Mothertree Integrity
...How might Earth's underground narrative
of a sacred Tree
speak most profoundly
of old growth economic
and political
environmental trauma?
A question I forgot to ask
when I was younger
and m...
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Categories:
exclamatory, appreciation, earth, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
When Seeking
...When seeking to write
a poem, no need to
descend into deep, dank
mysterious wells of
creation – after great depth
only to come upon
one's ignitable soul-fuel
my muse, for example,
far mo...
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Categories:
exclamatory, inspirational, introspection, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When Profound Feels Sacred
...My youngest
of three AfricanAmerican adopted sons
has profound nonwhite
nonstraight
nonverbal cerebral palsy.
Profound
in at least not being privileged
or victimized
by internal LeftBrain d...
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Categories:
exclamatory, health, integrity, nature, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
A Gold Treasure Stamped Exclamatory Statement
...dreaming about you in winter
coming out of nowhere in spring
changing my life in summer
until we fall into autumn again
starting over again with you
year after year
is so easy to be so hard
...
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Categories:
exclamatory, beautiful, dream, woman,
Form: Free verse
She Can'T Sleep Tonight
...she can't sleep tonight
i listen to her vent
i rub her belly like in the early years when she had the stomach hernia
i pray for any type of flatulence to behave
tonight it sleeps in, and i say a ...
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Categories:
exclamatory, happy, love,
Form: Free verse
Frozen In Plain Sight of a Melting Pot
...what i saw
i can never see
seeing is not always believing
a question mark exists
exclamatory sentences are all run on
completion is still in the process in progress
all i have seen are all tes...
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Categories:
exclamatory, confusion, life,
Form: Free verse
A Poem About Love In a Banishment Basement of Confusion
...i am honestly drawing a blank
i am struggling to underline the underlying reasons
my head is spinning and the rest of my body is stone still frozen
just yesterday, we were laughing it up and being...
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Categories:
exclamatory, life, love, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Art of Morning
...Upon rising, awakened by
ripening scent teasing my nose,
trilling my lips and tongue, – my taste buds opening
to bird-like songs as dawn's light breathes new life
and hope into my journey, so b...
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Categories:
exclamatory, art, creation, inspirational, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Face Time
...Face Time
By Franklin Price
02/22/2022
In the middle of last evening, my cell phone began to shrill
I answered, there was baby Dean, being held by Auntie Lil
Technology is wonderful. Last nigh...
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Categories:
exclamatory, birth, celebration, grandson,
Form: Couplet
Thin Blue Line
...Today, October 13, 2021, William Shatner
went where few men have gone before.
He entered space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin.
Thin Blue Line
thin blue marker
we think it’s phat...
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Categories:
exclamatory, earth, god, space,
Form: Free verse
The Words I Prefer Most
...I prefer to show the word
exclamatory, interjection
and reticences,
Than the empty word, written or spoken...
The one that has no rules,
who does evil and follows
the game
of fury
and the lie...
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Categories:
exclamatory, allegory, allusion, beauty, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
The Last 4 Years and the Coming Decade 4
...In Jan 6. 2021, a number of his myrmidons from all parts of the country converged to Washington to seize and squat the Capitol mansion following his seditious malarkeys, ending this country's long un...
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Categories:
exclamatory, america, international, introspection, political,
Form: Prose
Missing Earth
...Oh joy! Oh bliss! Oh crêpe suzette!
— Dr. Zachary Smith Lost In Space
MISSING EARTH
exclamatory eeks of terra ferma.
Oh meddlesome bother oh heartbreak!
extreme scripted scre...
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Categories:
exclamatory, humorous, science fiction,
Form: Light Verse
Infinitude
...what the ancient groom
kens with exclamatory
bliss: his prismatic diamond.
profusion of light,
tintinnabulation of
melodic soulmates ~ the bride.
4/9/2020
Title chosen: I...
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Categories:
exclamatory, christian,
Form: Sedoka
Period
...Is there anything of
unappreciated significance
that is used more than I ?
I've got to be the "where's waldo"
of precocious punctuation!
piled atop baby j's and baby i's
balanced under interrog...
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Categories:
exclamatory, language,
Form: Free verse
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