Long Digressed 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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Your eyes were locked on target, looking beyond what you saw into the unknown, (me) and as you stared at me, I felt like everyone of my last thoughts you owned.
As you sat there..i could...

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(This is a Blog)
          How about a little humor, for we as human beings need it. For it is recorded, that
even God himself winks at this...

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How can I concede on the eve of pain?

When I never saw it coming 

And I never felt the rain

Drops my heart beat stops

Down to the soles of my feet

I cannot breathe

And I cannot speak

Trying...

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He’s got holes in his boots 
and he’s wearing tattered old jeans
The state of his worn-out clothes
borders on obscene
He hasn’t had a home-cooked meal
in more than a year
You’re just too busy gambling 
and slugging down...

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They say Marriage is a 50/50 love, yet
at its end I became that lonesome dove.
Seeing I was outnumbered, I slowly caved into 
her marital masquerade, a benevolent shapeshifter
of sorts in a solemn Pisces recompense of
"yes...

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Wems Henry Temmy Psalm 83

Darkness darkened atmospheric blue to at most 95? I suggest
At least there is always a clue to a path of light darkness can't arrest 
Sound's symphony can't beat its echo no...

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I been through the fire and came out paid and unscathed praise the Messiah,
but God we digressed, I can't chase the girl you told me to desire
Her sister warned me everyday, that she is evil...

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Nothing good can come of smoking
Forgive me if I sound like a healthnut
I’ve smoked about three packs in my lifetime so far
Mostly alone, to hide my shame
And I’ve digressed to conclude that

	Nothing good can come...

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I was encompassed within the sullen lust
Of gentrified prepositions

Incomplete adjectives layer the magnitude of
My emptied valor

I became entrenched in the touch
The smile
The tears
Of wistful elegance

This onyx cry
Now turns into an everlasting echo

I sing to these...

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The look on his face was one of shock, he knew he would pull the trigger but he 
did n`t know where it would hit ,
he just stood there as he fell to the ground...

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Some people have a short attention span,
others have long-term capability
So for the sake of some of you,
I'll get straight to the point
As for the others,
I'll give a more lengthy point of view

I write short poems
for...

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A haibun reply:

I envy you, hope it has been inspirational for you, and reading your last haiku I think it has! My concern, or argument for no title is a traditionalist based ideology, for if...

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What Makes a Friend
By Franklin Price
9/20/2014

What makes a friend I thought today
As I was lying half awake
Thinking of the friends I have
They are a lot for goodness sake

The best I married she's a sight
Don't have...

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With indecision rode abreast
              Intended path becomes digressed 
             ...

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Another Day's Upon Us
By Franklin Price
7/13/2018

Another day's upon us
It's the thirteenth of July
Another bad luck Friday
Did you ever wonder why?

Paraskevidekatriaphobia
If you fear it it's name
Derived, as usual from the Greek
How psychiatrics play the game

Friggatriskaidekaphobia also
Norwegian...

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Pooperoni

A team in Spain is striving 
To create a healthy meal
Using baby poop bacteria
Now I swear this story’s real
 A team of science testers 
With a team of mid-wife wipers
Scrapped and squeezed the samples 
From...

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THERE ARE NO BLACK OR WHITE PEOPLE
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I ask why does the human race have to live in denial?
we are but one species ere colour, country, or creed.
no one has ever seen a white or black...

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Life’s enveloped, digressed and got old
Memories are fading even against my hold.
Years have flown by oh so fast
It’s a pity I couldn't make them last.

16 I was innocent and sweet
17 wasn't good to me
18-19 saw...

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Walking all alone as the day digressed
an azure sky so blue captured my sight
and took with mystic awe my wanton breath
expiring praise for God with all my might.
Ne’er had my heart seen such clear blue...

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When love leaves us, where does it go?
Is Love an element with a Heart of its own?
Maybe Love tires of us, seeking solace in new Hearts.
Do I find it on the rebound?
Do I check the...

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That dreadful day i went over to play,
Husbands and wives, we called  a date, 
She said she would cook for the both of us,
And commit crimes of the flesh as it were the last...

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Memories refreshed as the pictures-scenes flickered. Reality stood still as time
reversed-rewound. Memories connected, thoughts reassembled, moments rearranged.

Brains reprocessed those beautiful, lovely smiles and terrible tortures, the tense and
engulfing moments that were discerning with time. Minds...

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Yes, thank you, read it, and replied.
Belated, but this poem you’ve inspired.
Your adventure, all the thrills, of nature
Victorian history, for me a virtual adventure

Often on one’s forays into the wilds of nature.
Thinking, why else should...

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Covert Opportunities

The Council covered the bridge in diagonal meshing not be trashed
        Too many souls had digressed from the path into now hidden depth
    ...

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