Best Up In The Air Poems

Grrrr WOMEN they drive me mad!


We were due to go on holiday
My wife said she was on her way
I’d got the car engine running 
I waited
and waited
and waited



But my wife Marcie was on the phone to her mom
Marcie had INSISTED her mother lived in our...

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Away Up In The Air

My nights are oh so lonely
Now that you are gone
I miss your smile...your touch
I've no one to lean upon
I gaze upon the Heavens
Hoping to see you there
The skies are dark and dreary
But I know you're there somewhere

So I send you tender...

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Taken under
The wing of a butterfly
Soaring over trouble
Living free
Without any worries
Without any pain
Guided by the wind
Reaching the warmth of the sun
Happy to be alive...

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Oh, the Fourth of July for a kid is a blast,
Though today not so much as it was in the past,
“Cherry Bombs” and “M80s” my faves when a kid,
And our throwing “Torpedoes” not all that we did.

“Roman Candles” shoot colored balls up in the air,
Blast...

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Sun taste smells the sounds; 
As Winter Winds torn morning Luna Eclipse;
Mountain ranges embrace the clouds;
As the evening night light stars shifts;
Oh! A lovely beautiful Witness;
Encapsulating Starlight breezes;
   thus ever so fair these things up in the air...

9/8/19
Written words by James Edward Lee...

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