Best Forty One Poems

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted   
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous groundhog
gets his (most often male)
foretelling whether there will be
six more weeks of winter upon oblate
spheroid generating hoopla
whether spring will arrive early and satiate
those folks who...

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Why do the ones with
traumatophobia need
to handle the cast?...

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I don't know where my head is, I don't even know where 
I'm heading what's the heading on this letter return to 
sender another highway to Heaven. Man shouldn't be 
alone but I don't wanna be selfish I got brothers & sisters 
dying without the Gospel Lord help me to be selfless I'm 
feeling so...

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Art; The fine line of not caring at all 
and giving everything  you’ve got ....

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Memories sharpen with hastening years…
Sand-box and shovel and toys
And tree-forts and pranks, and my Sunday-school thanks,
Little boy yearnings and joys.

Later, Tom Sawyer’s the would-be Don Juan,
Highways, and one-night hotels.
Cheap beer at the bar. And an unlucky star
Lighting those furnished room hells.

Finally, faces of long-ago friends
Focus, recede and return;
One dead and some wed…souvenirs in my head.
Brilliant...

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December Seventh Forty One
By Franklin Price
12/07/2024

December seventh forty one
Was quite some time ago
Soon will be a century
With no one left to know

What happened on that awful day
When the planes came overhead
Sunk our ships and killed our people
But our country was not dead

We responded to the melee
And by nineteen forty five
We dropped the “A” bombs on...

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