Long Droll Poems
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The Night Before Christmas Eve
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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Categories:
droll, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Half Measures
This is how it starts
the decline of who we are, the decline of something more
the start of wars
Installed in us is confidence
confidence, a blessing or a curse
Without confidence we stand degraded, disenchanted, alone
while with too...
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Categories:
droll, suicide, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Limerick Collaboration-Join In-New Additions
If you would like to have your limerick(s) posted, soup mail them to me.
Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad dog who barks and barks
Geeze, lady, give it a rest
Your...
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Categories:
droll, humor,
Form:
Limerick
The Pages
"The Pages"
Missing all those years
like a page you could turn,
a book you could throw casually aside,
to be eternally forgotten in electric shady libraries;
at some point you turned around,
and remembered, what you long...
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Categories:
droll, i am, love,
Form:
Free verse
As That Dawning Hour, In Her Journey She Knew She Was Too Late
Posted at my new blog -Lesser Known Poets Series- continued,
two poems written, honoring sixth poet chosen, James Thomson
his great poem- The City of Dreadful Night
BY JAMES THOMSON (BYSSHE VANOLIS)
(1.)
As That Dawning Hour, In...
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Categories:
droll, appreciation, art, creation, history, meaningful, poetry, poets,
Form:
Narrative
Humor Me
I was a solemn person by nature, so my demeanor was always dignified,
Like the somber moon of nighttide, that sees vaguest dreams magnified.
Oh, I enjoyed having a good time, only I showed it in different...
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Categories:
droll, birthday, family, fantasy, friend, fun, humor, imagery,
Form:
Couplet
Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 1
The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein
are entirely unsolicited, uncompensated and unexpurgated,
representing the...
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Categories:
droll, mythology,
Form:
Prose
The Aura of Time: the Depressed Thumb Toe Though
***Do me a favor, readers...also, read the second part of this lyric. If you don't, I'll be disappointed...I worked hard on this song. I wrote this all night...took me from 11 PM to 2:30 AM...
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Categories:
droll, angst, deep, depression, desire, emotions, encouraging, freedom,
Form:
Lyric
To a Public Prosecutor, Translation of Paul Verlaine's a Un Magistrat De Boue
To a Public Prosecutor or a Judge of Mud*, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s : A un magistrat de boue*
...
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Categories:
droll, judgement, , cute,
Form:
Quatrain
Christmas
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there
The children...
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Categories:
droll, christmas,
Form:
Couplet
The Night Before Christmas Eve
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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Categories:
droll, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Solitary Rituals of Mourning the Write Way Right
Solitary rituals of mourning the write way, right?
Papa... bless his (your) heart and soul,
impossible mission your second born
sole male heir cingularly communicates,
viz his avocational crafted poem, since
written words, mine metier
write most pained words
with great difficulty,...
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Categories:
droll, 12th grade, absence, death, eulogy, father, memory,
Form:
Elegy
Trolius Troll
Remember the story
of Billy Goats Gruff?
The troll under the bridge,
and all of that stuff?
If you liked that old story
it's all good and well,
but it isn't at all
the troll tale I will tell.
Now, Trolius...
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Categories:
droll, children, funny, parody, tree, tree,
Form:
I do not know?
Winter
Wow, the weather sure is cold,
Days are short, the wind is bold.
The season isn't a favorite for sure,
Most in the cold, aren't begging for more.
This testament to the winter, is short and is...
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Categories:
droll, dedication, humorous, winter, time, time, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
Tra La La
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.
The children...
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Categories:
droll, adventure
Form:
Rhyme Royal
Lost, Found, and Now Just Missing
Going through some old things that just had to go,
I came upon something that nearly got tossed.
Memories came to me from long ago. . . .
I thrilled that my treasure was no longer lost.
Toys...
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Categories:
droll, nostalgia, hair, daughter, me, family, old, daughter,
Form:
Quatrain
A Cup of Seuss
Good evening, hello sir and how do you do,
Our special today here is dish number two.
...
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Categories:
droll, food, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
Ragas - Part2
Gliding gracefully, “G” came into my life.
Tall, lean, studious, specky guy.
His attitude was just too high!
He would never look eye to eye.
In a few months, we were cutie pies.
He told me, “He likes me, though...
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Categories:
droll, 12th grade, appreciation, caregiving, childhood, daughter, deep,
Form:
Narrative
The Prime Directive Quiz ( P D Q ) Or Prolix Drama Queen Part Three of Three
‘Cause, Priests and Prophets Must Pray for The Reign…
and for Pre and Post-Op-Apocalyptic–Novocain ! …
Yet… It Doesn’t Matter, What Distress to You
On the Planet, however Polluted or Profane
It Doesn’t Matter, What Distress to You
...
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Categories:
droll, allegory, dedication, devotion, faith, father, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Alliteration
The Cat In the Hat Restaurant
Hungry for sure
We sat on our seats.
Hungry we were
For 'Cat In The Hat' eats.
Sally and I
And our fish on a date,
Wondering why
Such a long wait,wait,wait.
We were hungry and late
And the wait we did hate.
But after...
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Categories:
droll, food, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
Whisperings To the Midnight Sky
I sat by a moonlit window last night
As sleep did not come- elusive as the Dugong-
My eyes but portal gazing wide into a deep vast sea.
The songbirds were hushed except for the nightjars and owls.
A...
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Categories:
droll, change, dark, destiny, introspection, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Golda and Goofus
Golda and Goofus.
or how a young Baer lost his luncheon and found that man need not live by bread alone.
...
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Categories:
droll, funny, , cute,
Form:
I do not know?
Roast of Rhyme - Rhyme Schema
I am trying to relate to the strategy of rhyme,
Using words to titillate from the droll to the sublime.
Do I write "a rime that scintillates" to describe a ghost
Of frost? I consult the information highway...
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Categories:
droll, poems, poetry, word play, words,
Form:
Rhyme
How Droll the Campfire
Singing soul as to fiddle then the crowd does plead ...
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Categories:
droll, betrayal, culture, fantasy, history, irony, poetry, spoken
Form:
Sonnet
Mocked and Forgotten
Beneath an orange sky and huge rainbow,
Mestor, free spirited son stops the flow
over his dad Poseidon,
God of the sea, rift widen
climbs upon his narwhal, puts on a show.
Setting off with...
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Categories:
droll, fantasy, imagery, ocean,
Form:
Limerick