Long Chimney Poems
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The Night Before Christmas EveThe 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:
chimney, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
IronbarHe just appeared to me, like wispily curling
Chimney smoke,
One grim and early morning in the very midst of
Decembers briefest days, on the highest slope,
Toiling through my daily round; where, slowly
Driving up...
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Categories:
chimney, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
The Night Before Christmas By Edgar Allan PoeOn the night before Christmas, alone in my house,
Sorrow gnawed at my soul, like a ravenous mouse.
Entombed in my blankets, I struggled to sleep,
Ready to snap if I counted more sheep.
I rose at the...
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Categories:
chimney, christmas,
Form:
Narrative
The Wicked Witch of Soup Creek Bites the DustGalloping hooves broke morn's peace in Soup Creek's Main Street
When Jimmy Smith rode in from Bar 20 his face white as a sheet
He stopped at Sheriff Koplins office and banged heavily on the door
"What's...
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Categories:
chimney, america, death, humor, woman,
Form:
Rhyme
Slow-Cooked Conversion StoriesI was raised in one of those white nationalist churches,
passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church,
where "evangelical" meant fundamental
and "fundamental" meant we did not interpret scripture
but accepted it as God's literal trans-historical Word
of...
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Categories:
chimney, childhood, christian, earth, faith, health, integrity, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Rum n Raisin 14 Pt 2 - The Flight Before Christmas Pt 2Soon, the sun was lying low, a bright full moon was now on show
Santa switched on Walnut’s glow… “Ho Ho Ho and away we go.”
Walnut played along and led the team of reindeer and their...
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Categories:
chimney, cat, christmas, dog,
Form:
Narrative
Beating the Odds -- Both Audio and Text - W-IllustrationThese two lived through a devastating hurricane -
The morning started out like any other standard day. The sky was partly cloudy and the breeze was soft and warm.
An empty little rain cloud drifted by...
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Categories:
chimney, storm,
Form:
Narrative
The Nifty Town 1I knew that I had to go somewhere but I did not know where
I knew I had to go somewhere that was not very far from here
So I put on my...
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Categories:
chimney, adventure, angel, business, celebration, character, confusion, culture,
Form:
Narrative
Anything For a LaughI’ve always been a prankster and a lover of a joke.
I love to see the puzzled look on an unsuspecting bloke,
when he looks around and lifts his hat - totally confused.
Some take a joke for...
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Categories:
chimney, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Alice, What's Going OnAlice, did th' afternoon grow long an' dull;
As your older sister did read an' mull?
While in your mind, boredom grew-
That you'd grown restless no one knew!
That's what came before th' fall-...
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Categories:
chimney, adventure, cat, children, fantasy, imagery, imagination, youth,
Form:
Couplet
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes On the Sensate Slip Stream : the Silent War In 3 Acts - Pt3
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”
The Dilettante Diaries: Avian Notes on the Sensate Slip Stream : The Silent War in 3 Acts
(Part 3)
Avian Notes...
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Categories:
chimney, bible, bird, earth, evil, god, love, war,
Form:
Free verse
CladestineTHE CHIMNEY
The once fine air, refreshens with dust
Between the village horizon and crest
Since the sailing of a death chemical chimney.
Young green plants seedlings growing on slope
Are left to sip these carcinogenic dusts, sapling
And entwined...
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Categories:
chimney, corruption, death of a friend, depression, emotions,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A White Sheet of Paper Part I"A White Sheet of Paper." Part1
Once upon a time I was a white sheet of paper
Pilled between hundreds on a shelf my neighbor
For years was an old stapler.
I was full of life yet...
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Categories:
chimney, imagination,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots VSpawned from the loins that
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When...
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Categories:
chimney, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
A Most Irish Fairy Tale - Merry Christmas To AllIt is not just Santa Claus who we meet in cold December—
There is “Carolina,” and she’s the beauty of a winter picture perfect
With luscious long coal black curly hair far down on her...
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Categories:
chimney, beauty, children, christmas, love, snow,
Form:
Narrative
Gitter Dunn - 1st Half In Text - Plus Full Audio VersionThis is the 1st Half - sorry, this is the only way to get my long pieces posted - 2nd HALF is posted
Times were hard when I was young, and - tryin’ to help...
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Categories:
chimney, dad, father, father son, inspirational, love,
Form:
Narrative
Remnants of a Saturday NightSunday morning early, five a.m to be
precise, my mind awakes, then gently succours
the body to arise from one’s mundane sleep. I
then transfer to Britain via 1ZB, listening
to the English football commentary, it’s worth
the lack of...
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Categories:
chimney, me, morning, people, social,
Form:
Free verse
Sacred Lakes
“Sacred Lakes”
There is magic
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo
busy under cover of autumn leaves
turning burnished topaz gold
idling unrushed roll over
in honeyed slumber
turning back hands
to face a time of
blushing...
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Categories:
chimney, journey, love, magic,
Form:
Romanticism
StagnatedS T A G N A T E D
"I'm pregnant."
A snake chill suddenly crawl in his spine when he heard her words. Icy sweats ran to his brows. He was astound! Tongue-tied. How else could...
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Categories:
chimney, character, growing up, relationship, sad, strength,
Form:
Narrative
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots ViStrategically placed when raised
Upwards
By your masterful and well
Practiced hand.
To mingle with ever changing
Skylines
That frown down with arrogant
Scowls
Upon the indigenous populous of
This just and tolerant island.
To study and pontificate upon...
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Categories:
chimney, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots IvPied tidings of suburbian
Magpies,
Squawking and squabbling,
Quarreling ferociously among
Themselves -
Rush to steal
From off the beleaguered bird
tables,
To the annoyance of all concerned,
A much begrudged meal;
Before scurrying away into
Unfrequented woodlands,
Marooned like islands in...
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Categories:
chimney, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
MemoirsAlthough born in Scotland I have no memories of there as we left when I was two.
My first recollections are of Las Palmos in the Canaries.
I recall the donkey passing daily and being told he...
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Categories:
chimney, adventure, africa, life, places, voyage, mum,
Form:
Bio
NA Poetry Contest BE STILL MY HEART
“Let my heart be still a moment and let this mystery explore”
...
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Categories:
chimney, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
A Futuristic Christmas-ContestHereafter in the times of tomorrows yesterday,
...
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Categories:
chimney, christmas, future, snow, winter,
Form:
Couplet
A Way Back To the North PoleI’m so afraid, oh, so afraid, a melody I sing.
I need to find a way back to the North Pole?
I shouldn’t have sneaked on Santa’s sleigh.
I was all excited, I had made plans...
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Categories:
chimney, dog, fantasy, sad, song,
Form:
Free verse