Short Nebraska Poems

cicada magic
happy chirping on cornstalks
july orchestra...

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buds of golden rod
wildness in nebraska
goldfinch lands lightly...

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we will rock you poets
jet through here.stay a long while
love to hear your words...

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Where the Good Life is
Nebraska, old red and white
Tried and true, country living....

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howling storm clouds
Nebraska homestead
we hear a train
first signs of a tornado
August terror...

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Tall cottonwood tree
 it is leafy and solid
 with falling broad leaves
 and many awesome branches
 as it drools letting go leaves

10/17/20
James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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red suitcase, pretty girl 
plaid skirt, perky, sassy 
blue truck stopped, he wore blue jeans
handsome and young, she hopped in 
An adventure began
In small town Nebraska...

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The "poem length police have nabbed me again - so I had to put my new piece
"Sunny" 
in the story story section.

Here's the URL:
https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/sunny_9449...

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I met a nice fellow from Nebraska
Talked about his sister in Alaska
Said she was still single
And ready to mingle
“If available,” he said, “I’ll ask-a.”

June 13, 2021...

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Corn goes on forever in the state of Nebraska
Corn goes on forever in my mind, a bonanza
Fields of my psyche
Are rolling by crikey
In silliness as I shout out these happy stanzas...

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Corn goes on forever in the state of Nebraska
Corn goes on forever in my mind, a bonanza
Fields of my psyche
Are rolling by crikey
In silliness as I shout out these happy stanzas...

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In Nebraska, a replica of Stonehenge is revealed
Called Carhenge, it's formed from vintage automobiles
Who thought of this
Some kookie old fish
His strangeness emerged which had long been concealed...

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autumn’s most clever harvest moon
parades above scratchy hay bales
September shows us October’s nearness
Kansas and Nebraska cool off wonderfully
harvest moon love of September formulates plan
hear a knock on meadow’s door?...

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Wintery mix
Asthma inducing air
Windchill is fourteen below

Ice under snow
Cars doing donuts
Skidding across freeways

Seeing your breath
Wheezing kicks in
Cheeks pink and frozen

Middle of the USA
Iowa Kansas Nebraska
Frozen unification...

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The Young Man of Nebraska

There was a young Man of Nebraska
Who rode an old Ass to Alaska
His quest was too bold
For he found it too cold

His Frozen Ass came back to Nebraska









Edited for Viv's Traditional Limerick contest 9.4.18...

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Santa will come and we will joke.
Wearing our masks, as we are cautious folk.
Husband I will sit around the tree,
Imagining grandchildren, sitting on our knee.
A phone call may come in from Nebraska and Ohio.
Safely sheltered in place, in this land of ice and snow....

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Native, neat noble Nebraska Cottonwood tattered, talented Trees 

Tall, so tall those sturdy Trees 
Nostalgic, gnarly Nebraska Cottonwood teary,
Those terrific Trees 
Our talented truthful trees

7/9/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©...

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Amedee Forestier an artistic deception 				         
Illustrated London News’s scientifically creative fiction                                                          
a coffee faced man fostered from thumb to tooth           			   
to school books facts digging it as proof...

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I will have my steak gruesomely rare.
Eating mine with Heinz 57 flare.
I am from I-O-WAY
I do not play.
I can eat a cow, a horse and a mare.

I am from Nebraska don’t you know?
You Iowans can brag, and you can blow
But here’s my rule
You little fool
I’ll eat whatever does not start to go....

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AKSARBEN NEBRASKA

There once was a lady named Aksarben;
To a lot of her friends she's a has-been;
Closet wardrobes onlyred
Everything she owns "Huskers"
Reign Lady Red Aksarben"GO BIG RED"

7/16/19

State Limerick Poetry Contest
Limerick poetry form only
Sponsored by: Kevin Shaw...

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Oh!  Omaha what with your Woodman Tower 
Not covered what it's higher First National Bank 
As the mighty Mo!
Missouri River separates Nebraska and Iowa
Two strong mighty buildings that towers
That touch just below the clouds floor
Oh! Nebraska's biggest metropolitan City


12/13/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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two sentinels in winter
watch the frozen wheat field
spy the evil murderer
dragging his innocent victim
Nebraska ground is frozen
two curious crows watch
studying the two-legged miscreant
he shouts his aggravation to the wind
innocent victim is nonmoving
left at the foot of the fence post
two sentinels feel relief
when evil scoundrel leaves...

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Nebraska has turned herself gray early this year
A desolate cornfield stands torn and disheveled
A cold front comes in from the north
She whips a few strands from the stalks
An anticipatory shiver goes through the field
An empty feeling of winter saturates the ground
Deer have decimated the last few corn kernels
Nebraska winters rival those in Michigan...

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Poplar Cottonwood haiku- 

songbirds nest courtships
mice, rabbits, deer eat bark leaves
mighty Cottonwood

broad triangular
cotton-like seeds grows 139 foot tree
are those leaves 6 inches

poplar Cottonwood
tallest trees in Nebraska
great plains Cottonwood 



4/29/18
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.
Copyright © 2018
From anthology “Sound Track For My Life” 2018©...

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Fog came early to Nebraska,
and slender churches became hidden.
Pastors came out of them with scarves,
their children tight-dressed 
                       and with white mittens.


Cars moved slowly,
dipped beams constant; the radio turned on.
The fog came early - unawares.


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4/23/2015

Featured poem of the week 
commencing 3/10/2019...

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