A Snappy Comeback
...Little Miss Mary was thirteen years old, and lived in gold, olden days;
Like the longed for future, peeking at past, both of them full of praise.
Miss Mary lived in a western town, with h...
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Categories:
skylights, animal, dream, fantasy, fun,
Form: Couplet
Orphan
...You chance upon her
in the far reaches of the backyard
a place you never go
and there she trembles a tiny tiger in a blurred world
secreted in shadows below blackthorn shrubs
faint mews dra...
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Categories:
skylights, animal, care, emotions, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Fortuitous Journey
...I was a prominent theoretical physicist, relying upon beautiful mathematics,
Like devout gardeners everywhere, rely on butterscotch sunshine dramatics.
Rose days were spent inventing theories, to...
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Categories:
skylights, adventure, dog, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Wind Melody
...Wood's voices are loud, and the wind is weary.
It hurts and hurts as the fall leaves turn dreary.
On the saffron-robed eastern dark tally swarm.
Sheets dropped in a thin line from a ma...
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Categories:
skylights, analogy, autumn, beauty, snow,
Form: Quatrain
The Storm and the Sea
...She sits at a window,
that faces the park
the daylight is fading,
to almost dark.
It’s almost deserted
as people return
to their flats and houses
to find the warm.
She glimpses through rain...
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Categories:
skylights, dark, emotions, feelings, home,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Open the Floodgates
...I scan the horizon as I trounce the arid desert.
Brill trees and a trickling burn shape my stream.
To me, it's as if I'm showing God's entail I querist.
As away as I am aware, it is a ...
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Categories:
skylights, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Sun Rise Hides and Dance-
...twilight glances mid
horizon dances sunrise
peek a boos skylights
1/24/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...
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Categories:
skylights, analogy, sky, sunshine, surreal,
Form: Haiku
Muse Practice
...Music practice,
when I was a wounded child,
felt too redundantly mundane,
yet never merely quite ordinary,
especially within a band
or chorus learning environment
For restoring spiritual
men...
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Categories:
skylights, caregiving, health, integrity, muse,
Form: Political Verse
Autumn Homecoming
...It is time to stray from the race.
Where life has a very slow pace.
The pines in the mountains are inviting.
Where the deer in the field look up when they were sighted,
The cool wind of autumn bl...
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Categories:
skylights, beautiful, beauty, heaven, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Them Is Us Is Them
...Late summers nature chorus
fire pit rages our Spirited emotions
from sundown's silky stillness,
to midnights moonlight yawn,
luscious l4yer cake peace
that fates my heart.
Soft silk...
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Categories:
skylights, appreciation, courage, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Magical Imperfection
...Wind roams around bare footed
Her loose grey hair weaving every minute
A waning gibbous moon raising, at 11 in the East
For the beings with Heart, it is indeed a feast.
Incomplete, strained...
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Categories:
skylights, appreciation, beauty, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Drawing My Own Conclusions
...I'd been caught up in the middle, of one of those awful days,
When nothing seems to go right, with glitches and delays.
I was having a rough day at work, and the boss was now irate;
And all I co...
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Categories:
skylights, adventure, fantasy, humor, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Speak To Me In Clouds
...Grapefruit sunburst, rainbows on fire, skylights of silver stars, black cherry ice spikes, mango splash slides and champange on angel wings.
We are craving the dynamite. We are tasting your explo...
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Categories:
skylights, power,
Form: Free verse
Through the Spaces of Leaf's
...Through spaces of orange and yellow leaves
In day-time skylights of azure blue
Through the blackened leaves at midnights hour
A full-moon winks through empty branches
In day-time skylights ...
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Categories:
skylights, halloween,
Form: Pantoum
All Souls Eve Comes With Horror
...Goblins prance and dance beneath skylights;
Their contortions create shadows as they swirl.
Ghouls are disgusted by their cavorting and
go along their way;
searching for victims to t...
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Categories:
skylights, autumn, candy, eve, halloween,
Form: Free verse
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