Always I Love You Poems

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love."
Quote by Sophocles, Greek Poet 


I had fallen in perfect...

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...In fact, these truths are nothing new,
the Jews and the Christians knew well
that love disordered is nothing
more than an expressway to Hell.
That evil will misuse...

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I hear folks say it, “Love is love,”
a mantra they like to repeat,
it’s said with such vapid sureness
you’d think it was bleatings of sheep.
But if...

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Kidding around, I called mother “Lou”
Short for Louella between us two.
She’d return the favor; call me “number three.”
At the time it was cute, now it’s...

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The Sorrow of the Skies

The sun and the moon were once great lovers
In ancient days gone by.
The clouds formed from their sorrow, and the rain,...

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In my mind...
I always thought I was strong,
But I was proven wrong
With the weakness I sired,
From your unmatched,
Immense love, I always wished to have
And taste,...

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Destiny
By Franklin Price
05/08/2024

This love of ours is destiny
God brought that love to you and me
He did not falter in His task 
He brought us more...

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The thin yellow
film of the year’s 
first tulip
melts to pulp
on your 
tongue. Spring-
pink, you
smile softly,
and the crickets,
in benediction,
start washing 
their little hands.
Your mother
always said
that Middle-C...

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A big, glass bowl of oranges 
	with eight pleated butterflies—
		perfectly symmetrical
		etched along the side.
The sunlight, with all the eagerness,
	all the youth of morning
		pouring through
		each glass...

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My faithful dog brings so much joy to my life
Always there to comfort me in times of strife
Excepting me no matter what , a quality...

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Nevertheless, you have never noticed what I was facing and hiding from you, in my heart.
Nevertheless, you saw the cigarettes I bought in large.
Nevertheless, you...

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like opposite shoe sides, tightly secured together
meeting each other’s needful strides, two different species 
making sure-footed, secure bow-ties – though truth seldom in
mating’s many polished,...

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Don’t look for me in the meadow for I won’t be there
The little girl you once knew is gone forever  and I don’t know...

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It happened on a Monday.
Thoughts, drifting
From one moment to the next,
Reassured by the kiss of a past,
Buried by the last chance,
Remembered by the heart who...

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Love unveils us from borrowed faces,
It tears them away, fear and longing, from the depths of our defeated chests.
I call it here "love," not just...

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