Fear January Poems

January 2nd is the unluckiest day of the year.
It's when all the bad things happen, I fear.

The holidays are over, the bills are due.
The weather...

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January welcomes a new year,
still dressed in bright suits. 
Shy January brings new expectations but also fear.

We dream about a new life,
we try to find...

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The whole world is super hopped up about the New Year
Each divinely guided year. In this atmosphere
There are countless unattainable resolutions
The world is marked with...

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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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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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January hushers in the shivering coldness
as feathery snowflakes descend on roads
over the steep ridge which abruptly plunges 
into a foamy sea and their whiteness glistens
into...

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Doomsday Clock January 2022...

the most recent tabulation
signaled one hundred seconds to midnight

A couple years ago
similarly titled poem I did write,
yet looms as harbinger unless
*****sapiens...

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I was reading by a lamp,                                       ...

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Today... 
I watched in horror as insurrectionists, 
          [hooligans and terrorists] 
    ...

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Premature irrelevance of Donald Trump?

Heartfelt congratulations
to Raphael Warnock,
now slated to become
first Black senator of Georgia
cuz he defeated Senator
Kelly Loeffler quite a shock
as troopers fuel related...

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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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Year End 2020
By Franklin Price
12/27/2020

The year of 2020
Almost over, said and done
Four more days 'til ended
As a year, was not much fun

Healthfully and politically,
Was one...

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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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The day my life caved in...
January first, 5 a.m.

I have been awake
24 hours straight

He collapsed
At his birthday bash

His new shirt, stained
With greedy pain

Acrid spear
Flavor of...

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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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