Long Gracie Poems

Midterms 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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The Florida of My Youth – The Games We Played
By Franklin Price
10/20/2019

Our family had no TV 'til nineteen-fifty-three
We had a console radio we listened to for free
No quality of FM only AM which was grand
At...

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As you see, hear a few moments later a funny looking Huckleberry Hound dopey little dog
cartoon the families all time favorite as the children snicker, and everyone there comes
in the room just in time and...

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Sweet memories of Norma
Come shining through
There are just so many
And I’d like to share a few

We’ve been very best friends
For about fifty three years
Through the ups and downs
With lots of laughter and some tears

She has...

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Memories are just pieces of my heart left behind for you
Drumming out the beat of our great love
And I'll be watching over baby Grace and and you, her daddy too
From a place where tears just...

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Well, here I am again, with my tales from the night before.
Just when you thought you heard it all, here I am with more.
Remember back in “one” of the tales I told to you,
Well please...

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1/ FOR GRACIE

your grace so sensitive 
other’s pain penetrates
so intense the hurt -you burn
there’s acid in your tears
one more pin hole in your heart

2/ how do we endure the monster 
the monster 
the monster -resides
the...

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The Keystone Cops were funny,
Chaplain, Keaton, Lloyd, and Fields too.
Laurel and Hardy, and Will Rodgers,
Were just some of the names we knew.


Who can forget the Stooges, 
Or all the pies we saw them throw?
Who didn't...

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Future Generations Pass   
          (Life of Martha and Gracie)

Martha started out, as a little girl, to understand her world
In an underworld, kept behind a...

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In Carolina there is no helmet law
As my girlfriend complains, all I hear is blah, blah, blah
She is still stewing over me buying all the accessories in the catalog
I tell her to bow down to...

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One o'clock in the morning,
we connect by phone, 
Chicago to Boston. I tell you 
about the ugly tomatoes I bought, 
your in hysterics. Listen, I say, 
they have a their own web site; 
take them...

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“Say goodnight, Gracie, say goodnight George.”
—Burns and Allen Show 1950-1958

Say Goodnight Gracie

found it
            it was snowing
on the sleeves
   of Buffalo
i’m a Winter...

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Where modern Gladiators go to collide
Like solders in prison these warriors ride

Mono el mono this is how they believe
No smoking mirrors or tricks up their sleeve

Guillotine, arm bars and rear naked chokes
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu certainly isn’t...

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A joyous day-
Painted black,
And red with yellow
You stained me-
With all the lies,
Hate,
And selfishness.
Did you really want me?
Is that why you turned me away?
Away,
Where are you going in life?
A dead-end,
Dead-weight,
Wasted life.
Hurt inside,
All cut up,
This life of...

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Purple Cow

I've never seen a purple cow 
though I have been inside a purple haze
things are different between then and now
when I stumbled around for many dayz

standing in corners watching the crowd
yellow barrels of sunshine...

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New York’s lost an icon
Who was in your face and brash.
He always spoke his mind and thus,
With many he did clash.

A three-term mayor with a bridge
That’s honored with his name,
His trademark “How’m I doin?”
Vaulted him...

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Down in the puddle of a Pig pen hole, 
Caught me a Fish with a garden Mole. 
The Fish got battered by a chip shop man, 
Ate it for supper watching Jackie Chan. 
 
Chan...

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Eyes they sparkled infused with life 
Your very soul my guiding light
Impish smile that sealed the deal 
My heart restored by words surreal

Loving heart so warm and true
You shelter my hurts that's what you do

That...

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"Healing For My Gracie-Goo"

**To everyone who may be reading,
I need a favor from all of you.
I'm begging & I'm pleading,
For healing for my Gracie-Goo.

**She's my daughter & been coughing throughout the night,
My poor baby's not...

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Musical Organisms

"Let’s Bungle In the Jungle” Jethro Tull
Don’t want to tangle
with slithery snakes.

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight” The Tokens
I won’t be walking in their
territory after dark.

"Puff The Magic Dragon”Peter Paul and Mary
This song not about drugs.
RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The...

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Will you hug me Mom?

Oh yes, Gracie, so so tight.

Will you tickle me Mom?

Now and always I will.

Will you snuggle me?

I am the best snuggler Gracie girl.

Mom, can we read 2 books tonite?

Mom is tired,...

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*** I decided each day to write a poem for each victim of Sandy school shooting and maybe share it with their families if that is possible. Even though I am sure lots of people...

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Richard Burton
       was uncertain
     if Liz Taylor cried

     Fred Astaire
       liked Ginger Rogers'
  ...

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**Dearest Heavenly Father, I humbly come to You today,
In Your wonderful name continue, to make better, our precious Goo.
Make this virus vanish forever Lord, never returning in any way,
I give You all the glory, I...

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The air blows nicely through my Louisiana porch 
I could sit for hours and never check the time 
It’s perfect to watch the sun shine 
The cows are in the pasture, my dog is just...

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