Long Coulda Poems

In most of my verse, my simple aim
is just sorta to enter tame.
Then, once inside ~
go completely hog wild ~
showing no reserve,
showing absolutely no shame.

For example:

"What do you think of my pup?",
I asked a cop...

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The Highways and the Byways
By Franklin Price
10/27/2107
(Inspired by Nancy McIntyre Stepp)

 The highways and the byways
Of this life in which we've grown
Bring back many memories
Of  places we have known

The Interstates most boring
They bypass most...

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Have You Lost and Mourned
( Thank you Tamera)
By Franklin Price
02/17/2022

I have lost and mourn a loved one
She was my long time cherished spouse
Was the best friend that I ever had
Brought bright sunshine to our house

If...

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New Horizons
One.
His lips kiss my skin
Whispering that I am not from sin
Words powered by artificial lust
Weaving lies into my vulnerable mind
Just to make me think it’ll be alright
Crimson regrets that line my arms and heart
Pleading...

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In a sense everything is a seed of it's successor
The universe is change, life is judgement
Those aren't my words, they're a famous author
The rest of these are and what I think he meant
Before you demur...

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What even

Never began to trust a stranger so much
Damn it was only two weeks tho
It wasn’t love
Nahhh
But damn, sure could’ve been
Coulda...

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How cryptic would I have to be to get this off my chest
One score and yet it seems like yesterday it was the best
Most simple feeling that a girl could ever come to realize
A moment...

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I did what I was born to do
Didn't go as far
Didn't reach as many
Didn't see as much

I did what I was born to do
No excuses, complaints, or regrets
No looking back but straight ahead
No short of...

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	Black people get no respect
And we never will get it,
	if we ain’t got it yet
The white man doesn’t truly consider us a threat,
we’re the best peace loving people
	he coulda ever met
Not one African nation has...

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He always got a Fantastic Four story to tell,
like how yesterday
        he Stretch saved 
all those people from dying
When he ran into the Torch-ed, burning building
		  ...

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Puberty set off affright
seeding decades long
     terrestrial space flight
freighted existential blight,
wherefore from that
attempt to live airtight
many scores yesternight
ago, I barely (except

     on par with grateful
  ...

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Hold on to yo struggle,
Cause no matter what:
Somebody got it worst;
You goin through some
Changes in your life,
Crying and complaining every
Night…
Telling God the way 
Things
Goin aint right,
And how you deserve so much more;
But girl I’m here...

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Since your sending bad vibes Recently, I want to know when did you your opinion think it Weaken.Me, I'm not a victim of Indecency, You can't make me feel less of a man and nobodys...

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Lady Shutterbug had doubt
Spent hours that coulda been ‘bout
an environ pro-activist devout    
Spotting celebrities, scoping it out
Not keeping abreast trendy starlets 
Kylie, Mavee, Cardi B, or Scarlet
Yet little does she regret, 
out...

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Hey, what's up Pete? Same old stuff eh?

Alright, lemme swivel this chair around 'n you climb up here. Bout time you come in .You 
lookin' even worse than usual!
  Whatzat? Yeah well I look...

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Time wasted.  
Time gone.  
Alone and empty with nothing to show.  
I look down at my hands.  
Their empty, red,  so much potential, these hands.  
Coulda created the world,...

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Coulda been
the Hand of the Lying King,
if I didn’t tell the truth so much

Coulda been
Caesar’s right hand man,
if I was kill willing 
to have a shogun trigger touch

Coulda been
chief consigliore renown
for the don Corelone spiked...

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"Iffin I woulda, iffin ONLY I coulda, WELL
some think I shoulda, that I misunderstooda
cause my brains made of wooda!" said Pinocchio.
"A toy's life's sublime without thought of  rhyme 
we dances ta  chimes ,...

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I hope your happy and you get what you want,
But I hope my memory will forever haunt.
You know I was special, I coulda been the one,
But you played little games I hope you had fun.
Was...

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[Studio Quality]
[Female vocals]
[Clean Production]

[verse]
Didn't you hear?

If you broke it you buy it

That is also true of your hearts desires
if you buy into your pain
well that is just insane

and its a way to live a life...

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look at the girl drowning herself with the vodka and booze

like the city winter on the methane gas

and most of the guys would pass

its the the color in your eyes

they scare away the other guys

with...

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Soon the sun will shine
Through the east facing blinds
I haven't worked in seven months
Yet, I rise every day before him
And write a poem or two

The ceiling fan wobbles
Finches, sparrows and a cooing dove
Greet the dawn
Sweet...

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FAST   EDDIE  SPEAKS   OUT  IN THE RABBIT CAGE

Say, pass me that half-carrot, Guido,  before I  fall asleep with boredom.
Those lettuce leaves are tasty but, oh boy,
It would...

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Billy the kid kept roving around,
A campfire here, a cowhand there,
He traveled alone through country & town,
Always headed somewhere,

One certain day he rode into town,
His forty-five strapped on his side,
Just to stop and drink one...

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I got bruises and imperfections. 
Addictions and insurrections.
I'm just looking for a place to find some rest.
I got goosebumps and yellow jaundice.
Ain't had a haircut since bout last August.
Wishing for a place to lay my...

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