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Our Future In Space

...Have a cap, a baseball type cap
With the NASA symbol emblazoned
Had an interesting trip to Cape Canaveral
A symbol of man's dedication

Feels so good wearing this cap
Such a tribute to ...

Categories: canaveral, space,
Form: Rhyme

Billy Bob and Big Burly Ben Bear

...Billy Bob Bear was on an adventure on a bright, breezy day
Birds and bees swarmed in to light his path, to show him the way
Bunnies were hopping along, in a hippity hoppy sashay.
It was going to b...

Categories: canaveral, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

Three Score and Fifteen Years Ago

...Three Score and Fifteen Years Ago
By Franklin Price
11/14/2020

Three score and fifteen years ago
I was born upon this earth
Joined a family of eight,
Was the ninth, for what it's worth

Fou...

Categories: canaveral, birthday, celebration, family, life,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Florida of My Youth - Highways and Byways

...The Florida of My Youth – Highways and Byways
By Franklin Price
10/17/2019

The highways and the byways of Brevard when I was young
Were void of any four lanes, no interstates among
Highway 50,...

Categories: canaveral, age, childhood, high school,
Form: Couplet

Blue Sky Departures

...I sobbed I cried at news you'd died
Was more a launch exploding, heart
Somehow disaster on my part!
Though capsule's ashes stain the ground,
The goals you dreamt of, live, profound.
They blast o...

Categories: canaveral, friendship, love, memorial,
Form: Rhyme

Throttle Up, Challenger

...Synchronicity woven by fate’s volatile hands
   Gave rise to calamity in deceptive, calm skies
   Creating tragedy so harsh that reason defies
Into a nation’s sad heart, a mortal arrow lands
...

Categories: canaveral, grief, space,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Rhyme Drive

...In quantum mechanics particles remain entangled 
And connected over huge distances.
So that actions performed on one particle 
Still affect the others in the web or wave.
Einstein called entangle...

Categories: canaveral, science, science fiction,
Form: Free verse

Man In the Moon Gets Twinkle In Eye

...Humankind's quest for be bereavement memorials has no bounds.
Headstone or brass plaques used to suffice,
Hidden away in grave yards and draws of ashes on walls.
But now crosses and plaques litter...

Categories: canaveral, death, dedication, pollution, ,
Form: Free verse

Growing Up, La - Part 2

...- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -     

By ten years old, no weekends off, 
Or Saturday cartoons, 
Although I did have cash to spend, 
I felt my life in ruins.
I dusted...

Categories: canaveral, life, , cute,
Form: Rhyme

Our Future In Space

...Have a cap, a baseball type cap
With the NASA symbol emblazoned
Reminds me of my visit to Cape Canaveral
A symbol of man's dedication

Feels so good wearing this hat
Such a tribute to m...

Categories: canaveral, future, space, stars,
Form: Quatrain

My Favorite Number

...I was born on July 20, 1958.

Being one of seven children and having a mid-summer birthday, even as a young boy, it was 
not uncommon for my birthdays to come and go without much fanfare.

In th...

Categories: canaveral, historybirthday, parents, time, spring,
Form: Bio

View From the Second Comet - Act 2

...At Cape Canaveral
Working for CNN
Carolyn Devonshire
With a news bulletin
 
    In less than three days
    The second comet will hit home
    All the worlds governments are working
    To ha...

Categories: canaveral, fantasy, hope, nature, people,
Form: Rhyme

Eighth Grade

...1960 and the world was changing
A time for living and rearranging
Baseball in the school yard with a sponge ball and a fist
Donnie Brooks sang Mission Bell and Chubby did The Twist
Bobbie sox and...

Categories: canaveral, childhood, music, nostalgiaschool, world,
Form: Narrative