Football Poems

I met him when I was young
He was always puzzling, a confusion
Causing me to wonder at my ideas
And making me dread my fears

He was the best football player
And had all the right moves with ladies
I happened to be one of...Read More

Sometimes he feels like a museum on
a Monday - empty, desolate, withdrawn
from the celestial library where not 
yet written prose and poetry are stored.
A sleep-deprived, he walks around the rooms,
he curses rhymes and rhythms, he assumes
a pledge to give it...Read More

On November 28th a Turkey will land on your plate
Mashed potato's and gravy and New York's parade
Football watching while wife and mother cooking
Sitting in the easy chair beer belly hanging over

While little children laying in a hospital not knowing
If they...Read More

THE WAX CRIES WITH HAPPINESS

Mom’s up early with the plucked bird, stuffing it.
The bare rinsed butterball, portions for six.
All day our mouths water, stomachs pitching a fit,
as we wait for the skin to crisp...delicious drumsticks.

Potatoes peeled and pressured, mashed, stirred
with...Read More

Go Football!

Hope is undefeated.
Faith is the cheering section
Joy is playing together.
God is everything.
Jesus is Savior, also Our Quarterback.
The Mighty Holy Spirit with us even now. 
We are never alone. 
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( A Childhood Feast )

Remembering back to Thanksgiving, I`ll never forget those years
Back when I was ten years old, when I never had much fears
Driving over to Grandma`s house, so excited to eat some food
She always put a smile on...Read More

Fellowship with families and friends 
Smells hint of mint Evergreen 
Cooking from the women spices 
So nice 
Pies and cakes 
Turkeys and ham, vegetable stock 
Hear the rumble and cheers from dad and all the males 
As they smear at...Read More

This chap from the States, just asked me to write, a poetic collaboration,
I was asleep, it is quite late at night, no time for a rhymed dissertation.
I thought to myself, what a spiffing idea, for we speak the same lingo...Read More

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This chap from the States, just asked me to write, a poetic collaboration,
I was asleep, it is quite late at night, no time for a rhymed dissertation.
I thought to myself, what a spiffing idea, for we speak the same lingo...Read More

The mind tells the body
The body then moves
If the mind doesn’t hear sounds
The body doesn't move

How loud do these sounds have to be
Drinking beer while watching football 
Not moving an inch
A voice I hear a yonder

Faint as a whisper
Take out...Read More

Our champion, Billy, was adored,
Unless, of course, he hadn't scored.























November 3 2019
"Pithy Pome" - Maureen McGreavy...Read More

How thankful can one woman really be? Is there a limit to how deep gratitude flows- a way to measure how much love I hold in my heart for my family? Forty-years of Thanksgiving meals shared next to the ones...Read More

October Suns

October suns are Scorpio suns
still fueled by Libra’s heat.
Orange pumpkin light in tons
won’t step on Sagittarian feet.

October suns are Saturday’s fun
red morn, yellow noon, gold eve.
Football cheers and hurdles won
silhouettes of things achieved.

October suns are brilliant ones
bright to turn...Read More

Two men
drinking beer
at their local
discussing the football.
Gay bar....Read More

When someone that you love dies
Its easy to blame yourself for their death

Even if you were nowhere around when they died
Its easy to find something in the past 
some wrong that you did to blame yourself

The police report read that...Read More

Make a milestone involving 1700 miles from the Sacramento Valley to Mid-Western USA. Build a memory with mountain highs, beautiful scenery, 
sunshine, and blue skies every single day. We did not understand why there  were starless skies, but we...Read More

I could never figure out how
One day a girl had breast
And the next day she didn’t, 
Did they think we didn't notice?

Why did I always find my socks
In my sisters bedroom 
Why is it someone would tell you
A girl liked...Read More

It begins when the weather is hot;
Whether you like it or not.
The air is full of orange and brown,
And is football shaped all around.

You may hear a whistle as you pass a lot.
In the middle of colors of schools.
Blue and...Read More

This person is so mean
it is a shame to be this grouchy
sometimes wondering why is this?
it just seems so misleading
what is really going on?
lack of fun?
how can you feel this way most of the time?
you're doing okay financially, without losing...Read More

October-Football Player

passing, throwing, catching,
receiving, holding, running,  
close to scoring I got the ball running mis-tackled-Touchdown!




10/16/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
VERB VERSE Poetry Type






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Happy

Sunday dishes, 
done by hand. 
The washer put to rest. 

No football, yes that is what I said. (But I have it backed up for you.)
No phone, no digital intrusion…
to take center stage from the day,
to steal what is not...Read More

I once had a boss with a twitch -
his head wasn't still for a sec
and jerked to the left all the time
(a wonder it stayed on his neck).
The guy was a terrible bore
and wasn't the nicest I've met,
but 'footie' was...Read More

Hooray For October



Pumpkin patches, Halloween, 
Crunchy leaves of brown
Cool mornings, bond fires,
and the best haunted houses in town
Hooray for October
  

Fall festivals, cool nights,
pep rally's and football,
Breaks from school, ghost stories,
branch filled trees, and the beginning of fall
Hooray for...Read More

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Repetition


by Edmund Siejka


In the window 
He caught a glimpse of his reflected face
Pale from being indoors
Day after day.

Something made him think about 
Way back when
Was it the smell of cheap food? 
Or a sudden bell like noise?
That brought him back...Read More

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