Long Canned Poems
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The Night Before Christmas Eve
The night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
canned, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
The Plural Sky and the Temptation of Its Mirrored Eyes
I melt into the plural sky
its rippling tableaus of tomorrow
underneath open light waves
see-saws the labyrinth
like Delphi tendrils crossing channels
all the changing faces played
automatic, embedded in misty consort
with Hyde-Lees and Yeats
love-crushed oracles
ghostwriting...
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Categories:
canned, i am, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Phantom Mechanisms
Mechanism 1
Part #1
The things outside of my window dry out my eyes. The egg that I saturated has mold on it. The moon decays when I speak. The stars are all just God’s germs. Lately...
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Categories:
canned, mystery, me, night, people, me, moon, night,
Form:
Free verse
Unwoven Memories
I grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.
Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear pants,
yet with a surprising matriarchal cooperative understory.
The boxers outnumbered the...
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Categories:
canned, culture, family, farm, happiness, health, political, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
Off fish hill Daylight saving time 2025
min(no) newt effect on me.
As part and parcel of terpsichorean repertoire,
one whirling dervish
flaps his wings at the speed of sound.
With twenty three hours
Sunday March 9th, 2025
essentially 2:00:00 to...
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Categories:
canned, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
A Light At the End of the Tunnel
"What a fine day for a picnic," my friends all said,
In the dog days of summer, with the hot sun overhead.
We would all go for a swim, and then have a fine lunch,
And would return...
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Categories:
canned, adventure, dark, fantasy, friendship love, home, light,
Form:
Couplet
I May Be Mistaken
I May Be Mistaken
By Franklin Price
9/19/2018
I may be mistaken but, in watching all the raves,
I believe our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves.
We're not acting patriotic when the parties have their say.
They're...
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Categories:
canned, america, political,
Form:
Couplet
Just Show Up
Basic Attendance,
listening deeply to the sounds
and functions
flows and forms of nature's voices,
human nature's moving choices
evolve from panentheistic roots
toward win/win co-empathic,
vulnerably transparent
nondual dark energy
Equivalently empowering/disempowering identity
of not-yet-full synergetically integrating
Other/Selfing
pregnantly individuating Time,
equivocating re-incarnating
personal space
through sacred communal time
Positive
protonic...
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Categories:
canned, culture, leadership, peace, philosophy, political, race, racism,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Each Day of Our Lives
Each day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minerals,
‘cheap’s’ turned to ‘gold,’ not by Chemistry’s...
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Categories:
canned, humor, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Food For Thought Over What Has Been Lost
Food for thought !
Over what has been lost.
Days of long ago - filled with much flavour,
Foods exotic – for the discerning palate to savour.
There was Beef Wellington to enjoy.
Delicious, Lobster Thermador – Oh Boy !
There...
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Categories:
canned, food,
Form:
Rhyme
Three-Fifth Stooges Quartet
Moe
Larry
Curly
Shep
Joe
This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know
Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way
They were yukking it up,
talking clown...
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Categories:
canned, fun, humor, parody, political, satire,
Form:
Light Verse
Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me
Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me
In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will mean losing an hour of precious sleep and moving the...
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Categories:
canned, adventure, age, appreciation, creation, imagination, march, time,
Form:
Rhyme
rooftop
Lisa and I had a party to hit-up. I can’t stay inside all the time, not on a Friday night anyway and a rooftop is the perfect place to mull over big questions and get...
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Categories:
canned, night, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Free Fruits
Green light means go ahead
Make your choice
Here’s a list of the Green light or free, fruits go, go, go and eat them up
Apples, dried: Dried apples make a great snack food and are easy to...
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Categories:
canned, fruit,
Form:
List
After the doomsday clock struck midnight
After the doomsday clock struck midnight...
a blizzard of blinding demoniacal
highly radioactive fueled banshees
(analogous to a bajillion barenaked ladies
raging against the machine)
barreled across the brutalized landscape
affixing fiendish scorched earth signature
whereby survivors felt like foreigners,
or strangers in...
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Categories:
canned, absence, abuse, africa, america, bereavement, conflict, earth,
Form:
Free verse
Superhero
Superhero
The Boy is three, his sister, two
I can’t hear your water
Make it bigger
The windows are colorful
Rainbow indigo
Like a pillow
Because it’s colorful
Why you say that to me?
Why why why?
I’m gonna...
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Categories:
canned, adventure, children, fun, imagination, innocence, nature, water,
Form:
Narrative
April Fools' Occurs First Day of Fourth Month
April fools' occurs first day of fourth month
Ordinarily all manner
of tomfoolery doth abound,
celebrated for countless centuries
by different cultures,
though exact origins remain
shrouded in mystery,
nevertheless quasi holiday of sorts
begat courtesy primitive precursor...
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Categories:
canned, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, april,
Form:
Rhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Fashion Modeling With An Eye On Footballers - Xxvii
Unquotable quotes: Fashion modeling with an eye on footballers – XXVII
Isn’t “haute couture” like “cordon bleu cuisine”? Both equally edible? You still have to pull the shrimp scales apart to get at the meat.
What do...
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Categories:
canned, allegory, beautiful, fashion, football, humorous, soccer,
Form:
Epigram
Leaving Vietnam
“Get your crap together, we’re leaving,” were the words but the
Cobwebs in my brain block out who said them. We started throwing things,
clearing out as dumpsters arrived with the Vietnamese. We throw in ...
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Categories:
canned, memory, military,
Form:
Free verse
Seasons of the Heart
1. Winter
A peaceful realm, time itself almost frozen
We play mind games indoors,
Our joy more in fellowship than fresh air,
Rubbing one moment against another,
The friction creating warmth in our hearts.
Yesterday's fireplace ashes, wires to roast marshmallows,
Always...
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Categories:
canned, life,
Form:
Free verse
Oh My Golly So Jolly
I never knew that Stonehenge refers to hanging gallows
While solstice gives solace as the sun dial moves forth
Many years of mysteries immortalized for sacred worship
Blue Stones transported from Pembrokeshire
For a giant Cromlech by magic or...
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Categories:
canned, christmas,
Form:
Free verse
Daylight Savings Time 2023
Daylight Savings Time 2023...
in Pennsylvania will begin at 2:00 AM
on Sunday, March twelfth
and moost likely will impact
min-née-ute effect on me
a run of the mill on the Floss
amazingly gracefully aging
long haired pencil necked geek,
who welcomes...
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Categories:
canned, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form:
Rhyme
Shoplift To a Job
ShopLift To A Job
From a bustling town called Bukit Mertajam, a mainland part of Penang Island,
Outbreaks a story that warms the heart, about a man being given a helping hand.
With a headline that boasts of...
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Categories:
canned, community, encouraging, forgiveness, happy, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
In the Fecal Folly of the Scheme of Things Puke Poetic, Sorry
OMG this is what I think as I am reading?
thus pus poems and yes they stink
simple in word mire contrivances with
rancid rhyme scheme redundants that
exude explanatory expectorants spouting
word wormy willy wally whilst...
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Categories:
canned, adventure, dedication, judgement, philosophy, spoken word,
Form:
Free verse
Fire and Brimstone
I was giving a lesson on the Liberty Bell, as the daily Church bells went off.
Yes, you guessed it, Dragon wanted to ring them, suddenly he was aloft.
Before we could follow, he was out of...
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Categories:
canned, adventure, confusion, fantasy, funny, humorous, imagination, religious,
Form:
Light Verse