Teaser-act — LC
What’s alive, dead, and witnessing?
Me—listening.
It’s the teaser-act.
A black cat next to a fat fu**
Skip under a ladder cause I know the origin of clatter.
A four leaf—fig leaf
Screw a few, hide the grief
Streamline my hairline
And unstuck my head fu**
I light when the smoke is thick
when the veil is dense and the clock don’t tick
Like when the omen won’t knock
but the shadow still shifts
And fate rolls the dice
Like the three blind mice—
with a different ending.
They cut off the tail but the rat kept ascending.
While a blonde who*e is trending
It’s dissonance we’re spending
The serpent got merch and the choir’s pretending,
And the curse they rehearsed?
It was God they were vending.
The riddle’s in static,
the silence is pending—
I laugh in the mirror
while time keeps bending.
Categories:
streamline, cat, god, time,
Form: Blank verse
Rain, rain where are you going?
When I said to go away,
My childishness was showing.
Will you stay another day?
It's a silly childhood rhyme
Which does bely my heart.
To so implore you was a crime.
I truly love you - don't depart.
Pound me with thunderous lighting.
Hold me in your raging storm.
Caress me, your wet grip tightening,
With your streamline raindrop form.
Forget those unkind words I said.
I'll love you more than my own blood,
Until each drop has all been bled,
Until I drown beneath your flood.
Categories:
streamline, love, passion, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Many things will streamline you and
Make you think in only one direction
On further inspection, you will
Find yourself in a box and
It will be difficult to get out
There is a world beyond your head
There is a world beyond your thinking
The impossible seems difficult at first
But if you thirst enough for victory
You will understand the sacrifice in your story
The world beyond your head is necessary
The expansion of your character is a necessity
The development of your skill will cross borders
So don’t allow yourself to be placed in a box
Because there is a world beyond your head
Categories:
streamline, destiny,
Form: Free verse
One summer daylight
Horse eats, drinks at streamline
On verdant pasture.
Categories:
streamline, beauty, motivation, nature,
Form: Haiku
unfriendly leaping,
streamline ants hides as certain
at the wind fly flew
to cool for the bugs
just been cold frozen winter
midst the chill insects
stilled some die of cold
only been just a month of
cooling dampen spring
4/4/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
Categories:
streamline, allusion, analogy, insect, perspective,
Form: Haiku
All of life is a delivery room
Life is always bringing things out of you
Life is a university
Places to go and things to learn
The age of the cage reflects on every page
As I engage every word with the pen in history
The lines of solitude increases in magnitude
Embracing a rhyme that reflects this heart of mine!
Though things are not always as they seem
I remain composed, smitten by the banner of my mosaic application
Because the architecture of this adventure mirrors a historical frustration!
The fight with frustration
Will live side by side with you
It will signal and streamline you to your destiny
In the end, all of life is a delivery room
Life is always bringing things out of you in the face of frustration!
Mark Frank
Copyright 2022
Categories:
streamline, change, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Hardly in her dotage, Mary Shelley was only nineteen
when she composed the character/monster, Frankenstein.
I could connect the dots of many a tragic scene,
but we’d be here all night, I must streamline.
She eloped at seventeen with the poet P.B. Shelley,
Mary’s step sister introduced them to her lover, Lord Byron.
The two poets formed a friendship with a Dr. Polidori.
and nightly trialogues of morbid corpses began.
Listening intently, Mary absorbs what the men expound,
Lord Byron proposed that they each write a ghost story.
Mary’s contribution was to become the most renowned -
In 1818, the world first read of Frankenstein’s laboratory.
Within six years of that infamous meeting of minds
all three men had departed from this earth’s pod.
The two sisters survive as my brief telling unwinds
declaring the danger of men daring to “play God.”
August 7, 2021
Sponsor Kim Rodrigues
Contest Name Dot to Dot
a dot to dot based on age and eight years in the life of Mary Shelley
Categories:
streamline, 11th grade, husband, mother
Form: Verse
in it's beginning
all who opposed it sought an end
yet they marked it's beginning as unknown
and found it more complicated to
make quarantine and contain
sickness
those who find togetherness as part of events
and those who abroad in business or fun.
it has found away to cripple and grasp the attention
of those who are in opposition of'it's spread.
those who war are ill, and those who seek peace
are ill.
then might the mightiest of graces
humble the minds of man
to find himself the cure to the sickness he has created.
Chore and thus thy labors shall find remedy
that mans recilances comes from his fear of god.
yet the zealot speaks as he knows each en: and the scientist speaks
as each beginning is the right start.
Man and woman stay true to their allegiances to one another
and the lonely and displaced find refuge in being alone.
calm the shores of this stormy place, man will never have such power!
Man shall find these facts and streamline each difference
and on every shore all men shall began to heal.
and mourn those they lost to sickness.
pray ye this to shall pass.
pray ye this to shall be resolved.
Categories:
streamline, conflict,
Form: Blank verse
Butterfly-cocoon - A Haiku
loving butterfly
a slight, streamline cocoon feeds
watching the flower
11/24/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
Categories:
streamline, analogy, appreciation, butterfly,
Form: Haiku
His dance is a dance of a prince.,
He is tall and very handsome.
He flies on the stage like a giant seagull,
Graceful and strong on his feet.
His costume eloquent and beautiful,
His partner beautiful and tall wearing a costume of gold.
Together they are a rhapsody of harmony,
He is guiding her like a prince guides a princess.
Wishes that I could become a dancer,
The most I ever did was social dancing.
Tap dancing was my favorite,
I used to watch the great dancers.
They would enchant me for hours,
The waltz is a very streamline way of moving.
Ginger and Fred, my favorite dancers,
Mikhail one of the greatest dancers that ever lived.
I went to a performance years ago,
I sat in the audience enchanted.
To dance this well with excellence,
Years of practice and devotion.
Then to be recognized by the audience as their favorite,
These are good memories.
Author Gwen von Erlach Schutz
Categories:
streamline, appreciation, blessing, dance, god,
Form: Free verse
sunny marigold
streamline orange yellow stands
before the yellow
green, stem standing tall
stands streamline orange yellow
beautiful flower
6/26/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018©
Written for project North Omaha Writer’s Group assignment 2019©
Categories:
streamline, appreciation, beautiful, flower,
Form: Haiku
on the love for God
a small, praising bird praising
in spite of the rocks
on the love for God
a poor, praising mankind looks
above the heavens
on the god of love
a free, streamline mankind calls
in spite of our self. . .
4/25/19
Categories:
streamline, analogy, animal, appreciation, humanity,
Form: Haiku
I past my mouth over the cheesecake
The streamline and grand toothache
oh, my mouth hurts
Whatesle is for dessert
Whose pie is that? I think I know
This here girl I know I affectionately call her Pudding Girl
It's baker is quite happy he made more
Full of pie and cake
I give her glass with a strawberry shake,
And laughs until her belly aches.
The only other sound's the break,
She may shout out where's the cupcakes
This here girl I know I affectionately call her Pudding Girl
Of distant waves and birds awake.
The HEART is streamline, grand and deep,
But she has promises to keep,
After cake and lots of sleep.
Sweet dreams come to her cheap
This here girl I know I affectionately call her Pudding Girl
With thoughts of kittens in her head,
She eats her jam with lots of bread.
Ready for the day ahead
Where's grams peach cobbler and sweet potato pie
Now her and I our stomachs in a whirl
This here girl I know I affectionately call her Pudding Girl
4/11/19
Categories:
streamline, analogy, appreciation, engagement, food,
Form: Free verse
Girlfriend - A Tanka Poem
I love my girlfriend
She is so sharp and streamline.
She has gracious styles
And five kind attitudes too
She cuddles; I feel happy
3/6/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019
Categories:
streamline, addiction, appreciation, deep, girlfriend,
Form: Tanka
Spin spin, turn turn,
Hold her close, hold her firm,
Then Streamline away,
And Side Step and Sway.
Feelin' the rhythm,
Music's for livin',
Keep to the beat,
Moves that repeat.
Between pairs it's fair,
To copy Ginger 'n Astaire,
If your partner can release,
She'll look like Charisse.
You gotta dance in special shoes,
So they'll know you paid your dues,
When a song's in your heart,
Your performance should start.
Always put beauty on display,
Leading in Form the proper way,
Hitch Kick and Hesitation,
Showing off, no reservation.
Gliding on ice 'cross the floor,
Passing Twinkles, so much more,
Spirals and Pivots, all you can do,
Stay to the Count the whole way through.
Now you know the secret of dance,
The lady looks good, nothing's to chance,
Affectionate sharing is what you do,
Together in life, for both of you.
Categories:
streamline, beauty, dance, feelings, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
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