#santafantasy

[sinisterspectre]

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I SEE A RAINBOW TODAY

I see a rainbow today

and another the other day

sometimes, it is every day

a rainbow to make my day

just to have a memorable day

I can call Remembrance Day

when clouds would darken my day

threatening to disable me for days

I reach for my brush, repaint the day

a rainbow appears to calm my day

driving away the fears of the day

to ride my rainbow the entire day

and I see a rainbow again, today

with a promise of two on a special day

©Johnny J P Lee

28 November 2020

Photos Credit Unsplash

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A UNIVERSAL THEME

A sob sob story

is all about the same

Repeating history

They went, they came

I have one to tell

Strange loving way

Like a star that fell

Lost along the way

The story is true

I can testify

But it’s up to you

To satisfy.

On love and separation

No guts to profess

Afraid, no celebration,

Fail to confess

Just a chance meeting

Lasting a few brief moments

Hungry thoughts go fleeting

Enough to scribble comments

To let a true love take wings

Oh! My love is true in deep secret

Till we meet again, my heart sings

For fate will bind us in sweet regret.

Story begins many years ago

Dashing young man, all ready at twenty

Celebrating, dancing a-go-go

Fresh out of school, joy oh joy aplenty

Partying to music of beetles or crickets

Unaware of the fate awaiting to unfold

A note was dropped inside his jacket

Next day he left to a distant shore, untold

Years later he found the note, neat, dated

Recalling a pretty girl with long pony tail

Reminiscing the dance, a kiss unrelated

“I was greatly loved” is all that will prevail.

WHAT THE NOTE SAYS

人生有聚也有散

別時容易見時難

相逢恨晚想未完

離別時味苦難嘗

“People will gather and they will scatter;

Departure comes swift and easy, to meet again is really tough;

How I regret our meeting comes too late, too incomplete;

The bitter taste of separation is so hard to bear.”

- J. P. Lee

2 March 2020

Art Credit Christina Chin

[instruth]

GOOD TIMES SLIP BY

The good times slip by

Been too busy to try

Dawn is just a clock

Not beauty or flock

Foxy to a sly

Wiser than a spy

Life is to slog and to knock

Wood is precious than rock

Collect honey for the pie

Make fire, twigs and tie

No time to jest or to mock

Sheering sheep for a frock

Dimpled cry

Pimpled shy

Learn to live by the old block

Or die in a box with no socks

Sing loudly a lullaby

Time for a last goodbye

Every day goes tick tock

Tomorrow springs a lock

- J. P. Lee

22 March 2020

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DREAM FROM A LULLABY

I have a dream

A dream from a lullaby

A dream within a dream

Where I have never been

What wonders I have seen

Up a glittering spiral staircase

Beauty everywhere, I am amazed

No words, just glory I belong

Too soon, it’s time to go home

And it’s most painful indeed

I return home, unsure

To where I’ve originally come

Oh! Trees are still trees

People are still people

Now, I see God in all these

- J. P. Lee

16 November 2019

(Gogyoshi-ren)

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I WANT YOU TO LIVE

I Want You To Live

I want you to love living

I live in you

I want to live with you

I am in your life

I am your life

I am in you

I swim in your blood

You can feel me

You feel me in your blood

I want you to feel

I want you to feel alive

Alive in your own blood

I want you to love living

I Want You To Live

- J. P. Lee

4 November 2019

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IN THE TWILIGHT

Days are ample

When life is simple

Nights in splendor

At rest to endeavor

The scarcity in between

Full of dreams evergreen

By a glimpse of Love in the twilight

As Dawn separates day from night

A safe space away from the rough

A moment much more than enough

J. P. Lee

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A TYPICAL DAY

The break of dawn

Dew on the lawn

The rising sun

Breakfast bun

Steaming Coffee

Just you and me

Smile on your face

Blue with white lace

Behind you, red roses

Poised, in your poses

A walk in our garden

As our day brightens

Buzzing of bees

Yellow bells glee

Sway on the swing

Everyday spring

Because you are here

And I am near

Our simple joy

Our girls and boys

Abundant, full

Eternally thankful

Glittering words

Praising the Lord

- J. P. Lee

14 November 2019