Submissions by Lee
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I am. What else it there to say? My likes, dislikes, loves and wishes, mean nothing if I do not acknowledge that I simply am. That I breathe and experience. There is no greater explanation.
LOVE POEM
Published
29th Oct 2012 8:00am
29th Oct 2012 8:00am
Contradictive
Stories of love brings gay laughter
But upon its dying breath
Births despair
Moments of tenderness lights up a smile
But tucked within its shadows
Creeps loneliness
Scenes of promise floods with giddiness
But upon its initial touch
Starves hope
Thus plays the contradictive symphony
The harrowing ache of a
Broken heart
But upon its dying breath
Births despair
Moments of tenderness lights up a smile
But tucked within its shadows
Creeps loneliness
Scenes of promise floods with giddiness
But upon its initial touch
Starves hope
Thus plays the contradictive symphony
The harrowing ache of a
Broken heart
878 reads
4 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
25th Oct 2012 5:17am
25th Oct 2012 5:17am
Alike Red Cinderella
There was expectation here,
A midnight time restraint,
A Cinderella story fit for behaviors
That did not condone complaint
But who was I kidding,
I lived no fairy tale
I was not accustom to propriety
I was only raised to fail
I was never meant to be in silks
Only clothes for street-wise urchins,
Not meant for palace halls,
Only the shack that I was birthed in
Yet I was thrown out here
In this ruby gown of gems
Beneath eyes that watches,
Hated and condemns
He was ready for my slip up
For the lie he...
A midnight time restraint,
A Cinderella story fit for behaviors
That did not condone complaint
But who was I kidding,
I lived no fairy tale
I was not accustom to propriety
I was only raised to fail
I was never meant to be in silks
Only clothes for street-wise urchins,
Not meant for palace halls,
Only the shack that I was birthed in
Yet I was thrown out here
In this ruby gown of gems
Beneath eyes that watches,
Hated and condemns
He was ready for my slip up
For the lie he...
764 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
25th Oct 2012 4:58am
25th Oct 2012 4:58am
Doubt
Shifting
Creeping
Digging
Within
Hide away
Known to be sin
Swift as smoke
Low lying
Seeping
Choking
Twisting the thought
Silent provoking
True to conception
Late in demise
Declare
Heavy measure
Making all blurry
The rust coated treasure
Restricted voice
Can I?
Will?
Asked inside
Perception disgraced
Truth denied
Aware
The mist
Listening
Dark in your head
Constricting all light
With whispers said
Fight back
I am good enough
Am I good...
Creeping
Digging
Within
Hide away
Known to be sin
Swift as smoke
Low lying
Seeping
Choking
Twisting the thought
Silent provoking
True to conception
Late in demise
Declare
Heavy measure
Making all blurry
The rust coated treasure
Restricted voice
Can I?
Will?
Asked inside
Perception disgraced
Truth denied
Aware
The mist
Listening
Dark in your head
Constricting all light
With whispers said
Fight back
I am good enough
Am I good...
697 reads
0 Comments
NON-FICTION PROSE
Published
23rd Oct 2012 6:33pm
23rd Oct 2012 6:33pm
The Leaf
Upon his first existence he knew of his demise. Within that first breath of sunlight, he knew of his own fading. And now, looking back, looking up, he knew that the beginning could never be supported without the end. He had strived, served, guided, and sheltered; he had been ever present, his face ever lifted to the sweet caress of the sky so that he could do his duty and provide. All so that he may color, present beauty, and then perish upon the ground as the sun dulled and waned. His life was to persevere to the end; acknowledging in every thought that he would shine most beautiful upon...
756 reads
2 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
8th Sep 2012 2:26am
8th Sep 2012 2:26am
From Sand to Glass
It was struck hard
It was struck low
Blow after Blow
It shattered
It splintered
It crumpled within
Hidden behind
A trembling grin
It withered
It rusted
It was ground
Into sand
Carried afar
In a deserted land
Then gathered
Once more
Piled up high
Thrown into the furnace
Smiles gave way
Becoming a cry
There was a beg
A plead
A cry for the end
Knees hit the ground
No longer able to pretend
The remainder
The sand –
Blended
Melted
Turned red hot
The...
It was struck low
Blow after Blow
It shattered
It splintered
It crumpled within
Hidden behind
A trembling grin
It withered
It rusted
It was ground
Into sand
Carried afar
In a deserted land
Then gathered
Once more
Piled up high
Thrown into the furnace
Smiles gave way
Becoming a cry
There was a beg
A plead
A cry for the end
Knees hit the ground
No longer able to pretend
The remainder
The sand –
Blended
Melted
Turned red hot
The...
574 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
10th Aug 2012 8:45pm
10th Aug 2012 8:45pm
Power
It is a retained knowledge,
Though diminished in its importance
Rarely applied to the notions that come to play –
Power comes with the greatest of costs
It is often disfigured
Contended that wealth is its primary element
And yet the simplest pedestal
Leading, contending, applying, achieving
Are most often the chiefs of its character
Influence, supremacy, authority –
Prodigals of greatness that wreak havoc
It’s will has been altered, tainted
Little longer pursuing to secure happiness
Instead justifying the passing of obstacles in...
Though diminished in its importance
Rarely applied to the notions that come to play –
Power comes with the greatest of costs
It is often disfigured
Contended that wealth is its primary element
And yet the simplest pedestal
Leading, contending, applying, achieving
Are most often the chiefs of its character
Influence, supremacy, authority –
Prodigals of greatness that wreak havoc
It’s will has been altered, tainted
Little longer pursuing to secure happiness
Instead justifying the passing of obstacles in...
756 reads
0 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
1st Aug 2012 2:03am
1st Aug 2012 2:03am
Knowing
Watch as the lamb mounts the cross
Darkening days
Days that darken
Watch as the lion lies down
Piercing bindings
Bindings that pierce
Watch as the hope slowly dies
Cursed with mirth
A mirth that curses
Listen to the silence that blinds them all
A prophecy procured
A prophecy received
Listen to the laughter of the deceived
Violent hopes
A hope that’s violent
Listen as the days climb the steps
The mourning has come
The morning will rise
Believe in the Son – the lion, the lamb...
Darkening days
Days that darken
Watch as the lion lies down
Piercing bindings
Bindings that pierce
Watch as the hope slowly dies
Cursed with mirth
A mirth that curses
Listen to the silence that blinds them all
A prophecy procured
A prophecy received
Listen to the laughter of the deceived
Violent hopes
A hope that’s violent
Listen as the days climb the steps
The mourning has come
The morning will rise
Believe in the Son – the lion, the lamb...
768 reads
4 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
31st Jul 2012 7:28pm
31st Jul 2012 7:28pm
The Wagers of Lies
Lie your way onto the stage,
Scribble that lie across the page
Spread the lie from mind to mind
Until its purpose has been left behind
Make sure that you’ve been fitted right,
So that your mask hides the truth from sight
Lie with the jester, lie to the joke
And the fires of doubt you will slowly stoke
Pay little attention to the string now attached,
Or the way the mask has irrevocably latched
Deny the truth that the lie displays
That deep down inside your bindings have frayed
It takes a time for you to see,
That...
Scribble that lie across the page
Spread the lie from mind to mind
Until its purpose has been left behind
Make sure that you’ve been fitted right,
So that your mask hides the truth from sight
Lie with the jester, lie to the joke
And the fires of doubt you will slowly stoke
Pay little attention to the string now attached,
Or the way the mask has irrevocably latched
Deny the truth that the lie displays
That deep down inside your bindings have frayed
It takes a time for you to see,
That...
923 reads
7 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Jul 2012 7:01am
30th Jul 2012 7:01am
Reason
Give me a reason for your life,
An explanation to help overcome the strife
“It’s simple,” said he with quiet reserve
“My life’s meaning is only to serve”
“Serve what? Serve who?” Asked I in despair
“Serve my Maker and my burdens he’ll bear”
An explanation to help overcome the strife
“It’s simple,” said he with quiet reserve
“My life’s meaning is only to serve”
“Serve what? Serve who?” Asked I in despair
“Serve my Maker and my burdens he’ll bear”
683 reads
0 Comments
OBSERVATIONAL POEM
Published
30th Jul 2012 6:46am
30th Jul 2012 6:46am
New Times
A destiny that tricks and whispers
Requiems of future obsessions
Destroyed evidence that conceived a birth
A whimsy foretelling of older notions
Such is the disposition of the newest times
A purity prevailed to darken and smother
Worldly knowledge which requested disparity
And love, a thing expressed through lilting monologues
It has never been the disfiguring patterns
In which blame is to be stacked
But to the drawing hand’s inclinations
Flowery prose insisted to mask the decay
So, it is with fractured...
Requiems of future obsessions
Destroyed evidence that conceived a birth
A whimsy foretelling of older notions
Such is the disposition of the newest times
A purity prevailed to darken and smother
Worldly knowledge which requested disparity
And love, a thing expressed through lilting monologues
It has never been the disfiguring patterns
In which blame is to be stacked
But to the drawing hand’s inclinations
Flowery prose insisted to mask the decay
So, it is with fractured...
718 reads
2 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
28th Jul 2012 4:44pm
28th Jul 2012 4:44pm
Dream Path
Many a night, a dream path I’ll go
The memory of those trysts, here where I stow
So present to me, the seams of your face
Where in the waking world I cannot trace
It is a ceaseless endeavor every night
To slip away where I can bask in your light
To pretend for a moment, my heart does not ache
Though I know it should return the moment I wake
Tonight, in gold, I see you there
Reach out to touch but only touch air
An ever reminder of the space between
That you are you and I, never seen
So I’ll awake to the dull breath of day
Bind...
The memory of those trysts, here where I stow
So present to me, the seams of your face
Where in the waking world I cannot trace
It is a ceaseless endeavor every night
To slip away where I can bask in your light
To pretend for a moment, my heart does not ache
Though I know it should return the moment I wake
Tonight, in gold, I see you there
Reach out to touch but only touch air
An ever reminder of the space between
That you are you and I, never seen
So I’ll awake to the dull breath of day
Bind...
895 reads
5 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
25th Jul 2012 6:30pm
25th Jul 2012 6:30pm
Bloodied Waves
Been able to slow the bleeding
Sea all drenched in blood
Insanity now receding
Though I’m still drowning in this flood
The pain has left me somber
More acutely aware
Freezing heart is now calmer
Still, it’s a heavy wound to bear
I pretend not to see
So tired from the strain
The sharks that circle around me
In-frenzied by the stain
But I’ve played this game
I keep them away with quiet conviction
Treading this pain
Despite all its friction
I know the waves will rumble
And try my weakened state
And I’ll...
Sea all drenched in blood
Insanity now receding
Though I’m still drowning in this flood
The pain has left me somber
More acutely aware
Freezing heart is now calmer
Still, it’s a heavy wound to bear
I pretend not to see
So tired from the strain
The sharks that circle around me
In-frenzied by the stain
But I’ve played this game
I keep them away with quiet conviction
Treading this pain
Despite all its friction
I know the waves will rumble
And try my weakened state
And I’ll...
704 reads
2 Comments
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