Oh! lemonade I shall drink you tonight
On this so heated hot hot scorched so night
Invade my scorching body temperate I
Always dreaming about you at luncheons noon
.
Let me compare you to a drink Cafe
cold breeze flaps the pleasing dancers of May
Ice cubes in my glass glistening it cries
Ah! gulp, gulp, gulp down my parched throat so soon
~
Drink is now gone I have swallowed so up
Whole fresh-made lemonade icing last cup
4/27/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2020
A horribly deep rest
awaits for those depressed.
Volodymyr Knyr
2017
Sifting Through Loss
My dad left this world,
And it kept all his possessions
I'm forced to go through all his belongings
Every box is heartbreaking
The memories are so close
I'm the only child of an only child
My dads life in boxes, I can't believe
I wasn't ready for him to leave
All I can do is stare a the boxes piled
His shoes, his drawings
Everything's here except him
It's so personal
I feel like I'm bleeding tears
I feel so horribly sad
August 31, 2016
Contest: Challenge - Write One
A man became CEO of a corporation, that was his job.
He became a millionaire and that turned him into a snob.
He bragged because he had several million dollars in the bank.
He needed to be taken down a peg so we decided to pull a prank.
My friend and I put a dead rattlesnake in his briefcase.
When he opened it, we wanted to see the look on his face.
When he saw the snake, he collapsed and died of a heart attack.
Our prank went horribly wrong and I'd give anything if we could take it back.
We didn't want him to die, that was something that we sure didn't intend.
Now we can't forgive ourselves because we caused a life to come to an end.
(This is a fictional poem.)
Many things to myself I have thought
Here in Carolina it is so horrible hot
Yet humming birds still come to out door
Looking for food and trying to seek more.
Have spent all of my money and am broke
And someday soon I will eventually croak
Lots of things I will have left behind
Within sight or may be hard to find.
Look for a long time and try and see
If there was someone following me
To heaven when I was on a true course
And behind will never leave any remorse.
So happy on earth my wife still will stay
Then here in heaven she'll be here one day;
We will look behind and take one long last
Look at all that had happened in our past.
James Thomas Horn
Retired Veteran
Ready to go trick or treat
Disguised in attire I hit the street
I was the helpful nurse
With medicine to disburse
His eye on me, he fell over his feet
So there he lay, flat on his face
Another medical case
Everyone looked at me
The nurse wanna be
Needless to say I wish for hidden space
So instead of trick or treat
I ended up on a whole different beat
Next to a hospital bed
Having to hold his hand instead
And I didn’t even get a sweet
2nd place
HALLOWEEN LIMERICK CONTEST
Sponsored by: JOHN FREEMAN
casting out my line
to catch the favored one
only a shoe lured
The northern lights A Butt-whack And A Prayer To Mom And The Albatross
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