I fear the shamans, great or small,
I saw one, with long black hair,
In a cemetery of the green Guatemala,
He danced among the colored tombs,
it was inhabited by the spirits of the dead,
Better to keep away from this king,
I have hidden behind graves,
He spoke to the spirits, to the blue ghosts
He agitated a sort of burning ossuary,
He screamed and danced, agitated like a nightmare,
I was for a moment frightened and petrified, seized
I preferred to run away without taking a picture.
The moon began to whiten on the grey pines.
Categories:
whiten, fear, image,
Form: Free verse
When bombs fall
The defense minister of Israel threatens to bomb
Lebanon back to the stone age
Last time a person said this his name was Hitler
If, the nice-mannered Putin had said this about
Ukraine, the otherwise polite Guardian with the
intrepid Marina Hyde would be in righteous rage,
followed by Jonathan Freeman saying that the
the remarks were taken out of context.
Our Jonathan is an intellectual who speaks softly
and has a great vocabulary
I read in a newspaper about the German migration
began 200 years ago to whiten the country
Having been to Brazil many times, I can't say if
the writing was successful, except for the chandler
whose first name was Hans and had red hair
Muslims leaving France because they cannot wear
the hijab, one notices they are not going to
say Pakistan, but to other western nations, that
allow wearing religious symbol
As for orthodox Jews, they were black coats
and fetching black hats, the enlightened skull caps
they also ignore the dress code
There are many Muslims in France the right-wing politicians wouldn't mind if they all left
Categories:
whiten, absence, abuse, anger,
Form: Blank verse
A button a magnet
Oh how connected i am to you
Like a down of a thistle
A button, maybe two.
A world full of wonderful things to do,
I found one like you.
A button a magnet
A few night to spare
Seeing you makes me flar
A world full of funny things in the air
A button a magnet
I just happen to love you.
Whiten the gods above,
Holds all my love.
A button a magnet
It's guaranteed to happen.
The pattern along the way.
A button, maybe three!
Sitting in a tree,
Seeing you so happy.
A button, a magnet.
Oh how Its a bad habit,
But for how I love you.
I'm so attracted.
A button a magnet
Within this plant
It's just for granted.
A world full of wonderful things to do that will happen.
A button a magnet
Oh how connected i am to you
All the things, just about you.
Oh a button, a magnet
Oh, a button , a magnet.
Oh how much I am in love with you.
Categories:
whiten, 8th grade, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Artiest eyes sees a sight of whiten glaze puffy
Thou clouded visions stagnate
With grey, blacken brown stick figures
Standing close amidst the lit light blue
Thou winter skies captured in his
Mind comprehension blurred
Views of in frontage sight
Tho, This is what he sees
This is what he saw
As we all so sees
This on his painted canvas
Mind eyes sees fresh as the painter speaks
…with his eyes and hands, winters scene
2/1/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
Categories:
whiten, allusion, analogy, appreciation, environment,
Form: Ekphrasis
winter's wind kissed toward me;
blowing breeze;
whiten skies silver and bright;
visually mist blur-vision blown a wind-kiss
1/25/2024
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
Poem Syllable Counter Results
Syllables Per Line: 7 3 7 12
Total # Syllables: 29
Total # Lines: 4 (Including empty lines)
Words with (syllables) counted programmatically: N/A
Total # Words: 18
Categories:
whiten, analogy, destiny, engagement, environment,
Form: Other
snow sparkle shines bright
whiten lights a frozen sight
flakes drops falls so light
1/23/24
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
Categories:
whiten, analogy, appreciation, confidence, devotion,
Form: Haiku
casting winds forging
blistering bitter colds breathe
winter’s whispering
~
falling flakes of snow
fidget drops of whiten dust
snow storm rains on us
1/18/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
Categories:
whiten, analogy, corruption, meaningful, snow,
Form: Haiku
Ode a Sky Light Viewed-
Orb site is blurred
Vision staring forth stares light
Flares of brilliant rays
Yellow hazel greens rites
Orange Blue back drop whiten
Spots of greys sharply
Hazed ever-grazed brilliants
Orb site stilled blurred
The light shines so ever bright
Vision staring forth sun's light
12/7/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
Poem Syllable Counter Results
Syllables Per Line: 5 5 7 5 7 7 0 5 7 5 7 7
Total # Syllables: 67
Total # Lines: 12 (Including empty lines)
Words with (syllables) counted programmatically: N/A
Total # Words: 49
Categories:
whiten, analogy, appreciation, engagement, identity,
Form: Ekphrasis
Silence!,
the whispers of darkness.
Silence!,
The cries of fears.
Silence!,
All seems gone and lost,
Silence!,
All seems calm with love.
Silence!,
Some times as peace,
Silence!,
Some times as death.
Silence!,
An idle state of mind,
Silence!,
An easy path without joy.
Those who go never comes back,
But those who come are never back.
Able to rip and tear a man,
Able to sow and forge a man.
With all it fact being good or bad,
The final choice lies whiten the man.
Either you turn right or left,
The choice you choose is yours for the best.
Seeming to be like a maze of all test,
I hope your choice is able to bring rest.
Silence!,
A path of many roads.
Categories:
whiten, endurance,
Form: Free verse
will it up
grill it up
fill it up to brimming
swill to still those silly cells
drowned in what they’re swimming
press ‘em up
mess ‘em up
dress ‘em up with practice
a hoarder in its order
and thorned as any cactus
mock it up
talk it up
chalk it up to neurons
firing with mis-wiring
the receptors that they were on
hike 'em up
strike 'em up
spike 'em up your coursings
joy's in that sweet poison
tho it's life that you're divorcing
burn it up
churn it up
turn it up to 'leven
bursting drums, but first it comes
and lies to you like heaven
smoke 'em up
toke 'em up
choke 'em up a-breathing
red, the mud, as thin as blood
to leave your angels seething
tighten up
whiten up
lighten up and torch it
melt the moon into the spoon
and soon you'll swoon to scorch it
wind it down
bind it down
grind it down to fill you
you won't miss
amidst your bliss
the sweetest kiss ... to kill you …
the sweetest kiss.
Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, December 25, 2022
Categories:
whiten, addiction, analogy, anxiety, dark,
Form: Rhyme
April and the clocks forward spring,
our cricket practice gets in full swing.
Nets to untangle from their poles,
players to call and enrol.
Gang mowers to grease and oil,
the team kit-bag to disembroil.
Green stained pads to whiten bright,
fixture lists to expedite.
Mend the sight screen's rickety panels,
coax another season from my flannels.
Wash and iron the umpire's coats,
the score-box to creosote.
Tea urns to scour,crockery to rinse and clean..
a team captain's tasks routine,and unseen.
Cricketers good,indifferent,unsung,
across this land in a timeless sport played for fun.
Categories:
whiten, nostalgia, sports,
Form: Quatrain
Trying to find hope in a quicksand world
is hard when hope is like the clouds above;
looked towards but never touched;
as much as we must want.
And the sands of this world feel
like tiny hungry hands feeding a patient mouth;
fists over tiny fists they pull in what is left of us.
While hope flies above vaporous and too high to touch.
Tiny fingers heartlessly pulling
with the persistence of children’s wants.
Sewing words that drag us further into a hungry maw;
using words that claim to be from another’s heart.
Familiar weights tearing parts away
from the very soul of hope and us.
A soul still mending from almost before being lost;
peeling away newly laid self-worth like flesh from bone.
Scraps of meat left to be plucked by carrion birds.
Scraped leftovers after the lions’ take;
taken to fill a world whose hunger we could never sate.
Bones left to whiten in the harsh noon sun.
Sightless caves watching as the next in line comes;
to be claimed by this insatiable world,
while others blindly wait their turn.
Categories:
whiten, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Peaked out and everything was covered
White—some things totally invisible—visioning
Helpless immobility burdens, once always conquered:-
Background sunlight caste dull-white shadows
Across whiten, once pale green grass groundings;
Where excited dogs have left frozen scented footprints.
Wow, who would have imagined that warm yesterday
Was, as if fall had challenged winter to show her cold face?
Well, weary winter just burst out in all her agonizing beauty!
And now, here we sit in an even more distancing atmosphere
With its own chilling pandemic overtones of melting running water
Wetting wishful dreams frozen into no-show-snow, slippery tomorrow!
Categories:
whiten, allegory, beauty, imagery, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Snowflakes falling to land
of the caroling,
whiten the coats of man,
as they're traveling,
from door to door singing how Christmastime began
Categories:
whiten, angel, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Quintain (English)
So light is the darkness
So happening is now present
So high our the mountains
Deep are the valleys low
Ever present is winters cool breeze
The snow whiten as a cloud spray
So snow you come down
I am up you are down, up the reality is
Despite all of this
We are forever His
10/24/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
Categories:
whiten, analogy, appreciation, nature,
Form: Light Verse
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