Long Chasers Poems

Sixty-eight and Sixty-nine
By Franklin Price
02/03/2022

In January sixty-eight, I was sent to Vietnam,
Was no internet back then, no Facebook, only Spam
I went to serve my country. Had signed the line in sixty-five
Going there to do my...

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off too see her 
now we sliding on chrome slippining past slip;ery serpents
its certain its aknown fact
dont push me cause i push back
push black white in the night and
winding sliding sliders right in time too
clean...

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Welcome To The Black Society
Welcome to the dead society
I hope you make through it this poem
I hope I make through this poem
I hope gunshots don't make  it through this poem
Forgive me black society
But I have...

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Chapter 3 THE RIVER continued (b)


Carefully they placed the children
In the small canoe amidships;
Pushing out into the current 
Han swam alongside to guide them
 
Kwona, as she stood and waited
On the shore now took the...

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Light bubbles of painted canvas, dancing amongst the softness
Of heavenly space amidst the skies above, wind walkers captured
In a timeless waltz of everlasting eloquence and grace!
Swift air lanterns, set drifting, uplifting the mortal spiritual soul
Of...

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"Got To Get It"

Bridge: Go out here and go get it(get it)
Don't make excuses
Your life is what you make it
Go ahead and choose it(choose it)
You got to eat and so do I
Let's go get this...

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Tis Tornado season
As it's dark and cloudy
Lighting strikes down
Weather alerts sounds
Tornado Watches 

Be watchful
For tis the season
Tornados come
Be always Prepared
To take Shelter

Then Alerts Sounded
Tornado in sight
Touched and grounded
Tornado's whips through towns
People.. go to where Shelter...

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Across a scarlet sunset I will be watching
Flowers turn in vain to face the falling sun
But drinking in the moonlight of defeat
In the darkness their failures will dawn
And the worst emerge from hiding
We have all...

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Oh keeper of my heart's beating rhyme
For which I long for 
With every ounce of electricity
Stimulating the rhythmic pattern of light
Shining from each crevice of my fragile soul

Split in half from the ages ago 
When...

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Kitty, Kitty 
          where is my sweet snugly Kitty? 
               You're full...

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Good morning my dear, are you still awake? 
Yes, I know it's quite late but let me make 
it quite clear its not entirely my fault,
I was caught in the rain by the Old Town...

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I can’t find the silver lining 
It must buried underneath all the stones we left unturned 

And how are you not sober at a time like this?

And how are you despondent with our ambitions on...

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Since the Garden of Eden and Cleopatra,
snakes strike great fear in man
I have it—ophidiophobia---
legless lizards equal repulsion
 
Slithering, sliding as they move
something about friction and scales
like goose bumps on human flesh
more than I want to...

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I'm not the devil
But I know who he is
He's your alter-ego
And your so oblivious
He's the angry reaction
He's the hate hidden inside
That masked as confidence
That's the devils own foolish pride
I admit it, I lied
For I know...

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I
In church, decor by Desiree Seymour
Jesus rose up again, we sang with gusto
There followed communion, bread and wine
Thoughts: He, bread of life ; we, bread too!
If he were a loaf, Jesus, THE PERFECT One
Broken so...

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your purple lipstick and bright blue eyes 
long blonde hair and magnificent thighs
my heart pounding so fast and my hands are all sweaty
my mouth starts to dry and my mind like spaghetti

I started to daydream...

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Midnight plus fifteen, the streets come alive,
Spilling tattooed mobs, teeming motion-blurred
From the bars, karate and kung-fu moves in car parks
And upon telephone kiosk phone books.

Kebabs stinking of extra onion, chilli and garlic sauce,
Soaking up beer...

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Waiting for the government…
                  

Waiting for the government
				to do some thing
	any thing

I didn’t get that. 
Oh, you took...

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A hit and run in your side of the hood
You celebrate because the one hit was trashy and no good
But someone at one time loved this lifeless scum
It is a dog eat dog society never...

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I'm Mark Labbett, ' The Beast '.
I love a mighty feast.
I feed on fear
And then I cheer,
" With me, the show's complete! "

I'm  ' The Governess ' Anne Hegerty.
A.K.A. " Old Knickers a Frosty...

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IT'S EARLY AS I WHIPE THE SLEEP OUT MY EYES
I KNOW I NEED THIS EDUCATION
I WANT TO BE GREAT IN MY FAMILY'S MINDS
AS I WALK THROUGH THE CAMPUS
I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S IN STORE
I THINK NOTHING...

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Oreos with chocolate chips
  Potato sticks with onion dip

Drip the cheese all over those fries
  Three scoops of ice cream and apple pie
 
Frito-lay corn chips beside a guacamole-filled bowl
  Don't forget...

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Ancient Aliens

They have always been here
ancient? – alien?
living amongst the unknowing
hiding in plain sight.
How have they altered
our past? – our future?
advanced or hindered
our progress – our failure.
How have they touched us
with an unseen nudge,
aligned the...

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BOYS   IN   SCHOOL

Boys in school - I sympathise with them 
They must reorganize their brain stem
They are made to sit in rows
And try to see what each  one knows

We must...

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It’s a Saturday night; all the lads are on the beer
Posing in their best clothes – look out ladies we are here
They swiftly down a pint then another three or four
Soon they are getting wobbly...

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