Long Crazy as a loon Poems

A toddlers Crayola masterpiece marks the box
Where the story of our days now tarry
Passages tilting the axis of a bittersweet equinox
As photographs eclipse yesterday and today unvaried 

The plans we made for a life
After years...

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Once in a blue moon I have been told
The cliché’s clan gets together with the Catch Phrase posy

If I have told you once I have told you a thousand times this story or are you...

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Goodness me, fiddle dee dee and la de dah
Mary turned into a black sheep, baa baa baa
That naughty little lamb
Has contrived a big scam
She's gone too far astray and has lost her way

Mary's been tinkering...

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Occasionally we should expose the wackier lobe of the brain
in order to better appreciate the more sensible side of the mind.
     ~THIS is one of those times...

I capriole between my arabesques
fugaciously...

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chocolate covered nut,
was my neighbor
and crazy as a loon
banged on his pots and pans
each night
while howling at the moon

disturb me once more, I thought
and I will teach you well
with noise so horrific
you'd rather be in...

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Well and You're Crazy if you
think I'm gonna let you bring me
down again, if you think you
can just come back into my life
after being gone so long and
expect me to take you back 
just like...

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Well and You're Crazy if you
think I'm gonna let you bring me
down again, if you think you
can just come back into my life
after being gone so long and
expect me to take you back 
just like...

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Every Sunday after church
Old great-aunt Dora
Full bloodied Cherokee,
In her finest dress and fedora,
Drove her pink Cadillac
To the San Joaquin River.
She would stop in the same place
And sat on an old stump,
Under a camphor tree,
By the...

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"Loving and losing: 
          Different only by one letter and a million degrees of pain."
           ...

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5150 the state said get him off the street, he's as crazy as can be,
he says he sees spirit's leaving people going into other's you see.

Cuff him up lock him down, through him in a...

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MEPHISTO WALTZ

Lost in the forest
And worse – the night has come on
Many strange noises
Shivers up and down my spine
Moon just peeking round a cloud

Then    this old farm house
One window lit up ...

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Sometimes I think sleeping
        is entirely overrated,
especially when thoughts come creeping 
        into me unabated.

From whence they arrive 
  ...

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If it seems absurd
that a cuckoo bird
is as crazy as a loon,
but you hear the talk
he’s around a clock
all morning, night, and noon,
then it should not astound
that he’s a little wound,
and sounds a kooky tune.

When...

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Sweet Sixteen
by Franklin Price
1/1/2016

Sweet sixteen is finally here
and sixteen minutes in
If I waited to write longer
Would be too sleepy to begin

It's eight sixteen I went to bed
At the ending of verse one
Watching the bright ball...

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Heroism



Would you run into a fire,
Earning a responder's ire?
Or jump into a swollen river
Just to give a sliver

Of a chance,
For further life and romance,
To a person drowning here,
All alone, full of fear?

Have you ever risked...

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Dave Crandall is a fella who is always in tune.
Don't believe it when they say he's crazy as a loon.
He's a vegetarian, so you might not relate
to the curious items that you find on his...

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You sat and looked at me as if,
I had lost my mind.
You told me I was crazy,
That I was unrefined.
The kind of life I offered
That you could not accept.
I think there’s just a few lines
That...

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Midnight is upon the moon
Driving feeling crazy as a loon
Tired and excited to see your face
Love overflowing, scared, wanting time to race

I see your face
Nervousness and worry
Trying to ease you, and me
Wondering what the night...

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There was a chubby boy named Aflatoon
Floated down from nowhere one afternoon
wearing a baggy, funny looking pantaloon
in a colorfully decorated hot-air balloon. 

To get his hands on a blue diamond soon
That shines, oh, but once...

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