Best Presently Poems
saw blue peek out - yesterday.
what? you say:
i tawt i taw a puddy tat.*
i did! i did!*
and white and purple clouds,
for realz,*
can’t make this up.
and yet, today,
the sky is made of steel,
so back to
same old same old.*
at least the trees
remain in the same
bat time bat place*
and
i got you babe.*
1/31/2020
References to:
1.Warner Brothers Sylvester and Tweety Bird
2.1960’s Batman
3.Sonny and Cher song “I Got You Babe”
4.Miscellaneous slang
Professor Petal, one of Patrick’s prolific pals,
Professed he had a Pollyanna Predisposition
Properly pronouncing pronouns without perky p’s.
A pithy proclivity, providing pollution to Professor Petal’s pronunciations.
Prissy Professor Patty from Prestigious Prussian Planet Philisophi-university,
Precariously prickled, privately at Professor Petal’s Pronoun-predicament.
Prissy Patty promptly planned a plane trip to Professor Petal’s Pre-existing pub.
Where placidly placed, Professor Petal, prevailed as President of Porous Pool Table Pro.
Privacy prevailed, as Professor Patty, presently at Pub, perceived Professor Petal.
Prissy Patty, partook of Paradise Pop-In-Pink Parboils, as she patty-caked in the pub.
Prissy Patty was soon pretty Patty, and Petal took her home, a primed and perfect professor.
Plenty of preemptive laughs prevailed, as they both wondered what pronoun begins with a P anyway?
If we could apply all of our present technology,
to the social structure globally,
scientifically and humanly,
we would realize how ignorant and primitive we are living presently.
Just presently, I find that I'm alive,
And find that living's better than the grave...
Behold! I am! The Servant seeks to strive,
And knows that daily living tests the Brave!
I walk over mountains barefooted
I stand my heart posture beating, racing;
Toe in the desert sands;
Environment no conflict
My arms and hands raised
Shaped in the victory sign
I’m His, I’m a winner;
An old school beginner;
And I rely on my Father’s love;
… I stand tall in him beautiful always
Hallelujah
1/7/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
"We love the things we love for what they are". Hyla Brook, Robert Frost
When I fell in love with my bride of 49 years;
When I asked Her hand in marriage, and she said "Yes";
When we both said "I do", Never knowing what tomorrow would bring;
Or whether our skies would be grey or blue.
When I took her home and made her my own;
It was never about what I wanted her to become.
But all my love for her was about 'the presently'.
It was not about what she may have been yesterday.
It was not about who she might become tomorrow.
It was all about who and what she was on our wedding day.
093021PS
presently, the patch of an eye, one seeing,
the other believing; and the bite of a bunny
above a lip - such a dangerous deliverance.
presently, the Winter witch, pricks fingers,
which crack and throb, like patches of ice.
cream assuages the pain of little things.
presently, the stomach inhales, bales on
sweets and salts, assaults rabbit food.
thoughts do not linger; the word of God,
fingered, pondered, treasured, measured.
presently, a limp, no leap, pillow-high, ice
is nigh; yet the soul roams to and fro through
corridors; shadows lick the empty rooms.
presently, a bucket of rain, like a trick,
as soon as door is opened, it will splash
with sandwiches of turkey and ham.
presently, lingers the taste of cream
and coffee; the pause of four blue boxes -
of outhouse cubicles; morning silence.
presently, ticked off book after book - the fast,
the vainglorious, the betas, the unexpected bio.
presently, weighing the importance of time spent -
we must waste some of it, be amused, but up
our sleeves, we must have goals. They hurt
the mind, the chest - the needful nettling.
The dig for dinosaur bones; shedding of fat;
the rising, punching, and springing back
of an offering and sacrifice, willing and able.
presently, a silent war, yet it roars and stares,
cruelly divides, hinders closeness, with
rave reviews. it must refuse to speak, to avoid
a six feet deep spike; a cross, not garlic, keeps
at bay, the monsters of principality.
presently, at peace, harbor no ill will,
keep a lock on lips, needful, not subtle.
knees at ninety degrees. love cannot
ignore the issues, but solves the problems
with open and closed eyes; casts cares
at the Lord’s feet, for His know how.
presently, expounding, perspiring chills, reciting
and writing poetry. family tree will be fine.