Long Firmer Poems

"Oak" 

The guardians
stood around and 
shook their heads

great thoughts 
quivering 
from the ground, roots up, 

as if to walk 
confidently 
with great armies

yet hesitation 
was witnessed
in their waving gestures

perplexed 
and touching 
green crowns, 

there they...

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On Fam'ly Traditions - 3rd third -


With 2 dinky bedrooms...and only 3 beds...the one time I'd been here I'd slept on a cot!  And tossin' a coin for the one with 2 beds...the-odd-man the...

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Here's why this was necessary...

   This is, as indicated, the 1st THIRD of a lengthy 3-part poem. The 2nd and 3rd THIRDS had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations....

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Please don’t pretend that I’m not around
I know you hear me, calling out to you 
You ignore me as if I was a muted sound 
I know you hear my echoes I do so true

Your...

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Part 1 - A raven alone, ravaging around in the darkness..... 

i.

Ultimately aware, suspense is such, though truly I am sensing,

something dark diverting mind withdrawn, the silence muttered,

since melancholy holds suspicion where to probe now...

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The Judas Scroll

Sometimes the night is laden with
guilt. The nails curse me. The
mob applauds like children
scrambling for the safety of

their lies. Your eyes curse me,
follow me to hell, hold you to
a lie that never lets...

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Long ago there lived a little  princess with her parents, The King Of Icy Mountains and  The Queen Of Peaks. Life was blissful with a very happy kingdom. Princess Star had her own...

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"And I say also to you, that you are Peter and
upon this rock I will build my church and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Matthew 16:18***

First of Jesus is referring to this rock,...

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"Listen More"
(Verse1)
Imma tell you this
Tell you that (tell you that)
No i told you so
Or a matter of facts
Did you stop saying things 
Because how people react(react)
That spark in my talk 
Sure enough glistens (glistens)
Would it...

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When We Met and Fell in Love
(half a century ago)
By Franklin Price
03/02/2022

When we met so long ago, another time, another place.
I felt a pull, a need for you, when I looked upon your face.
We both...

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"The Fresh Blooding of a Sexton Grin"



Guns ...

are for p*ssies
you know, short for 
pussilanimous plural

Words …

are sharper 
more cutting
more lethal 

clean 
concise 
quill slicing the lucid flow

you can taste the blood
as you turn them 
twist...

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Why do you tell me what you think I want to hear?
Why do you keep me hanging on...
So long after you have gone... 
Knowing my heart will only continue to break,
As it has done for...

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Not yet once more a narrative of depressive introspection
   enough is enough and who wants to read that cloudy gloom
	of times blasted by the sand of scraping of the shaving dusk

Lamentations ‘I used...

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I’m of Slovakian descent,
I can barely afford my rent,
Now I’ve run out of time,
And my very last dime,
I need to reach,
My time to teach,
To mold the minds and sculpt the dreams,
To reserve the tears and...

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Across the table they held their gaze, his eyes knew where they belonged

No music was playing in the room, yet they heard their lover's song

He held her hand a little firmer, gave a smile, let...

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According to an ancient tradition
One can distinguish between two senses of Scripture
The literal and spiritual
The latter being subdivided into
Allegorical
Moral and 
Anagogical senses

The profound concordance of the four senses
Guarantees all its richness to the living reading...

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PATHETIC FAITH
...to not be overwhelmed...to have great faith...this is a testing time...
Without complete faith, it wont work 4 me...so i must obsess on the faith in things working...
I have tried visualizing  {SEEING}many things...eg water...

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Sitting on the edge 
of a broken relationship
reflecting on the occasional 
warmth of togetherness
and plenty of sad, feelings of being let down
jilted and miffed, I struggled to let go.

Faintly saw an invisible force
flickering inside, weakly...

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What do you want me to write?
I think I will write about faith
What is faith?
Is it something you can see
can grab, can hang onto?
Yes, yes, and yes
You can see in someone though not visually, with...

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When we walk the campus
			to what used to be the center,
			we might miss the venerable place.
			Taller piles of brick and towers
			obscure the central space
			of Western Pennsylvania brownstone.
			Who hasn’t heard the poet moan:
			“Present concerns shroud the...

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Flowers grow
Sun is all aglow 
I miss you, roaming by my side
Loneliness swallowed me up like a dark tide
I kiss you, something in me has died
Moon has faded
Powers jaded 

Ch: Unleash the beast in my...

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With pole in hand and watchful eye
           He a silent vigil keeps
      With firm resolve to land the "Big One"...

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Doubts consumed me in the cold dark trench. 
I trembled to cringe in the ring of pain.
Every eerie flinch of my soul feels the pinch.
Tattoo moments drawing circles in the rain. 

Death carries away the...

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Written on: 4th and 5th April 2012.
by : sashi.prabhu

The beaten path seems sinewy lean but somnolently long,
In my life’s journey, forgot to whiff sweet fragrance flowers beside these paths as I walked along.
But I have...

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The pain that hits the mind 
Gets more annoying 
Accompanied by physical 
Every moment gets weighty 
Each breath hard to take 
Yet something still wants to breathe
Is it the hope or dream that pulsates?
Go on...

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