last delivery
february comes to close
whiteness lingers
Charging and frozed on the spot
Sword, flag yet upright.
They've but yielded up their lives
Not the will to fight.
It was the best of snows
It was the worst of snows
The best for packing
The worst for getting hit
The best for sliding
The worst on which to slip
The best for watching fall
The worst to drive in
The best for warming by the fire
The worst to nosedive in
The best for who’s never seen it before
The worst for who can’t take it anymore
I lit a candle on a still windless night,
yet still the flame snuffed out of sight.
I spoke your name into this quaff of breeze.
It answered back with sounds of fallen leaves.
Sometimes
It Snows in Spring,
Again and Again!
You left before the thaw had come again.
Before the apple tree dared to bud.
For Spring was early, Winter not left behind.
Green shoots frozen in what could have been.
Sometimes
It Snows in Spring,
Again and Again!
Each Spring I remember the snow,
That came sometimes, way too soon,
To sing of Santa's sleigh, and 'Auld Lang Syne'
To you, my April Snow in Springtime.
Sometimes
It Snows in Spring,
Again and Again!
first day of spring
sunny and mild
as the snow-smelt
of hidden greens
below a blue sky
this weekend
len
house is heated so
view of snow makes me feel cold
I'll drink more coffee
Lifeless shiver the decaying meadows
Where blizzards of winter exact a toll,
Freezing foliage in autumnal throes;
Dimming ambitions of parching knoll.
Golden beams glimmer dreams of dawn
Soothing miseries of trembling night,
Now that splendorous autumn is gone,
Sprinkling delight on withering blight.
Season of snows flaunts nature aglow
Where rivers freeze, struggle to flow,
Prairies enliven, donning falling snow;
While mountaintops adorn glacial glow.
January 14, 2023
Placed 2nd: 12 Lines of Rhyme-Winter Nature Themed
Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
it is very cold
winter time bliss blistering
brews course blowing hue
1/14/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022
Far aside the snow mountains,
Amidst chilly white snow-flakes;
Staring at frozen fountains,
Stand melt, our hungry soldiers...
Daring to bear cruel cold
Midst high hills of Leh, Ladakh;
Holding their guns with soul bold,
Fearless, their foes to attack...
Oaths solemn sworn to safeguard,
The borders of their nation;
Shivering, trembling in cold,
Their life stands and oblation...
They break bold ice-slated rocks,
For drops of drinking water;
We put nation into docks
To save her hey get slaughtered...
13 January 2022
eternal heavy
covered with eternal snows
thunder and lightning
powdery distants
swollen by the melting snows
the speed of lightning
2/10/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021
hurry winter snow;
falling, fall white silver snow;
atop the trees grounds
~
falling ever down;
covering the walks and roads;
hurry snow, snow, Snow
11/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
It's mid March
And does anyone knows
where the ants go
when it snows
And do they have a beating heart
And if so what does it be about
It's the second week of March
As the squirrels and rabbits Promenade
And where are the brave at heart
It's still yet too cold to have Ice Cold Lemonade
And does anyone know
We're just where do the ants go
When it snows
Yet still it's winter and it flows
3/14/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr
HAIKU
QUIETLY WINDS BLOWING DOWN SNOWS FROM HEAVEN
~
quiet winds comfort
stillness of the driven snow
down from heaven falls
12/29/19
written by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2019
Glittery white snowflakes
Falls from heavens winter
cold and frozen crystals fly and fall from the North
Cold, miserable snow sleet comes down
Falling, flying like a flag in the breeze
Flying and falling driven like a man in a auto on a mission
Heavens winter falls from
Glittery white snowflakes
12/28/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
written in Octopoem poetry verse style
Planting words inside my garden,
watering them at will
Staking memories long forgotten,
feelings cold and shrill
Row by row the letters planted,
phrases start to grow
Whose cool fall day a harvest brings
—to feed the winter snows
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)
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