Long Decorator Poems

Everyone voted Mrs. Garret’s tree as the best Christmas display in the village. Which was surprising in a way, as she was not really a local. 

Richard Garret, her husband, was not a man to...

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I was a fashionable interior decorator, beautifying comfortable, loved homes;
And selecting wall paints, fabrics and furniture, like the sparkle of gemstones.

I worked closely with eager owners, for their wildest, dream homes to occur,
Like clusters of...

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I spent the last five years living in her shadow
so young, beautiful, and intelligent
and everyday he let me know what I was not

I did not do the things he liked, and we had nothing in...

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Family love is born in little rooms,
around sofas, settees, dinner plates,
with paternal bond that strengthens and grooms,
unswerving link that lasts till heaven’s gates!

We were such family in a French town,
traditional, true, religious us four,
mother was...

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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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In pitch black night there is no color, 
For light is color's revealer.
In daylight, your eyes see an object as white, when all light is reflected, 
White is all the colors from a billion rainbows,...

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Winter morning light filters through lace curtains,
Reaches down, spills onto the corner kitchen sink,
Through east and south facing windows.
The glass jar, the scrub brush and pad in plastic butter dish,
A down-turned, empty yogurt container,
The pink...

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There’s Just One Catch


Help wanted.   See the details below.
Help wanted.   See the details below.

I’m lookin’ for a part-time assistant, and a life skills mentor, 
A Quick Books accountant, and an exercise...

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Next day after the funeral was a celebration of life
at Mom's/Grandma's for a grand supper with memories ripe
afterwards eldest suggested we take some memento's 
going through her things I felt like I was pilfering,

To think...

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Ridding the world of you came at a cost
now I float without color
without virtue

Why can’t I feel my arms? 
what were once extensions to hold me up
don’t provide much when walls aren’t a factor

This place...

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Help wanted.   See the details below.

I’m lookin’ for a part-time assistant, and a life skills mentor, 
A Quick Books accountant, and an exercise partner, 
And a neat housekeeper that can do windows.
It helps...

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Battle Rap


...poet in da house...


Now have a listen, for I’ll be a kissing…I’m on a mission
And you’ll be a pissing your hemolysin…a smelly emission
My words glisten worth the admission…full of ammunition
You’re under submission a life...

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~ONE TWO THREE IT’S NOT EASY~
One, two, three it’s supposed to be easy…
But watching you makes me queasy
Four, five, six, don’t even go there
I refuse doing it standing on a chair…
Seven, eight, nine - no...

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From my balcony, far away from the night runners' path, just above the neighboring witch, the wind of change is hot, ticklish and with a tingly sensation. I see silver hooks caressing the clouds. I...

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invite over your friend with a green thmumb
invite over your friend who writes in their own journal
invite over someone who sews
someone who sings
someone who can act
and another that can tell a joke
one who knows how...

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His favored ones, whose backs bend o’er the soil,
He blessed the hands of the ones who look after
His animals, with loving care, with sweet voices,
So gentle so caring, then, he blessed his children
In everything they...

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Who feeds birds because birds are hungry?

Don't they have bread to eat because someone is lonely?

Did pupils bring forth apples for teacher because pupils were friendly?

Perhaps...... but didn't they expect something?

"Spread knowledge on me like...

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Have you ever heard  the old saying, 'You can ride a willing horse to death," well 
my grandmother told me this many times, during my growing years.
Now that I am older, and I pray...

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Scissoring branches cut ribbons of wind
As the wall of the distant dawn 
Paints itself gold
A few fugitive leaves scurry away
While their fellows cling to the bough
And whisper papery lament

Fingers of frost cake the roots beneath
And...

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How beautiful thou art
Oh butterfly
Out of ecstasy at holy place as ally
Seems leisurely created by Almighty
A fascinating climax of beauty

Multiferous colours majestically
Wonderfully blended magically
Unique shades full of skill
Bestowed on thee I feel

A lesson for the...

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You Cannot Call Yourself a Counselor Until
We were told we could not call ourselves counselors
Until we graduated and had our licenses in hand.
We were threatened, so we abided by this sacred rule.

I called a plumber...

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Hopeless eyes
Line the roads
Like begging bowels
Empty, seeking, searching
Looking for life
Driven by primitive need
Empty swollen bellies
Wayward spindly waif's 
Collected by the score
Death smiles on all
Is their only friend
Wring hands, say prayers
What could be, should be
When affluence...

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No one has seen you, 
Oh! Almighty creator. 
Let me be among very few, 
In this beautiful nature. 
I can feel you, 
In each and every corner. 
In my point of view, 
You are within...

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What matches orange?
The husband asked thinking the couch was a mistake.

She was a decorator – not a paid one,
but nevertheless, she was a visionary.

She had the room put together in a week.
People raved about its...

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Aunt Martha had a knack for doing a lot with a little.
I spent a day watching her purchase a plethora of baskets.
She bought an assortment of sizes, colors, and shapes. 
What in the world was...

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