January Anniversary Poems

June nineteenth one hundred and fifty years ago

Juneteenth hint: three hundred
and sixty six days
after eighteen sixty four.

Major General Gordon Granger
led the Union Soldiers to Galveston,...

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I was off for my vacation. After a long flight and drive, I reached my cozy apartment. Stars like diamonds filled the cold January night....

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February Valentine, let’s celebrate
Olive Garden we both rank first-rate.
Past fifty years we review
old love birds, brand-new.
Head to head,
true
vows re-said.
Two lovers break through
the next fifty we’ll...

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In Sorrow and in Joy
(For my wife Barbara)
By Franklin Price
01/18/2022

I - Looking Back

I'm looking back on year just past in sorrow and in joy
Thinking of...

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January 13th, 2023

After wishing upon a star
to garner a handsome windfall
as a positive fated birthday gift
lo and behold, these ears didn't deceive me,
cuz I discerned...

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Apology to the missus at nighttime...
first day of January
two thousand and twenty three.

While the wife then in the process
of leaving a telephone message
for our eldest...

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Bon appétit to all my fellow Haitians and friends,
Who will be drinking, sipping, savoring poertysoup joumou,
Which is made of squash, neck bones, macaroni, oxtails,
Carrots, yams,...

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This day, a new year marks and also brings
afresh sweet memories of vows exchanged
one shy of thirty years ago, of rings
in token and in pledge,...

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Antiestablishmentarian inherent malevolent violence
wracks human species, a most brutish and nasty beast
case in point Vladimir Putin the population 
constituting country of Ukraine he fleeced.

An embittered...

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We married, on your birthday! 
In San Francisco City Hall. 
There was no family present, 
Just you and I~ that's all! 

We were two very...

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I was reading by a lamp,                                       ...

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Yours truly an aging baby boomer
long haired pencil necked geek
trademark disheveled characteristics
whipsawed ever faster around sun.

He (best buddy and alter ego of mine) 
snapped, popped,...

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Dearest friend ‘twas on this day
your darling love was called away
One year ago today
~
I send you comfort on this day
No words I say...

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Over the miles (October 7, 2021)

i don't just think about your smile

 i don't just think about the man that you've become

 I think about...

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J-oyful 
O-pus 
E-mploys 
L-ife's 

& 

E-ndless 
V-ows 
E-xpressing 
R-ight 
L-ove 
Y-ou 
N-ourish 

Topic: Anniversary of Joel & Everlyn Dogta (January 31) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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