Short Bottle Green Poems

How sunlight turns everything green – 
emerald grass on the headland, 
bottle-green of undergrowth and shadow, 
verdigris of shallow water in the cove, 
moss-green of tidal pools.

But oh, the browns – auburn, russet, 
cinnamon – shades that render 
sea and land, as painted 
by this morning’s artist sun-brush, 
so much greener....

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Seemingly floating along the bank
Where the river turns to bend
A bottle of green with cork atop
Thrust from the owner's hand
Crumbled paper brown with age
Scribbled words donned in haste
Hoping to find a permanent place
Where meaning has no end
Foam swept tides reaching up
High upon the shore-
To carry back the bottle green
And float forever more....

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Bottle a vase Full of Flowers Picked from the Hillside - A Haiku

hillside steep flowers 
green bottle stands placed in vase
flowers picked placed

all arrangements in
inside of a bottle green 
swimming in water

while outside all’s wild
betrayed by birds steep flowers
they pick, pollinate





8/4/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2019...

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Moon of the night,
I wish you could sing
You're indispensable to my being,
You guide me through this land,
of sparrows and nightingales,
over the bottle-green grass,
rain or shine or snow;
You're there every night
and the wrens sing to you, 
contemplating you
and pondering on their thirst; 
and in your eyes they see, 
a lovely face, 
for you have a face, 
like all moons, 
sometimes different
but you have one face
A face that illuminates....

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