Long In the doldrums Poems

dust had gathered on her many memories in outlines and heaps

had sheltered her from full on attacks of pain and self lacerations

the broom with razors attached right next to the end of the stick


inside lay...

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December 2017

Extremely high winds are forecast due to an influx of sprouts over Christmas . My New Year’s resolution to avoid chocolate is not the only dark cloud on the horizon

January 2018

We have eaten the...

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Long ago, before she was ever hunted by the beast,
She had only drank from the cool river of freedom.
One fateful day it happened; she was caught
unaware. Her body, suddenly foreign, to move was a struggle.
The...

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Hall Of Blank Portraits 

To my father, 
I paint you as the sea, 
Ebbing and flowing 
In my memory.
Drifting in the doldrums 
Immortal and serene, 
Sleeping forever 
In blues and green,
I sit on the shore...

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Rats in the cellar, squirrels in the tree,
things aren't the same as they used to be.

When I left for school with my li'l lunch pail,
I didn't expect a penguin to swallow a whale.

Such an injustice,...

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It’s a recurring thought –
Over and over again –
Reverberating in my head,
Bouncing back and forth,
Reeling up and down like a Yo-yo,
Like a boomerang that keeps coming back,
Like a song stuck in your head,
A thought that...

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SALVATION ACCORDING TO FAITH


“Help, help!”, I shout out loud, in fear.
‘HELP, HELP!’, echoes of my voice I hear.
Over and over, impinge in my mind
Closer and closer, it gets so near.
Louder and louder my cries, my...

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I trudged to levy height, stood upon the soggy ground
with serious intentions that an answer would be found
To the river's rapidly flowing current, I confided my woes
of troubling things that had me in the doldrums...

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Old Mildenhall 

Beyond the sprawls 
Of sleepy vales, 
Behind the stacks 
Of woven bales, 
Lie the dwellings
Of souls that fall 
In the decaying ruins 
Of Old Mildenhall. 

A mish-mash mosaic 
Of glass and stone,
The eerie...

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You could call him Mr. Lonely 

’Cause that’s the way he feels.

He wants so much to find true love, 

But thinks he never will.

He suffocates in solitude

And he drowns in despair.

He wishes there was someone...

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Beyond the Heart, the Head and the Soul reigns unsulleable Belief 

How he blurted in a moment of self-lacerating glory-be pique
Who will in a thousand years retrieve my poems from digital rot
A thousand years grind...

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Now That it is Settled
By Franklin Price
6/8/2016

Now that it is settled
For the Elephant and Ass
Who will be the winner
The answer's in the looking glass

Neither very popular
There are several reasons why
Can one help our recovery
Or will...

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lazy bones, bound in poverty’s grip
in a garden, where hesitation weeds grow~
filled with s t r a n g l e d  d e l i c a c i e s…
  ...

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It is hard to be enthused when you realize your team sucks.
wasting a long evening witnessing that very fact
Next year will be better the season just started
next year never comes just the perpetual pain of...

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I'm stranded on a sailboat 
in the doldrums of my mind,
but there's comfort within jail though 
when I know just what I'll find.

There's nothing new. Nothing new. 

You pushed me to the plank so
I knew...

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A question that baffles me most
          is why some men and women,
at the peak of youthful vibrancy,
         ...

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I'm a ship lost at sea, I have no way to navigate,
no compass to give me direction,
a cloudy sky at night and no stars to guide me.

For I am in the doldrums of a relationship,
recirculated...

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Loose change with frayed ends,
my life feels snagged on acute bends.
Tangled threads surround me,
they seem to wind and bind me,
preventing freedom's trends.

I don't know how others do it.
Missing the rain when it hits.
My path does...

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Far away from the well-traveled trade routes,
In those latitudes few lubbers dare,
Lies a haven of peace and contentment
Called the Island of Don di von Kaire.

When the climate at home turns oppressive
And the tedium’s too much...

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FESTOONS
				
A day of festivity in fresh air
Festoons forming an entry pair
Gorgeous drapes of silky velour
Incense having their share
Festoons in the doldrums
As one is one less than twelve
As one is one more than eleven,
As one is...

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In the doldrums of a hushed space,
Of a part of vacuous open to silence,
Undisturbed stares party to patience,
The essence shared natures reticence,
Lies a formidable barrier of hinderance,
Unseeable with a naked eyes abstinence,
Choose to remain adamant...

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