Best Lifers Poems

50 years ago I would have said
life was swollen with promise
as I awaited your return
from a land of bicycles,
Pagodas, potato vendors
and "Hiah, Hiah, Mushee, Mushee,
Hononea,...

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Life and Pain -- Twin Peas in a Pod    
     
"When that I was...

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I Salute the Veterans
By Franklin Price
11/8/2015

I salute the veterans
My hand is to my brow
Standing at attention
I recognize us now

My brothers and my sisters
Short timers, lifers,...

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Wise Elders are patient,
fully embrace non-violent communication
and health care
of climates and landscapes,
persons,
places,
things,
plants
and planet,
hopes
and dreams
rebuilding positive faith.

Wise Elders non-violently listen
for karmic grace of love
sometimes overflowing.

If Wise...

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allusion, best friend, destiny, farewell, funeral, love, romance,

A SHARED DEMISE! ©

Coupled ‘lifers’ love is spent when terminated time sets in
This lovers state of affairs does...

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Ah, the Sphinx-like mysteriousness  
Of tomorrow. While not promised
An invitation to new discoveries and epiphanies
Zest for lifers, optimists, idlers all await 
With breathless anticipation
...

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good ol’ backwards North Dakota

wouldn’t want to be a woman in
North Dakota,
cause’ choice just ain’t happenin’ there.

nah,
if you’re a woman who gets raped in good...

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Heartbeat of a sleeping giant

In my mind, there is a boy who exist in
Chains.
Inside a cold, dark room of painful 
Solitude-- is where is heart...

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Not sure how fond I am of this write very different style to my usual genre. #experimenting 

Well look whos back again
My old compardra 
My...

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Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Surely the most pious, learned Christian in all the land

Came out today with a most scholarly shocker
For which I find it hard...

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Who cares if unwanted children
Abound all over this earth?
Someone else can feed them
Until they have proven their worth!

Of course we shall disgrace them
Until they learn...

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dead on the inside rotten one the outside
should go and hide but hindered by my pride
try to be unique but treated like a leper
standing tall...

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Who Is Your Neighbor? 


Forty-seven years we are in this our home of dreams;
youngsters flew the nest to chase their very own sun beams.

We are...

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We’re doing time on planet earth, 
our sentence started right at birth 

The sentence is, we’re here for life 
and with mistakes it will be...

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Spare a minute
to know about
those perky creatures
and their special features

Lifers, twitcher, tertial and lores
are nothing but the birding terms
Introduce, birding to the children,
As that would...

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