Faith January Poems

I pray for the empathy,
Compassion and understanding,
To give someone besides just me,
Music of light and laughter,
Notes of joy and peace,
A sense of assurance that love,
Yes,...

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Snow, silent and breathless,
Trembles on the shadows,
Across the peaks, on mountains
Where still, calm frost weeps.

Snow, hushed as the rumors,
Rustling in the quiet rays,
Embracing the morning,...

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Winter’s breath sighs splendor,
Causing love’s surrender,
Bleeding fondness and grace,
Love is no pretender,
Soft warmth you can’t erase.

Winter’s breath sighs splendor,
Stirring faith so tender,
Joy seeps into the...

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I was off for my vacation. After a long flight and drive, I reached my cozy apartment. Stars like diamonds filled the cold January night....

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The New Year

It is a new year... 
It is a new day.
It is the first day...
of many more. 

The problem, 
and the answer... 
It came...

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January Eighteenth,  Two Thousand Twenty-two
(To Barbara, with love)
By Franklin Price
02/26/2022

January eighteenth, two thousand twenty-two
God looked down from Glory, and he came here after you

He...

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Donald Trump must be permanently lambasted...
and ewe know what else...
furloughed & barred from Whitehouse

Ducks of former self proclaimed Grand Poobah
getting lined up and goosed as...

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Discombobulation thunderously
torments, triumphs, tumults
courtesy deafening,
earsplitting, fracturing...
(think emotional bomb cyclone),
whereby unbearable mental anguish
rents psyche asunder 

into bajillion pieces
singular recourse necessitates
invoking cerebral powers
to engender feeling 
comfortably numb...

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I was reading by a lamp,                                       ...

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Management here at
Highland Manor Apartments sent out word
that tomorrow, January twenty third,
two thousand and twenty one,
we (all residents) will receive the first (of two)
inoculations to...

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'Encourage' Contest 
Sponsored by Regina McIntosh
Older poem of mine (January 2021)

BRAVE BEGINNINGS 

Brave, beautiful girl
A New Year has emerged 
A fresh, clean slate 
Perfect for...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Potatoes

At dinner the other night, 
mom fixed our favorite. 
She baked them, 
broiled them, 
cut them up,
 and fried them nice. 

She told us,
this was...

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Resolutions each January I feel I must do.                 ...

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The Big Mountain

In the distance, 
I gaze at the giant before me. 
Cliff faces, I can not climb today, 
but tomorrow... I will. 

I have...

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