Sunlight

Burrowed deep into

Her heart fermenting

In a souring, pitiful

Relationship, wrangled in

Friction and spite

Bruised, repulsed and

Oh so tired, it was time

To realize, take back

Caring not of threats

From an exhausting 
And foreboding lover

She has had enough

No longer wanting

Only for herself

She reaches skyward

Grabbing sunlight's promise
Pledging never again to

Expose her vulnerabilities, 
Forever sealing her

Affections from luring
And engaging winds.

Edwin James

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Thoughts

Cutting across time's

Breath, an innocence

Tormented, moves tepidly

Fragmenting possibilities

Escaping tunnel's light

Deducing times sooner

Forgotten, abandoned

Exhaling breath's dilemma

While leaning against
Withering faux shadows

Lingering, crawling behind

A whispering sable brush

Never willing to surrender
It's cognizance, relentless
Focusing only on the light

Never knowing for sure
WHERE this painting should
End, shadowing against a
Landscape still not
Realized, conquered.

Edwin James


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Light Dances

Across my fingers

Illuminating my strokes

Swirling bravely, freely

Over my playful canvas

Dodging faux shadows

Always there teasing

Mocking, foreboding

Challenging light's
Redemption

I remain tentative
Inhaling light's promise
Measuring colour values

Brimming in artful fusion

A palette flourishing
Contours revealing
Fulfilling a mind quest
Never before ventured
A landscape spreading
Deliberately, effortlessly
Unmasked, never before
Considered or realized.

Edwin James


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