A-mid shared thoughts,
shuffled 'cross mortal uncoil,
no central judge;
choices re-sound, choices spoil.
Principles form an unspoken pact,
reciprocity in action, a silent (re)act.
In trans-action of duties, a treaty defined,
acknowledgment, values, (re)flections, they bind.
Not a-lone acts, rather sharing confessions,
indices echo (echo) moral impressions.
Choices ripple ~ a moral surge ~ ennui overtakes,
no single emotion can play ducks-and-drakes.
In life's upturns,
steepening truths subtly heaved,
concrete reverbs, in every gesture, conceived.
Categories:
vertu, crush, endurance, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Mon chéri,
je t'aime Tu es toujours vrai
Et je suis soumis
Par ta vertu
Sainte fille du Seigneur
Je t'adore et je t'aime
~
My darling,
I love you
You're ever true
And I am subdued
By your virtue
Holy daughter of the Lord
I adore and love you
6/7/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
vertu, appreciation, for her, how
Form: Light Verse
Across the River, West 'tis that
at the cliffs & clefts of Victoria above
blackish waters slick as Legislation, of Verrazzano
& not-so-merried ferries, the promontory sits of
visage, resplendented of red deer & red bear &
white Eagles' scat from Lady Liberty!
Why, in the glare of where, opossum
& red squirrel, vied in-passioned
imposters of small virtue in deed
sought, wrought of purloin
for some vertu & bijouterie
for Manhattan!
(The Chief Islander) - so the Mythic goes!
But hey!, it's up-on the BigScreen, now
playin' @ The Bijou, & in the dutri-plexes
& plexes of plexiglasse &
MegaPlexes of Tribeca, in the Tri-boros+2...
Avaunt! Above Verrazzano visage
tramontane, there! the Filth & Flair
of City fare, miasma which got us into
insouciant Dutch!
Categories:
vertu, allegory, history, native american,
Form: Prose Poetry