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Premium Member Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was known for many a-things
Longing for reality to spring from his dreams
On a wild stormy night made a discovery
A dastardly magic called electricity!

However...

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Categories: franklin, funny, history,
Form: Clerihew



1776 - Jefferson, Franklin and Adams
And so they sat, this learned three
in full pursuit of liberty,
the turkey, eagle and the dove
looked down upon them from above.

The declaration almost writ
they rubbed...

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Categories: franklin, america, funny, history,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Abc World's Famous Scientists In History
A  is for Anton van Leeuwenhoek- in his simple  microscope made him well-known,
B is for Benjamin Franklin who invented  the electricity ...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: franklin, cancer, inspirational, me,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member May May Be
May May Be
By Franklin Price
4/25/2015

May may be the nicest month
Of all the dozen best
You may ask why would I say this
Let us put it to...

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Categories: franklin, may, cinco de mayo,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chain of Fools
“ I Never Loved A Man” as much as I loved you.
My darling you continued to give me ” Respect” as well.
“Baby I Love You”...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: franklin, dedication, tribute,
Form: Pantoum



Premium Member Christmas in the Mountains
The Franklin Mountains are a succession of jagged peaks, as if the earth had sprouted the spiny backbone of a monstrous, petrified beast. Each tip...

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Categories: franklin, christmas, december, mountains,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Complex Math of Living
The Complex Math of Living
By Franklin Price
4/3/2015

The complex math of living
In this 21st Century
Is all about the numbers
Don't add up for you and me

Billions of...

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Categories: franklin, corruption, hope, life, money,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trick
(THE GHOST)

In the naked eye,
Pure death approaches!

Incredibly hollow, kick the bucket long ago
No, whiff nor smell when “THE GHOST” is around
Abuses the whiteness, in which...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: franklin, abuse, bullying, death, fear,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Our Education's Who We Are
Our Education's Who We Are
By Franklin Price
8/2/2016


Our education's who we are
And in what we do believe
How we deal with our emotions
How we give and we...

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Categories: franklin, education, student, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Stay At Home and Be Safe
If you can work, or go to school.
You will be allowed to.  If not
how can you discover a non
spam or get rich scheme.
Promising to...

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Categories: franklin, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Revere the Founding Fathers, Part I
We star it off with Ben Franklin,
American renaissance man,
whose industry and sharp wit
made him the richest in the land.
Lived out an American dream
before the country...

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Categories: franklin, america, appreciation, freedom, history,
Form: Rhyme
I Love America, Differently, In Fuller History
I
The Servants of Free Men on the Mayflower
Knew "abundant life" in Jesus, Great Savior
Two servants, too, rose up to sign The US Constitution
Lover of His...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: franklin, america, appreciation, celebration, community,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Friendship's All About Respect
Friendship's All About Respect
By Franklin Price
4/7/2015

Friendship's all about respect
A meet a greet cause and effect
I don't know you you don't know me
Yet there is a...

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Categories: franklin, friendship,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Highways and the Byways
The Highways and the Byways
By Franklin Price
10/27/2107
(Inspired by Nancy McIntyre Stepp)

 The highways and the byways
Of this life in which we've grown
Bring back many memories
Of...

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Categories: franklin, adventure, happiness, travel,
Form: Rhyme
A Conversation To Hear
"Franklin, why do you want such a fat, ugly bird?
Are you getting senile, or just being absurd?"

"Clearly, Mr. Adams, you are not being a friend.
My...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: franklin, bird, history, humor, pride,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs