Long Floridians Poems

We are hunkered down again 
as we watch the land cry 
evacuation gathering medication 
pets helping others as neighbors 
become first responders helping 
others checking on elderly residents 
rather Charlie Lisa Francis Hugo 
dean Katrina...

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Summer reading classes begins June through August this is a great fun way for the entire family to get involved enhancing students ability to stay focus preparing for the upcoming school year I adored summer...

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You can almost swim across large parts of Florida, swim and
walk a few steps and then plunge again into the cool sexual
embrace of yet another blue swimming pool.
You can almost cross the peninsular of Florida...

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Florida Rain Part 1

Robby is sitting in my room on a chair one early evening reminiscing about her thirteen years in Florida. “In Florida, we don’t ring bells, we knock. But there’s a limit to...

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I’ve said this over and over again because I believe it to be true
most of our enjoyment in life comes from the little things we do.

Little moments…little adventures…little wonders
that somehow find a way
to enter into...

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FLEEING IRMA

spotlight moon, full, like an Old Testament cloud, leading
Floridians forth, not into the desert, but away from the wrath
of Irma.  bumper to bumper, neighbors from pilot to caboose,
illuminated in each other’s flood beams....

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Irma 9/9/2017
By Franklin Price

Since my last inscription 
Irma's moved on quite a lot
Today's the day she's moving north
To show us what  she's got

She now is over Cuba
Deciding what to do
With her eye on lower...

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The alligators will not stay in the water,
they head for strip malls, for chicken noodle joints
or sports bars for fish taco or spicy wings.
They get their nails done in a Korean salon
paying in Spanish gold.

The...

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THE EMPIRE GREAT

I still walk in a New York kind of way
Although I now live a thousand miles from there
I still dream of a New York kind of day
Where the sun may shine but the...

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THE EMPIRE GREAT

I still walk in a New York kind of way
Although I now live a thousand miles from there
I still dream of a New York kind of day
Where the sun may shine but the...

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We were hillbillies when we lived in the north
But now that we are Floridians, we have to come forth
Admit that we love wearing pajamas and nighties all day
When I go outside, my attire scares the...

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Hurricane Irma is barreling down with its monster storm, 
Churning 185 mile an hour winds that have eerily formed.
The U.S. is afraid what it will do when it makes landfall.
Unfortunately forecasters can’t make the exact...

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In a calm storm
the sea is waiting for refreshment.
The calm is a prelude
to more than peace.
Two times the lighthouse blinked,
abrupt in its stillness,
shy in its intention.

There, the ever present water
laps the shore with anticipation,
as if...

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