Amateur Poems

Amateur Golfer

You’re trying to hang tough
But your ball is in the rough
Don’t throw a fit
Just think then hit
Forget all that pro stuff

Amateur Dramatics

(curtain raises)

costumes torn 
   lighting wrong 
make up melts 
   rehearsals long        

missing props 
   forgotten lines 
nervous looks 
   backstage whines 
       
feuding stars 
   director puce 
sulky looks 
 

Amateur

Every sport man’s first ID card,
On him imposing, a period to be on guard;
When the slimmest interest shows in financial gain,
And inglorious quitting is the pain!
Not that affluence one does detest:
Mounting pressures from the east and the west,
One’s body and teeth sometimes rattling
While with an irksome low rating battling.

A time of anxiety about recommendation:
Occasional acting

Weird Lucid Dream

I had a dream a scary dream. 
That I had a business 
Hot and sexy business. 

In my dream i owned a Modeling company 
For men 
In that dream I was not rich but ready for any anomaly
I was my own fan. 

#1 and only fan

One day had a chance a big one in this

Enthusiastic Amateur

ENTHUSIASTIC AMATEUR


I am lying here trapped and need some assistance,
And all because of my husband’s persistence.
“You don’t have to buy any bookshelves,” he said.
“I’ll purchase some timber and build them instead.”

I had some misgivings but he was so keen
That I thought to refuse him would seem rather mean.
He took his tape measure and measured the

They'Re Trying To Tell You

They’re trying to tell you
That your superstitions and machinations 
Are an exhausting game of whack-a-mole
They’re trying to tell you 
You’ve assumed a version of them
That society told you existed and you never questioned
They’re trying to tell you 
At every corner a new threat lies
From a ginned-up populace at a fire sale on torches and pickaxes
They’re

Art Class

I was registered in a
watercolor art class

it was going to be fun
and inspiring
to learn the basics
and experiment
at home

so when I created 
my masterpiece
worth any Picasso
I was so proud
I had to bring it
to my next class ~

imagine my surprise
when the instructor
let out a screech
"that’s not what we learned’
I almost laughed at her 
but just quietly sat

Amateur

A just beginner
First timer around brand new
NEVER DONE  BEFORE


James Edward Lee Sr  ©2017
10/18/17

Village Amateur Drama

Village Amateur Drama

She peaked through the curtains to take a good look
her presence was calm but knees that did shook
the script was not hard.... only 8 speeches long
but convinced to herself, she'd say it all wrong.

She breathed out a prayer in giggly voice
the show must goes on, and no other choice
she stood to her bow

The Amateur Stargazer

In the myriad map of the skies,
Bright lights twinkle before my eyes;
Lost among the almighty maze,
I marvel to identify star from haze.

Do the celestial sparkles stand or move?
Those twinkling lights so hard to prove,
Seem to stretch and mysteriously change,
Perhaps slight cloud passing by strange.

I concentrate and signs vivify aloft,
The night is warm, the air is

Amateur

Poorly written words
are etched onto a raggedy 
sheet of paper.

They form into an ugly paragraph
unable to be deciphered 
by anyone older than five.


Finished up and turned in
to the teacher
where she smiles and honors it.

Injected confidence swells inside
an amateur mind
Plastic thoughts

Forming in the brain.
Positive thoughts of riches and fame
Childish dreams, impossible goals.

The smog of thought clouds
the

Amateur Girlfriend

Ok I'll get to the point 
I'm here with a list of fears, needs and demands
So I may get on your nerves sometimes
Truth is I don't know how to play this girlfriend game
I get needy and vulnerable and messy
You should know this

I'm not used to this dating thing so I might break a few rules
Like

Amateur Haircut

Sometimes just a trim; others, a drastic clip;
around-the-world trip with one mighty snip.
	
Children and scissors together, tempt fate;
by the time you check, it's already too late.

Like closing hen-house doors after the chicks are out;
no need to whimper, get angry or shout.

She's taken the scissors, achieved a slam dunk;
whacked her dog-ears off, leaving two stubby chunks.

Amateur Hour

alth(ough) you
fore(go) the
quid (pro) (quo) &
free th(row) a bouteille de
bor(deaux),
it is most certainly jonathan (doe)
with whom you be(stow) the
(crow) that swoops o’er the
(plateau) in the same
area (code) as your gothique
cha(teau) & still you wouldn’t
(know) how to (show) someone filled up
à ras bord avec (woe)---
rather than (glow) you’ll trust the ta(rot) &
manifest yourself accordingly be(low)
all standards

Amateur Saboteur

Best you had,
Now that’s sad.
Well I’m glad.
I’m no fad,
I’m ironclad.
You alright,
Not so bright.
Can’t you fight,
With this spite.
Where’s the might.
Times ago,
Now shadow.
Left me low,
In the snow,
You now owe.
I then die,
When I cry,
To the sky,
Up so high,
When you lie.
Why is she,
More than me?
You love thee,
I disagree.
Lone latchkey.
In this blur,
This you stir,
And occur.
Amateur,
Saboteur.

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