Picks Poems

Basketball Picks

Untimely was Hamilton Hicks
In making his basketball picks.
He knew it all well,
How each bracket fell,
But always too late with his clicks.

Harry Picks up Sheryl from the Airport

Sheryl had never been a fan of public affection.
Harry knew this, but he was hoping.
When they parted she had used the term “boy next door”.
He saw that as a brush off.

She had been attending college for four months.
He had offered to pick her up from the airport.
He was hoping her feelings had changed.
Sheryl’s heart slammed

A Dead Letter Picks Up Its Stone Bed and Talks

Departed poems in a gray post-dated heaven
clatter wings together like hens in a jailers coop.
Words never die, they bury themselves in
heaps of dry leaves, distant laughter scatters
the sadly said.

Muse-makers wear plastic rainhats
that flutter like bats in the sunlight.
Words have to be tied together
or they sink alone in an empty fish bowl.
Japanese girls in designer Nike's
skip

My Mother Picks Winners

There is an angry big-mouthed monster living in my room.
I tried to discourage him, chased him off with mop and broom.
He grinned his ugly broken teeth at me and gave me grief.
This story gets a lot worse, so I doubt I can be brief.

His name is Rufus Dufus and he eats up all my snacks.
He

Mauve Picks a Winner

Spindly stretching brambles rebel from main form
    Amused bending stems eject spikes of rhino horn
    Thorns barely a repellent for birds resourceful
    Tweezer glowing twilight globe, a bitter morsel


    Fresh field alien green cone births berry's infant
    Chantilly lace pale

Farmer Comes and Picks My Corn-

County country corn
Grown naturally from the farm
Picked and stock, shucked and plucked
Crop has been givin up
There’s a new plow spaced aged somehow
I’m sure hungry now farmers come git mi corn plowed

10/23/21
 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2021©
 Idyll (Idyl)

O Limb Picks

Yamamoto Miki has a face
That stands out in a crowd anyplace
She looks like the fairy
Who charms Londonderry
With visions of ethereal grace

Whose Mine Embracer-She Picks Me Up

She look down upon me
Chosen love filled eyes
She reached down beside me
Touched my thigh

She gently kissed me on my forehead
As she lowered her body toward me
She gently grasped me with her hands
Embrace me in her arms

She picked me up ever so touching
You think she was my lover

When in fact
In awe
All actuality
SHE WASN'T MY LOVER
I'm not

A God Who Picks Me Up-

God I have fallen from the sky,
Will you carry me
God I am hungry
Will you fill my soul
Lord, Father I'm lonely
Will you embrace me soley
O' Lord I'll walk strong elongated with my head high
Father I'll stand bold
I will hold, onto your hand
I appreciate you the great ALL I AM
My Lord, My God you who picks me

Picks of Life

PICKS OF LIFE

It is a sacred game of life
Sprinkle a hue and you are fine
It is a sacred game of life
Sprinkle a hue , gone is your shine
Who will sprinkle and on whom?
Its your own deeds that will choose

It is a tricky game of life
Enter a tunnel and light is there
It is a tricky game

Dorothy Outfoxes Pucks and Picks

Pucks and Picks two skinflints
Quietly and disdainfully blacken sequins
With their dour, disastrous ways.

Dorothy, one sequin got away. 
She was the shiny blue one.
She happily quit running after realizing
How slow they were

Pucks and Picks sent the hounds to fetch her
But their skin was soaked by the time they arrived
And Dorothy was lying in the sun, laughing

Those Who a Politician Picks

Those Who A Politician Picks

To vote for them Politician often picks,
What we have heard to be some hicks;
Lack knowledge,
With no  college,
Who live some place  out in the sticks.

Jim Horn

The Chinese Diet, Always On Top Picks

The Chinese diet, always on top picks,
Two grams of rice, which boiled in bucket water, 
It should be eaten only by  chopsticks.
But be a modest, eat this no more, than quarter!

She Picks Up the Laundry

She loops the carefully folded laundry
       in the crook of her arm the way you would lift
              a cat peacefully sleeping on a bed.

The need for neatness nestled in her like
     

God Picks Up the Bad Fish

God picks up the bad fish
And keeps the good one for me
"You may fall sick if you eat this bad one
So I pick the bad
So that you can pick the good"

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