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...You still expect more running after all works
Seeking for freedom at random to be castoff
You become aliens ruthless mindful of gifts
You care not about blood, the urge for justice
A mask on your...
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Categories:
upraise, anti bullying, art, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Pumpkin Spice Pandemonium
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Its sun is brilliant bright and bonny bold,
a lustrous light, largesse in satin sheen.
Intake of breath sensory manifold,
for a warm, welcoming autumnal scene.
Aurora-colored leaves paint the...
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Categories:
upraise, appreciation, autumn, color, god,
Form: Sonnet
Near Flawless
...In solitude I find silence, in silence I find my voice
In my voice there is song, in my song there is praise
My words near flawless, my ardent aria is Rejoice!
In pneuma I find solace, in solace...
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Categories:
upraise, christian, religious, self, song,
Form: Terza Rima
The Seeker
...Gentility of dove alight and gift
me with your divine insight.
As sister moon in nimbus haze,
her rolling tides do my soul upraise.
In perpetuity I do pray this night
for visions, guidance ...
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Categories:
upraise, nature, poems, poetry, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Blow a Kiss-To Jesus-
...BLOW A KISS-TO JESUS-
Rise upraise them hands
Blow a kiss
To Jesus
12/9/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©
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Categories:
upraise, anxiety, appreciation, crazy, destiny,
Form: Monoku
Childhood Swinging By
...CHILDHOOD SWINGING BY
An empty swing sits there in my backyard,
Reminding of those sweet old childhood days,
When we used to take turns to swing so hard,
When we touched the sky with our...
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Categories:
upraise, childhood, memory,
Form: Pantoum
Nature-Like
...I
the fire
the water,
and
nature...
what's in her?
air,
the earth--
we create;
we
upraise,
we destroy.
she's
reborn
every spring
why
do I
have to die?
~haiku...
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Categories:
upraise, nature,
Form: Haiku
Mischief
...We partake of a sonnet, it soars, it amazes
It can take us on flights that inspire, upraise us
A great sonnet's romantic and beauteous, you see
It is written by Shelley or Donne, not by Stooges, t...
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Categories:
upraise, poetry, romantic, satire,
Form: Sonnet
September Day
...September meets with warm embrace,
quickening the harvest pace,
though looming autumn can't efface
what's left of summer's arid grace.
The linen hanging on the line
dances with the gust a...
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Categories:
upraise, autumn, day, farm, september,
Form: Rhyme
The Inclination of Glass Cannons
...Shuttling beyond the lay
Of the land that may
End at the water,
Splash and fish, tide and otter.
War birds knocking stars from Heaven,
Wolf packs moving, six or seven
Or eight, the modern met...
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Categories:
upraise, dark, future, humanity,
Form: Quatrain
Tears On the Wind
...Wheel of fears and cheers etched tears in my years
swirling me to rumination that queers.
Lessons, I learned streak golden souvenirs
enlightening me in every frontiers.
Imprudent dusts blurred ...
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Categories:
upraise, feelings, inspiration, strength, success,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
My Lost Love
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Numerically, lyrically --- woven and spun
Living the life we were destined to become
Reminiscing about the times that once were
And now 10 years goes by --- it's a wondrous blur
Whether t...
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Categories:
upraise, judgement, sad love, satire,
Form: Rhyme