Short Lafayette Poems

Gilbert du Motier, La Marquis de Lafayette--
A hero American patriots should not forget.
He helped us win the Revolutionary War.
In Paris, rests 'neath American soil ever more....

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Lafayette we are a shamble of noises
digging the street and towing cars
as I told you so for my two twenty
that I pay for and you delivered hundred ten
or may be a sewer to extinguish a fire
stop tropicana for a drink of coconut...

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T'was a man named Dizzy from Lafayette,
but sometimes his way home he would forget.
So he carried in his coat pocket,
a deck of cards and a lucky locket.

When he found himself lost and all alone,
he would just play Solitaire to get back home.
It has never failed, Dizzy's fool-proof plan,
start playing, someone shows up to give you a hand.




8/11/19...

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Morocco say my Ameriscam passport
blue eyed, blond hair and a smile
I pass any doors no questions asked.

If need be I shove the French one
the address Lafayette avenue can I be more clear
of my intention of love thy neighbor the world is small.

The dog in tow, I left the cat behind as she doesn''t like to travel
the venture of explanation to look at a sunset from a different view
as tomorrow the sun will rise no matter what....

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Now I'm a nine year old female African American girl;
A prodigy and I am a daddy's girl
Mom puts my hair in a bun
Yes, I'm nine but I'm to smart to play with crayons
Roarrrrrrrrrr ZZZZZZZZ
I have a pet 
Tyrannosaurus rex
And did I say my name is Lunella Lafayette
Me and my parents live in Manhattan
I am smart enough to save the world
They call me Moon Girl
And my pet name is Devil Dinosaur


written by James Edward Lee Sr.
10/07/17...

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Mini malls copper distortion
Forgotten parking lot meters
Store front greeters grimace
The straight narrow beaks to blend
Except when starlight offends wanton monkey binge

Give me bling to amend my shine
Never resigned but to revv up these hips
And feature the status rings of neighboring chinks
Chaste you never bought my fool

I was still scrubbing service
With the Lafayette oyster muddle
While we huddled from our body heat
Blocking out the mutual perception...

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New Jersey has a special tree,
A sturdy, mammoth oak,
Beneath whose shade George Washington
And Lafayette once spoke.

The tree was there before, from Spain,
Columbus started out.
The experts say 600 years
Might be its age (about).

Alas, the tree's demise is near.
It's dying and, though faved
By everyone who knows it,
It's too rotten to be saved.

For now, they're just removing limbs;
Next year it will be felled
But think of all the history
That mighty trunk beheld....

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