Surreal Poems

a lazy stream
meanders
under
sullen
midday sun
beneath a rustic 
wooden bridge
regal koi fish
ride
ceremoniously
humbled
glistening
glittering
rippling
gentle flowing waves     



posted on December 4, 2019...Read More

standing
o so tall
reaching
stretching
branches
up and out
their leaves
rustling
in the breeze
glittering
catching sunrays
releasing them
playfully
till sundown           



posted on December 3, 2019...Read More

South of our border has become quite a joke
The world is smirking, can't understand this bloke
Is he really for real
This ordeal is surreal
It's as though Donald some weed he just smoked




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Picket-fenced on the tar-sealed blacktop,
rocks packed, churned, into jungle cover
Evict concrete ugliness, in a rainbow hue
Dip jadeite, and emerald pearls, planted
into dead soils, infuse lotsa colorful croci
Call the birds to move a slumming-static
They will come, for the beauteous arrest
and how...Read More

i remember back in 06 i worked in a warehouse
it was for a store that sold varied things
there were varied staff in several departments
we had a boss who was a real hag and she ruled us
like adolf hitler ruled occupied...Read More

Conflicted, she aimed her weapon
Now she must choose between bullet and bloom
But even in this afterglow
It is easy to kill a flower...Read More

Met myself a coming from a time I left some years ago.
I didn’t speak to me, just smiled to myself as we passed.
I knew from my face the best way to go was easy and slow.
. . . The cotton...Read More

Autumn Leaves Rain Down On Me


fall autumn leaves fall
rains down on me ever so
each leaf touches me


11/26/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
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Strange memories play out inside my mind
Strange voices from strange people deep within I find
I see another world under another sky
I feel another life is there behind my eyes
Strange dreams I have most every night

I sometimes feel like I’m not...Read More

Surreal

So real









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November 24, 2019
F G I series 13 surreal
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And in my dream world I journey to surreal landscapes, to places bizarre and 
strange.  I know the characters in my dream but they are quite out of place.
This imagined world in my subconscious is very psychedelic, and mysterious.
And...Read More

Miss could you lie under this stand
We aren't scratching the words upon your lips
slips the line
rewind
times
some
Words juggle for acknowledge meant
to always means didn't
Scrabble Scrambled marbles
rambles ambles able
to change surreal
Sure real
Cant you feel i'm changing the
rules without a crown
Step across the...Read More

shared a strange reality made from footsteps
the land of spirit being open to improvisation
with existence a fountain of plenty for all
too much meaning too much of the time
is it not true to the self of selves that
suffering to one is...Read More

DISARRAY

Did I ever say that inside my eye;
That I’m not feeling well no not at all;
Behind my mind I see swirling colors flowing
Floating projectiles of reds, oranges, and grays glowing;

Which in no way should be behave, streams of Disarray;
Just a...Read More

in the ocean, there is darkness
intertwining waves of navy and
pitch black
swallows up the space
folds and twists
curls and coils
into danger, we fall!

in the ocean, there is light
sparkling currents of cyan
and aquamarine
flutters in the crevices
shines and flickers
washes over me
into beauty, we go!
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On Christmas Eve when the children are finally asleep, a blessed silence hovers in the air that oozes with divine melody. I have to gasp as I look out my window and find a new dusting of snow glistening in...Read More

Six. That's how many days, then weeks, then months of power but now those six months have turned into six hours, six minutes, six seconds ago.

I've had people confide in me but still mine I won't show.

I think I'm ashamed?

Embarrassed?

Maybe...Read More

"Dream Swimmers"



Jack of Hearts
Played his sleeve
Violins, no less,

then, 
pebbles thrown at windows
3:33

Love Lifted a Page
to another story

Dream Swimmers
Crossing Deep Oceans
with strange tides

Entranced
in the 
Sleep of Arden 

Love Lifted a Page
to Lake of Magic
a City All Golden

Fingers touched
entwined in the 
Sleep...Read More

The Night Hawk

Whom shall I tell my tale of woes?
who shall sing with me 
my song of oblivion
the evil that descended hearth-stead,
in the tail of a winter night,
swooped upon us like a bald eagle,
as vicious as a hungry wolf,
raped my...Read More

Its meter and rhyme, delicate and sublime,
 fantasy surreal, personal appeal;
a couplet, quatrain or quintain, try them all in time
 but gather close to your heart
 the best way your words depart;
what could be bio, ballad, sonnet best
 as we...Read More

Surreal how just a faint 
touch can make you melt
or the stroke of fingertips
can incite chills down 
one's spine
How a mere kiss 
leaves your entire 
body unsteady
a whispered word 
breathed into your ear 
can send vibrations through 
your essence leaving...Read More

Thinly lined eyelids seal the window to his soul.
His cheeks sink in, countenance concealed and dull.
His still lips wrinkle down to a frown, without tone.
With undoing infirmity, his breath has turned to stone.
Feeble flesh has overtaken the strength that he...Read More

There are no circles 
in life...yet, history 
does seem to repeat itself, 
entering in and out the
same doors of experience—
though each house swept clean 
they are never
fully sanitized.

We are lineal
(my apologies to Einstein)--
past can be viewed, analyzed 
but when observed...Read More

I rose from my couch unhappy, as one of the dead, 
Repose reluctant to join me, 
My window shades enticed, to display a truth
So unnatural to refuse, I did abrade myself to look
There! 
A black and white film alighting on...Read More

Intimation of beyond

The attraction of the twilight firmament in a hazy stream,
invited me to ponder on the meadows of this timeless esteem.
Where this rotating light is a constant reflection by global sight,
apparel of celestial confinement in each moment of light.
Like...Read More