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FRAGILE VESSEL Broken But Bold Enough to Bounce Back Contest

FRAGILE VESSEL
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Poem written for and submitted to “Broken But Bold Enough to Bounce Back” Poetry Contest, Anoucheka Gangabissoon, sponsor, August 11, 2025.

They gathered like shadows,
the character assassins~
their whispers their weapons, 
their glances a silent judgment,
truth twisted to fit their narrative,
a caricature of my spirit
painted in the hues of malice.  

I, a fragile vessel,
trembled beneath

Hook, Line And Sinker

Broad in the beam
not much of a looker
this crusty rust-bucket
of nuts screws and bolts
is a crabby old hooker
as luck would have it
dolled up trolling for supper
at any port in a storm
she still gives good service
tho' down on her uppers
now showing her years
deep in the scuppers
yet still on the game
fishing by night for a living
not to

the possession of a vessel

the possession of a vessel 
      

a cradle call
a steady fall
a empty cost
and all's lost

a candle care
a random share
a fullness last
and all's cast

a constant claim 
a longing name
a least of more 
and all's before

a costly care 
a vessel rare
an emptied full
and all's pull

a cradle claim
a constant name
a candle fair 
a

The day a poet didn’t die-II: The witness

She’s at it again.
Wasting my ink
staging yet another death.

I draft her crimson melodramas
with third-hand metaphors
as she sips on ‘hope’ like tonic 
laced with rust
and wears ‘moor’ like thrift-store perfume.
I thread her June into 
forced sonnets (poor things),
before her gin drowned the meter
in proofed regret.

Even a pen gets impatient.

Sometimes she pauses,
as though it might save her—
I

The Empty Vessel

When love leaves,
it isn’t a soft rain—it’s a thunderclap,
splitting the sky,
leaving you standing in the middle of a field
with nothing but the echo of what should have been.
You become the broken branch,
quivering in the storm,
a kite lost without its string,
floating aimlessly,
a disconnected dream searching for home.

You forget who you were
before love wrapped itself around you,
tethering

broken vessel

broken vessel 
(autobiography)

older than even yesterday
i wonder
if today i were to write my life’s story
on the back of a brown paper bag

leaving out no important details

would i have room for doodling 
and daydreaming?

i am a broken vessel 
so many parts and pieces of my life 
now discarded

yet those that remain are a shelter
a safe harbor

My heart is a vessel filled with the ocean of endless love for you

My heart is a vessel filled with the ocean of endless love for you,
but when your screams shatter the silence like relentless storms,
when your hand rises like a cold shadow on my skin,
and your words strike like lightning across my furrowed brow,
I sink into the scorching memories of past traumas,
red nightmares like blood, nails of

My heart is a vessel filled with an ocean of endless love for you

My heart is a vessel filled with an ocean of endless love for you,
but when your screams break the silence like relentless storms,
when your hand rises like a cold shadow on my skin,
and your words strike like lightning on my furrowed brow,
I sink into the scorching memories of past traumas,
red nightmares like blood, nails of

PRONOUNCED THE VESSEL DEAD-

The bright in the daylight beacons shine;
Beating hearts no longer a lined;
The doctor M.E. has pronounced the vessel dead;
Sorely he bled out after being pierced in the head;

Now a corpse no longer shall he rise
His spirit now with Father-God

04/03/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©

Life as a Chosen One

Living in a world, I know I don't belong.
Wondering if I did something, to cause this wrong.
Feeling deep inside, my life was never meant to be mine.
Always searching for answers, I cannot find.

Living 61 years, upon this beautiful earth.
Learning recently, my life was blessed since birth.
Fighting strong feelings deep inside, I know now I cannot

A Temporary Vessel

That's not your father lying there.
That's simply a temporary vessel from the Lord, a spare.

His soul is in Heaven with his lovely wife.
He's no longer in pain in this worldly life.

He's risen to Heaven to be with our Father.
His blindness and weakness no longer a bother.

He's made new again; he can see, he can run.
I

Silent Storms

A weir holds back the river 
against the flow of the morning tide 
I wonder how many thoughts,
unspoken, lie behind its barrier-
ponderings of love, turmoil, betrayal 
obstructed by the dam of emotional blocks
struggling to break free from their confines.
Like silent storms beneath the surface,
they swirl in the depths of the mind,
 the dam of fear,

In life’s great vessel

In life’s great vessel, we sail on the sea,
Do you trust in wealth that is fickle and free?
False praise surrounds you in your time of cheer,
But when you are gone, your name disappears.

A young man with virtue is cherished and bright,
His knowledge and wisdom will lift him to a height.
Why dwell on deceit or petty

The Lord is my Captain

                                      The Lord is my Captain

            

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