Short Uniforms Poems

They march smartly by
my boys in crisp uniforms,
and I'm very proud....

Read More

Men in blue, are your
  blood-stained uniforms ashamed
    ~ post-atrocity...

Read More

Soldiers stand erect.
Red and white uniforms guard
British motorways.
...

Read More

God Saw Soldiers

God saw soldiers starting to march,
In uniforms that contained starch;...

Read More

None inside uniforms—

In waterways
Over lands
Exploring airways

With hurry, traveling the uniforms only....

Read More

the urns unit uniforms untimely steel contains every ash

8/16/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020 ©...

Read More

The Clinic  
 A faint echo
Of a scream
He had been
Absorbed by
The routine 
Of the hospital 
White coated 
Doctors
 Nurses in white
Uniforms
And cleaners in blue...

Read More

(?) Emily Dickinson-
I know the cavalry of woe
Nations do not see.
None observe dying eyes,
No regards with love.
We trust in the angels
With feet and uniforms of snow....

Read More

Junior of hate and envy on
Earth that always burns hearts of 
All jealous folks who 
Like to do evil
On daily basis in mysterious 
Uniforms from some evil
Spirits and Devil....

Read More

The Rose Bowl Parade is waiting for us
Snappy uniforms, jazzy hats
Eager high school students
Struggling to read music
Daily practices
Woodwind section
Majorette
Rhythm
Band...

Read More

all of the
young ladies cried
nor
they 
are surprise
of all the
handsome
young guys
wearing
their
baseball uniforms
at
Yankee Stadium
with
their
baby blue
Mickey Mantle eyes...

Read More

Free Speech is a pied-piper
of artificial colours and flavours –
mixing to grey, watching
The Censor’s Army
in red uniforms
march close,
as arson flames
turn to incense.
Who wants to be God?
...

Read More

Purple irises lapping up sunlight
No regard for tomorrow
Basking in the moment.

Standing in soldier-like rows, salute sun;
Violet blue uniforms
Lint less in summer’s breeze.
...

Read More

roses and rainbows
unicorns and uniforms
lanyards covered with teddy bears and hearts
everything sunny and happy here
until the pretty pediatric nurse takes out her stethoscope
When all hell breaks loose...

Read More

FIRST DAY

Walked in on first day at high school – strange uniforms, walked back out - wrong school

4th September 2020
My Most Unforgettable Moment In High School contest
Sponsor - JCB Burl...

Read More

I see a football team,
     in the making,
eleven geese on the pond,
      this fair morning.

Red winged blackbirds get
your team together,
come as you are with
those colorful uniforms.

wrote 8-8-07 at Lowell Ponds...

Read More

Here we stand brothers in arms
Green uniforms one and all
See us guarding nature’s charms
Our yellow plumes stand tall
Begone o’ winter’s discontentment
Begone o’ lonely cloud
For frosty Jack there’s no lament
We daffodils stand proud...

Read More

sirens pierce the snowy air
demanding - a sudden call to action
vehicles fill the town hall lot
uniforms cover regular clothes
teams converge...
fire truck emerges and 
leaves with rapidly assembled crew…
neighbors doing what neighbors do...

Read More

I love a shirt with stripes across
And own more than a few.
The colors vary and the styles 
Though stripiness shines through.

If I had gone to prison
When the garb was black and white,
I would've hated lock-up
But the uniforms? All right!...

Read More

honor those that went too young
uniforms soiled with blood and debris
youth left on a battlefield
learning at what cost the price

resting in eternal sleep
flags lined up in a row
headstones whitewashed in the sun
flowers and memory mark your place...

Read More

What first comes in green, then turns yellow and then eventually turns rotten?
Take your pick. It's either bannanas or every politician.
Politicians should wear uniforms like NASCAR race drivers 
so that we the people can identify their corporate sponsors....

Read More

Avenue 11
Pierced through the skin of my ears
Sprayed into my atmosphere
Exclamation marks aplenty
And stained blue and white uniforms
So very lovely and uneven
Like the paths I have crossed
Like the streets I have walked
And the avenues I have stalked...

Read More

POLICE BRUTALITY MAY BE CAUSED 
BY THEIR STORM TROOPER UNIFORMS AND ACCOUTREMENTS
DRESS THEM IN NUN’S HABITS WITH A ROSARIES AND 
THEY MAY SHOW MORE COMPASSION
DRESS THEM IN A CLOWN’S OUTFIT WITH BIG SHOES AND 
THEY MAY SHOW MORE HUMILITY
DRESS THEM AS GOD 
AND THEY MAY LOOK OVER HUMANITY
AS THEY SHOULD...

Read More

The uniformity of death

Blue and White

Fattened out with pin stripes

Until they did not resemble 

A single shred of humanity

A ghost in all but name

Shamed and maimed

Dead behind the eye's and soul

Destined for the showers

Where cleanliness,
Is next to godliness

Meant exactly that...

Read More

The Way of Tyrants  (Tanka)

Red nosed circus clowns 
Behind mad grins… hate the laugher 
As with dictators 
In absurd fantasy uniforms
We hoot only when they fall.


Tyrant in his cave
Resentfully reflects on life
 Western big shots came 
Ate roasted lambs in his tent  
How could he be so gullible?...

Read More