Long Fall by the wayside Poems

My childhood memory of Easter confronts me with three very pleasant reflections. Perhaps my first experience with the idea of Easter came with the way our parents would sacrifice so much for us to look...

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A little smile delights my soul
A little money appreciates my life
A little love achieves my goal
A little care flatters my wife 

Strengthening my resolve to perform better
Duties and responsibilities I bear
In my role as family...

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Lord, Lord, Lord- what now- what now?
What do you want one to do?  What now, what now?
I wake up- I stand my ground-
I hold it together- I am duty-bound.
I live within the storm.
I am...

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As children we believe in the wonder of the Easter Bunny.
We believe in a giant rabbit…gentle and kind
who as we sleep on Easter Eve leaves eggs on the lawn for us to find.

Eggs of different...

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An Idiot’s Guide to Being a Hero!

There are few that aspire to the wreath of a hero,
A garland men give to a man who risks failure or death
(Should that happen) to serve a ‘high purpose,’...

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Brother, stop and think if you will,
And I’ll tell you a story how Jesus bested the devil in his final deal.

The devil thought he had the upper hand the day Jesus was crucified,
He thought this...

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In life disagreements have always been around,
so why the frown?
We all like what we like and that’s the bottom line.
I won’t see life as you do because I am me and
you are you.
However, what kind...

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Falling in love starts out crazy, saturates your life, permeates your soul, and creates a new you.
It gloriously envelopes you which is terrific, when the object of your desire loves you too.
True love is capable...

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walking down the street
driving in the car
riding on the train
flying on the plane
an eye for more than just
the routine comes about
like a pleasant smelling incense 
filling the room &
suddenly the carnivorous within
makes sense of its...

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An lo'...
Before I spirals the promenade
A path that twists back upon its self
I find a deep Well full of apathy...

I travel the bones 
Of a forgotten METROPOLIS
With towers of rotting stone
Broken glass and wood burnt...

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We all have our routines and habits in this world we are immersed…
from which side of the bed we sleep on…to which shoe we put on first.

Some of our routines make us feel safe…that’s what...

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Pushed aside, location of home obscured, limited by isolation:
drifting aimlessly - subscribing to a voluntary incarceration.

Outcast by an alternative perspective, a differing sense of direction,
through a desire to develop resolutions to numerable imperfections.

Others recede into...

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I heard the song and wanted to know what love is, so I turned to James
The Soup's king of romance knows it means more than just flirtatious games

     Dedication absorbed with...

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...comes the force of awakening 
                      like tenderness and fire
an intimacy that stands at...

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When you look back on yesterday,
Does it make you long again to feel that way.
Do you remember being young and tempting feelings and fate? 
Do you remember the longing, the urge, and the wait?
Soon enough...

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grand towering limbs 
reach to meet
branches a flourishing keep
twigs to trunks create
a stretch to breathe
crooked seedlings bow in need
live to die, and sow to reap 
sewn together a needle to seam
hand to cheek
a means plunges...

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At the sound of the opening door 
The crows cawed a warning
A stray cat perched upon the fence
Meowed to greet this morning

The warm sticky fog touched each pore
Made life uncomfortable
How early in spring does summer
Appear...

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Yo, how long has it been since you quit trying? 
Or perhaps your your self-assurance is cooled and drying.
Maybe it is your arrogance that's fortifying 
Your state of mind that's forever verifying. 

Self-reliance and discretion...

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THE HOUSE THAT GOD BUILT				2/22/03




My soul resides in the house that God built, 
it was placed there with no shame, no worries, no guilt.

As long as I live there, I’ll be on easy street, 
Any...

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out of sync the wheel
squeaks, too many little 
brown mice with big mice ears
have chewed my bearings

a sunbeam sits on my 
dislocated shoulder
and the cat's in the cradle
sleeping with the whole ball of wax
(what a...

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I'll let the weight of the world fall by the wayside.
With it goes all the fear and pain.
I no longer feel so twisted on the inside.
No more damaged goods in here left to be contained.
Gone...

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IRAQ

Three and a half decades of tyranny and death, unrelenting 
until the end, there’s always more to perish.
Dictator extraordinaire, mass murderer, genocidal maniac, 
you are death – an awesome man capable of anything, invading 
your...

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R  esolutions occasion themselves optimally at the start of a new year
E  very new calendrical chart anew page in our lives of things fretted over
S  ome are constant challenges interwoven with more...

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Family
By Franklin Price
10/03/2016

Family, heart of earth
The source of all our lives
Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers
Children, husbands and their wives

Family should be maintained
They're at the very core 
As life moves on, lines radiate,
To include so many more.

The...

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Come listen to my truest thoughts
Come listen to my truest feelings
Many of my friends
Turned out to be no friends at all!
They fall along the wayside
Because they only wanted to create
A world that they wanted to...

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