To fly away, now i await
to leave our family’s nest;
adventure I anticipate,
this life, a major quest.
Homesickness meaning nothing,
I venture day by day;
as time surmounts to something,
my heart begins to ache.
It’s only for a season
that I will travel so;
For my family until then,
my love I hope you know.
Away on a wheelchair
no fear on his face
my special child triumphs
to win trials’ race.
He zooms for improvement
along growth delight
and surmounts hindrances
to soar midst faith-flight.
By his transport freedom
he moves well with zest
Driving persistently
to reach success crest.
Praying with thanksgiving*
grateful for God’s care
my child sweetly hugs me
to show his love’s share.
*Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
July 18, 2023
1st place, "Away in a Manger Contest Re run" Rhyme Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by JAN ALLISON; judged on 7/31/2023
Diagnosed with cerebral palsy blight
To progress toward retrogression strain
Our special child was spastic day and night
Struggling along restlessness’ grievous pain.
His global developmental delay
Marked by seizures that caused wearying shake
Made us constantly alert all the way
Aiding him, compassionately awake.
He is now fourteen, showing milestone leap
Driving wheelchair amidst triumphant zest
Learning much along good hygiene to keep…
His orphanage life proves miracles’ best.
God's love* surmounts disability’s need
With caring kindness, heart is surely freed.
*1 John 4:16 - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
May 23, 2023
1st place, "Sonnet" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Sotto Poet; Judged on 6/12/2023
Edited on June 13, 2023
Desire And Ability
Miracle Man
5/13/2023
Occasionally I front days filled with endless futility,
When no measure of desire surmounts my lack of ability.
But persistence often takes me further than talent ever would,
and I’ve accomplished things beyond what I dreamed I could.
Ability is what you’re capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
My quenching heart does wholly yearn tight grasping,
With brazen lust, my soul surmounts thy figure,
I fully drenched in fervid sweat whilst gasping,
As passion’s peak mounts, endless dreams of vigor.
Stuck in a burrow dug in fallow land of dismissal,
l don’t know what in notion foundation of thing
humans with insight think as art of living,
conspicuous within sanctuary of soul.
Survival fight throws sordid living into dark abyss,
rupturing frail scaffold of my transitory tomorrow,
shards thrown in ruins of dismal instants,
I can’t run away from sucking chasm.
Failing to find way of flight I try to light lamp of aim,
and light up ambiguous last strip of dark path,
survival instinct within gloomy nook of my mind
prompts to crawl calmly to doorsill of coming days.
As vivacious today surmounts spasm of agony,
turning living spirit into a flash in dark night,
and at dawn into chromatic rays of rising sun,
limits of blissful soul surpass bounds of infinity.
_______________
January 14, 2023
Letter omitted : E
Contest : Lipogram
Sponsored by : Emile Pinet
Defying mental blight of old age plight
Grandmother surmounts life's tides with no fright
See her surf midst glee
Facing waves of sea...
Let's hang her picture marked by blest faith*-flight.
*Matt 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt...
July 18, 2022
3rd place, "Limerick" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Lisa YY; judged on 7/18/2022.
Behold the wheel chair flying high
To reach the clouds with freedom zest
My dear special child makes it fly
His goal is reaching God so nigh
While meeting Him in heaven’s crest.
For venture to celestial height
My son does gear for starry race
Propelled by Bible story might
Elijah’s great chariot* sight
Defies gravity midst faith brace.
Joyous for his triumphant try
Floating now above worry’s test
He surmounts woes of wheel chair-tie
Mirth-filled to vanquish awful sigh
As throne of God he touches, blest.
With hope that beams good news delight
Astronaut lad shows winning face
His zoom around vast space aright
Now shakes my night for wake-up light
To thank the Saviour for His grace.
*2Kings 2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
July 3, 2022
1st place, "Flight Three" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Chantelle Anne Cooke; judged on 7/26/2022.
CALIFORNIA CALLING
Living my dream!
Surmounts any scheme.
It's like heaven on earth.
No long faces nor dirth.
When your decisions are
where your heart is.
Love finds you, and your
dreamy lightness.
That lightness of being works
like magic for me.
Sitting here beneath my aromatic
pines and the aroma of my beloved
orange tree!
Meditation, music and transformation.
Brought me to this point in
my life's station.
Joyful in this blessed California nation!
3/26/2021
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POETS NOTES...the picture above iis our entrance to the gated, community pool!
It has a lovely jacuzzi and more. Lovely lounge chairs, peaceful place, if there ever was one. Having lived in gigantic cities...this is perfect.
Peace and I get along!
Calling card, heart shaped, scented with strawberry
Dot point offers plant remote scenario seeds
Swirled responses confuse clients, strings tangled
Caught in pitiless draught, swung by fastidious song
Men attempt to measure vapour, mind's desperation
Digs hungrily into collapsing burrows
Tunnel bends suddenly, bright Saint rays blinding
Instilling whites to irises burdened by jutting brow
Bosom bandaged in gilt silk gown rhythms innocently
Kimono openings brush bristled necks in eroticism
Tension simultaneously softens perception
Velvet weaves an inlet, secrets under her cummerbund
Unfamiliar ocean floor coral organism submerges
Carbon crumbling flame surmounts ash, absorbent
Finite fire paralised by Siren's immortal smiling
Fingers deftly unthread rationale, star array unrationed
Mild explosive conceals danger in magic
Moss pubis rises to challenge, a next breath
Taken as death's ultimate verdict, torture of relief
Vixen innoculates victim with vibrant vial of uranuim
15th March
Filtered heart
aeolian mist of Bretagne
as the orange
sun cannonballs into the
ocean depths. shrillness
of sound on shepherd peaks,
trembles down on panic-grass.
sprites and sirens toss’d from their sleep.
the earth violates, the sea
surmounts.
trident stabbed whale —
hearty breakfast in
the fisherman’s bed.
11/22/2020
Make Me Laugh with Some Humor
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Taken sideways, swept as a web strung spider
Sand sugar legged staggered specimen lured by weightless
Drifters soon to be lifted by unruly tide's violent
Fears ditched for the squall enthrall of ocean fizzed caress
Bolstered by booming blue brew, cork floated
Swell surmounts without pattern or rationale, contankerous
Bobbed from below, five foot heads promoted
Bounced jack in boxes sprung from rolling realm rapturous
By tide's untimed tumult, sea steamed unite
Sapphire stew participants simmer, softening vegetables
Drawn to next wily wave, crest conquer delight
Drag of salt soaked slow motion moon cascade incredible
Roaring turquoise rise, crumb humans crafted
Into toys at mercy of lapis lazuli, control's essential revoke
Track formation, tremor with desirous laughter
Brought to cool commotion by compulsion utterly unspoke
26th September
- For Ace -
An Acrostic Storms
Snows and rain.
Tropical cloudbursts cause clouds burst.
Occasional rains pour.
Rains snow rain pour.
Many hits kick flash erupt.
Small whirlwinds sink surmounts as acrostic.
7/13/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.© 2020
Content in my reason, I indulge my future distress
Feckless friends and fiends lie...together
Our homemade misery surmounts
Indeed, we do have a habit of making habits
This Intention for contention is our invention
A fleet of reckless daggers flow from my mouth
I decimate past and present alike
Thus, the future flees from my nearsighted discourse
My dreams vehemently elude themselves far from my sight
Devoid of ambition, I fall from the sky with Lucifer and all of his friends
These means will never be justified
Choleric, we are vexed by our sugar-coated ends
This silence overtakes us
We are lucid metaphors of our former-selves
I lie awake and wake to lie
My half-empty bottle is never fulfilled, and never content
My heart is a home of chaos
A passionate portrait of selfishness
I am a kin to fruitless endeavors
Forgetting sense, I meagerly float throughout this wretched discourse...
I forged my dreams in the mire of regret
The past had not passed me for long
The angel of Death awaits my plea of ignorance
While the sands of time bury my aspiration
I acknowledge my mistakes
Yet, do not learn from them--
Walking backward with Epimetheus off the cliff
My disdain surmounts my discerning heart's integrity
Between me, myself, and I
We produce the same Lie
Gouging out my eyes to spite my mind
I am solely affixed to its lack of fervor
My descent into dissent imprisons me
This island is no longer a paradise
I cannot run from my own mind
But, I can turn down the volume, just for tonight...
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