No Ado, No Fanfare
I dreamt about a wedding
The couple wearing jeans,
Cowboy boots and flannel shirts
In a meadow near a stream
Two onyx rings presented
Everything so right
Americana music
Played into the night
With moon and stars as witness
He took his country bride
And placed his lips on top of hers
His love no more to hide
Then when the fête was
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Categories:
ado, i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
MAY I LOVE YOU A FAIR ADO-
MAY I LOVE YOU A FAIR ADO-
A fair ado
May I love you
And may I pray
Alas, for you
And may I
Hold your heart
For mines beating reciprocity
A fair ado
5/8/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025
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Categories:
ado, appreciation, blessing, celebration, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Much Ado About Something
“Much Ado About Nothing”
Romeo’s love doesn’t fall through,
As Tybalt piques his fancy too.
And Juliet,
Not in love yet
Chills out on Tinder and Temu.
William, don’t mind the premise pick,
The rhymes have moved on so to speak;
Short and lightweight -
It’s shooting straight,
Not a sonnet, a limerick.
No tragic twists, no
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Categories:
ado, humorous,
Form: Limerick
More ado about Nothing
Nothing
Is not no-thing
No-thing implies
A thing..but
Nothing implies
Something..
Circling...
Nothing
May seem to
Suggest
Equality as
Freedom...
Nothing
Is not imaginable
Untouchable..
But may seem
Obvious as
Words dance...
A dictionary
Is nothing
Appearing as
A book with a
Listing of words
Appearances of
Nothing...
Not knowing
And nothing
Different words
Begging to express
What cannot be
Expressed...
Uncertainty
A fading certainty..
A story of
Nothing
Nipping at edges...
The word
Nothing
Recalls something
But the something
May suddenly
Explode...
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Categories:
ado, absence, beauty, bible, words,
Form: Light Verse
Much Ado, a Nihil Brew
In the war of words, tongues wag,
Wit and jest, lies and insults, haggle for traction,
joining the ragtag rabble of riffraff chaff
blowing in the wind, littering the ground with trash.
Rumors spun, deceptions woven into a shroud of deceit.
There's so much ado, no adieu, nor regret
in the cauldron of a nihil brew
boiled to an amorphous spew
bubbling chaotic
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Categories:
ado, education, political,
Form: Free verse
the ado of nature
"Niagra and the wise."
fresh waters of life
relief self impurities
to a fateful fall
"Do you hear what I hear?"
rawhide winds of war
birched last's stand amidst saviors
a tree faints away
"The void that Earth began."
mirages are dreams
of sand ~ prep A -- straight line to
... be -- and stay alive
"The Beaches of Warwick" NOT JK
Cher baby don't go
Miami sharks
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Categories:
ado, analogy, nature,
Form: Haiku
Much ado about sin
What is sin but ignorance,
just requiring correction,
enabled by the melding
of head with the heart?
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Categories:
ado, sin,
Form: Dodoitsu
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Much Ado About Poi
Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mouth. In later years, it became a slang word as 'onolicious.' The main dish at any luau is Poi (PO-ee) pronounced
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Categories:
ado, allusion, analogy, appreciation, culture,
Form: Narrative
Much Ado
His poet’s way with words - far-flung,
Don’t get me wrong I love his tongue.
The words caress,
I acquiesce -
If only he were better hung.
May 15, 2023
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Categories:
ado, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Hail the Queen, We Bid You Ado
“Maybe in your next life “Krishna said
Because we really don’t know what happens, after your dead
Well, our president has beat the charge
our military now list him as “at large”?
Tomorrow will still keep its Dawn
Because of a memory it must carry on
Will the criminals be allowed to rule?
And are we allowed the devils tools
Perhaps the
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Categories:
ado, celebration, community, rights, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Much Ado About Nothing
Much ado
About nothing..
The much ado
Is the stage play
Life appearing
On a stage..
Nothing appearing
As the characters on
No stage at all..
Yet we on the stage
Seeking escape from
Tragi-comic scripts
Seeking desperately
For Nothing
Appearing as
Much ado...
(Crediting the
originator of
Much Ado!)
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Categories:
ado, confidence, freedom, inspiration,
Form: Blank verse
In a Day of the Life of a Bard Is Much Ado About Nothing
By morn, and under cerulean skies,
he rises from sheets and soft pillows of down;
and gives praise; for the Lord is just and wise,
and great to behold by this earth all round.
By noon, he sets about his songs and rhymes,
labors whose
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Categories:
ado, allusion, hyperbole, loneliness, love,
Form: Sonnet
Ado To Salt
I‘m embittered by isolation like Ado turned to salt
but outside, the flowers are dueling for attention.
I am mortared in this seclusion as Catullus rendered stone
yet outdoors, trees bask and frolic in the sun.
I'm locked in place, punished, like I'd smiled at Medusa
yet the squirrels go about their gatherings as birds forage.
I am gently constrained, but
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Categories:
ado, 11th grade, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Adieu-Ado This I Do Love U
Soul O’ my lady blue;
I such in love wit you;
May I be your only bleu?
As the winter blows it brews;
As the sparrow flies, it flew;
Amidst the daily coup,
It coos…
I’m so in love wit you;
That I don’t know just what to do;
If only you knew, that I grave and I’m goo goo;
Fa-U…
My go to,
O adieu, ado;
My
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Categories:
ado, appreciation, cute love, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Ado Ado Ado
dah-DUM, dah-DUM, dah-DUM, dah-DUM,
If they had sung a real good song,
Would not have joined and sung along,
If my friend had not drank so much,
Would not had paid, instead go dutch,
If they had kept their leftist view,
Would not have made a snippy spew,
If they had simple clear cut rules,
Would not have made so much ado.
If
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Categories:
ado, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Couplet
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