Long Airplanes Poems

When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States.  Of course I do not personally remember him.  Mr. Truman was followed by Mr. Dwight Eisenhower, but I...

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In a matter of months, we would experience the greatest economic                        ...

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Crumbled like dust and I began to stumble like ashes with a gust of wind – that’s what I felt before exchanging smiles and goodbyes…
Oblivious obviously…removing the plank from my own eyes of deep-inside-prideful lies
Memorably,...

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My teacher died.
   
   His lungs failed him.

He taught me that the lungs
harbor grief.

   His lungs are gone.
My grief has only just arrived.


   He used his lungs...

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My father and I did not share all that much,
More like passing a truck on the road
Parent’s squabbles I overheard offered me clues
And at times I caught glimpse of his load.

His freight always sealed with...

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Let my butterfly wings fly…in the glittery moonlight…
My words escape my lips with a lack of self-control and patience…
I’m sorry, but I’m lost…soon to be found…
In another life called the After Life…
The walls are closing...

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All The Same
David J Walker
 
My neighborhood
Was filled with children 
All the same
Every freckle every name and
Every game we played on the
Playground after school
We were all the same
 
Ok 
there were David’s and Jimmy’s
And Billy’s...

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You made up a wondrous, precious melody inside me
If I was sober and less numb, I would’ve felt it, baby
Sick with that same ol' love flu, you know?
But, this love flu isn’t contagious or for...

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Don’t let the color red get into your head, don’t let the color red force you to bury the dead, red is strong,   red is high, red is powerful, it is touching the...

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Off kilter

Yup
I sobered up
despite expressing regular
(unleaded and unlettered) 
urge to shtup
expunged courtesy 
system of a down
with shuga (mush)
and everything nice.

	The following crafted some time ago,
when empty nest syndrome 
pulled me psyche taut 
analogous to an...

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How far from nature and life it is
the gray clouds, airplanes in them
the night cooing and pigeons roosting
Sirma's garden gone to roses and seed

                        That airplane overhead!
                        pointing the way
                        pointing to war

War being an aggravated condition of...

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Afghanistan 911 Emergency
By Franklin Price
09/08/2021

Nine-eleven, two thousand one, the world we knew was changed.
We were attacked by terrorists, our lives were rearranged.
We went to war with Saddam Hussein. He was the leader of Iraq.
The terrorists...

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The reason I’m writing this is because I’ve messed up greatly
There’s no way I can get out of this rut and I’m stuck in my misery
I felt like leaving the situation and I ended up...

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“Only girls cry!…Oh, boo hoo!” laughed my brother, (as big brothers often do)
 He had been taunting me, teasing me, heckling me, as I whined, complained.
 Neither of us would have won a prize, for...

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Some folks just don't have a life of their own.
Some live on other's problems.
Some live on other's dreams, and hopes for the future.
Some live on just being the antagonist to everyone else;
They are the worst...

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Condolences Forever Invoked - 9/11/2001

(I sit corrected for typing year 201, when most of America untrammeled by hordes of humanity, and probably far more similar to the garden of Eden, which approximate space/time continuum disparity...

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Its carnival season again in Trinidad
The whole country in a party mood
With steel pan, soca and calypso
Beautiful women and all kind of food

It has a big show in Skinners Park
Tonight in san Fernando
And we boys...

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He gave me unconditional, abundant grace
He gave me unbelievable faith during life’s regretless race
The light of life is what I truly try to embrace
In this darkened world of loveless lust, this world of disgrace

Agape Love...

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Because of our open southern boarders thanks to president Joe Biden,"Those aren't Mexicans entering our southern boarders but foreign terrorists who are planning to launch terrorists attacks against Americans on our American soil,"Pastor John Hagee,...

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The ship has been rocking from shore to shore
battering over rough waves  and endless seas
that came to the restless shores more than fifteen years ago
the temperature has risen to over a hundred and fifty...

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Do you see what I see that’s not my line either                        ...

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Poor Mikey
gave everything he had
for fifteen minutes under lights
(and they are expensive lights).
He went down not once but twice
in the same game with the same head
(his only one).

Rules meant to protect him 
from returning to...

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Y66 Mort
means Fred Hampton day in 
spite your subtle threats I am in 
no way able to obey any mafia 
threat during election time I 
am reminded of the bribes 
payoffs and dead bodies piling...

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So what brought you back here after twelve long years; what brought you back here when you don’t have any good news to share? 

You run the company bone dry and suddenly took off to...

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Everybody says
money is the root of all evil
yet we tried a system of trading
swapping your products, service

for the goods and food you require
imagine the effort required 
to make enough trades 
to supply your needs for...

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