Short Referenced Poems

Never heard Jesus
referenced as "the late Jesus"
Hmmm, not once, have you?...

Read More

The computerized MAP test
Who could take it seriously?
Not even norm-referenced
A state test, only in Missouri
I watch a fourth grader complete his
Answering forty-two questions in seven minutes
Hooray for him I think...

Read More

Life is filled with tests. 
Be motivated.
With the big man's (God's) help,
You can't be faded.
When haters, hate.
Help them hold their plate.
It's ok to make mistakes. 
Get up, get up, get up, get up and shake,
Till your strongholds break.
Do whatever it takes,
To past the test.
Keep on keeping on,
Forget about the rest.

wrote 6-2-10


referenced from Job...

Read More

In the caverns of mountains pathos fathom
Pronominal passages of perils pleasures
In a serene valley in the mountain sides
Collides while window shopping incapacitated boulders
About to fall measured alluring valleys sunbrite
Creases craving lines vertical I recoup regroupings
Of polarized statically referenced duty
I RECOUP REGROUPING OF POLARIZED STATIS


2/7/18
by James Edward Lee Sr....

Read More

One letter that follows,
  if added will deem

To separate the real  
  from what’s referenced or schemed

“Honor from honors,
   Love from loves

“Truth from truth’s,
   and Self from selves

“God from gods,
   Time from times

“Vision from visions,
   and Life from lives”

The singular, the plural
  what is, what is not

One small trailing letter
  —true meaning leaves off

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)...

Read More