Icon Poems

A Warner Brothers Icon

Bugs Bunny
was New York smartass funny:
he showed no fondness for parrots,
but was well-disposed towards carrots.

Icon

I dislike to change
my picture or my icon
you knew what I meant

A Once Beloved Icon

I remember only eight years in the past
A once beloved icon shocked a nation
Instantly he became an outcast
disrupting the flow, the Cheeto now hated

A business tycoon with many failures turned successes
Strong, bombastic and not the most polished speaker
Vitriol ensues but he endures the endless stresses
becoming a captivating political leader

To some he was Americas champion, strong

My Brush With An Icon

Jackie Robinson and I go way way back
To the spring of nineteen forty-six
A Montreal ballpark on a April afternoon
The day the world was transfixed

The colour barrier that existed in baseball
Was about to come crashing down
After many decades of ugly discrimination
Jackie would become renowned

It would take a special kind of individual
To withstand all the slurs and

Leslie Neilson- Laughs, Knee Slaps and Good For the Soul Eyerolls

Leslie Neilson
Straight faced reveals a pun
But what surely made him squirrely
They wouldn't stop calling him Shirley

Leslie Neilson
Armed with wit and naked gun
Genius buffoonery unparalleled
Save for what Peter Seller's Clueso upheld

Leslie Neilson
Dracula loving it as a dead one
Giving Renfield insect currency
And causing Mel brooks an emeRRRgency

Leslie Neilson
A parody on the run
Of spoofery not wrongfully accused
Only keeping

Ode To a Female Folk Icon

Joan Chandos Baez is an American singer
Eighteen years old, first of the later date 
protest folk singers
Famous before Bob Dylan!

Songwriter, musician, and activist. 
Folk music of protest and social justice, 
in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, 
workers' rights, and the environment
Made over 30 albums 
Fluent in Spanish and English,
recorded songs in at least 
six

Canadian Icon, Emily Carr

 
"Art is art, nature is nature you cannot improve upon it ...
Pictures should be inspired by nature but made of the soul
of the artist.  It is the soul of the individual that counts."

              _ Emily Carr, Canadian Artist and Author,

Taylor Hawkins

Taylor Hawkins: Foo-Fighters 

Yesterday my heart was broken
to news which I’d awoken
Such a tragedy and untimely loss  
And now a new road you cross
Your musical spirit and infectious laughter 
will live on with all of us forever after 

All shouting: Condolences to your family
Thoughts are with you, 
An iconic drummer
Rest In Beats!
1972-2022

Written 3/27/22

Last of the Rhyme

You'll put up a statue
and say I'm a poet
When all of you worship
what I'll never know it

And go on to rhyming
what's left in the moment
When statues are showing
the glow of the loment

And I'll be impressed
when the honor is mine
And the statues are tumbling
for the last of the rhyme

Ironic Icon

Write on my gravestone.

It was a typing mistake.

Not a random skip.

Rather, it dropped correctly.

Was neater than other lines.

Indian Elephants

Indian Elephants are listed as, endangered
They are a cultural icon, in India and throughout Asia
traveling migratory routes, while eating grasses, bark, leaves and roots 
to maintain the integrity of their habitat, that gives them prosperity 

Indian Elephants, spend up to 19 hours feeding a day
with a production of about, 220 pounds of dun per day
traveling

American Beauty

Hair golden like the suns rays, 
Figure that was va-va-voom,
That wiggle when you walked,
Men stared women frowned,
That beauty spot was not needed, 
Acting like a dumb blond,
Not dumb, nor blond a redhead she was,
Actress and sex symbol,
Talented through and through,
She died to young,
Legend, icon remembered by everyone,
Murder, accident or suicide,
We will never know,
Norma jean remembered.

Marilyn

Marilyn, Little Girl Lost.
.
Little girl lost
who never grew up
burdened throughout her short life
by a lack of her Mothers love.
Thrown into the limelight
beauty made her a star
loved by everyone
but never felt good enough
so insecure
Longed for a family
always searching for true love.
She became a pin-up
and every man's dream
because of her alluring beauty
femininity and sensuality
hiding the real person

An Icon

She
                                               nurtures
       

Visual Icon Commonly Blue-

Oh! commonly blue 
royalty purple you 
how can I surmise 
or even be surprised
 by your cavalier
Jonty fair 
debonair
 plush
 you must
 be courteous imagery
 ion a visual icon

10/16/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020

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