I wish to forget myself
via mutual fascination ~
anything less, leaves me empty
Sparrows enjoy a certain reputation
For intimacy and hope
Crosby Stills and Nash sang of them
In Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
As compatriots to the morning
Air
With guitar strums and high notes
Truth be told
Sparrows are bulkier than the normal song bird
And not particularly
Pretty
Brown and gray as a mound of dirt
Chirpy jerky punk band
And they have no problem with crowding out
From a bush or bird feeder
Finches and chick-a-dees
They’re kind of a bully
Push around those that are smaller
Who carry pouches of yellow and pink
And tiny symphonies
They clog up my eavestroughs with nests
Right now
I watch one sparrow land on top of another
And the tree branch bends down
Under their heft
Bounces up and down
To their sex
Again
The limb
Seemingly
Waving them off
Or so it tries
As if it’s saying
Get off me you animals.
Ole’ to the bland bated solid baby blue-hued sky viewed
Left handed white arrows stacked pyramid left side two points up north? looks cool,
Forever almonds eyes slanted aligned with cheek triangular faced,
Vivid stares in graced sitting tail staged right tipped black on end looks cool man
Sitting in on rippled lined white background represents layers of snow
Almonds stare eyes of slanted almond wearing coat of candy apple red
Solid beauty is the image blue skies, white evergreen tree, looks cool
Candy apple red forever fox a stamp of my hearts eyes sees so cool man
07/14/25
For Usps Stamps Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
Ekphrasis poetry form only.
He who calmed the stormy sea
who stills the waters
who shows mercy and kindness
a passionate man
who blessed humanity
bringing justice for all
He is all powerful
He is our Lord and Savior
who leads us daily
forgiving our sins
He who calms the stormy sea
who stills the waters
the contemplative
is not
explained
silent
ethereal
evocative
a
moment
in time
displayed
arrayed
in
pensive pictures
the natural
everyday
phenomena
sunlight
in shadows
still life
prompts
invoke a question
what
happens
next
Still suddenly silent shines strongly suggestive it's night sends light away...still
1/11/21
WRITTEN WORDS BY JAMES EDWARD LEE SR. 2021
above the still strand
shrieks of seagulls
die on the inshore breeze-
our twin footsteps disappear
as sunset dissolves
Sorrows secret of blackness
Hearts broken amidst shadows
Tears cascading crying now
All silence that disrespects
All anguish that hides within
Darkness displays deadly sin
Consuming false Nirvana.
...this verse can be read backward...
Blackness of secret sorrows
Shadows amidst broken hearts
Now crying cascading tears
Disrespects that silence all
Within hides, that anguish all
Sin, deadly displays darkness
Nirvana, false consuming.
Theme # 3...TASTE OF NIGHTFALL
May.16.2020
FINISH LINE IN SEVEN
Sponsored by: nette onclaud
Placed 2'nd...Thank You
forest never stills
created from organics
a constant movement
flitters and flutters
whether by wind or water
forest never sleeps
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