Long Give and take Poems

(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)

Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?

When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is loneliness with anguish	
When mental...

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To receive care
that best meets your needs,
and also,
by the way,
everyone else's too,
we look first
to where and when we have given such care
since our original longest reborn journey
down Mom's birth canal,
prepared just in time for our...

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My thought for this day,
although still early,
is respect for hope.

Respect for our interdependence
and respect for our challenging differences,
important, yet hopefully not as powerful
as our interdependent love for healthy life.

Yesterday
I noticed a brown cardboard box
in the...

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It is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.

It sharks, 
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...

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My father and I did not share all that much,
More like passing a truck on the road
Parent’s squabbles I overheard offered me clues
And at times I caught glimpse of his load.

His freight always sealed with...

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I Felt the Earth

There in the valley reaching for the sun
Our younger days were such fun
Though the struggle to be
Was so much for me?

The valley walls were so tall
That I would fear they would fall
Then...

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if i tell you that i love you;

will you sing for me all national anthems
of the black countries, of the white countries
will you give the defined hope of the Indian religions
if i tell you that...

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Zero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no Iliad, no Odyssey.
No universe
no black hole
no zodiac
no hero
no mission, no...

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Things were not going anything close to my way that day.  So, I decided
to take a walk through a lovely park among the green grass and trees.
No sooner than I sat under an old...

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Location: Chicago
Timeline: 1967-1974
Characters: Bob and Don
Residence: A house on Chicago's Northwest side

Don passed away last Fall; Bob, 12 years ago.
Last night, I had a dream about a real event depicting 
Bob and Don, real people...

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I'm barely crawling toward my grave
And lucky to have come this far! 
A life lived mostly not a knave, 
Or specimen in someone's jar.

It's not so easy to stay clear
Of folks who'd label us at...

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O Please don't miss the boat and please don't be late
( It's all about give and take and not being late)
When God the Father tells God the Son

(It's time to come on down and go...

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Remember the innocent days of youth 
Our smiles would brighten up the evening sky
When we believed in honesty and truth 
And swore we were never going to die 
Dancing happily across life's green fields 
Feeling...

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“The Voice of Your Soul”




Deals were already made before you arrived
A contract was signed, then you were delivered


The journey, 
this is what you signed up for 
You just don’t remember


Slowly you begin to understand
Through falls...

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Ezekiel was a prophet he was against self destruction
He was sent to give the people words of life and positive instruction
But the people would not listen to him nor heed his words
Until he told them...

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"WHERE EVER WE ARE BORN, 
 WHERE EVER WE MAY LIVE!
 WE ARE ONE - WE UNDERSTAND!"

We stand together against injustice.
We don't discriminate, we stand for each one in society.
We love, we understand, we cooperate.
We...

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So many words cannot explain it
 And line by line I will frame it
 Who is the mastermind
 Look hard and you will find Him in this rhyme
 Look hard and you will find Him...

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2025.3.15

Happy birthday to my fourth sister.
Congratulation all the way to Switzerland.
At the same time, I have to say goodbye
To the person, whom I met
On my fifth sister's birthday.
Two months to date. A very brief encounter....

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ONE WORD~

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 
Running through my mind,
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, 
Running through my veins,
                         ...

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They know not what they're doing
Unaware of rushing pain
Impact dealt as a heavy shrouding
Feeling every shifting strain

Grandeur is placed upon them
Surrender to meager me
Built up, give what I am
Liberated to fall and vanish where it...

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The New Year's soon upon us now;
  A time to think about just how
I plan to see my year renew,
  Perhaps, improve on things I do,
Which are much better, and I pray,
 ...

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As a young girl you fall in love,
Not once not twice but many times,
And then you find a man,
A man you think is the right one for you,
A man you think can keep you happy...

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We call ourselves the United States of America but that name seems a bit short-sighted
Yes, it’s true, we are made up of 50 states…but we are anything but united.

It seems we can’t agree on anything...

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2025.4.14.

I have started writing diary since May last year.
Eventually, my diary's style, transformed to poem like.
After five months of losing friendship with BB,
By the end of the year,
I rested a bit. I was emotional exhausted.
I...

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Life is such a blessing
By Franklin Price
6/10/2014 
(edited 6/10/2018)

Life is such a blessing, of that I'm here to tell
It's not the money that you have although that's kinda swell
It's a happy life and satisfaction to...

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