Wayward Poems

Abandon the wayward ego

Cravings of lower mind repulse ~
Follow only the truth impulse
            ~ quote by poet


Ego but serves our body-mind
But we’re not this form, we’re not this 
Who we are is love, light and bliss

Pursuit of lust makes us unkind
Let not feral instincts prevail 
If we choose love, we will not fail

Why do we wander like the blind
Embrace one and all, friend and foe
Repay now debts of love we owe

Exit oh hermit, ego’s bind
Focus on growth of soul alone
With mindfulness, consciousness hone

Let’s be with our conscience aligned
We heed it when our heart has thawed
Know dear child, it’s the voice of God

Ego but serves our body-mind
Pursuit of lust makes us unkind
Why do we wander like the blind
Exit oh hermit, ego’s bind
Let’s be with our conscience aligned

Wayward Son

Wayward son
lost in the maze 
of fleeting days
following a path
of wisping wind
and whipping flame,
a labyrinth 
of choices lost
in shadows,
seeking destiny
on shifting sands.

The Wayward West

There's a trail that takes you everywhere.
Just be patient, that trail will get you there.
Up ahead, there is the town of Everywhere, USA.
When I got there, there was nobody.
I wanted to know where there was action.
So there was nobody to ask.
Nobody said that it's down there in the center of town.
When I got there, there was nothing.
Nothing said that the center of town is up ahead.
He said when I get there, just go right around the corner.
That is where the place action will be.
So there I was.
I finally made it here.
In the center of town, standing by the saloon.
Just Go Right Around the Corner.
There was Action.
Prettiest little thing you've ever seen.

WAYWARD SOLDIER THE WAR'S OVER-

Saw my heart beats passion Burns
soul denied heart is torn
Minefield would forgetfulness
Spirit filled with loneliness
How where will I go 
the last wayward soldier
 no longer going to war
 walking home to his wife and children
 the war is over

12/4/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023

A Wayward Wind Now Guides Me

Breaking my chains
    expanding horizons
  swerving past roadblocks
    escaping cages I once died in

  A wayward wind now guides me
    tousling my thinning hair
  Beads of sweat blind my conscience
    evaporate in nightmares 

  Landing softly on a riverbank
    where beauty's swept downstream
  It matters not where the current takes me
    ~ only that I follow the dream

Tales of the Wayward Hero and His Life

Tales Of The Wayward Hero And His Life

Under the crispy crust was soil that sang right out of tune
its musical tastes, akin to the weather in late June
its melody came from a broken harp hiding upstairs
most of all the hero loved going to the state fair
with a torn raincoat on and a dear whiskey bottle too
all the while he was broke with his month's rent long overdue
The hero laughed and always said, "Life is for good fun"
Said that too, just before he shot his head with his friend's gun.

Robert J. Lindley, Sept 3rd, 1981
Rhyming short

A Wayward Wind

I feel the wayward wind,
Whispering incessantly to me.
It comes unbidden but then
So many events come unbidden.
The wind promises me an afterlife,
It threatens death forthwith.
I dare to walk forward,
Meet my ultimate dreadful destiny
Be it sorrow or love
Success or mere defeat.
The path is etched too murky,
The horizon is masked in gloomy mist
Hidden from me with such painful cruelty,
With sinister shadows and shameful secrets,
Neurotic dreads and bitter tears.

Wayward Mercy Grace-

Wayward so
Mercy held
Grace hold, God’s heart
Held is the soul
Holy of holies
Marcy’s grace Hallelujah



8/8/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©

Wayward Spirit

Wayward spirit.
If you love me 
Accept me for who I am
Am wayward they say 
Yes I am I can't deny it 
I can make you smile laugh out loud 
Yet I can also make you cry 
Cos am who I am
I learned in the hard way sometimes
Do you expect an angel from 
The ghetto
So am wayward yes I am
When you say you love 
Accept me for who I am 
Am not perfect 

Wayward spirit
My woman is in love with me 
She say she loves my soul 
She says my words are strong 
That why she love them
Am nasty and she loves it 
She love my vibes 
Despite am wayward 
You are different she says 
You are my kind of man
She sings to a wayward soul
Like me 
I love you always she says 
And that keep me royal
To her soul 
Despite am wayward
Yet I got love 
The trials of life couldn't change this
The circumstances of my up bringing
Never stop me from feeling
Cos personally I love life despite my 
Wayward spirit

Wayward Soul

Woeful wandering wayward soul
Hither-thither you go to a place
so lonely and cold

Dwelling and sometimes reveling in
a sunken place
Hither you go, leaving
a dark trace

Wandering and wavering, so capricious
Aimless and shift less, so pernicious

Traveling this plane
in search or maybe not
But during this course what
surely can be seen is pain

Rest wayward, soul, won't you?
Salient feeble eyes speak so much
longing for a moment to see anew

On the nature of daylight
So entropic!
The crushing blows of thunderous
midnight

O, somber cello playing as the
piercing violin harpoons the heart

In search of refuge and a new start

Strings of melancholy so dark and cold
Void of light, what 'was' remains old

No rest now ends and begins to fold
A vessel of unrest, old, weary wayward soul

The Human Rights of a Wayward Woman

Even if she were a whore
With a visible moral sore:
The licentious from her jaw,
Largely The Deprived or poor, 
A fool seeming to the core,
On all days A Bore  
But broke A Toothless Law,
You mustn’t her on paper draw, 
On her invective pour 
Nor bang on her door…

These, a raising of dust and more,
For The Law silly defenses would floor.

Wayward-Thinking Lover

Once was a smart, forward-thinking young lady in Gloucester
Her wayward-thinking lover she summarily oustered
Since his libido he couldn’t control,
Ceremoniously, he had to go
And soon, thereafter, he became a carnival rouster.

written December 4, 2021

Wayward Dear Heart Would You Love a Such As Me-

WAYWARD DEAR HEART WOULD YOU LOVE A SUCH AS ME-

1.>I can’t stand it;
Oh, that I love you so much;
Even though you don’t know it;
And yet in the basics of God we trust;

I can’t understand, why I won’t tell you;
That I wonder, love and adorn you so;

if my soul does trust God
If my spirit so does move;
When will my mouth and my brain come together?
   And I ask you would you be mine forever
Would you love a such as me
Darling

~

2.>I can’t receive it;
Oh, that I haven’t yet;
Told you just, a loud verbally how I feel (how I felt);
And yet it is so known in God do we so trust

I can’t understand, why I haven’t told you yet;
How much, how that I love you so;

Let have I verbally cried out how much I love you?
Darling Oh! 
I can’t understand, why I won’t tell you;
That I wonder, love and adorn you so;

If my soul does trust God
If my spirit so does move;
When will my mouth and my brain come together?
   And I ask you would you be mine forever
Would you love a such as me 
wooh oh a oh oh
Darling


12/2/2021
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©

My Wayward Thought

MY WAYWARD THOUGHT

My wayward thought
It streams into my heart…
Uncontrollably,
Like a turbulent sea,
Tossing back and forth.


My wayward thought visit me
Even at the Church!
Right there on the altar!
Even when I lift my voice to God
In worship…
I just couldn’t help it!
My heart is greatly deceitful.

I have been transformed…
I have been sanctified
Washed and purified
The HolySpirit bears me witness!
So why couldn’t I hold my wayward thoughts  into captive?

A ray of light…
Seeped into my heart,
Gently as the dawn of a new day.
And at the glimpse of the light,
The darkness evaporated!
Then it dawn on me…
Exactly what my heart needed…
Sanctification of the WORD!
My heart needed to be sanitized…
Only by the Word!



Daily renewal of the Word
Gave me power over imaginations,
Power over arguments…
That exalt itself against
The knowledge of Christ!
Then the Word became a shield,
For my fragile heart.

Fierce arrows of wayward thoughts,
Shot angrily at my heart!
It couldn’t penetrate!
My  heart has been shielded
By the Word!
Oh yes, shielded and protected,
Only by the Word.

©Ayeni Oluwatosin

Wayward Weathering Flowing Streams-

glisten flowing streams
ravishing the hillsides wide
floral green valleys
~
cascading waters
soothing the land marshes grass
weathering wayward


9/22/21
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021

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