Long Basal Poems

A listing of the fires 
and all the survivors 
will be provided

Names of the dead 
are written on broken cobblestones 
at the bottom of the river

The sheet music 
is in the morgue - reconstruction 
of...

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Once a friend of mine invited me for lunch
A celebration he planned for his book launch,
The book was on traditional Indian cuisine, I knew
No very different from its modern cousin or new.
I was hesitant to...

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That was then….
When the tapestry of contentment enveloped 
the enthralled expanse exhilarated,
of the sensuous sky called life. 
When the fervent flight was friendly 
for the esoteric essence to fly fearless 
near and far like a...

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In the beginning was the word
Before that, no noun, no thing
Then no sound was ever heard
And no passing bell would ring

So therefore no adjective was needed to describe it or deplore it
No preposition required to...

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The debate between free will and fate has taken a hard right
turn to neuroscience, Brodmann area 4 the primary motor
cortex of the brain located in the posterior frontal lobe
(the one cut out of the one...

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Thy birth on January 13th – 
   cervical contractions 
   would not abate
the pesky master (papa), strove 
   to synchronize seminal bait

thence, forty-two weeks 
   after ma...

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Give me some skin
(from the sun's point of view)
By Franklin Price
7/26/2017

Give me some skin, this is me the old sun
You may not like it, but you are the one
Chose you when young, to put to...

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Sabotaging orbitofrontal communication incorporating connection between anterior cingulate gyrus cortex heightening activity bridging (via atom sized pontoon bridges) greater activity upon basal ganglia, which synoptic description does nothing to alter the predisposition to ingress of...

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No way to go
No way to go farther
Farther from the isle of breath
No way to fumble
A few steps more in vain
To go dancing in the rain
Or in the lengthening sunshine
Around the few chuckles in mystic...

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By Mark Miller 
02/27/2017 

Misuse in efforts of conscience abused in use reliance on substance for short lived comforts.

Machine of status in a creatures stature drowns below layers deep beneath characters silent misprision.

Broken down stricken...

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Terror
When I thought of the terror
Once I sat engaged and freighting
Much I marveled the splendid scare
Deep into that darkness fearing
On that day my soul grew lonely
Once upon a midnight silent
I awoke and flung the deterrence

Sore...

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Primal, basal, beyond my awareness
How could I have been so careless
I let the line between real and fantasy
Become clouded through my jealousy
The fire rose, consumed, burned away
And left the ashes in its wake
I still search...

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Fighting Cancer of the Skin
By Franklin Price
8/12/2015

Fighting cancer of the skin
for me is number one;
whether from the war in Vietnam,
genetics or the Sun.

Doesn't really matter
Operate to keep ahead:
basal , squamous carcinoma;
no  melanoma I am...

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The first word there had to be - was BE, and that was the very first in existence
And from Genesis and Eden to Elsinore, it has had a remarkable degree of persistence

It seems that once...

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The dandelion, a broad-leaf perennial, 
life with very distinct stages.
Don’t confuse it with a biennial
cause this plant has five changes.

Seedlings made of yellowish leaves
form a basal rosette, oval in shape.
And as it ages the oval...

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This is the greatest 
non-fiction.
Who on earth will 
believe her action?
My chick,who was 
like my security 
agent;
who strengthened 
me at lent.
Now became a 
jackal.
Desiring me a basal

Is this not the 
highest form of 
irony?
My friend,companion...

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He was the most basal, nasal
Bottom slowest, lowest
relative in their family, Jess Mamily.

They were fearful and tearful, 
When his parents brought him to Sunion Reuion
He was dorky, dinky, odd, a clod.

Don’t play with him, said...

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Hail, oh hypoactive attention deficit,
With a brain that's raveled in tumbleweed,
Inundate thy mind with alchemical medicine,
To satisfy thy folly's focus dressed in tweed. 

Suck the soma from these amphetamines,
Which waken your wary thoughts,
Add a mix...

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Absurd Walls:
By Mark Miller 03/08/2018

I sit in wait,
For melancholic relief
Consumes self-trust resistance.
Out from the clear and into the black shatter dust. 
Although, I cannot explain its purpose or meaning for there is none. 
Awareness prevents...

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she couldn’t get a tan that would make the grade round prom time &
so off to the cancer cocoons she went,
cooking herself crisp & 
as orange as barbecued chicken---
after the prom & all of the...

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The time that set the teeth on edges 
Clamped to grit the whip-cracked jaws, 
Sprung the trap on mice and man, 
Drove a stake and honed the claws 
Of greed fatigue in Trojan wars. 

The...

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Brides name is Hazel Almond,
Her groom is mad about Hazel,
Their wedding cake is a diamond
Shape with pecans at the basal,

Between each layer of Genoese
Is pistachio flavored butter cream
That oozes out when you squeeze 
a marzipan...

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Like a tiny drop of rain glinting
then cracking the surface 
where still waters once lie
creates a ripple effect
spreading outward to the farthest reaching shore

Is how so deeply wanting the sight to be more real
makes stories...

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Transition – Upside down world 

The world is heavy, upside down.
Catch us quickly or we’ll fall.
The natural law no longer holds.
We’re juxtaposed in earth and sky.
The world is crumbling, upside down.
Can’t you see that wrong...

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Sacred texts, secular art
Oratory, verse, harmony in part
Only this, the noblest art
Takes a soul's stirrings, the
Heart's songs and echoes
Every emotion in the human experience
Tortured souls, angelic praise
Human sounds and otherworldly tones
Echoing love, pain, ecstasy, death
Sounding...

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