A wet Robin
Argues with the chilled worms
Dutch Treat
Hans tried this save as a tike -
Episodic finger in the Holland-days dike.
Not afraid to swim.
See-through stranger didn’t spook him.
Friendly Casper scared the boo out of all,
Spared the scaredy-cats with a window y’all.
They see through the glass magnified fishes.
The aquarium, a dutch treat for all their wishes.
8/30/2021
not for contest
Casper the Friendly Ghost episode: Dutch Treat
Down beat
Delete
Mistrust
All bust
Mesquite
Mincemeat
Charge sheet
Complete
Red heat
Concrete
Timesheet
to-beat
Upbeat
Un sweet
puffed wheat
dutch treat
off beat
spreadsheet ?
8/13/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018
Coffee Like His Women
Coffee like women Trump likes sweet
Each purpose he has will self-defeat
Bound for failure and never succeed
And definitely born a restless breed
Wherever he will go is Dutch treat.
Jim Horn
End Up Going Down the Drain
Have you heard nature trying to call
Went out and wrote poem off the wall
About fool flying into wide open space
Searching for human race all over the place.
I really had begun to blow my big stack
Said that human race I was trying to track
We found was going forward and very fast
Wondering how long human race would last.
Poems we put on fast forward had left behind
Designed for you to have much peace of mind
Would poem of mine actually get out of line
And while writing it we did wine and dine.
Desire to write poem had an urgent urge
Desire to do it out of my mind did purge
There was the desire lying before my feet
And when we did, it was done Dutch treat.
Will write poem in exchange for one of yours
And if throughout eternity yours endures
Will put off writing poem so we can wait
Trying to see the one that will be great.
Oh my goodness and what here on earth
None only nothing at all were my poems worth
Over whole world wanted my poems to reign
All they did was end up going down the drain.
James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
You want equality so our dates are going to be Dutch Treat.
When we go to restaurants, you will pay for what you eat.
When we go to the movie theater, you will pay for your popcorn and movie ticket.
If you don't like having to spend your own cash, tough, you know where you can stick it.
Don't expect me to pull out chairs and open doors for you.
You want equality so those are things that you will have to do.
You don't want to have to pay your own way so you're starting to shout.
Now you're holding your breath like a child and you just passed out.
You've finally regained consciousness after behaving like a four year old would act.
You won't convince me to foot the entire bill and you'd better believe that's a fact.
When we go on dates, it will be 50/50, the person who pays your way won't be me.
You're angry even though you're getting what you want, you're getting equality.
I wonder if the homes in Venice
Have Venetian blinds;
Or if their window panes are topped
With shades of different kinds?
Are English muffins eaten
By the British with their tea?
Would Parisians recognize French toast?
I doubt they’d answer “Oui!”
If, in Amsterdam, I told you
That our meal would be Dutch treat,
Would a local understand we’d split
The cost of what we’d eat?
I’d be curious, in Leningrad,
If folks would start to sweat,
If I pulled a gun, suggesting
That we play Russian roulette?
In Istanbul, perhaps they’d think
That I was rather daffy
If I visited each candy shop
In search of Turkish taffy.
To Americans, such adjectives
Are charming and unique,
But I wonder if, to foreigners,
They might seem tongue-in-cheek.
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