Long Bern Poems

A true story, based on family oral tradition
from the oldest part of the city of Bern,
capitol of Switzerland, where my mother was
born and raised, in the Nydegghoff)

He lighted the candle with a quivering hand,
his overcoat...

Read More

In Chicago, Mayor RICHARD J ruled the roost DALEY for 21 years,
  Til he breathed his last, giving way to the 'next sir:'  
  A pol named MICHAEL, who was dull and...

Read More

YOU ARE IN A CAR WITH CHARCOAL BLAZING IN THE BOOT....DID IT EXPLODE :)
Bernie Kinnear was a blacksmith who  needed charcoal
so they brought some by car to the smithy...trouble was it came to life...

Read More

Hurricane Florence
By Franklin Price
9/16/2018

She came across the ocean
With a terrible intent
Slammed the coast in Carolina 
She so slowly came and went

At one time while still traveling
A category four
With the winds above one forty
Waves fifty feet...

Read More

Wish to wake up surrounded by the snow-capped Alps
Sipping tea in the quiet, quaint villages of Switzerland
Watching the glittering ripples of sapphire blue lakes
Staying in picturesque lakeside hamlets
Overlooking emerald valleys and majestic mountain peaks

Wish to...

Read More

I stood in awe as she alighted like a bird upon some branch,
Belisha beacon to the abyss bound  clochard.
Bonfire for uncanny scion  adrift,
 ignited by her
incandescent eyes.
Chanteuse  of Arcadia  on song...

Read More

Hillary and Donald
By Franklin Price
7/29/2016

Hillary and Donald
The Clinton and the Trump
Run to save the country
Or send it further in the dump

Only the two of them are left
To run for president 
We no longer feel the...

Read More

Four Billion years or thereabouts
Earth has orbited its appointed place
Slowly and surely developing into
A safe and hospitable living space 

What a strange year this has been
Year Two Thousand and Twenty Two
You seem to have bern...

Read More

I’m …

(thus told)
oft’ purveyor of a pen
drowning in the anguish of the heart …
bulletin:
love - not always love
love - always pain 
always -
all ways …
wherever, whatever, WHOever the
soul divides for,
consumed, one day …
lost to time’s...

Read More

Well, it’s that commercial day the community celebration of Mother’s Day

But for me, the thoughts of the presents and all the trappings of show, 
it does nothing

My preference is to thought
Mum, I remember you as...

Read More

“Comrade Bernie's in full swing
Arms flailing, fingers pointing,
Like a possessed puppet on a string
To his legions never disappointing.”

“We're a movement young and strong
Forward thinking, kind to all,
They call us mad but that's so wrong
Such a...

Read More

To Have Fun With the Candidates
By Franklin Price
1/25/2015

To have fun with the candidates
Should not cause any fuss
For after all most every day
They're having fun with us

Trump is a real playing card
Ted would like to Cruz...

Read More

The story of Hezekiah Munny
Is one that’s really kind of funny

He married Olive Eo
First cousin to McMar
She didn’t have much money 
And she didn’t have a car

She loved dear Hezekiah
She would gladly have his name
But...

Read More

Climb the Hill
By Franklin Price
2/6/2016

Climb the Hill(ary), feel the Bern
We're Cruzin' to the Fall
Trump through the Bush
Find a Rubi Oh! God  please save us all

Began this trip with many more
New  POTUS at the...

Read More

Tussled snow-haired gnome flies over the land,
A moonbeam daydream, unicorn soars high.
Pulling bread loaves from the air with his hands,
Weaving through clouds shaped like marshmallow pies.

He’s the master of all he imagines,
To his fantasy you...

Read More