Short Unfeathered Poems

tiny crystal balls 
on an early autumn morn 
dew drops on grass tips 

unfeathered birds' nests  
shells around the baron trees 
three are on the wire 

blankets of colours 
brown, red, orange, and yellow 
pathed the forests' floors...

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... the swimmer
swam up the tube
within a frantic assemblage
of other swimmers
pushing
shoving
striving
writhing
towards an egg queen serene
in a womb room needing
swimmers for seeding
begetting gametes to collide
and form a more perfect union as
a zygote only a mother could love.
Fish-eyed unfeathered fetus
eons 
     beyond
           the beginning....

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We are mislabeled as sea birds and should be called
big birds, like that yellow one but we're not yellow.
We never land on land for a year or longer, and we
been told that we have known God since he was a
little boy. The unfeathered say that for a very long
time we're like many fishes in the sea, but now we
are like whales. The few of us left, live in the north
atolls of Hawaii. There's no other place in the world
except for oceans, seas, bays ... forget what I said.
...

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a  song is charming,
And so are you;
my darling
Orchids are white,
And so you're sweet as a summer flower
The effect is dazzling,
as your eyes;
my darling
Foxgloves in hedges,
Unfeathered angles surround the farm
Heads are bald,
And so are your arms.
pretty are your eyes      
the effect is dazzling,
And your smile.
White  of blue is beautiful,
Just like you
As I sing to you my charming song

7/15/19

Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019...

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