Face spectacle
daunting optical illusion
Parallel mind heart intrusion
Whom are we to judge
Vessel filled with sludge
Temporarily soul devoid of joy
Father remold me fill my void
Upon renewing me mercy grace set me free
8/4/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©
Categories:
spectacle, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, conflict,
Form: Free verse
dreaming color onto gray
dreaming with open eyes
sometimes I think about nowhere, how
I'll never see that same
woman walk that particular way
down that street donning those same
shoes with that easy smile
again slowly etching lines
collect in turn their tears, as sodden
woodwork of a loose-tied paddle boat
catches rain grows weak but
what a spectacle she is in the fog!
light shifting by the hour, pooling
round ever-drifting terrain tell us
new tales that seem familiar
(all is revisionary collage-work)
laughter carries the growing
light-weight of nothing as hours
fold into years scramble your eggs
savor the spectacle of the untitled
unfolding (to out itself) by every
method the disarrangement of your things
(I'm thinking of socks painting floors
but just the right dosage, how
the sound of rain is glorious, soft moans
that slip from your mouth when...)
Categories:
spectacle, peace, time, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Learn to cuss with class,
that way you don’t need a filter;
Sail off my Captain!
Embrace that stormy sea of
superlative spectacle.
Categories:
spectacle, emotions, feelings,
Form: Tanka
Silver skates
the slash of ice
Fisticuffs ~
fool's paradise
Categories:
spectacle, sports, surreal, violence,
Form: Rhyme
I see a rotting occlude on the drywall in my attic at the peak of the ceiling beyond the walls veil for outside of it I came as a worm in a large world at the very core of a rotting apple only being who I am to be cast out as an abomination hoped to be dead but I want to heal everything escape this dreadful red.
Categories:
spectacle, allegory, depression,
Form: Free verse
My green autumn, you goaded me to write.
I love the way you sparkle, shake, and hurl.
Conquering my mind day and by the night,
Always musing about the shorn kiss curl.
Let me approach you with a square crowbar.
You are more snowy, magnetic, and bright.
Light storms whisk the twiglets of October.
And autumntime has a quiescent sight.
How do I love you? Let me deem the ways.
I love your brickle birds, kindling, and leaves.
Thinking of your fine brushwood fills my days.
My zeal for you is that upbeat reeves.
Now I must away with a frozen heart.
Memorize my posh terms whilst we're apart.
Written: October 17, 2022
All Hallows' Evening Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: craig cornish
Categories:
spectacle, autumn, beauty, garden, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
Spectacle of lights,
I’m a washed up disco ball;
When you broke me I shattered,
electrified the floor;
Now all anyone can do is dance.
Categories:
spectacle, dance, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Exuberant morning...
is helium framework
sparkles repertoire
sun vertigo.
delirium of light !!
Categories:
spectacle, allusion, appreciation, beauty, extended
Form: Light Verse
Specks on the window look like seagulls.
Almost as though flying eagles.
Categories:
spectacle, imagery,
Form: Crystalline
mind boggling event
monster trucks growling noises
head spinning wildly
written May 4, 2022
Categories:
spectacle, adventure,
Form: Senryu
A face with the bitterest frown,
For long years expecting a crown;
Now in prickly sweat bathed
And A Tongue is scathed …
It’s really an awful spectacle,
Facing no challenge, no obstacle,
As reported by his mirror
Doing so without error;
Ability he’s got and Agility
And all his life no infirmity.
So, why is he, Chief Favor
Facing Monarchical Disfavor;
For long years living for a crown
And it’s public knowledge in a far-off town?
Categories:
spectacle, community, desire, image, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
He is out to spread his tentacles
In the face, of combative obstacles,
And dying to end through a tackle
Any unacceptable spectacle
Between The Rickety and The Ramshackle:
Busy roads he’d started their channels,
Hateful robbers sealing off their tunnels,
Corrupt judges replacing with panels,
Supported subsidy showing with funnels,
Filling stations without towels obliging flannels
Bottled water for user of runnels
His love for dogs at their kennels...
Determinedly spreading his tentacles,
All the wrongly jailed breaking their shackles!
Categories:
spectacle, care, change, courage, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
snowflakes nose diving
like petals of white blossoms
winter's confetti
Honored as POTD on Jan 18, 2022
16, Jan. 2022
Checked with Poetry Soups Syllable Counter
Winter Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
Categories:
spectacle, celebration, nature,
Form: Haiku
Staying at the western brink of the sky
The Sun opens his fiery third eye
A red tint abruptly colours the sky
With chiffon clouds floating high
As bright dots in the blazing light,
Birds are seen on their return flight
Eager to be back in their nests to alight
Down they descend before the fall of night
Shining in the glimmering twilight
The Earth and the sky look a lovely sight
Raining down showers of delight
Our souls are buoyed up to a magic height
As God dips his brush in colours dazzling
Every sunset becomes a beautiful painting
This magic spectacle, we stand watching
Till the last streak of light begins waning!
Placed First
A strand(1067) Poetry Contest
Categories:
spectacle, beauty, color,
Form: Quatrain
flutter butterflies
monumental spectacle
flights of poetry
Categories:
spectacle, allegory, allusion, butterfly, flying,
Form: Haiku
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