Long Goodies Poems
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The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
goodies, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 95 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Just Summertime Birthday CelebrationsThe kid who often was lost in
The sauce Joshua! His
birthday was in June. He became
The strong silent youngster with
The youngest kids.
A small Celebration was held in
Josh's honor party at...
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Categories:
goodies, birth, black love, children, confidence, devotion, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
The Reluctant Serpent - a Fairy TaleOnce Upon a Time Everything was Perfect in Eden, NSW, Australia
This is a story about why snakes are reluctant to leave whenever you see them.
Why they hang about, instead of scurrying off.
A reluctant snake...
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Categories:
goodies, fairy,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Memories In the SandIf ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...
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Categories:
goodies, memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Connected - Part 1 - See Part 2 For This Poem's Ending"How ya' doin''" the youngster asked...a girl I'd never seen..."you're lookin' pretty good for a guy your age."
"I'm on the 'final chapter'," I surprised her, "of my life"...and not that long before my final page!"
She...
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Categories:
goodies, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
Mad About Towns
When we set out on a road trip
We didn’t stick to the old script
And were gladly amazed
And rarely unfazed
Hitting strange towns though some were skipped
We started from Thatsnot, OK
Which was more or less ok
But then...
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Categories:
goodies, humorous, travel, word play,
Form:
Limerick
Nothing Happen Before the TimeI could see the sun rising in the East
Pulling up something that is very deep
I could see the sun rising in the East
Hanging over the first beach
I left the house at six am
Before the sound...
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Categories:
goodies, adventure, blessing, courage, encouraging, endurance, freedom, happiness,
Form:
Narrative
The Easter Egg HuntI don't know how it started
But it's an annual event
But I don't think that an egg hunt
Is the best way to present
The story of our saviour
Chocolate eggs you go and find
I don't think that's the...
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Categories:
goodies, candy, chocolate, easter, family, funny, garden, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
Please Help Yarn Hexed Door NeighborPlease help yarn hexed door neighbor...
Yours truly pinned down by invisible
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry plague
of buttons, plus huge spools of yarn
grossly mistook me for human sock
to seal and line...
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Categories:
goodies, abuse, anger, bullying, character, december, humorous, husband,
Form:
Rhyme
The Day Before the Sale --- 2nd Half“Might you have an opening for an auction fairly soon? If I move, I'm gonna have a ton of stuff to sell.”
“I'm trying to find a building at the moment,” he replied, “a...
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Categories:
goodies, humor,
Form:
Verse
Chaz Or ChasteMidterms are over and I killed ‘em (Yes, even physics) - yeah me! I spent the last two weeks like prisoners do, marking off days until - freedom. Now the pressure’s off and I can...
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Categories:
goodies, confusion, culture, friendship, humor, school, student, teen,
Form:
Free verse
The Tale of the WilliwonkThe Williwonk rose from its hibernating sleep
And jumped up in joy with a sinuous leap.
Time for some mischief, he mischievously said,
I'll shake up Manvile and fill them with dread.
For such a vile creature was the...
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Categories:
goodies, children, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A Matter Of Faith
When I was a child, I wondered
Was deep sleep, death?
Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation?
Waking up, I found the people around me were the same
I was the same too, nothing changed
This cannot...
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Categories:
goodies, allusion, creation, faith, god, metaphor, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Free verse
The ChameleonsTHE CHAMELEONS
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Give credit to the chameleons, they blend right in
A simple maneuver, changes the color of their skin
No matter the surroundings, one thing is clear
You may not see him, despite him being...
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Categories:
goodies, abuse, analogy, anger, angst, corruption, political, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Old Chris Kringle Halloween JingleOLD CHRIS CRINGLE HALLOWEEN JINGLE
Did you know that Santa always had a secret desire,
To explore and experience the holiday known as Halloween!
This jolly spirit whom brought the world of mankind such joy,
And wonder on the...
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Categories:
goodies, adventure, christmas, halloween, holiday, humorous, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
This Old HouseThe old house, built in 1895, was the best of weathered antiques having hugged North Rogers Street from days of horses to days of horse-powered engines, and now to electric cars. As the story...
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Categories:
goodies, home, memory,
Form:
Haibun
Life Is UnfairLIFE IS UNFAIR
Teach the children of tomorrow
For tomorrow holds more pains,
Lie within the oasis of hatred for love is far.
The lilies of power can witness the aroma
Of flavoured words in my dying mouth,
Defend the...
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Categories:
goodies, africa, age, art,
Form:
Ballad
A Meadow For AutumnA meadow for Autumn
Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me
lichen kenning myself
as Rip Van Winkle
except being repurposed
as oldest living species.
With an estimated...
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Categories:
goodies, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation, dark, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon a TimeOnce upon a time, we were once boys
But now we have grown to men,
Once upon a time, we were once children
With no teeth and could not eat our mother's
Meat but could bite her in the...
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Categories:
goodies, abuse, africa, age, analogy, art,
Form:
Free verse
March 8th International Women's Day the World OverMarch 8th - International Women's Day The World Over
Down to the wire, before this
calendrical occasion doth expire,
though arbitrary twenty four hour
time set aside for guide
ding hand of the supposed/purported
fairer gender, yet human race, yet hide
bound...
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Categories:
goodies, appreciation, beauty, daughter, hero, husband, inspirational, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
Wednesday September 2021 At 320 PmWednesday, September 2021 at 3:20 PM...
eastern standard time Autumn Equinox arrives
That seasonal occasion twill arise
when darkness and light doth bring
equilibrium between night and day
raking leaves will constitute exercise
espied and witnessed by observant earthling
namely me who...
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Categories:
goodies, appreciation, autumn, celebration, destiny, environment, fate, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
All Is Well At the PondTwilight, the frolicking hour of the nocturnal animals.
A curtain of gray melancholy slowly shuts out the sun.
There are two gentle remembering streaks across the sky,
Then all is dark. The master artist knew what He...
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Categories:
goodies, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
The 1940's and 50's Movie, Radio and MoreDon Winslow of the Navy at the movies...…., the Lone Ranger, and the shadow, on the radio. Three of my favorite pastimes in Wilmington NC, From just before my first grade in school to the...
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Categories:
goodies, truth, world war ii,
Form:
Prose
Caught Off GuardTed was walking down the sidewalk headed to a friends house.
He was smiling as he thought about how much fun they were
going to have watching the first football game of the year...
He never made it.
Out...
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Categories:
goodies, conflict, corruption, deep, earth,
Form:
I do not know?
Chapter 25-- Dolly Damian Friends and Family: Baby Bash BonanzaDolly Maintained her ravenous
Appetite and gained weight.
Damian kept the new
refrigerator Stocked with fruits
vegetables Exotic foods and
other goodies. Two days had
Slowly passed. Damian finally
Assembled the crib.
"Baby shower Time is upon...
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Categories:
goodies, birthday, boyfriend, confidence,
Form:
Alliteration