Long Faired Poems

Rumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020

By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally 
How Wuhan, China gave it birth

Maybe aided by our government
To make...

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An ordinary Australian from an ordinary country place
Who rallied to the flag's call with god's good grace
He was one of the 33rd Battalion "New England's Own"
Into this swirling maelstrom they were duly thrown
The Great War...

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He cried for help using a silent cord
but silent cries always get ignored,
he couldn't remember how life rewards
and from his eyes the tears then poured.

He ran away from life because he became scared
but he ran...

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Trekking every which way
mentally mapping at pace 
to escape this place 
captured for an age

with its rotten decay 
compacted waste 
attacking my taste
lack hunger stray

overwhelm left spaced
all sense misplaced
isolated and crazed 
now a familiar place

thinking...

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JOHN FRANCIS LYONS: A BROTHERS LOVE  NEVER TOLD HIM THAT I LOVED HIM

I thank you John
For being there
You took me here
Took me there
You faired for me
I reverence you
But, I never told you I loved...

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You are not alone, though you feel the way                          ...

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Sojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great hunter
Whose courage put the forest sprite to flight?
Earning him the...

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Sojourner to far-flung climes;
When you return,
Will you remember the evening songs
Chorused by chirping under the baobab tree?
Will you still remember the fame of the great hunter
Whose courage put the forest sprite to flight?
Earning him the...

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Off the workplace and throng the streets 
Flooding the city with our presence and fleets
We must make the most of this weekly stint 
Waiting not for conviction but acting on a hint
For the will to...

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I fear no man, no beast
I randomly select souls and sell them for no lease
I walk with flesh, I gallop with clouds 
Yet on this heavenly palette, I stand with gods ever so proud
I marry...

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The war that took it all away,
    Stripped us of our freedom, our rights, and left us barren in this world today.
They came on us like they were friends,
   ...

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"I thought I'd feel comforted by walking through my childhood home. The only emotion I felt was melancholy that it had been abandoned and left alone to die."  ~ by poet

I sat in sorrow...

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If I were to write a poem, what should it say? Should it be a dabbling 
of abstract thoughts, a fantasy, a tragedy, a meandering? Should it 
come from my imagination, a charade, an abstract...

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Big oil has its hands in our pocket
Pump prices rose like a rocket
It was just a ruse
Designed to confuse  
The voters who vote with their wallet  

Inflation to voters does smell
And affects what...

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Is anybody truly happy?
Or, do they merely settle for content?
How is happiness even measured?
What does it's presence represent?
I spent the day silently walking
looking at displays of happiness.
I couldn't tell who was balking,
or who had the...

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If I could turn back the hands of time 
and once again have ago
I’d make decisions declined 
fight pain and look to grow

I could avoid this very path
with its destination unknown 
but maybe the new...

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I wonder what they see...
When they look down at me...
I wonder do they know I feel...
That my emptiness is real.

I wonder if when I die...
Will the tears be real that they cry..?
I wonder if they...

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Welcome...strange member...
I see the days have faired...well...
You have nothing to worry...
I myself have past into membership also...
Strange indeed...so many...have crossed...
I see that you are from the provinces...
Must feel good to not to have so much...

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My Mix-Breed "Extra Fluffy" 
happy as can be
Entered in the "Dog-Gone" trials
Just one of eighty-three

Some as big as horses 
some as long as trains
Some so smart they spoke to you
You'd think they had our brains

The...

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WHO WILL DANCE
 All of my life
I have been searching 
As i swim across the great river
Of a faired and tinted Negros 
In all corners of the cardinal

Over and over, my heart beat
Unto my bone...

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They tell me I’m living the life of Riley 
a float flowing freely with the tide and breeze
They envy my empty whilst I think why me
I’d advise not to buy if this life were free...

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Once before... never enough
Just once more... to let love kill me
Layered to never once be tough
How did I ever become to be?

So much feelings... so much nothing
The world we share today
Too much reality... Too much...

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With God's Great Power

Should sympathy poem I start writing
That other poets may find delighting
Try not looking like being in a lion's den
Wanting never to lose and always win.

If you overlook my greatness and goodness
Many important...

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Welcome Debbie, come in, have a seat
finally face to face, we have come to meet

first of all I would like to say
with your rebel attitude and your creative way

I feel in gratitude a debt I...

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For my love most days through the drain
For my greatest touch that gave me gain
I shall create, give and save the rain
The master of life that kept me in train.

This much I sing for the...

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