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Linky is really cool
He teaches at a school
Linky has swag
but he does not brag
Linky is the best
So we do well on the test
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I knew it from the very beginning
Loving you was a mistake
And so I learned something new
Not to love someone like you.
But like lessons learned in school
Sometimes we forget
That's why until now
I still do the same mistakes.
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My best friend is my secret valentine
All through high school he was my only crush
It would be dream if I could make him mine
Being in his presence gives such a rush
Telling how I feel must be genuine
But I can't, I need a glass of red wine
1-24-17
Contest: A Rhyme In 60
Sponsor: Laura Loo
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Just like the countdown before Christmas
I’ve experienced these things a hundred times
15, 14, 13, 12, 11,
Giddy bubbles rise through my stomach
at the thought of a movie I’ve seen twice before.
My legs tremble as I walk
the same path I take to school each morning.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6,
Always counting down to moments of bliss.
A thousand flavours in the market,
but all I want to taste is you.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0
And then it starts all over again.
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It Was Just An Another Summer Day For You And I,
But For Them It Was A Day They'll Never Forget.
It Was Just A Party For Her Friends,
But For Her It Was Night What Dreams Are Made Of.
It Was Just Another Boring School Day For His Classmates,
But For Him He Nearly Lost The One He Loved.
It Was Just Typical Work Day For People In The City,
But For Him It Was Just Another Day Watching Her Lifeless Body.
It Was Just An Another Wet November Day,
But For Both Them They Got Their Lives Back.
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Silly little lost boy
Who thinks he's all grown
Who's graduated school
Who's moved away from home
The same little lost boy
Who cried to me last night
Saying that he's lonely
That he's not alright
Silly little lost boy
Blames himself for being alone
You can always come to me
Always come home
Silly little lost boy
You can't control the way you feel
The emotion is there
The pain is so real
Silly little lost boy
I am here till the end
To stand right beside you
To be your best friend
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The sun shining on a sunny day is dull,
compared to your handsome face.
You complete and make heart so full,
I can't resist your style and grace.
All the stars in the heavens are a few
when it comes to how I feel about you.
Each day I fall in love with you again,
I enjoy each new facet of you.
The way you look at makes me giddy like
a school girl, falling head of heals for the
first time.
I look forward to spending a lifetime with
you my darling.
I said all that to say, Merry Christmas my
love……
Alexis Y.
12/13/19
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I do not know?
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Wears untidy clothes in a school,
Geez he’s a guy who can’t be so uncool.
Has everything but can’t be ill boastful.
Secretly good mate who seem to be thoughtful.
Bad kid when he’s mad.
Bet he’ll never ever make you so sad.
Doesn’t even care of his skin…
Has it all but can’t be overacting.
Sitting with royals in a city,
Making all things little bit easy.
Though he may vary from the others…
Never hear bad things when he utters.
Simple as someone else…
Easy to get along with everyone else.
Like him for being do down to earth,
Rich kid who has all humbled wealth.
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The Wildcats was the mascot,
The elementary school just a couple of blocks away
I would walk to school hand in hand with my mother,
Waving goodbye as I disappeared through the gates.
The playground was huge,
Blacktop for miles and miles,
The swing set was my favorite,
Named it Henry, I would
Talk to Henry in my head,
He was always interested in what I had to say,
Whatever classroom tidbit I had to offer.
If someone cut their hand with a scissor,
Or if that kid made that teacher go red in the face again.
Henry would sit there, willingly,
As I tried to touch the sky with my tip-toes.
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In all honesty.
I guess I never did really know you.
I knew the basics:
Your favorite colors,
Your favorite rapper,
Your height,
Your fears,
And even some secrets
But what I didn’t know was
How your face looked after waking up in the morning
Or
Your reaction to awkward sex scenes in movies
Or even
The way you walk down the halls in school
I’ll never know this
I’ll never know what you think about late at night
When the world is asleep and
Its only you and your mind
I’ll never know what makes you cry,
Or what makes you laugh.
I never got to know you.
You never let me in.
ANH
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He's grown up now,
Has become a little man,
Time for some independence,
Yet, there is that longing...
to be a little one again,
to be the centre of attention,
to be fed by his mother,
to be safe within the four walls of home...
He doesn't want to grow up so fast,
Not yet...
He wishes to savour his freedom
for some more time,
He wishes to go back to playing all the time
with no restraints,
At the same time, he also wishes to make new friends
in his new school...
With conflicting feelings in his heart,
He steps into this new adventure,
this new phase -
The school phase.
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It was fall when we thought we had it all
Two people: one innocent, the other not.
A red dress shirt for your interview
A grey uniform for my new school.
Staring into your deep crystal blue eyes
I wouldn't have ever guessed you'd be my vice.
You had bad intentions that I was to blind to see
thinking that you're the one for me.
Smoke filled my lungs when you were around
My heart beat quickened
feeling your fingertips trace my skin
Its been two years
and I don't know where you are.
I wonder if you still think of me
when you're sitting by the fire, tracing the stars.
I hope you are well,
I'll be missing you.
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January calling me;
It’s placing me on a frozen-plane;
Flying me to an icy place;
In my life, in my life;
Woo a woo oh and when I come down;
I’ll like on a blanket of snow;
And I’ll be already to go, go again ready to so I’ll be ready to go again;
January keeps calling me;
February and all seems so fine;
Until I have to use my mind;
And I won’t have to wait in the park;
And play with the other children at dark;
Woo a a woo oh and when I come down;
In my life, in my life;
January
Written words & arranged music by James E Lee
Produced & Arranged by the Corinthian©1972
From the short story play “12 Months of May”©
"written at North High School/Omaha Ne. 1971 Creative Writing class"
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Darling it’s true,
I know I never said it to you,
So here’s a letter only meant for you,
For its time to tell you,
That I have a crush on you.
Though you are my desk partner,
And we talk all day,
These little conversations,
Just make my day.
I love the way you smile,
Every time you look at me,
Shivers run down my spine.
It’s been a while,
A few months at least,
I have fallen or you,
You have taken away my breath.
I admire the way,
You live just for today,
I feel we should spend more time away,
I hope you like me one day.
One last thing left to say,
Will you be my date on Friday?
There’s a little place,
I would like you to take,
Down by the lake,
Just you, me and a cake.
(February 2nd 2019)
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Photography & Comments by Rico Leffanta
Rico comments:
February 13, 2012
Hula hands should tell the story, but who is watching her hands?
February 7, 2012
Finally finished processing Punahou School Carnival photos and think this one
is outstanding when one considers the photographer is pre-WWII vintage, not George Clooney!
June 21, 2011
Tasty Susan may hide from the sun, but she is still hot!
— with Susan Lawrence.
Forget-Me-Not For Rico Leffanta
Poets love defines as does your photography
Screening feme fatal like it's a mammography
Blissful images erected
Virility unaffected
Observing what nature offers in demography
Hang loose Rico!
Mahalo
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As I think about all the times, I thought about letting you know how I feel; I was terrified because I didn't want to risk our friendship. We have been friends since grade school. But once I reached puberty, my feelings for you started to shift. They came crashing around my heart like a mack truck. Did I always have feelings for you and too young to understand such feelings? As time went on, I knew you never saw me as anything but a best friend/sister. So I pushed my feelings aside because I just wanted you to stay in my life. But now you are about to walk down the aisle in two days. My heart breaks, and there is something I have to say, I love you with all my heart. Please don’t marry her…..
With my love,
Your Best Friend
01/07/2021
Contest:My Last Love Letter
Sponsor:Mystic Rose
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A phrase we’re all familiar with
I write about today
In slightly different context
my words come out to play
For in my house there dwells a pup
who bears a fleece of gold
A tongue of pink for kisses
a paw he’ll let you hold
Retriever is his trait by name
He never gets the blues
He’s much too busy chasing balls
and hiding grandma’s shoes
His eyes so brown and gaze so deep
could melt the coldest heart
The fluffiest companion
and oh, did I say smart
Yet I digress, back to that phrase
I’ll take you all to school
For in my house, treats on demand
That is “The Golden Rule”
For
Monte, My beautiful Golden Retriever
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By Laura Dee Battle
January 3, 2015
Match these lights to forgotten memories
Make the sea so carefully calm and hum along
The silence makes me itch away the misery
Be still, my dear, and speak the words you know are wrong
Don't think too much about the truth
It's been refracted in your looking glass
Can't you feel the deceiving voices from our youth?
Pass the trees and merrily decay the lessons you learned in class
School can't give you ways to finally be free
Under duress I stress your shining rebel soul
Make it loud enough to drown out your crystal clarity
Sleep tonight my dear, so we can find the morning light it stole
Come hide away with me in dreams you cannot see
But I can take you there where people never stare
In the place where we filter out the rapture of our memories
Survive the moment and live a single day free of despair
Tonight, tonight...
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Wings, as black as night
Casting shadows on light
Always, always tapping
Disturbing those napping
Tapping, tapping at a chamber door
He never knew why I came
Only hoping for something sane
Hoping for lost Lenore?
Nameless here forever more
For I shall come, ah nevermore
Nevermore be my name
And with death I came
To tame
His depression, but for him it is all the same
Now I stand on bust and Pallas
Exposing nothing but Malice
He quivers on the ground
As if listening for the sound
Of tapping
The cold air of December
Cooled each proud ember
As he soon remember
The soul of lost Lenore
Nameless for him evermore
But he thinks me a demon
Or, a craven
But I am only a Raven
From the Night's Plutonian shore
The shadows of my wings adore
But a Raven I am
Nothing More!
Set this proud man's troubled soul free
For only then shall he be
With the radiant maiden whom the angel's name Lenore
Nameless, Nevermore!
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mama why must I be alone;
all of the other girls got there boy and gone;
with me left here all alone;
is it because my looks haven't shown;
some call me homely;
the reason why I'm lonely;
The cuteness of my black sisters
Whom which loves each and everyone of their misters
Why must I be alone
Oh, Lord, mama is there a boy for me
I wear bifocal glasses
I hide in the back of my classes
Everyone talks to the beauty queen
Oh, I wish I was one of them
tell me why I must now cry
For a boy I want to say honey "I'll be yours, I'll be your guy
My, my, my why....
The cuteness of my black sisters
Whom which loves each and everyone of there misters
Why must I be alone
Oh, Lord, mama is there a boy for me
tell me why I must now cry
For a boy I want to say honey "I'll be yours, I'll be your guy
My, my, my why....
Mama is there a boy for me
10/11/70
written by James Edward Lee©1970
written @ North High School in 1970 in creative writing english class
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Alexandrine
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Dear Son
We haven't met yet, Well not per-say,
First think I want to say,
Know that with my heart I love you,
I love you with my whole heart and soul,
I know that i haven't seen you yet,
Don't fret you'll be one charmer of a guy,
I hope your first words are daddy,
That would make your mother cry,
She is here too,
she thinks you can hear her even though your no bigger than an eye,
I heard her sing you a song,
I had to try and convince her that
dust flew in my eye,
Truth it made me cry,
I'm trying to be poetic,
I'm as good as cat in the hat,
After that I'm no good,
For you my first, my only,
The poetry I speak is truth,
My dearest son I'd be crushed
if anything happens to you,
I can't wait to teach you catch,
Mom says school comes first,
I'm jumping the gun,
We haven't even met in person,
My only begotten son,
I know this might sound weird,
I know you already, I don't know how,
I don't know why, I just know it's true,
Dear Son I love you.
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When I was young what child is this
My memory of my childhood, I can go back to when I was four
Mostly walking but yet crawling on the floor, I was mostly good
When I was young I had fun, Sitting on the kitchen floor
Me and my brother beating pots and pans, as my father comes in the door
Believe it or not he could have been another Stevie Wonder
When I was young what child is this
When I was young I would watch my brother
Even though I was the youngest, we had no other
Person to watch him see, he had a condition he didn't deserve it
When I was young there was a lot of cartoons
Cowboys and westerns weekends and afterschool
We had a small house with plenty of room, three bedroom house one bathroom
When I was young my parents worked daily
I went to school some in the early years, in fear
I mainly stayed and watched my brother
For you see we had a slight problem
He was birth blind and retarded
This is how my delinquency started
When I was young what child is this
10/14/2017
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My favorite verse from THE soft rock song of my youth
Hit song of 1969 by the Carpenters:
(They Long To Be) Close To You
(middle stanza of the song)
"On the day that you were born
the angels got together and decided
to create a dream come true
so they sprinkled moon dust in your hair
of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue."
Dream Boy
To fall for him I needed just one look
and after that, he had me on his hook -
a fact which I’m not sure he even knew!
Dream boy with hair of gold and eyes of blue.
I lived for those church dances in his town.
I’d see him there but always feel let down.
Girls followed him around. What could I do?
Dream boy with hair of gold and eyes of blue.
Not being in his orbit or his school,
I longed for him and simply played the fool.
The fantasy for me would not come true!
Dream boy with hair of gold and eyes of blue.
Dedicated to Chris Frogley, wherever now he may be.
For the "I Love Rock 'N roll" Poetry contest of Kelly Deschler
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I first caught a glimpse of you at school on the bottom of the stairwell. Your eyes were so blue they literally made my heart melt. You gazed at me deeply but I turned away quickly because I couldn’t picture a you and me.
A week after that you told me you liked me. I laughed at the idea of someone thinking I was pretty. We talked all day, through the twilight of the night. All I could think about was the color of your eyes.
You had me head over heels. Just the thought of your name couldn’t keep me still. Your touch was so warm it calmed all of my storms. You were such a smooth talker, which drew me in more because I was a writer.
Yet still I didn’t think you were the one. My friends tried to convince me ‘til my ears drew numb. Still I didn’t understand why I liked you, as you were quiet young.
I never drew interest to boys with light colored eyes and a curly topped head. But your soul had something different. Different from the rest.
I felt this was destined to create a huge mess. But when I’m with you, I feel my absolute best.
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He was so dull and lazy
Frightened and hazy
Never was able to mingle with others
And he knows that he always suffers
Tries to avoid the school
Does not like to be called a fool
He was not that much responsible
For his behavior so intolerable
That is his form of a character
Anyways, it does not matter
And his father passed away early
When he was a 2-year old baby
Mother always was worried
About his studies
A small business she was running
Needs her only son to get going
And people make fun
Of her hapless son
So much obscure the childhood, is unbelievable
As childhood is indeed enjoyable
But for him it is a curse
Six years later he changed gears
He decided to work hard to improve
He yearned for, something to prove
That he can do it
He started to look fit
For he concentrated hard on studies
And completed even the medical studies
He is now a famous Doctor
And a pediatrician for that matter
His was the worse childhood
And for him a bright future stood
He is now enjoying his life
He has kids from a beautiful wife
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