Long Depletes Poems

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Though still within our infancy, 
we strive to thrive, but woefully 
we flash and flaunt our 'primacy',
display our trophies pridefully.
 
Our terra firma ecstasy
destroys survival's harmony,
lays waste to life on land and sea.
Mankind, thy name...

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If there is life there 
must be an encounteration.
Even the moons and 
the suns, all get to return 
back if they passed 
to their eventual 
transportation. The morning
lights shunned and pass 
like flying clouds. When...

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Say I:

On the websites I used to share, I was frequently amazed 
     Poems got greeted with silence; it seems eyes were quickly glazed. 

It’s as if I’d morphed into a...

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#If_I_had_known
Known that you were leaving, leaving to never come back anymore, leaving to a place where no one can reach, to a place where no visitors are allowed. Known that it was the last laugh...

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The Silent Killer

The silent stealthy cancer
Creeps and spreads inside
With no warning it's deadly rancour
When it strikes none can abide

Relentlessly eating through and through
As remorseless as a snake
Crushing muscle, bone and sinew
While asleep and while awake

No...

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I’m stealing through a twilit realm, the ancient pale of Whereis,
passing chambers of an Heiress
(though no need to feel embarrassed)
through a magic mystic mirror hanging curtainless.

A glimpse near naked alleyways (denuded by the moon) ex-
poses...

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I WAS ROME - MING THROUGH TIME.

WHEN I PASSED THROUGH A DOOR.

I WAS PART OF THE CLOUD ,

OBSERVING A WAR.

FREEDOM RIGHTS AND PRIVACY

WERE HANGING BY A THREAD.

LEGAL PROPAGANDA

BEING DRILLED INTO FOLKS HEADS.

PRIVACY IS A FRAGILE...

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Time Has gone By
By Franklin Price
01/14/2025

Time has gone by. I'm up in life.
Three years ago I lost my wife
Cancer, then covid came around
She, way too soon, was Heaven bound

Late in the year of oh one...

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Before time found its pulse
 and the void birthed its silence,
 there was the Word,
 a murmur of infinity,
 a flicker igniting chaos.
 It needed no beginning,
 nor an end—
 it was pure motion,
 a...

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul 
and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.  
- Emily Dickinson 

 

My search for gold dust glow in...

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Providence rode,
I land
On the island
To learn its code
Of conduct, as
taught by Mr. Rhodes,
emeritus professor of jazz,
etiquette & odes

He says it's like an
Amorphous Z,
a
venomous ignominy
that obfuscates your
vexilology
& depletes its logic,
tantalizing a tarantula
with ubiquitous uppity.
It's the maximum...

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When gazing Beta Persei,
a star with many ghoulish names, 
be wary of a winking eye,
for fluctuating flames
belie its evil aims. 

Ancient mariners would watch with dread
and chant their prayers out loud,
when that “Eye in Medusa’s...

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There once was a woman,
There once was a man,
The most illogical combo,
Since raisins and bran,
Dissimilar parts,
Grey matter disparity,
Which leads to amounts,
Of subjective hilarity,
Both must crave sex,
For prolonged propagation,
With cooperative output,
When induced by libation,
And, that's where...

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Anesthetics
Make us pathetic
We were numb from the bottom up
Imbedded to start habits we can't finish
What I mean is
Wrecked from substance
One more time would've done it
Lungs of smoke 
Intentions are a joke.
Choke! or fall apart like...

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Betwixt the pulse of our heartbeat
Simply present, head-heart linking
Dwelling in time stretched blissful peace
Awareness becomes unblinking

Till your fatal entry 
My heart leaps with indignation
You ask through penchant, profound plea
Of my being; you’re quite brazen

Rewrite the...

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A POET AS METAPHOR**********

I am a poet from the common ground, 
From thIs blue planet’s distinctive character— of
Continental shifts and rockslides, from valleys to Mountain crowns — always toiling to reclaim itself.

I am a poet...

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did you know?
 
if

radio waves were seen... 
that is all we would see

did you know?
 
if

ants' could reason
they would rule planet earth

did you know?
 
that

plastic pollution is the
last nail in our coffin

did you know?
 
that

the...

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Embers and snowflakes, fire and ice;
     opposites joined in many ways.
          Embers from fire, snowflakes from ice;
both can portend the end of...

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Discarded, left in the abyss of solitude to decay, 
Left with only with hopelessness and eternal dismay. 
Fearing the worst with each passing day
Cringing, hiding my heart in a hole near where I lay. 

The...

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what may look like rejection, truly is not,
it's where lack of communication tries to steal loves spot,
with vague responses and less openness, it depletes loves share,
which therefore leaves the other person with more room not...

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Do you hear your bones break, feel your mangled heart?
The desire for pain has ripped you apart
Your soul has been tortured, bludgeoned and maimed
Those dark eyes cannot disguise the heartache and pain
You are filled with...

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Red Tide


Great day at the beach – a swim and hot sun
Supposed to be a lot of fun.

Yes, the sand was worm and soft
But, noticed everyone had a small cough.

I stepped into the water
With my...

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She pounds the door once, as hard as she can with her fist;
Mugging, trying to see through her watery eyes, the mist.
She hesitates... then walks in like someone who won't admit defeat;
As she takes a...

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You went to war against America
the cost is just to great
your children lying dying
there's death upon your streets

Your death invade's America
it also doesn't win
their children lying dying
the world doesn't need

two wrongs do not create a...

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The Doer does: Yes, he does

The doer never says what he does
He does
Nor what he’s going to do
He simply does
Fears not the consequences
Of what he does
If by the hoi polloi right
He does
In accord with vox...

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