Only when my costume’s
Been hissed at with steel
Do my garments ripple in small, stormless waves.
Only when my mask
Has been greased in pale mud
Do my blemishes blend with the sea of my face.
Only when my hair’s
Met a shower of glue
Does it cow to the waves that my fingers might make.
Only when my prop
Has been sharpened in stone
Does it shimmer like sun-shatter left in a wake.
Why preparation
To such a degree
When an extra’s the part you’re most likely to play?
True, when you’re starring,
I’m off to the side,
Doing my best to stay out of your way.
But I have a stage,
As do you, in the mind,
Somewhere my name’s at the top of the bill.
There, I’m flood-soaked
And pregnant with lines
And you’re in the dark standing perfectly still.
Oh, noble strangers,
Who pass through my life,
Storied and nameless, busy and kind.
There in the passing,
Your extra I’ll be,
And in my performance, maybe you can be mine.
Categories:
stormless, character, engagement, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
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Sweet stormless spring time -
fresh breeze blowing freshness -
mating time has come.
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Categories:
stormless, spring,
Form: Monoku
Written: December 11, 2023
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While drudging impresses to cease,
Within the ethereal forbearance of night
And the cosmic vast space is stormless,
From the hour of darkness until daylight,
And anxiousness is ultimately formless
Imbrication is referred to as "Peace."
Imbroglio, languor, and hidden disarray
This parade of nimble cued is wordless
This will never genuinely be worthless,
This is increasing beyond nerveless
This spinning wheel is reverseless,
The periphery of the panacea display.
Categories:
stormless, analogy, bereavement, identity, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Iced feathered snow-capped hilltops
Frozen flaken iced ever squalling over grounds and rocks
Cold cooling winds against the windows
This lady snow capes sub freezing beneath them
Craving eye the sleepy silent snow
escapes on plowed powder
Caring I heard the attic
frizzling smelly frozen showers
Jon snowy tree hovers over me
That weather wise weather wise
Via yet the sun blanks and upper skies
Nature calls sweater winter
Snows on falls from the sky
This is weird and
I wouldn't like having winter around
Here yet son blanks in upper
Partly covered by the winter clouds
Still cold breast breeze silences me
Hearing those wins Sub-Zero burching
Deep into the darkness consorting
Much as I marvel the pliable horror Frost
The sound of snow slip plowing sow English
Crashing together through
Which came gustin gusting rushing winds
I crave the snow
It is a storm that let's snow skate
I crave the stormless snowy storm
I crave the arctic avalanche
Avalanche alarming rate sparkling I crave
Those the frozen drops of dust
Rain to snow falls dew now participates
12/18/32
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Categories:
stormless, allusion, analogy, autumn, beautiful,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Let there be some distance
As day is far from the night
Brother from the enemy,
False from the truth
Freedom from the captivity!
Don't come so close
Where there’s only compassion,
The world of imagination,
Which is unreal,
Improper!
Don't come so close
Where the eyes are flooded with rain
The mind is burdened with memories,
Where grief seems to be yours
Darkness seems to be yours!
Keep some distance
From mind to mind
Eye to eye,
From gesture to gesture
From thought to thought!
Then life will be beautiful
Survival will be beautiful
Flood-free,
Stormless
No famine!
There will be no neglect
No wet eyes,
There will be no arrogance
Or rejection!
There will be no sad departure,
There will be no separation,
There will be no burnt relatives in the middle of the body,
No funeral arrangements among living people!
But still is it possible to stay away?
Is it possible to be alone if you want?
Someone comes in the rules of the world
Forgetting the distance and coming closer,affection!
Still can we stay away?
Categories:
stormless, abuse, emotions, life, lost,
Form: Rhyme
By ways ambitious, and efforts grand, your goals like
tripods on rocky ground they never walked or wandered
neither far nor wide.
At times under stormless blue lit skies
or rakishly brash, bleak black skies,
weather stunts did test the glue of your motives
and fogged the complexion of your progress,
every now and then.
Timeless persistence prevailed,
profuse desire subverted interference forces
never did tangled temptations trigger a variance thwarting your success.
And now a cascade of accolades
where honors mark the commencement of your vocations.
I saw, you tried.
You did, I cried.
Categories:
stormless, graduation,
Form: Verse
Come fly with me, on wings of love,
To a land beyond the clouds above,
Beyond a stormless golden sea,
To a land of dreams, for you and me.
There, in a valley filled with flowers,
We'll while away the blissful hours.
That isle of love, will ever be
A land of dreams for you and me.
Our vintage love, like vintage wine,
Will sweeter grow, with passing time--
No bitter aftertaste there'll be,
In that land of dreams for you and me.
So, on this day of Valentine's
Give all your love, and take all mine--
Come share love's sweet serenity,
In a land of dreams for you and me.
Categories:
stormless, adventure, love, passion, places,
Form: I do not know?