Long Installment Poems

In Sorrow and in Joy
(For my wife Barbara)
By Franklin Price
01/18/2022

I - Looking Back

I'm looking back on year just past in sorrow and in joy
Thinking of the future and the thoughts I should employ
More than two...

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Don’t let the color red get into your head, don’t let the color red force you to bury the dead, red is strong,   red is high, red is powerful, it is touching the...

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~ Another Fairyland Story: The Fairyland Ball~
(Short Story or  Narrative Poem) 


II 

Everything looked just fine when I arrived in Fairyland,
There was a warm 'Welcome Reception' for me,the Fairy Queen was close at hand....

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~ Another Fairyland Story: The Fairyland Ball~
(Short Story or  Narrative Poem) 


II 

Everything looked just fine when I arrived in Fairyland,
There was a warm 'Welcome Reception' for me,the Fairy Queen was close at hand....

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~ Another Fairyland Story: The Fairyland Ball~
(Short Story or  Narrative Poem) 



II 

Everything looked just fine when I arrived in Fairyland,
There was a warm 'Welcome Reception' for me,the Fairy Queen was close at hand....

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For those who are following this story, here is the next installment. If this is your first time reading, please read the first one and it will help make sense of the story. Thanks for...

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I had an image of wrapping paper
and God showed me something amazing,
how a simple image can reveal so much
like explaining to a child God shown me this
so amazing. 



A gift of life
a gift of love
sent...

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U see me and my boo were ready to do the do
      We planned the day  
    Discussed it thoroughly
      ...

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Smearing live cells, with those of the dead
As fires rage higher within,
Hold up a hand to cover your eyes
Lest your soul be scarred by sin.

We shovel the dead, two at a time
To their first installment...

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The Path Taken part 2
An anxious tapping on her window brought her to a state of near consciousness.  
" Madam, I urge you to move inside the station just as quickly as you can....

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*Image of Paul Simon SNL by Giphy.

Simple Simon

Simple Simon the blessed pieman,
Woke up fresh as the day began,
Busy cooking, his wife named Anne,
Made his breakfast in a saucepan,

Enjoyed eating his plate of flan,
Simple Simon the...

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it would have been an injury to them both
to attempt a description,
to bring what it was that compelled the girl to silence
(if she had not chose silence beforehand---one outside can never be sure)
to formulate an...

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Book One: Ancestors of the Ark

Dedication: To my husband, Harvey, and our daughter, Rosalie. Without your love and support, this would all still be a dream.?

Chapter one:

Welcome to the Village of Chapel Hill


  ...

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Cheph 111 
Cheph 111 
 
The pilots name was Marylin Mist she was tall and a nerd with glasses and short 
hair parted in the center not too tall but not short at all she...

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2015 SA and the world drowning into

As Christmas and New year approached,
Our nerves got shaken,
And as we received our bonuses,
And others withdrawn their long saved money,
Everybody headed home with pride,
To show people that they are...

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Hello,
    I would like to introduce you to a dear old friend of mine.
    I made his acquaintance by pure accident.  You might say, we bumped into each...

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Dedicated to: Terrence Michael Sutton & his wife 

I've been to hell and back since I was last here 
Now pondering none of previous pitfalls and fears. 
Seemingly waking up each day from a dream...

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& huxley is giggling in his grave

if aldous was still alive,
he’d laugh himself to death
when confronted with the new evidence
that Zogenix’s 
brand new spanking drug
“Zohydro,”
is yet another installment in mankind’s race
to create “soma,”
the government sponsored...

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You know....whomsoever(?) you are...in this reading(Poetry) my inquirlization is to
capture an emotional thought to factualization. The fact is that we're living in per-
ilous times, as life itself attacks daily with common everyday confrontation's;  This
poem...

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A Nubian goat they called Split
Was rehabbing her front leg a bit.
She was having a blast,
And the time flew by fast,
But she wasn’t quite ready to quit.

She suddenly realized she’d dozed;
It was later than she...

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I met a woman, fell in love
She was a gift from above
Soon she became my spouse
We gathered things and set up house.

Some things were new without a flaw
Some were hand me downs from Ma and...

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Economies of cooperative redemption,
like taking turns licking 
melting ice cream cones,
favorably contrast to
stingier economies of personal private 
sticky and prickly ownership

Including feeling entitled to purchase
whatever and whomever
I can afford to buy or rent
in cash up...

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 Silence is Deadly 

Stand up
if the masses did
Trump would be a gravestone


Notes:

Some will tell you never to be silenced, yet will not mention what exactly is the issue. This is  typical of people...

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I’ve read a lot about the stars—
sought precious knowledge of deep space. 
Wondered when we’ll go to Mars—
pondered if we’ll leave this place. 

Some problems here on earth, it seems;
though much here that I treasure....

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Moving boxes now
Sorting through life's memories
Trying to balance

I feathered my nest
Filling the rooms of my life
With such fine objects

Stuffed into corners
Old emotions are guarded
Tears are welling up

I pick some things up
And put them back where...

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