Best In The Joint Poems

Paste on your passion smile
Crisp all your words
as you settle yourself 
to be self-consumed, heard
Whisper sweet nothings
which only you know
Don't stop the banter,
the words or the flow
You've reached the summit
of the loneliest point
You're king of the vacancy
best in the joint
Write all your poems
on the back...

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QUALITY    CONTROL

Visions of scientists in white coats, with glass jars
Scraping layers of paint off new cars
Or women with heavy blackframed glasses 
Weighing the sugar content of two sweetened masses
Or testing the strength of steel cables to breaking point
(Same approach  to ...

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It's a damn shame they say honor thy parents

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Saul’s twinkling eyes took it all in – the platinum hair framing a first-class face, the silvery sheath dress wrapped around a figure that was out of sight, but in plain view. She was definitely the classiest thing in the joint -- Bannister’s by name,...

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A SONG AGO

Our cousin filled a flash drive with songs
From the Fifties to date,
I would like to share some, beginning with the late,
Mr. Frank Sinatra, Frankie boy,
Still my favourite, to listen to, such joy!
‘I did it my way”
Frank lived each day
‘With few regrets, too few...

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some days are too long, too draining, too sad
some days last...
frozen
something missing,
blame is all you get
stop screaming,
the outside world isn't listening.
this door is closed.

the judge himself is not man enough
to judge himself-
he worries about
unrelenting judgments
that began in the New York Hills 
the eastern door when
you...

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I write poems you listen to them
There is no end to this lovely game

You open your window and the birds call 
I open mine and the rainbow-footfall 

I weave a dream, under your umbrella
In the joint shade comes up our villa

You make tea and I...

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I've been going back
in time for just a bit
Thinking back on my life
those times I had no wit
Being in the eighth grade
I remember all so well
The time I was given a dare
ten minutes before the bell
There was a popcorn maker
that sat just down the hall
The...

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In the Bible the book of James reads like a Shakesperian play
With words that are archaic and not used as much these days
James writes of his concerns about how to lead an ethical life
How one should communicate in order to follow the ways of Jesus...

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Senate Intelligence 
By Franklin Price
6/8/2017

Senate intelligence, not so sure I saw today.
Those words an oxymoron for what I heard some say.
Do not become political, I heard the chairman speak.
Some of them would not comply, their minds were just too weak.

I'll not point my fingers, not...

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dreams can follow us down to a moment captured in time sub lime
in a moment exposed to the message of tender love from a hand up above
we each go through things another door bell rings the bird begins to sing
caught up in a moment captured...

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Letting the music flow through me. 
Enveloping me and helping to ease my mind. 
Lightening my spirit and calming my heart. 
Allowing me the freedom to expand my imagination.
 Let the stress of the world slip away. 
Running down my spine to land in my...

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Earth is the "being" that is evolving, "experiencing life," physically
The only evolution humans can contribute is in their spirit
As I said many poems ago, independence is a myth, but feel free
I write as my record - mere footnotes to the AKASHIC record
Play the part you...

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Making Waves
Sexy dancer to the waves.
See how she moves to the music.
Base turned up full boom boomboom!

Even when she’d driving, she dances.
Her stereo on full while she nods her head.
She’s the stereo loving gal and don’t we know it?

Her job is her life in a...

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Seventeen
By Franklin Price
7/30/2015

Seventeen when will it stop
A traffic jam we need a cop
Too many think they're heaven sent
That they can run for president

Can't get together have a meet
A forum for that mighty seat
If they could just cooperate
They may have stopped at only eight

Another example of...

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