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

...

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


...

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


...

In His Darkness

Shadows begin fading

As doubts hold

Rescinds behind a

Curtain weaved from
Nightfall's embrace

Offering a promise

A twilight into his

Past, once ventured

Eclipsing his delimna

A forgotten pledge

An intrepid dream

Streaming its might

 A covenant etched in

A solitude only his

Heart could understand.

Edwin James

...

A Winter's Chill

 

Bites at her lip

Unable to grip

Thoughts facing

A wind chasing

 Under wintery skies

A shadow in disguise

Creeping slowly behind

Seeking the maligned

Memories freezing

Under breaths capsizing

Suffocating in defeat

Unable to grasp, repeat

Her goals zigzagging

A heart still clinging

To an inflicted hell

Having no one to tell.

Edwin James

...

 

 

 

 

Je Suis Charlie

Our Drawings speak as one

Mocking global injustices

Most would never pen

Our shock and awe
Never deters even by
Threats consequence

Determined, unaffected by

Religious hate cries

From disturbed fanatics

Demented in beliefs

Garnished in vengeance

Caustic sworn assassins

Charlie's courage is shatterproof
Our strokes remain unaltered

Boundaries unacceptable
Our resolve hardened

In their memory, unified
Till our last brush stroke

Nous Sommes Charlie.

Edwin James


...

Her Faith

Did not foresee

Or pretend to know

Her heart cindering

Burning in ashes

Suffocating

Her fears realized

Having lost all desire

A whispering voice burns

Mocking her faith's

Audacity

Caring not, her nerve

Eclipsed by fate's hand

Disgusted and angry

She no longer feels or

Accepts

She raises her

Wine glass, mocking

Her inability to fully

Recognize, left alone

Lost

She mutters softly

"My life is but a leaf

Withering surely crumbling

Worn out by faith's retreating

Shadows."

Edwin James

...