Long Heartland Poems
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The Alaskan Oil PipelineThe Alaskan Oil Pipeline
Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...
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Categories:
heartland, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form:
Prose Poetry
To War, From Youthoh youth in all its callow shades
is from our hope, precisely made
...
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Categories:
heartland, war,
Form:
Epic
The Boss Aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street BandThe boss aka Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
born at Monmouth Medical Center
in Long Branch, New Jersey,
on September 23, 1949.
His nationalities include hodgepodge
of Dutch, Irish, and...
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Categories:
heartland, 12th grade, age, america, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Inevitable Death Defines Afterlife TroisInevitable death defines afterlife - trois
So all I ask, would be
inviting, offering, and ushering me to
top secret cygnet committee
to give this average sized
chapped sticky man
spinning the david bowie playlist
as a somber dee...
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Categories:
heartland, absence, allah, analogy, angel, appreciation, blessing, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Oh One Oh Two Two Oh Two TwoI logged on to Face Book and, when my memories came came up, I saw this poem that I wrote January 2, 2020. I am editing it for January 2, 2022 as I see it.
Oh...
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Categories:
heartland, america,
Form:
Couplet
Oh One Oh Two Two Oh Two OhOh One Oh Two Two Oh Two Oh
By Franklin Price
01/02/2020
Oh one oh two two oh two oh
Alliteration as we go
I hope the twenties, will be fun
For this our century twenty-one
First twenty years are over now
We...
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Categories:
heartland, america, political,
Form:
Couplet
The Psalm 83 war has already just begun part 8 Q and AQ: Who are the modern day people of Philistia mentioned in Psalm 83:7.
A: They are located in the region currently mentioned as Gaza, the western
bank. ...
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Categories:
heartland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
DiscombobulationI awoke at twenty five to eight.Huh,I must have been more tired than I thought.After waking at five that morning I had spent several hours working in the yard cleaning flower beds
dead heading flowers.After...
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Categories:
heartland, confusion, recovery from,
Form:
Free verse
ImpeachmentWhy am I for the impeachment of Biden, Harris and Pelosi? Reason number one Donald Trump was right our last presidential election was rigged in favor of Biden/Harris. For example in the State of...
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Categories:
heartland, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Our Day That Will Live In InfamySeptember 11, 2001
Our Day That Will in Infamy, our entire nation was crying on that dreadful day-
Nine one one, nine one one!! We should have seen them terrorist---those evil men---
in those planes coming-after all--911...
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Categories:
heartland, historyday, day, september,
Form:
Free verse
Woman In Chainsshe carries the child on tired hips rested on chains ‘round her waist
wasted on freedom designed to serve a white man’s lustful desire
branded inferior as time repeats itself and the pain knows no end
a tattoo...
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Categories:
heartland, anger,
Form:
Free verse
Tribute To JackEndless ribbon of tattered poetry in pavement,
Trail of tears for wandering vagabonds,
Seek yourself from this time forth betwixt sunrise and senility,
For the tides of the seasons grow weary with long-suffering,
To the hopes thou clingeth unto,...
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Categories:
heartland, adventure, art, beautiful,
Form:
Classicism
Roses Are Grown In My VillageI could recall the
epic journey of my
ancestors
With palm oil in
their lips and kola
nut in their mouths.
They all wore the
ancestral rope down
on their waist
down the mountain of
wisdom and bravery
To fight for the
freedom through the
ancient...
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Categories:
heartland, love,
Form:
Narrative
Soul Dinner PartyI'm mainly confused
from words that you used
to tell me of yr problems present,
I'm torn to this way
then back to that way,
like the end of a pendulum's crescent,
I feel...
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Categories:
heartland, food, love, passion, me, love, me,
Form:
Rhyme
An Accurate ProphecyWhen Troy fell by the deception of a wooden horse,
its people fled bringing along their treasures to the shores of Italy;
and with their warriors' skills and unfailing scheme,
their destiny was manipulated by an accurate prophecy,...
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Categories:
heartland, dedication, devotion,
Form:
Elegy
Kremlin Postkard of Kandor
A missive postkard from Russia to Amerika:
Deer Amerikan elekted leaders:
Yuri headlight Magnitsky bad policy,
of swift monetary attrition Ru$$ian decision,
have sanktion krashed our ekonomy
Das black ice spangled action
send our oligarchy Soviet markets
ruble roulette spinning
Such rogue...
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Categories:
heartland, allusion, dark, political, satire, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
The Truck Drivers Will Save the WorldI cannot help but notice that,
since Wuhan virus was released,
we have seen a real absence of
those who proclaim themselves elite.
The lawyer and the professors,
the politicians and the like,
have all become somewhat useless,
and some have just...
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Categories:
heartland, appreciation, celebrity, culture, how i feel, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Illinois, Winter of 1920Illinois, Winter of 1920
Fair crystal-like turquoise crowns o'er heartland
while townsfolk are quite briefed on purchasing,
for those who dressed warmly had only planned,
meant shopping, browsing, eat-out ere praying.
While townsfolk are quite briefed on purchasing,
comparing, what's-in, plus...
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Categories:
heartland, childhood, christmas, growing up, imagery,
Form:
Pantoum
The Long Walk HomeI remember as a child walking through the countryside,
People were so polite to greet each other – how are you?
With simple lifestyle in an agricultural ambience,
Theirs is my goal, my future longing to welcome.
While I’d...
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Categories:
heartland, family, history, introspection, family, home, longing, child,
Form:
Narrative
The Hero of Des MoinesLooking backward one can see so clearly.
The priceless diamond held loosely in hand.
Did not seem as vital but merely
What most every kid had in the heartland.
The sidelines were of no significance
For the...
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Categories:
heartland, father, father son, friend, hero, son, success,
Form:
Rhyme
What Finally Set Me Off (Part 1)(Although this was inspired by Olusequn Adelana's poetry challenge about betrayal, it is
much too long to enter it; but I'm thankful for any poetic inspiration I can recieve!)
What Finally Set Me Off
Sometimes Mom would...
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Categories:
heartland, friendshipbetrayal, me,
Form:
Narrative
Once We Had It AllOnce we had it all, I had a nice raven-haired girl, took her three kids
on all happy families. Guess I did love you, were we really soulmates?
Yet you were never a goth, never understood...
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Categories:
heartland, abuse, anxiety, conflict, emotions, evil, gothic, satire,
Form:
Verse
Always For PeaceCome,
remember with me
the day that brother fought brother,
the bodies piled high
behind the false security of the stone divisions
drawn through the heartland.
But when the fighting ceased,
all that remained
was a flag on the grave
of every brother...
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Categories:
heartland, peace, warday, world, brother, brother, day, grave,
Form:
Free verse
ApocalypseApocalypse
The throb of heavy engines rises swiftly to a roar,
The brakes released; the asphalt strip unwinds,
Airborne - she passes low above the surf along the shore,
The island's runway quickly drops behind.
The bomber...
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Categories:
heartland, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
Two Kids RememberingTWO KIDS REMEMBERING
There we were
Next to the railtracks in the middle of the industrial heartland of 1950s Tyneside
Martin and me
Summer’s day and no money and no place to go except...
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Categories:
heartland, childhoodday, mum,
Form:
Verse