Surmounts Poems

A Harmony

While smoke enshrouded us one crowded night, 
Obscured by grey and ashy sea-breeze air,
Your face reflected flame and sparks took flight,
Eyes burnt-sienna, set a-dancing there. 

Your voice stayed with me, wrapped by memory. 
It played the deepest emerald melody,
To me, not quartet, but a symphony; 
I only wished the music just for me. 

Unknown to me, you heard my singing too, 
And day by day sat listening to my song, 
A quiet audience to me, running through
Each possibility, what could go wrong. 

So many trials, our voices rang in tune. 
But hope surmounts, beneath this glorious moon.

Until Then

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

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

Developmental Progress

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

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

Soul's Surmount

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.

Survival Instinct

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

Sunshine In Their Youthful Morning Song

Find sunshine in their youthful morning-song.
The prayer within a child’s heart soon to bless.
Transported on angelic wings so strong.

Today, the young are victims of much wrong.
Children's laughter is a pure-felt happiness.
Find sunshine in their youthful morning-song.

Each day with rapid pace youth moves along
desiring of a future with success.
Transported on angelic wings so strong.

They grow so fast that quickly childhood’s gone
as parents reminisce when times were best.
Find sunshine in their youthful morning-song.

All parents hope their child surmounts the throng
and pray their offspring overcomes the rest.
Transported on angelic wings so strong.

One day to these a new life will belong.
As parents may they pass this vital test…
Find sunshine in their youthful morning-song.
Transported on angelic wings so strong.

Surfing Grandma

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.

Wheel Chair Up the Sky

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--Image

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
                                 ~2-~

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!

Gallivanting Geisha

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

Harpooned

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

Mammoth Drift

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-

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

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