresses
1. 2 Long days
2. 4 Of August sun
3. 6 Where nature blinks and shrinks
4. 8 The dying grass,yellowed in sleep-
5. 2 Held fast
EXAMPLE OF MINE -TITLED
PASSION
Eyes closed
As lips caressed,
Mouths joined,impassioned
Tongues explore,in our love's embrace,
Time-framed
KEY to this form- note how line 1 & line 5 make a link couplet & secondly the 'turn' 'surprise' from end of line 4 to 5.
Categories:
secondly, poetry, word play,
Form: Cinquain
Attempting to think
As these reasoners of Greece
If I reason a
thirty-secondly
Of these, that'll give me peace
I must admit this
it is not how I
get my kicks, Reading all this
course material
so prolix, In all
fairness I must bequeath to
give my attention
to my teacher, To
study in waters muddy
Van Til and Bahnsen
make clear to reason
properly and retain a
child's ear, So don't
follow the world
Or seek its destination
By implication
Follow Christ and His
example, there is ample
Evidence for it
Categories:
secondly, philosophy,
Form: Haiku
Wake
The ever present enemy
Overbearing and oppressively
Shadowing expectantly
As forethought always secondly
Two minds hang suspended be
Interrupting thoughtlessly
Relentless and attentively
Aressting so effectively
Contented is left restlessly
Thrashed into docility
Numbing the auxiliary
Concerning such complacency
Overwhelming this tranquillity
Resolute in the obscurity
Abstracting absurdity
With Orchestrated entropy
Worn out by pacificity
Sleep
Categories:
secondly, conflict, depression, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Too many flowers in the garden
I admire all their beauty
But my eyes so choosy
I only pick one
The one flower I picked
I put it in my bosom
So dear that no one could see
Promptly I put it in a vase
Put it in front of my table
So every time that I could see
Secondly, this flower I choose
Suit the scent in my smell
I got air freshener all day
That pampered my mood
Every morning is a routine
To pick this flower for me
It's my love that I do this everyday.
Categories:
secondly, feelings, flower, love,
Form: Free verse
A purposeful Father
has nothing but love peace and joy
for all HIS sons His daughters
Nothing but the peace of God
unto you I know He loves me
because He does
~
I am beautiful first
because God said so
I’m beautiful secondly
because that I am
so we all are
7/2/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2024
Categories:
secondly, addiction, analogy, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw bricks
Thirsty a) that’s a green house
Lee lea secondly
It doesn’t sayKant
Lee Lee Lea 3rd lee
What kinda maniac is making glass houses
Don’t run with scissors
Well unless you want a deeper cut
First is a strange word
Was the first street fir st
I stop at every pit
Let’s start with art street
What do I want put in my coffin before cremation
Personally I want popcorn kernels
Water
A space suit might as well get your money’s worth
We have a weird one in Scotland Beggars belief
That mean unbelievable
But is that not a bit condescending I mean why shouldn’t they have belief surely them more than others
Anywhys gotta go
Categories:
secondly, poems,
Form: Free verse
One is a nameless ANGEL who appeared to the shepherds.
He was later accompanied by a host of other nameless ANGELS.
Another ANGEL appeared to Joseph on three different occasions.
The first ANGELIC appearance to Joseph was before the birth of Jesus.
Secondly, Joseph was warned by the ANGEL to flee to Egypt to save
the life of Jesus. Thirdly, the ANGEL commanded Joseph to return to
Judea because it was then safe to do so. I feel certain that all ANGELS
have names, but to us nearly all are nameless.
Although Gabriel and Michael are well-known ANGELS, all ANGELS
have responsibilities and important jobs to perform. Gabriel was assigned
to the Virgin Mary and also to Zacharias. We don't know why, but the wise
men were led, not by ANGELS, but by a star, and later communicated to,
not by ANGELS, but in their dream. May we mortals have no vote in the ways
and means of God's communicative methods. May God speak to us in His own way. May this Christmas ring loudly with the voice of God through Christ.
113023PS
Categories:
secondly, angel, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
Daily ask the Father for revision
I acknowledge and thank Him for all that He's given
He's giving me life freedom and liberty
He's given to me some of my wants and all of my needs
And we who are confident that He hears us
Whenever we ask for anything that pleases Him
Secondly instantaneously effortlessly in the moment I be
Cherish I The prominent the promise my pleas
Holy I am so redeemed I am sure
Crazy and thinking my Father for
And we who are confident that He hears us
Whenever we ask for anything that pleases Him
He's given to me some of my wants and all of my needs
He's giving me life freedom and liberty
And we who are confident that He hears us
Whenever we ask for anything that pleases Him
Daily ask the Father for revision
He's given to me some of my wants and all of my needs, Hallelujah Amen
He GIVES ME SOME OF MY WANTS YET SUPPLIES ALL OF MY NEEDS-
6/4/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023
Referencing 1st John 5:14
Categories:
secondly, addiction, analogy, beautiful, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
I just want to be last your last
Want to be your first at last
I want to be the two whispers in your ear
Want to be the second to say good night dear
I want to be the second to wish you a good new day
Wanna be Your last Love first
To be last first
To be last I want to be a gentleman King
To ask your FATHER'S may I just to be in Your silence present
Just to be in your silence presence
I do love you as You are
Where You are as you are
Now I just want to be your heart
Secondly in part
I want to be the second to wish you a good night
I want to be the second to wish you a new day
All of this is in my prayers I do pray
For the first one to love you last
Be the first one to whisper in your silent presence
Is Our Father God and Jesus
5/12/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023
Categories:
secondly, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, confidence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Good morning Mr. Sunshine your journey's underway
Have you come across any pocket penguins on your rise today?
I'm looking for one specifically, on her I am sold
You would know her if you saw her, she's a beauty to behold
Well let me tell you some things more to help you to recall
First of all she sings like fire, she's brighter than them all
Secondly she's passionate in what she wants to do
She'll keep you on your toes so you'd better think things through
Thirdly, if she asks a question it's more likely than it's not
She already knows the answer she's just seeing what you've got
Fourthly she's so feminine, as womanly as they come
Her tastes are just impeccable, in all second to none
And finally, though this isn't all the things that I could here devise
She's got the most captivating, incredible blue eyes
A pocket penguin yes indeed, but what I say is true
I'd love to have her with me and if you knew her you would too
Categories:
secondly, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
I have a unique talent everyone knows
I can balance cheerios on my middle toes
On both feet, and sometimes off of my nose
If I dunk them in chocolate and one of them glows.
Thousands want this secret from the Eskimos
Does it start with butterfly kisses, do you suppose?
The rumors run in circles tight like my garden hose
Here is the first part, you have to wear orange clothes
Secondly, you have to know two cousins, both Joes.
I cannot tell you the next two parts, said my Uncle Mose.
I rolled my eyes at his silliness, he wears pantyhose.
His stories are crazy, and blow as the wind blows.
Categories:
secondly, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Monorhyme
I should like to try
the deadly art of bow and arrow shooting.
Not with a high-tech hunting bow
but with the sort of 'b & a' you might purchase at Walmart,
a yellow and red one with a rubber sucker
on the arrow tip.
I would shoot at a flying hummingbird
while riding a unicycle blindfolded.
Firstly though I would have to become a
black-belt Zen master the size of a sumo wrestler.
Secondly, but really firstly, I must write a poem
about the deadly but graceful art of bow and arrow shooting
which I think I have now accomplished perfectly.
Categories:
secondly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The self perception of any male,female or transgender is strengthen by a medical report not just by his claim that he is a man or a woman.The claim will have to be supported by any kind of medical report which state its gender (whatever it will be)
First of all the bill refer to,”Transgenders“ and not any person therefore the question that anyone can change their sex by their self perceived will,does not apply here.
Secondly if medically a transgender is neutral,i.e neither male nor a female, then why medical board should assign sex to that person??And furthermore how they will do that??Therefore it should be allowed to transgender himself to decide what gender they consider socially acceptable to them...
Categories:
secondly, books, education, gender, social,
Form: Narrative
The night I sat at the bedside of a dear friend's dying sister,
A poem was conceived in my heart and mind, unlike anything
that I had ever experienced. Words of inspiration were being
formed inside of me in the form of words coming from the heart
and lips of a dying one. Becoming one of my first poems, it was
expressly written in the 'first person' of my friend's sister as if
she was speaking, putting the words within me.
Secondly, the day I realized I would be sending 'writings' to my
pastor, I knew that it was an assignment from God and informed
him accordingly. This was another 'God Moment', a divine encounter
triggered and activated more than 15 years ago. Since initiating the
writings sent to him, I have posted on a poetry website nearly 2000
pieces of work.
Although prior to those two divine encounters, I had desired to write,
never had I been so compelled and pushed to act upon what I had
dreamed of doing for years. There was an urgency like none I had prior,
and it was as if 'I had to begin' and begin 'NOW!'.
080822PSCtest, The Epiphany That Changed Your Life Forever,
Chantelle Anne Cook
Categories:
secondly, write, writing,
Form: Verse
It is a visualizing tool not much more.
That grey matter was not ever meant
to actually see reality,
evolutionary biology never designed it to,
it is a video game - nothing else.
Thinking is not what we think,
brains collates and sort,
they are filters to shut out a much greater view,
brains are blind to higher states of consciousness.
Mind does not see itself in, or as the brain.
Mind is what we are.
What can we do?
Firstly acknowledge that this reality we experience
is a collective agreement
it is pre-wired to only accept
a narrow spectrum of perception.
Secondly, don’t mention this out loud.
There are a million rabbit holes to fall into
and we already are looking up from so many.
Thirdly, set aside some small time in the 24 hour cycle
to ‘not think’ - to 'no think.'
This is hard to do, it may take lots of practice,
for the brain is like a chattering monkey -
just don’t feed the monkey.
Categories:
secondly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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