Exhausted

Dazed, drained by

Conversant words
Shaping verse while

Lines mingle with one

Another, passions thirsting
Never the same twice 
Dreams apprehended by

By Nostalgia's fleeting arm

Seeking shallower waters
Bypassing undertow's
Hold,searching for
Rhymes tattooed on
Soul's heavy heart.

Edwin James


...

A Songwriter 

Writing under dawn's early light

Immersed in lighthearted folly

An overture sound almost right

Taking him back to his beach colony

His line surfing under rhyme

A verse is flushed, realized

Windward, sailing back in time

Approaching green seas fantasized

Courting in D, F and G

An ensuing harmonic rhapsody

Launches his song out to sea

A melody flows naturally

Navigated by memories

Winged by sailor's brawn

Waters without boundaries
Sailing across lights earlier dawn.

Edwin James

...

Two Hearts

Escaping 

Winter's bite

Sharing a love

Maybe for the

Last time

Sensing

Their fires

Burning desire

Never wanting their

Love to fade or

Turn to ash

Another log is

Added to the fire

Maybe for the

Last time

Two hearts

Beating as one

Against all odds
Unable to keep
Their song's heart

Free, never wanting

Anything more.

Edwin James


...

Twilight

Wavering, trembling

Tenuously between

The dark and the light

Painting coral auroras

And sinking crimsons

Abducting moods

Lost in daylight's 

Rush

Waking

Night's dream

Vulnerable perilous

Unable to choose

Between night's cavity

And day's fervor

Sometimes cloaked

In ebony clouds

Bursting

With life, turmoil

Dusk and Dawn

Gauging day's promise

Whispering night's hollow

Twinning adversaries

Raising our hopes

Sealing our fates.

Edwin James

...

A Sudden Burst

Of cold air

Raising the hairs

On on the back of my neck

Goose bumps run down

My tingling arms 

An orb appears drifting

Across my bedroom wall

Unannounced unexpected 
Casting a shift-changing
Eerie dark shadow
Blocking my window's
Flickering moon-lit sky
 
Could be a departed
Loving family member or
An old dear friend
I once knew, loved
Just checking in 
Saying hello, goodbye
Remembering, missing
Our time shared
Warning me of danger
Still protecting me

Is it a lost soul
Haunted trapped 
By spirit's gravity
Unable to crossover 
Its consciousness
Lost
Unwilling
To forget, forgive
Wanting to be more
Than just a memory.

Edwin James


...

 

Shattered

Unable to comprehend

Why your dreams

Could not come true

Running out of steam

Still unable to let go

Only wanting to believe

Fighting minds undertow

Facing the night all alone

Unable to sleep under
Timeless shadows weight
Ashamed, undressed
No longer able to cheat

Her reality trapped, exposed
Her mind drugged, swimming
Her feelings drained, spent
Her breath short, congested
Her heart sinking, bleeding
Her faith unwrapped, exposed

Dreams swallowed, spitting
Out hope's light.

Edwin James

...

Indigo

Wouldn't admit goodbye

That night whispering

Only goodnight

With one last kiss

One trembling embrace

Her eyes looking down

She closed the door

Leaving me behind

In hallways sorry light

It was time for her

To leave, forget

And  simply move on

Boarding a Dash 9

At morning's early light

Heading back to Saskatoon

 Leaving our skies far
Behind, never again to
Hold, feel or imagine
That what could have been
Could never truly have been
So long ago.

Edwin James

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