Short Playgrounds Poems

on
sunday morning
on
the
inner-city playgrounds
even
the 
snow monkeys
get
entangled
upon 
the
steel monkey bars...

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SUMMERTIME PLAYGROUNDS Haiku

cheerful summertime
those the children so wallows
before the playgrounds

8/12/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021 ©...

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God was branded to be non-essential
gamblers and boozers were preferential
the playgrounds were yellow taped 
but no crime had taken place
while cons buffed their 38 specials...

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The Wind Shepherds

The winds,
 Like shepherds,
Tend Tule fog and dew;
 Playmates
Sliding down sunbeams,
 Teasing kites,
To leap frog
 Over mountains peeking
Into playgrounds
 Ever changing....

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In Spring I searched through rosy playgrounds fair,
and kept the meadows secret within my heart

To wed the summer’s final wish to fall surprise
—buried in the leaves of what tomorrow brings

(Good Shepherd Chapel: February, 2020)...

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Slide-out Coke machines
Superman/Batman comics
10 cent hot dogs
AM radio
Black & white TV
Rabbit-ear antennae
Bubblegum baseball cards
Tinny speakers at drive-in
Drive-in diners
Vacation bible school
Barefoot summers
Homemade playgrounds
A quarter made you rich......

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Love destroys what sex begins,
 as playgrounds and schoolyards 
 hide the true nature of the King

Innocence bleeding,
 within the deep warm incision 
 of a preternatural beginning

(West Philadelphia: October, 1972)
'From An Anthology Of Perception Vol. #1'
??...

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the coral, the...coral

apocalypse now...
yours is the win colonel kurtz...
you inherit rock

forests...your playgrounds
covered the earth as corals
once...and we kill reefs

atmospheres are dumps
and we...are garbage creatures
human mold...fungus


stan sand...

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Sitting on the twelfth floor, how can one see
What’s happening down on earth.
Children playing merrily?

Playgrounds, schools, banks and even distant hills
I can see the whole world below.
But not my sweet little kid!!!

Name - Archana Garg
Title   - Through My Window
Date  - 19/01/14...

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How big can the ego's grow?
How wide can the eye glance? 

              The playgrounds with 
purple slides are abandoned. 
Children are not
permitted to play. 

Youth is abducted by screens,
artificial sounds

Taught to love a black screen
Taught To march quietly 

Minds are lost; 
like an old mans will to run....

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In the bleakest corners of Hell-Town
    midst playgrounds littered with glass
  Disfigured weeds stretch to the sky
    and no one's seen a blade of grass

  Where junkies openly ply their trade
    and cheap beer flows like lemonade
  A tiny woman, sure a saint, paints a rainbow
    ~ Wide-eyed children, the colors of hope...

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The playgrounds are empty mid-July
Sun makes the equipment scorching hot
Enough to make naked legs literally fry
No children today with a piercing cry,
Moms say when dusk comes they'll try
Again, in the park, to appease their tot
The playgrounds are empty mid-July
Sun makes the equipment scorching hot!

Written July 22, 2022...

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Space Age
	
Ships float up forever out
Pilots who once sailed seas find new spirit 
Airborne crafts fill the air 
Children grow into machines that take them away
Earth was once their only home
And now the universe in endless boundaries is theirs
Geared up for foreign playgrounds, gone in an instant 
Eternity is only minutes away and just beginning there...

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Every day is bring you daughter to work day
When you don't have daycare 
and its the graveyard shift at BigToys

I go to see his cubicle where he made models 
of playgrounds I might get to play on one day
He rescued me and put me in a warehouse

Atop a pile of rubber covered chains he said
I was important, take these chains 
and try to see if they will bend...

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Intoxicated pinkish elephants

electrified in splendiferous drunkenness

surmised surrealistic playgrounds

of surround sound echoing laughter &

expansivly lit hot air balloons

merrily drifting to embrace star-dusted

skies' kaleidoscopic enchantment

ever wonder, 

do intoxicated pink elephants hallucinate

 the same as our own alcoholic delirium...

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The heat of the air are radiance
The heart of you blossoms heavenly
The wind unfolds Augusts leaves 
Evening moist tinted breeze
Heated
you're needed
Summer

Children playing at parks and playgrounds
The joys and laughter ice cream evenings
Picnics, plenty of foods, Ah the barbecues
Evening moist tinted breeze
Heated
you're needed
Summer

8/13/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

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Long hallways he preys
Looking for unsuspecting victims
Playgrounds and parking lots
Children going about their day

Avoiding those he knows will swat
The giant in the swaddling cloth
The sting, the bite, fangs fade away
His time to ponder, pause and plot

Against the fence, his belly full
Spies one more chance to strike a blow
But slowly creeping, circumspect
Our knight approaches, cracks his skull



12/08/13...

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Summer sallies in blazing hot
Gentle in approach it is not
Chilly Spring winds soon forgot

Scorching sun off cooling soil steams
Warming all the rivers and streams
Melting core of soft snow dreams

Songbirds practice their choral sounds
Joined by grasshoppers’ leaps and bounds
Insects build their own playgrounds

Chirruping crickets call their mates
Flowerbeds fill with garden snakes
Sweltry nights no heat abates...

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Roses aren't always red
Smiles aren't always real
 Neither are people.
Now a day people aren't always real 
The society we live in isn't always true
FAKE.
People 
Places
Things
Everything
Why?
Why is this world so cruel 
Where have all the good gone.
My childhood GONE 
MY insintes GONE
Everything from candy to playgrounds has turn to drugs and just a place to use them
Why,Why is life like this
So cruel so crazy?
WHY?...

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We decided one day to explore an unknown
Outside weeded playgrounds we'd outgrown

Wearing shorts, no shoes, shirts of cotton
We ventured forward to childhood forgotten

We babbled along by the brook. We hurried
Through orchard grass, running past herds

True abandon. We found God's saving graces
Uttered ours, ate apples, washed our faces

Laying under the spreading evergreen tree
With just smiles, for a while we were free...

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Living of the happiness
that flows from others,
and greeting each person we meet.
No rich,
no poor,
for money no longer defines happiness,
all things needed
are distributed to all.
People frolic
in the fields and playgrounds.
Music is heard from behind each door,
streets are clean,
forests expand from human hand.
No more fights,
no more war,
people live healthy and free.
Race has only one category,
            "Earthling"...

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The glowing ball in the heavens 
   sends down its rays
onto the asphalt homeland 
   In gardens, in playgrounds
       Youth are ignited by 
the warmth 
    In a park two young 
people embrace 
   In the shade 
below the trees 
Sweet kisses and caresses 
      make their hearts pound 
Love making out of doors 
    No one sees them 
As the afternoon begins to 
     change to evening 
They part ways with
  longing gazes 
Tomorrow suns another day...

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United we stand divided we all fall. Nowadays history seems to be having domino effects. attending public places of worship, public bathrooms, police brutality, institutions of learning, playgrounds, kidnappings are on the rise, hatred, jealousy and senseless mass murders in the land we call home of the brave and freedom where is the safety and happiness bestowed innocent and struggling people will it ever be hope that one day we will all unite....

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Boy, I wish I knew some funny kids
so I could win ten bucks
But, I am here at fifty nine
I guess, I'm out of luck
If I hung around some playgrounds
To get some inspiration 
It wouldn't take to long
before I faced incarceration 
The world has got me second guessing
Can Men and children mix
Is everybody suspect
Of someone being sick
I have to say I love kids
but I surely do, at distance
Ashamed to be apart
Of a world with this existence...

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Slide-out Coke machines
Bubble gum baseball cards
Superman/Batman comics
Full service gas stations
25 cents a gallon
Dial phones
AM radio
Fats Domino
Black & white TV
Rabbit-ear antennae
Three channels
I Love Lucy
Drive-in movies
Double dating
Drive-in diners
10 cent hot dogs
Saddle Oxfords
Penny Loafers
Vacation bible school
Homemade playgrounds
Barefoot summers
A dollar was a fortune...

No cable
No Internet
No cell phones
No problem......

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