Long Dani Poems

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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In Sorrow and in Joy
(For my wife Barbara)
By Franklin Price
01/18/2022

I - Looking Back

I'm looking back on year just past in sorrow and in joy
Thinking of the future and the thoughts I should employ
More than two...

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Lord, I Want to Thank you
By Franklin Price
02/06/2022

Lord, I want to thank You for guiding me through life,
For caring friends and family, most of all, a loving wife
You brought the two of us together, when...

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The night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price       12/23/2014
Twas the night before Christmas Eve and at the North Pole
Elves  packing the sleigh for the merry old soul
The Reindeer are...

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Voluntary unconditional surrender woke...,

Viz hitting yours truly,
when yokel egghead doth jinx
whereby ye cannot comprehend figurative
wimpy vainglory, unequivocally, tectonically,
smoldering resentments I stoke,

he doth bare his soul no joke,
no matter insight doth severely challenge
cyber surfing passersby, who...

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Until You Meet Again With Me 
(with love to Barbara)
By Franklin Price
02/23/2022
 
On the evening when God took you, while we held you by the hand,
Your life on earth was over, was hard for me...

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"The account I need to pay..."
"Is there a better sentence?"

"It's not that love is blind—I don't believe that. I believe that when we love someone, we pay so much attention that we notice every little...

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Two Thousand Twenty-two
By Franklin Price
03/05/2022

As the year was turning over, from two thousand one to two,
God was watching down from Glory, knowing what he had to do.
You had fought the cancer valiantly, since the decade...

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Two Months
(Since you've been in Heaven)
By Franklin Price
03/18/2021

Dear Lord, today marks two months since my Barbara left this life
Since You, in love and kindness, took away her pain and strife
You waited 'til our daughter Dani,...

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Places We Lived – First and Last
By Franklin Price
02/08/2022

Back in nineteen sixty-nine, Barb became my lovely bride
We bought our first house, from a friend, a grand Magnolia, double wide

The three of us moved in it;...

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Through God's Grace
(with love for Barbara)
By Franklin Price
02/26/2023

Has been more than a year ago, when I lost you in my life.
I will never lose the memories. You are my dear departed wife.
The year we met...

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Transmogrification into hideous golem like beast...

Seeks to lavish adoration,
especially after freshly deceased
cuz, upon yar flesh I will voraciously
devour thee asthma Christmas feast
mee haint not a cannibal,

cuz this humane anthropophagist
expresses love daintily, hungrily,
and with lips smacking...

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...The last day they rode slowly back,
still giving each other naughty looks,
a love affairs go, theirs was intense,
truly one for the record books.
Merrick hesitated to leave her side,
then Clarice looked him in the eye,
said,”I have...

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within Zieglerville, pennsylvania

genuine snow white hair 
upon her noggin doth adorn,
perhaps she will divulge to me (in private) 
after i croon (to said lass), 

the melody of Jimmy Crack Corn
hmm...or, maybe this mission 
perchance twill...

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Alan Allston ate an addictive piece of cake.
Bertie bounced his bouncy ball by the bus stop but his brother caught the bouncy ball before the bus came.
Claire, Clara, Chloe and co built a sculpture of...

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Majoring in school as a biology chemist
Melanie finds joy conducting experiments
Taking full time units at Butte College
Learning, studying, gaining knowledge

Not surprised if her thing for frogs and tortoise
Came from having to dissect them on purpose
Hours...

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I Did Not Kiss You Goodbye
By Franklin Price
03/27/2022

I did not kiss you goodbye
On the evening that you died
It has not ceased to bother me
If I said, I would have lied

I was saddened by self pity
That...

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Is there anybody out there
 I can only see my face in the forefront preflection
 Of the passed, away on vacation until all comes cross
 Is she really on the page or on the screen...

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There Were Kisses
By Franklin Price
03/29/2022

When Barbara passed, it was a blur
I cannot remember all
Dani held her hand with me
When God made the final call

I thought I did not kiss her 
Did not touch her lips...

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I want to Steel Danielle from her romantic back porch 
swing ,                       ...

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Imagination
(see images in the clouds)
By Franklin Price
Dani, thanks for the inspiration
10/17/2015

Imagination often challenged
By the clouds up in the sky
The images contained therein
Are searched for by the eye

Imagination tries to leave us
As we move on up...

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I love how it feels to be your Dad
Not just when you’re good but also when you’re bad.
I like the way you eat your sandwich from the center out. 
I still love you when throw...

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Just about to launch a new career

Or maybe I should call it a hobby

Dani Spies has certainly caught my attention

With her mouth watering recipes

And easy step-by-step videos to help us along

I'm drooling all over the...

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Just about to launch a new career
Or maybe I should call it a hobby
Dani Spies has certainly caught my attention
With her mouth watering recipes
And easy step-by-step videos to help us along
I'm drooling all over the...

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Today is Your Birthday
By Franklin Price
(to Dani on her 47th birthday)
7/26/2015

Today is your birthday 
So please celebrate
Hope your moving is finished
of your home goods and freight

Hope you're making some time
and you're happy to see
these great...

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