Best Companions Poems

Tiny boardwalk along the Halifax River
Waiting to see what “catch” nature will deliver

Royal Palms’ fronds rustle in fall’s gentle breeze
No noisy distractions from teens on their jet skis 

Cute baby seagull swims above my fishing line
Unlike a pet, this bird doesn’t bark, bite or whine

He...

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HEROES

Near somber guards, units of children heap 
dead leaves, naive to any else fallen.
Friend, you chuckle, but your posture speaks
of duty on this day of contradictions.

Firefighters bow heads in silent paean, 
while polished trucks stand at attention.
Families have again answered the call
to attend this festival,...

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True Companions
	
	
	There’s a finite place 
	in a life’s ill-defined time, 
	an Alice-like membrane,
	if you will, when
	at the instant 
	of passing through,
	presence and absence 
	co-exist, life and death 
	are true companions.
	
	I know a thing or two 
	about this side,
	the presence from which 
	I write of 
		love...

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I love the love
The light
In other side, hate 
Is shadow
Over light...

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Life’s companions

With what Ghosts will I saunter down that last mile ?
How many ?, will keep me company, make me smile.

Fill these empty footsteps, yet, all the while,
make that journey one, forever to remember

long after it was terminated that fateful September.
A time when it became...

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Cold
  is the
    iron bench
      I sit upon,
        watching for you on
        this cool Autumn morning
      but...

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My only companions are my dreams
my only friends Who call out for me
their voices a melody for me to fallow
save me my friends from this Dark World

Wolfs teach me to be loyal and to fight the dark  
and when make love to the...

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**This is a special set of poetry written with my friend Justin Connor--we each wrote separate accounts of special companions. The ending verse we wrote together. These poems are meant to be one piece of work. **

Scarcely a year old, I remember with sad, sinking...

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Days passed and still we did not take him 
I was angry at everyone and stayed near his side
 But one day he had disappeared 
My heart skipped a beat as I searched the whole house
 Calling his name despondently
 Finally I heard a faint...

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The Tv is my constant companion and so
is my CD Player.
I view pre-recorded programs.
Find new programming to watch.
Change between certain channels.
Get caught up in Love-Hate 
sequences.  Comedy - Laughter too.
Rarely watch Sci-fi.  Watch the days
events - news.  Compare actual events 
with TV...

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A couple weeks before her fourteenth birthday,
 We knew something was wrong
 Peanut, who loved to eat above all else, suddenly turned down food
 To make it worse she was having trouble breathing
 I had urged my dad that we had to take her to...

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When I was little, I didn’t know what it was like to have a pet
Until the day my parents decided to bring Peanut home
 I remember it well, out of all the dogs we saw,
 Peanut was the one who stood out
A newborn puppy, so...

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Ice Cream Companions An Acrostic by James E Lee Sr.


Indefatigable brownies ingest eaten with chocolate cake.
Chewy candies treat nuts and cherries.
English toffees mixed in milk and cream boysenberries?

Crude digests absorb ate to fast brain freeze.
Red strawberries absorb flavor.
Edible earths erode moo cow liquids.
Adjacent frozen earths...

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As the night is consumed by crimson mist, I stand surrounded by all manner of nefarious foes, both human and demon, living and dead as I stand my eyes burn with draconic flame I feel the lust ,the lust for blood and vengeance revenge for...

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Getting up early to embark on a trip,
a snowy drive to Jersey.
Trying to quell my heart's rapid beats,
favored songs in my speakers.

"Hey man, I don't want to be alone,
not for this - not again."
"I've got you, bud -
when and where?"

Visiting his grave one more time,
now...

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