Long Brice Poems

We’re (Lisa and I) back in Athens Georgia (hometown USA), where it’s the halcyon days of summer. The south used to be the home of summer heat - not anymore. Now everyone has their little...

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“22½ euros for a Martini,” Peter remarked, when he first scanned the menu.
“It’s not like we aren’t going to get them,” I said, “we’re not going to cheap our way to abstinence." The waiter came...

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*last winter break*

I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic...

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My “popcorn town”, Oak Bluffs
on Martha’s Vineyard,
always will be home to me
‘though I now live far away.
We were young when
we bought the old Victorian
with the wide wrap-around
porch. It needed a lot of work
but we fell...

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Lisa and I went to a reception, yesterday evening, for students who’d landed summer fellowships at a particular hospital in Boston. (Yeah us!) It wasn’t formal, so I wore a crimson cropped sweater, a beige...

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I fought my demon 
I hold my angel close to me
It's wanted to fly to the sky
As much as it hurts, it hurts me so
I didn't want to lose it again 
But I must let...

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how Africa will be if influential leaders 
continue speaking the truths 
about injustice in the  World? 
It is always good to speak the truth on earth.
I always pray  millions of people to get used
 to...

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THEY WERE NOT ADMIRED, THEY WERE HARDLY EVEN LIKED, THEY REFRAMED FROM COMMENT DUE TO THEIR DISPOSITION, ALLOWING
SOMEONE WITH A GREATER DISPOSITION TO BE IN CONTROLL. mONITERING
THEIR ABLITIES WOULD BE EASY AS THESE MEN WERE...

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Pick up the plaid skirt curly,
ride to the rave party on the down low
Sneak out the lame pimple place early,
take the cutie to the Hush Hush ‘Mo ‘Mo
Trying to act playa Romeo ... like he...

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FROM THE DESK OF HUGE GRAPPLYN
IS BEING BOUGHT TO YOU BY
the action packed love story...
"SINGLED"
 THE FILM STARRING
DRICCER DENNLES AND hEATHER HOLT
cinema-cinema films
in theaters
September 29 2019

         ...

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(a flash fiction piece)

My brother (Brice) left university, 6 months ago, like millions of other students, to shelter from COVID. After years away Mr. Annoying was back in MY world, bickeringly close and way too...

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the sweat on my hand is a visible thing
am I talking irrational as if philosophical 
why does one equate logic with fear
I shed a tear to numb the pain
sparks pertrude through my voice as if...

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(tales from the viral lock-down)

Brice (my brother) is cutting through what smells like a stack of cinnamon french toast.
My stomach growls at the aroma like a hunting cat. 
I jump out of bed, grab my...

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Themed based
takes the place
of sponsorship strategies
a consortium of things
that angles on the
possibilities
Wrong choices
selfish motives
and disobedience
are key points to began
instruction
each theme focuses on
person  " Anyone"
who needs instruction
but does know
the right terminology to
illustrate what he or...

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I 'spose I'm revealing my age but how I hanker once in awhile,
To return to days of yore and spin ye old Crosley radio dial!
To our delicate ears, those shows were considered wholesome,
Unlike some television...

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I reckon I'm revealing my age when about radio days I pen,
But I fondly recall listening to our Philco radio 'way back then.
What wondrous tales, mysteries and pure comedy from it flowed,
By simply tweaking the...

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OK, so this isn't really something I wrote. It's a song by Lee Brice, and I love this song because it really relates to me in a lot of ways and I thought I'd share...

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We hurtle down the last few hundred feet 
of steep lavender lined cobbled slope 
shaded by majestic umbrella pines - around
a last hairpin turn and there they are:

The blue-white Pampelonne beaches, of St Tropez.
Their indecent...

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Remember Christmas shopping?
I mean in stores full of shoppers
- there was music in the air and
some shops had free hot-chocolate
while others offered hot cinnamon 
apple-cider and ginger-reindeer cookies

Parents would have to wait outside stores
because the...

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BAMBULL AND BRICE
SPOKE THE ACCOMPLIMENTS
THRU THE AUGUMENTS DECRIBED
IN HER ENHANCING STRUCTURE
THEY MADE COMMUNACATION KEY
THEY WORKED WITHIN THE ETHICAL
FRAMEWORK OF THE EMPLOYERS
COMPANY AND BECAME RESPECTED
           DOERS...

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There is a brighter Side To          BLACK CATS AIN'T BAD LUCK
               ...

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Frost’s words set poetry nicely in ice,
“Emotion, finding thought, then words”.
Feelings are fluid; music can more quickly suffice,
But a melody can hold lyrics of smiles or swords,
A poem is chameleon but much more precise.
A poetic...

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