Best Caroused Poems

The orchestra was loud when I walked in,
Performing a whimsical waltz by Strauss.
I picked a group of friends and settled-in,
And perused the fineries of the...

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In the folly of my
life
I run and hide as
much as possible.
I also at times walk
right towards the
problem.
The statement was
not just meant for
the terminally ill:
 ...

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I once was a SEAL, an operator
I filled my country’s foes with cool dread,
Send countless terrorists screaming to hell
Where no virgins awaited the dead.
I met...

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The ring-tailed lemurs swished their stripes;
The tortoises perambled.
Rhinoceroses munched on hay;
The seals caroused and gamboled.

A winter day with snow on tap
Was perfect for the zoo.
The...

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It is a fever.

  
The poet

They found the poet outside the park

His steps spoke many words of wine

His upper half seemed half asleep

And his...

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I’ve forgotten what it’s like to have someone in my bed for more than a few hours at a time but since you were too...

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Well...I wanted to do something silly as I did,
     In writing a poem for this bid.

     It...

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The four cafes that bordered the water sat eerily still this January night.  I had often sat alone, looking down from my apartment window...

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I feel guilty,
For something I didn’t do,
Am lovelorn,
Hurt beyond measure.
Even after taking an oath of fealty.
The state of me being grandeur……
Isn’t there no more.
I cry...

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(In the opera “La Bohème”, four impoverished students 
share a Paris apartment. Rodolfo falls in love with Mimi, 
a seamstress who is dying of tuberculosis....

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...But I heard a crack in the distance,
then came a man’s shrill, painful yell,
I saw Tak go down in the plants,
his ankle was bent, none-to-well,
I...

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Love Sent by God
By Franklin Price
04/05/2022

Love sent by God is special. It manifests along life's way.
It is the white of black and white. There are...

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Before Corona, HIV ‘n Hepatitis B
caroused with a death scare - intrinsic
Under sheets, a plausible viral milieu
zip-zapped the pompous macho buzz

Influenza strains cheered o’er a...

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The vast sapphire nebulae of space,
    All rising o’er in zeniths of sweet dreams,
    Feed all the leas and...

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Dulce Dream

          The exact same one, always of 
       ...

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