Time Fell Poems

An empty heart cries through the longest night
the only sound heard is cold tears that fall
where pain rises to a terrible height
and no one answers...

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Gorgeous, the morning had been,
Before the day became frantic;
Clouds amassed. 
My eyes and ears witnessed.

Rains’ harbingers landed on my skin;
Drops of rains but not rain,...

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One night I fell and began to disappear
Also disappearing were things I held dear
No chance to choose in the words spoken
Now it's only my heart...

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I wouldn’t blame you if I died 
I don’t blame you that you’ve lied 
Heck, I wouldn’t even be alive to see the day and...

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Though he has always been a light in the darkest of my sad hours,
A lot of the time I do hold him with far higher...

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He was circling her building, trying not to look at the curtains.
He knew them well. They were the peachy ones on the second floor.
Third window...

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First time I fell in love
I looked up above
To see a white dove 
I felt the sparks
When I was at Mark's 
clothing store
A jacket from...

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When We Met and Fell in Love
(half a century ago)
By Franklin Price
03/02/2022

When we met so long ago, another time, another place.
I felt a pull, a...

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I saw you, 
Such a beautiful thing,
Enraptured with another,
I have no place to feel this way,
No reason to feel such a thing,
Yet jealousy coursed through...

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Do you remember the day
When I was out on a bay

And you, like the silent wind
Penetrated deep in my rind

Barefooted, you lured the carte
Intruded the...

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For they did tell
Passion within
Far beneath the skin
Dept of thy lions heart
Took each emotion apart
The time we seal
Our heart reveals
Eternally above
They sent us their love
Made strong
To...

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In the crowd the anxious feeling was contagious.
There was a general feeling of disquiet.
A foreboding loomed, that something pending, might happen.
Cornered eyes darted around fleeting...

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God help all those  missing!
And wounded as well.
Reminds me, how fragile,only time will tell,

Life is for us, one and all!
Death comes knocking fearlessly.
Does not...

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Someone perusing all the lines I penned
before this century would surely say
that I held sacred five iambic feet,
that quatrains and rhymed couplets were my stay!

It...

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I think there are universes scattered across time,
where you have pink hair and I have green eyes,
and we live together, and we don’t like grapes.
Star...

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