Long Act up Poems

My mind is as hollow as the dead of night
My spirit is dancing out of cheer and fright 
My soul is shattering because I’m too late
To talk about what’s on my mind these days– 
In...

Read More

The Watch man on the Wall is Erick Stakelbeck and I consider him to be one of my mentors!
Russia and Red China flew nuclear armed weapons over Japan recently while Joe Biden was in Tokyo...

Read More

I knew I was in trouble when I woke up to being tired to a chair in the living room and a 
masked man brandishing a 50 cal pistol in my face. I guess that...

Read More

I write like bakers bake
my rhymes make earth shake
Going into contest with me was your biggest mistake
I control the earths plates, tectonics, your rhymes are bollocks
I cause land slides and earthquakes
I don't hate but I...

Read More

Who Am I To You?

Am I just a stranger?
An online lover or a nobody 
That once who passes by 
In a lifetime of your stream ?

Maybe a poet?

A woman only good in sweet words.
Easily fooled...

Read More

February 21st, 2003 
the year, I almost 
shed a tear that 
very night you first 
appeared,

and every since I 
saw you Tia, you 
have been the one, 
my heart's been 
filled with you, my 
moon,...

Read More

There has to be another way
      cause I fear staying will only break me quicker
        I'll snap like a twig 
  ...

Read More

February 21st,2003 the year, I almost shed a tear 
that very night you first appeared,

and every since I saw you Tia, you have been the 
one, my heart's been filled with you, my moon, my...

Read More

He was a gambler
who had been knocked down by a sizeable margin,
not that his bank account would show low returns.
He was a wealthy man.
Quiet and calculative at the poker table.
Meek and mild in a crowd.
He...

Read More

My life will eventually turn the other lane; I’ll rely on God to lead me…
Hopefully he’ll unbuckle me free 
Perhaps there’s a better pathway to roam about and be cheery…
Someday His Kingdom will become a...

Read More

i used to bee the T'keyah Thatt -
Laughed at others whn they were hurt,
cared only about myself,
played entirely too muchh,
thought i wus [above] othrs whn it came to my education,
tried to be bestfriends with the...

Read More

Senate Intelligence 
By Franklin Price
6/8/2017

Senate intelligence, not so sure I saw today.
Those words an oxymoron for what I heard some say.
Do not become political, I heard the chairman speak.
Some of them would not comply, their...

Read More

Depression can't be seen, yet he follows me everywhere
You can't see him beating me down and taking away my strength
I feel it everyday, he makes me act up and brings me to tears
He laughs at...

Read More

Do you think you can do anything you want to?
You can my friend
But do you have to?
No
You don't have to do anything
Not if you don't want to
God does not force you
No matter what He tries
God...

Read More

I’M A DOG NOW
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


I’m a dog now I once was a tree
In my other life I had no one but me
But this time around I’m petted and groomed
Better than pelted by a tropical...

Read More

I'm sitting pretty biding my time
Staying real quiet towing the line,
For President Biden, that lovely old man
Playing the game as only I can.

Why make loud waves, somehow act up,
When everything soon will fall in my...

Read More

Can't sleep mind racing endless thoughts non stop shaking as if I was ill not knowing what's going on or what not terrified and scared all you know is that you don't like the feeling...

Read More

Life is a broken story, we try to live piece by piece, 
we born from our parents but they might not be right 
mentally, then we grow and we may be scarred from 
someone, then...

Read More

Charley was being obnoxious so I took away his hedgehog,
it’s such a small toy anyways for a big Doberman dog.
A spoiled rotten boy who whined for an hour or so
hoping to get his way and...

Read More

Conversing with you, finding some clues,
Just secret signs I cannot find.
Thinking ‘bout you, ending up blue,
Yeah I just can't calm my mind.

When you walk by, my tempo goes up,
But then I pause, and never act...

Read More

Right out the gates they slap you
And here it is, you brand new
Don't worry there's much more to come

As you take in your new view
A cold gray world to greet you
Welcome to the club

Just a...

Read More

Feeling inspired to clean up your life
beginning with changing how you think
do you want to continue to stand in that abandon house that reeks of feces 
causing an overwhelming stink?
smoking crack cocaine
going insane
thinking you are...

Read More

A letter poem to the next black Friday (On the eve of)

I was encouraged to promote a white lie
Poetry I need to bid you farewell
I may stay silent, act up in intricacy
And also declare, I...

Read More

I smile to keep from crying
There's scars on my body, Pain in my heart
I'm walking alone in the dark
But I smile to keep from crying

Growing up they told me i Cared too much
Now they call...

Read More

When you're hurt by someone you love and trust
                  You become sad a jumbled mass of nerve- crushed
...

Read More