Mutant metronome’s
stygian riddle
inscrutable fixation
spuming
clustered clairvoyance
honing snoopy
quest querulous
quicquidlibet
tamper connived
sinewy stratagem
plimsoll plot
“sneaker” of
wily webfooted
nefarious nudge
at
tenebrific toll
maple smoke
screen screed
clandestine
cobwebs cohere
mohair marinated
muddle
subdued thespian
herringbone hoodwink
skewed camouflage
perused pearl
inveigling
skulduggery rife
underscored cadence
persuasive
percussive rattle
ubiquitous underbelly
prop to
dodgy dialogue
muted ritardando
silhouette streak
dangling magnet
mired in
gauche guesswork
subterfuge sciophobia
inkpot
amorphous machination
fiction wizards
emblazon
indices incipient
embryo empiricism
mouldering
cabinet coterie
spookish svengali
minatorial
repercussions
incurvate
sniffer dog
detective
poirrot’s prognosis
clouseau contingency
that
rivetting mystery
A wrestling River
has run its cause
A quick recce
and all is sorted
Be not a Miner or mariner
for promises they cannot meet
The spite of the bitter leaves
up to the knee
With a scheming
and storm in a teacup
I was thinking too fast
With a sinking of peculiarities underscored
Jacob has drawn my blood
but with a wink and a guile
perhaps we can grin
après moi le deluge
For the love of her I’ll first ask Father God.
Oh! My soul rejoices
I am honored by her help
And ever thankful for her presence
Ahh, a sense of deep reverence
Ahh, a special person in my life
Ahh, seeking Father God’s guidance and wisdom
To a commitment honoring cherish life
My souls so rejoicing
Such a sense of honor underscored
She has a ever blessed honored impact on my life
I thank God for her
For the love of her, thank you God
Such soars my soul rejoice
High on eagle’s wings I fly
Embraced by my Father in the sky
I am honored by her help
A help mate she is
An ever present blessing, thankful present she is
7/22/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
I'm a divine catastrophe, an unplanned event moving
through time & space
A wormhole opened & I emerged from a one on one
cosmic interface
Space & time are as relative as any fact, but I know we
exist with all forevermore
I've come & gone at will under pain of death to live a
life of pain that's underscored
I perceive the world from a higher perspective so I'm
able to see & draw the lines
This overstanding is internal guidance within a broken
system that inner stands borrowed time
Rewind the lines to consume the words with a hungry heart
& listen with starving ears
I'll be judged by a constructive God but won't accept the
judgment from any of my peers
Be free of the fear of controlling chains that attach themselves
to mind & soul
You can't be bound if you know you're as free air & it's you
that's always in control
TENSIONS
virtues
or flaws
underscored
&
restrained
then
reined-in
an
alternation
of
restraint
in
motion
a
versatile
satire
of
mood
in
poignancy
&
grace
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FACADE REVISITED
such staggering
dedication
exhaustive yet
reverent
an
annotated outing
in familiar territory
the vedute
minutely rendered
a souvenir
to amuse
at a level
so impressive
in
perspective
a reflection
conjured
from
subtle places
& underscored
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QUEST
unrest
by choice
thraldoms held
dear
bought or sold
rights underscored
equivalence
in kind
a
moral plea
tendencies sustain
the hapless
&refute
&come untied
then
takes
its toll
conspires
to liberate &
to disband
tumbling
down
then
faces its demise
heartbroken
with dread
shall atone
before all
the tempest fray
endlessly within
join in force
& shares
tolerance
in
a
decision
& make
manifest
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SIGNS
contemporary
initiatives
innovative
highly visible
a
prominent
exposure
with
celebratory
vision
underscored
&
fluid driven
in a
flowing pose
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Winter begs its cruel reward
despite surviving nature’s claw
And so her face, though lovely still,
did bear the season’s due.
Yet, not just time had stalked her fear
Her fragile beauty underscored
The lines of doubt that pierced her sun
had drawn a bitter heart
Though Spring could lift her heavy brow
for promises of flowers, she could not find
her garden’s path, for even still
and after all
she was a tortured Rose
The Alleys of Virtual Municipalities
By David J Walker
I love walking
the rutted roads
Running in
hidden groves
Through
the residential jungles
the rambling
backyard boulevards
dividing the
single file plies of
dirt and gravel
A straight line between
Picket fenced fortresses of
Flimsy privacy providing
Trash truck Sunday drivers with a
A No man’s land-bound with trees &
Treasures found by
dumpster divers
I love listening
To the feral catcalls
in the last stand of
wildland
Overruled by skulks of city foxes
I love trekking
The pioneered turnpikes
On fast mountain bikes
Riding & reading between
the telephone lines
mapped by
XYZ Municipalities and
The vague virtual realities of
An alley’s informalities
I love the
Tell all tall tales
Of what fails to be
Needed anymore
Underscored by
Overflowing dumpsters
The spirit can never be suppressed
its silent essence roars
No government or despot’s reign
can change its ethos pure
Bottled up the pressure builds,
like Cuba underscored
The rhythm faint but always there
—erupting force majeure
(Deamsleep: December, 2020)
I was perfectly happy,
a singular chime
I was perfectly happy,
alone in my mind
I was perfectly happy,
my world underscored
I was perfectly happy,
my feelings secure
I was perfectly happy,
adrift in my world
I was perfectly happy,
no feeling’s unfurled
I was perfectly happy,
till one fateful day
Now misery haunts me
—in love I must stay
(West Philadelphia: June, 2018)
Pretty in Pink
Far more pretty than anything
i have ever seen before nor since
Read or wrote about or underscored
You are the flaming grass of winter
Blowing across my neighbors lane
That never feels the same
To either you nor i
When looking up at cloud formation
Wishing we we're dreaming
Of nothing and eveything forgotten
That brought us to this point
Because far to scared to face our future
We we're far more scared to confront our past
For fear of colliding on the marmalade sawdust underneath
the Circus Master's Organ
Scared to death of Mother scowling
And whether she would tell Dad
if in fact you had been good or bad
These are the bygone day's
Of a pretty young girl dressed in pink
Dreaming of a white wedding
When we close our eyes and fall asleep,
dreams create a world tethered to our imagination:
where worrisome thoughts melt away like icicles
drip by drip.
And our subconscious
scripts our most intimate thoughts and desires.
Dreams are inked with raw feelings,
often underscored with vivid strokes of passion.
And our mind extends itself
to this tentative world
outside of emotional entanglements:
where hope navigates fate's treacherous waters,
immune to reality's rebuke.
Fantasy dreams show us what lies beyond
self-imposed doubts,
effectively expanding our view.
Like a dream, life is a journey of exploration.
We have no control
over its destination, or what course it will run.
We're all along for the ride:
and the best we can hope for
is to have some say
as to who shares the seat next to us.
OCEAN BOTTOM VIEWED-
On that day my soul grew midstream, midstream;
I threw my Antarctic upon the floor;
They are perfumed from unseen sunken breams;
There Venusians underscored treasures;
Act all that’s from out my heart does measures;
Oceans surrounding submissive pleasures;
~
I heard domestic, marine oiling;
My smallmouth bass, I could not awaken;
Seas crave the endogenous, temps boiling;
Sharp tooth sharks swim for fish for the taken;
Darken shadowed waters covered stricken;
Sea starfish broke dead floating silken;
~
In their stepped a vibratory sea bass;
Shark bite, I crave the saturnine south seas;
An echo from ocean floor hollered back;
Above and below ocean mangrove trees;
Also threw my whiting on the shore of seas;
Was a standout, breakout stout watery breeze?
~
When thinking of underwater ocean
Acts seaweed in liquid torrent motion?
6/4/19
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