Dark List Poems

Mournday….a sad one

Moonday…..when you’re over the moon about something or someone

Mundaneday……..a Monday that seems a little ho hum

Mineday………..there is a holiday today and you have...

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My muse is getting tired of me. She has
unkempt young men in Parisian garrets
she wants to inspire. But finally she agrees
to meet me for a...

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Listing A Personal View Of What Poetry Is
    
    1. Poetry is a stone,turned to expose to searching winds...

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DEATH

HE ROAMS AROUND SUCKING SOULS DRY
CUTTING THROUH TH FACE OF THE EARTH
HE OCCUPIES THE DARK RUINS OF HELL
HIS THE BROTHER OF LIFE
A SON DEVOTED TO...

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Roses are red
Tree bark is brown
I don't want to be killed 
By a murderous clown

Roses are red
Dragons blow fire
I really want
To live in the Shire

Roses...

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1. You have the illness you have always been fearful of. The cause is your fear. You will never sleep, and tea and yoga are...

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Rotate your tires and planets frequently
Turn your soil into something pretty dirty
Make your garden grow in soiled earth
Stay out of the sun (the surface there...

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I woke up this morning,
and then without warning,
I rolled off the bed,
soundly bumping my head.
That was just the beginning of what I call,
my most exasperating...

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O MINE VALENTINE

We are a twine of 
lines...vines
limbs
hair
fingers
sheets
blankets
couches

streets
signs
misgivings
mistakes
retreats
agressions

2 chairs
2 drinks
a fire
an oven
a burner
a melted finish
and a perpetually unmelted finish

longings
clutchings
graspings
open doors 
unopened doors
closed doors
slammed doors
cracked open...

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1.
and every time i see you it is for the first time 
still my heart skips a beat
and every time we kiss it is our first 
and...

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Nostalgic Nights.
The smell of gas in the vintage moped I drove an hour to buy, 
Driving down that small-town street at night,
Lit by the dim...

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Make a list of objects worthy of merit
They must sparkle in the dark
Glow in the light of day
And cost you your life if lost

No diamonds...

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Go kill yourself that is all I heard at school
But I can’t I have a family 
It would take all my sorrows and trials away...

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Today I Accomplished
(My first list poem- I hope)
By Franklin Price
5/16/2015

Today I accomplished this list of things
At least I hope so Looking back
As I lay my...

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Or Bored With The Rings

Carved into a tree in Mirkwood:
Watch out for Treebeard, girls. He's fast!

On a restroom wall in the Shire:
Hoo boy! that Bilbo...

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It's Christmas Eve and little Steve is sleeping like an angel
He knows Santa's sleigh is on the way with cookies on the table
The stockings are...

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Sketch and Freak
Drag and Jonez
Waste life left
Scared to speak
brittle bones.
...

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            The To Do List - The Serious One

The goal today is to wake...

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blue makes me think of the sky,
i love to watch the clouds go floating by.
black makes me think about the night,
sleeping peacefully with love till...

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Rainbows painted in the sky
White daffodils singing in the rain 
Drops of dew glistening in the morning sun 
Clear desert pools of cold spring water
Red...

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