Long Append Poems

They tell us once there was a crow.
Wavering alone in the peril zone 
The feeble is not straight on a clue.
It has been winging since the era of stone.

The crow saw the cost of the...

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Chorus
Sights are far but our minds are close
two hearts share one inhale with one nose
stage acts are for her even the pose
smiles from down she wishes for a rose
ten out of ten is her loyal...

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puzzling with all the words in the order
and changing them - around, and 'round again
effecting or affected by affective disorder
to sound around some pleasing refrain

what's to be gained, again, a chorus refrain
chanted softly by the...

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Signature

 Append the seal on the opening glee
 Of performance agog with clapping drums,
 The cylindrical bell calling to spirituous mundi
 Screaming flew about in the air;
 Perched on ears
 And pecked on fertile hearts,
...

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Lamentations of a proletariat 

Loaded to the brim, withouted in a pack of "obersver-non participants"
folded like a wrap, yet forced to lack in the ranks of "server-run-anticipants"
dare to pass a comment and... a knife to...

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Happy New Year Seventeen
By Franklin Price
1/1/2017

Happy New Year seventeen. Sixteen has reached its end.
It's over and it's done with, there's nothing to append.
Seventeen's upon us, sixteen was somewhat grim.
We must stop treading water and begin...

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It is Labor Day
I am paid not work
but what am I to do
the festive trimmings are not attached
so the perk is an useless quirk and
my boring schedule quickly fills in the gaps
as usual, my alarm...

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Challenges singe meninges sometimes
Painting dark clouds on the canvas in corridors
Where at times
I seem to coerce open doors  

To weep
At the folly I engage
To sweep
Common sense and its stage

Aside as I create reality too...

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In Church today at the dawn of morning light,
  she sat in front of me
  hunching over just a little to my right.
Pale, frail, mottled unfolded hands, 
   with hint of...

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LIFE STORY

"Who wrote dese legs?" Said Milligan in Puckoon *
He surveyed his nether limbs with distaste and dismay
While Jessica Rabbit gave protest of every 'toon' **
"I'm not really bad. It's just that I was drawn...

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Reflection, relaxation around the bend
Long work week careening to dead end
Hard work's gratuities in rear view portend
A brief sabbatical our inflated value to pretend
Week's rat race with slower pace will amend
All unnecessary pursuits from mind...

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Strength lies in the intricate
delicacies in which
I hold her weaknesses
intimately. Professing
her strengths
as if it were
identifying marks
like that of fingerprints
No confession needed
Yes I did it!
Had my hands 
all over her design
grappling with the idea
of how to...

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A stupor born from a haze of deceit,
My longing is requisite and tasteless.
Redeem the worth of another fool’s charm,
Who am I to append fate and comprehension? 

It’s been a long winter waiting for relief. 
Warmth...

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The Land of Opportunity,
Came knocking at the door
Selling Strap on Wings and
Thin Golden Strings,
All things we should adore.
The Land of Opportunity,
Is an enigma from a dream.
The Land of Opportunity,
Sews on our Strap on Wings.
With deft...

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Grand order
Grand order
Will come to order
In attendance:
God, us, Lucifer
and forbidden
fruit.
Old business:
Sin. The first time
we recognized
we we're fully naked
and experimented
with pleasures
derived from 
Kama Sutra.
Lucifer put a motion
on the table to write
another chapter
and we voted
Yay unanimously
New business:
God...

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Early Sunday Morning
By Franklin Price
10/25/2015

Early Sunday Morning
Well into the Fall
Darkness still surrounds
There is a quiet pall

Colored leaves not visible
In the darkness of the day
A light breeze moves the chilly air
The sky becomes a lighter gray
...

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Carcinoma, melanoma sick twins
Inside their innocuous hosts grin
For surface tension brings no chagrin
Another, common diagnosis will time lend
Healthy cell structures to amend
Immune systems with guile befriend
In state of denial, journey begins
Signs not to the human...

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The night moon bows to sheer degree 
Passing through an arching tree 
Branches together shape a breach 
Form a portico - it to reach 

A precisely finished border 
Drifted in natural order 
Light bulb sans...

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This Blank White Page
a poem for you
By Franklin Price
4/15/2015
 
This blank white page is calling me
Come write some lines of poetry
Some quite verbose and some quite terse
Yet all in all they make the verse

Where will...

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Wreath wrapped around the door of my hearth
Hearth's decor both symbol and integral part
Part of the pageantry and beacon of my hospitality 
Material canvas eroding with time; modest beacon bequeathing my liberality
Time capsule which transports festive...

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Wreath wrapped around the door of my heart
Hearth's door both symbol and integral part
Part of the pageantry and beacon of my hospitality 
Material canvas eroding with time; modest beacon bequeathing my liberality
Time capsule which transports festive...

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Her slain tricks were arrested
This caused an adaptation for the tested
Her smothering misery train full of pain
Will this leave many slain?
A daredevil steps up for the vein

Cries spray out from the infested
A heroic stance is...

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You always say the nicest things
and make one feel at ease.
Your words are intended to please.
The sound of your voice sings.

Thousands of reasons to like you.
All who know you agree.	 
You are life’s magic mystery.
On...

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when i was a sage
would want to take advantage
of poems i manage

while being a sage
would write my poems page by page
which was latest rage

with capacity
poems had much tenacity
for sagacity

had a head with bone (Bonehead)
either against...

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 “Friend”

He, who would in utmost haste
Avail himself to a sumptuous fill
Of savory victuals of every taste
At your expense and to his thrill

And would in his claim, be a brother
But, at your fortune’s slightest...

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