Short Pater Poems

Eat a tater, alligator
Stupid smile, crocodile
See you later, Mater-Pater
After while, stinking pile.

Minotaur and Gabriel
Monitor and Gariel
Eat the layman, pretty cayman
Quite the romp, in the swamp....

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In the morning I'll write
"daffodils" on spring white
paper, and there is no need
to be sublime, the movement 
is enough  To be so blind

as seeing nothing in everything,
or everything in everything,
is very foolish is this later age.

There is the morning, daffodils,
white pater, writing, "No Need."...

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pit-pat
pit-pat
rain drops on this roof
pit-pat
pit-pat
a tear rolls down my face
pit-pat
pit-pat

piter-pater
piter-pater
feet run through the house
piter-pater
piter-pater
trying to wake you up
piter-pater
piter-pater

tick-tock
tick-tock
waiting for that time
tick-tock
tick-tock
the time talks to me
tick-tock 
tick-tock...

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When I let one loose in the elevator
alas I’m locked in with mater and pater
I wish I could drop right through the floor
because Pa can’t prise open the lift door

My parents both pass out with the smell
and so I hammer on the emergency bell
When the firemen release us from the lift
I leave a silent but deadly foul  ‘farting gift’

When I Let One Loose In The Elevator Poetry Contest

Sponsored by Charles Messina

08/01/21...

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Deus et Pater gratias ago tibi semper,
I thank you always Father God
ut det Patri
cur vexas
Et miserere dona nobis
Non sum dignus
Hallelujah

non sum
Non sum dignus
Sed usquam
Et semper,
Deus et Pater gratias ago tibi semper,
 for giving Father
why do you bother
Mercy you grant us
I am not worthy
Hallelujah

Not I 
I am not worthy
But anyway
And in always
I thank you always Father God


7/10/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©...

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