A cigar and an egg
(a memory of a ritual encounter)
Pay Papa Death bell tolls
Dancing radiants of fluorescent sunlight
Incense choking the drums
Will it work? Perhaps.
Watch him collapse
That —
Monolith man obsessed with life and mammon
That —
Homunculus bastard born of a womb-less night
White ovum cracked on her arched back
Yellow vitellus crawls down her ass crack
The magician needs it all
Ingest
That Protoplasm trimester truffle
Before the god and his people suffer
Without need of the preacher’s seed
Oh, but the saints doth bleed
And hath bled
And doth live
And hath been dead
But the rite finds its purchase
The egg has been lost
Results are their purpose
But each with their cost
The price thus to be paid:
A dollar for a spell
And a life for a babe
nested questioned
purchasing the opinion
of learning theology, profession!!
that i may decieve thy goodies
believe my suppper platoon, obligations
if capable of escape hatch plan with ^
find science method of acting, ahh gold please
greatest gratuities and salute
many drunk prostitutions for the husbandry laws
various diplomatic african anglo appointments
satire? still not confident in job mask
next trimester suppresion clinique
He's a blue-collar artist supreme.
With a medium of drywall and wet concrete.
He was laid off when Build Back Better lost its gloss.
He occasionally does side jobs... tax-free.
The beard is unkempt; he flashes a tattooed head.
He's donning a third-trimester belly.
That he calls Johnny Walker Red.
It's going to be some time until his next masterpiece.
Fornicator you believe in abortion
Adulterer you believe in abortion
Rapist do you believe in abortio
Father God has kissed your nose your lips blew his life essence
Into your tiny chest He created you
Instantly for it takes God man and a woman to create a human being
Always
Always it's a choice
Yet you believe that at certain trimester life
Isn't life but it only takes an instant
To create
a spark the breath of air from God's own light
Let's get it right
Who are you to kill a life
If you don't want a child women keep your legs closed pants up and dress down
Men keep your genitals to yourself
4/1/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
IT is dark down here & this awful reality
satisfies the ego and frightens the soul
but makes a state of distraction
; an abomination --an abhorrence
for all that it implies -a living organism
as a leaf or a particle.
There is no non-life only emptiness & this filth
whose existence is temporary-- a first-trimester pregnancy
in an animal --a rejected spiritual soul, it is real-
life in simple terms-- the personal growth we are
so ignorant of the brave face of existence --a thing
we will 'never' ever come to terms
with --the vagaries of Time which call to us
'cross the bridge' & walk the Yellow Streets
of Van Gogh.
Hav you never ever walked the edge of fields of
so yellow they smell of gold -- the wheat fields
of Vincent Van Gogh: he was a bastard
to most but greatly to 'self' --> killed the personality
but never the Art
nor the Soul
:: 04.29.2020 ::
rev: 0-10.3.2020 ::
I couldn't believe you just walk out in last trimester of my pregnancy
How could you arent you sorry?
Leave me to worry and stress daily
I hope you bury yourself in misery
Don't you know i couldn't take care of her financially?
It came a day i had to give her up to another family
Hardest decision and pain ive ever felt
Watch my beautiful baby girl going home without me
I felt so angry so mad such a failure as a mother
I hated you with all the toxins in the world
But as i grew to know this family with open arms and unconditional love for me
I was happy i gave life to a family who could not carry
I loved you from the very moment i knew you
My beautiful baby girl no matter where you are at in the world i will always love you.
Always have a special place in my heart open adoption
Hux was more than a bit surprised,
but heard the weight deep in her voice,
knowing that coming here today
could not have been an easy choice.
That she would dare to question so
left him quite deeply impressed,
slow progress, but progress the same,
he could do nothing but say “yes.”
A SEASON OF INDIGENCE
This drought and curse
Of hand to mouth;
An unrepentant encroachment of pauperism
Impregnating our back country
Discern,
Our bigwigs in back country
Stand aloof
While,
Season after season
Millions of Pickneys
Flourish with kwashiokor
I,
A son of the soil,
A citizen of the world
Peruse no light
At the end of the tunnel
Jet age swarmed us with gusto,
An age when birds
Learned to flutter incessantly
Criss crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Ushering in a pretence
In social change
Only to abscond
With it's tail between it's legs
Information age,
Just stirred from it's slumber
It's lazy eyes struggling to adjust
To our flickering fluorescent
Hard drive here....flash drive there.....
Mouse click left....mouse click right....
Still,
I see no light
At the end of the tunnel
Robots are now delegating affairs
Our barns are empty
Our children famished
Poverty is now an opium of humanity
Alas,
Third trimester of harbor, now in labor,
The Surgeon's predigious epidural hype
Adjudged below the belt, still born!
In this mercy red sea,
That beholds me;
I am a survivor;
Maybe??
Swirling masses;
Commentary contractions;
Bodily disasters;
Mama don’t look so surprise;
That you hurt from your toes to your inner-thighs;
You head burns, backaches with the movements;
I am swimming;
In this worldly mass inside your cavity;
Your body now mines;
People on the outside see a bump (maybe)???
Abortion or Not??
Humans say I’m in the stomach;
In this mercy red sea,
That beholds me;
I am a survive;
Maybe??
What trimester……….
This isn’t the horse races
Get rid of that x ray, you can’t see my faces???
I CAN see you’re confused;
This shape you will lose;
What you mean you don’t know who my father is??
What you mean you been with only ONE man??
Liar!!
Mother I can hear you;
Mother I can feel too;
As I swim in this pool;
Which is within you?
God forbids you ABORT me;
If so back to heaven I’ll go;
But what about you;
WILL
I
DON’T
KNOW
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
12/01/18
Time
Times Square is full tonight.
Time's final trimester
Tips on the verge of
Today, yesterday, and
Tomorrow, as Father
Time's temp'ral tradition
Toasts--MIDNIGHT--New Years' Eve!
©deborah burch
12.23.16
_____________________________________________
Form:Pleiades
With her motherly self
At peace with herself
A flawless expression
Of Mother nature’s rendition
A brimming supernova
She’s still my inamorata
Through to her third trimester
Glowing with carefree laughter
She’s beauty and grace
A delicate, but uncertain face
Yes, she accepts her responsibility
A lioness, this she does diligently
Hormonal maybe, I still love my wife
I've never seen a stronger force of life
She's a sensual life giving soul
I’m indeed a fortunate fool
I don't purpose to ask why
When she breaks down and cry
I let her know it's okay
I love you (both), I care
Like the ancients of old
I dare to be bold
Pyramid developer
I was Ramesses
in the third trimester
A king forthcoming
Deuturonomy destined
Babe placed in basket
Growing up in a world
where white was in
gave my heritage
suicidal ideations
Luckily I found me
a king waiting
in the reeds
Blackness stealthy
as a panther waiting
to pounce and confiscate
the ignorance drapped
over me
Finally situated in my own skin
when I look in the mirror
I can't believe I'm him.
A prince, riding chariots
in the wind, daring to be
like the ancients of old.
Questioning every lie
I was ever told.
Getting back to bold.
I am Him.
Divinity evolving
A tiny little purple flower
On a pristine mountain peak
Smiling, with all its might
The peaks lined with
Heavenly white and grey shades
touching the clear blue skies
Looking down from there
everything seems so small
So that the flower has no urge
to become something big
It is satisfied with its miniature stature
Nothing wavers its confidence
Not the chilling water tingling its roots
Not the gusting chilly breeze waving it
It goes on smiling in that brief sunny period
It goes on smiling knowing
it has just a trimester to live
It oozes with beauty and confidence,
knowing it adds to the beauty of the peak
knowing the worth of its being
knowing that without it
the peak would be lifeless…
Champagne dreams,
chaotic screams to new extremes
as I push deep..
Perhaps a little leaked!
I ponder laying nude,
my girl is peacfully asleep..
Jared Pickett
4/13/2011
Asavvy1
I loved her right from the start
Willingly gave her all my heart
And when she walked down the aisle
I could do nothing at all but smile
When we moved into our flat
I thought to myself, that was that
Once we had our home together
We would just grow old together
Then I saw the pregnancy tester
When she had reached the first Trimester
And then came another level of joy
We would have a little girl of boy
Now I may have tended to fuss
My devotion may have been uxorious
But she was all important in my life
So I fussed around my primiparous wife
And when the great day finally came
We still hadn’t even settled on a name
But our daughter blessed our union
And I had two loves to dote upon
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