“Don’t quit your daydream” whispered the butterfly to the furry caterpillar,
“Before you know it you will have masterful wings."
“Don’t quit your daydream” said the carpenter to child with blocks on the floor,
“Before you know it you will be building magical play places, towers and houses.”
“Don’t quit your daydream” said the artist to the broken crayon on the floor,
“I will make you the star color on my coloring book page.
“Don’t quit your daydream” said the choir director to her class of edger kids.
“You will vocalize the music that will make many happy today and evermore."
“Don’t quit your daydream” said the miner to the lumps of coal in his sack,
You have gold running in your veins that will make sparkly jewelry
“Don’t quit your daydream” said the trucker to the boy playing with toy trucks."
“One day you will drive with the big boys on the open roads."
Don't quit your daydream no matter how impossible it may seem,
When given the proper time to grow, it can do great things.
Categories:
edger, child, dream,
Form: Couplet
NEIGHBORS GRASS-
I have a neighbor who’s a man’s man;
He has every tool;
he needs in his garage and shed;
He has a lawn vac
A regular lawn mower
A leaf blower
A snow blower
He has a riding lawn mower
And an gas powered lawn edger
I say he has everything a man could ask for and yes, sir…
He has the greenest, flattest, prettiest lawn in a square mile
Isn’t no dandelions anywhere
12/15/19
Written word by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
Written for class December 12, 2019, 2019 assignment (WIPS)
North Omaha Writers Group (NOW)
Categories:
edger, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
verse 1
Let me hold you, let me love you
I believe in you, you're forever true
And I am forever enthralled in you
Hopelessly, undying my soul cries out for you
You've been hurt by others before but I'm not those men
Come here allow me to comprehend views
Allow me to love you
verse 2
Let me hold you, let me love you
Allow me to to all for you
It may be forgotten and old fashion
I even ask you father in person for your hand in marriage
Hopelessly, undying my soul cries out for you
You've been hurt by others before but I'm not those men
Come here allow me to comprehend views
Allow me to love you
Reframe
and I go on my way, I say to you this day
I will never, ever hurt you
for I do and it's true forever and always love you
Oh! I'm not perfect man just a good one
For gracious I am edger to be called by your father son
Hopelessly, undying my soul cries out for you
You've been hurt by others before but I'm not those men
Come here allow me to comprehend views
Allow me to love you
Hopelessly, undying my soul cries out for you
Allow me to love you
11/21/17
written by James Edward Lee Sr.
Categories:
edger, for her, for him,
Form: Lyric
All outside is white as snow,
except for Edgar Allen's crow.
Quietly and so serene,
till Edgar Allen's crow does scream.
Waking me from peaceful dreams,
to hatred in the night.
Now I know all Edgar Allen's,
madness in his write.
Stalkingly he walks the window,
pecking on the vane.
Now I know why Edgar Allen,
wrote of things insane.
Tis not a raven in my head,
that drives me to these words.
But this blackened beast which will not cease,
hes such a noisy bird.
I scream and shoo but he don't move,
seems fear he does not know.
Hes not a the raven that I think,
hes Edgar Allen's Crow.
saint cynosure ( Ken Bennight )
Categories:
edger, imagination, me,
Form: Rhyme