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I Walk The Streets Of Narrow

I walk the streets of narrow

To while away my sorrow

Praying to tomorrow

For a yesterday to borrow

Stick out my head to burrow

Till tears fill a wheelbarrow

With bitterness hard to swallow

And I hear a whiff of arrows

My hairs rising row by row

Eerie sounds of cursed crows

Cut my bone to the marrow

Plow my soul with a harrow

To feed the littered farrow

My face sliced to the furrow

And I see a raining of arrows

Fear sprouting to rapidly grow

Paralyzing me as I never know

Heartbeats rise to a billow

My voice down to the hollow

Red cheeks turn pale and sallow

I try to hide, high and low

Just to fend off the gallows

In self pity I wallow

Never be called a yellow

My instinct now set aglow

Rest my head on a pillow

Sinking to my bed below

Nothing I can do, go slow

Senses calm to a mellow

To wear a crown of hallow

©Johnny J P Lee

06 December 2022

Gogyoshiren Poem (30)

All Diminish In Time

footprints of time

delicate tinkles

imprints sublime

intricate wrinkles

all diminish in time

by faintly talk

preserved vanity

of dainty walk

conserved beauty

dust off as chalk

brilliant grins

bring out a smile

a full life begins

ring out from miles

the source of sins

melodies sweet

from underneath

tomorrows greet

a home bequeath

as memories meet

©Johnny J P Lee

27 November 2022

Gogyoshiren Poem (20)

stories to tell our children

and grandchildren

over five generations

that the strangest things happen

around the midnight hour

back in the early twenties

when life is simple

and love will hold us forever

a twenty dollar wedding

with church organ music

and a full solemnization

rent a ring for sixty cents

or buy one for six dollars

and two for ten dollars

come out as husband and wife

for a memorable thirty dollars

a wedding without a honeymoon

running away from four parents

leaving town, and out of town

a fugitive couple so in love

hardly have a good night sleep

even the rattling of an old jalopy

outside the cheap motel’s window

sounds like a police patrol car

with a gunshot in the dark

fired from a rusty exhaust pipe

and fearfully cuddling in bed

for shared loving consolation

when every unusual sound

is a matrimonial duty

by an intimate embrace

for our future generations

even when the night wind blows

over the telephone wires

©Johnny J P Lee

25 November 2022

baldy buddy bud

ready for the fudge and pud

bold stallions for studs

©Johnny J P Lee

18 November 2022

Haiku 5-7-5

THE LEAVES ARE FALLING

Fallen leaves

splash over my soul

Sculpturing my life

Painting on canvas

O! Vulnerable twins

Let me lie with you

on shivering grass

Quilting carpet for

an approaching harshness

The cold cold stab of winter

Fueling colors

to hide my melancholy

The spreading patterns

dance on my icy despair

Oh! I really need a cuddle

Till the robins sing of love

to open the wonders of the

charming smile of spring

showering its hoarded tears

while we had been hibernating

©Johnny J. P. Lee

12 November 2022

Gogyoshiren poem

(20 Verses)

Enough Of The Talk

Enough of the talk

Let’s take a walk

The glimpse of you

Among the blues

It stirs my soul

Out of control

I am consoled

Let it be so

Love in full bloom

as bride and groom

©Johnny J P Lee

12 November 2022

Gogyoshiren Poem

(10 Verses)

A dream is everything you want to be;

everything you can be.

If you ever dream, it is already in you.

It is your dream,

You are your dream.

©Johnny J P Lee

11 November 2022

Gogyoshi Poem

(5 Verses)

YESTERDAY

Yesterday

when I was young

and gay

life was a song

for you were there

as we strolled along

hand in hand, where

we sat together, among

thorns and roses, dare

amidst sound of gongs,

freely, without a care

you were always there

we’re ever together

in love, come what may

And we’re still here today

©Johnny J P Lee

10 November 2022

Gogyoshiren Poem

(15 Verses)