Long Lowes Poems

On the 1st day of Christmas my employer gave to me
A paycheck without an increase

On the 2nd day of Christmas my employer gave to me
2 tools from Tool World and a paycheck without an increase

On...

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let every old woman with a wrinkled face,
she should be aware,she lives in disgrace,
a furrowed brow,hairy lip and single tooth,
know me well,i'll get the truth.
a squinty eye and scolding tongue,
the squeaky voice she's had from...

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Years ago at our cabin, when our grandchildren Damien and Taylor were young…
(Why does time so often seems so short)
the four of us with lumber from Lowes decided to build a fort.

The exact date of...

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When we arrive at the cabin in summer after it’s been winterized…
and no one has entered before us…
We often know what little hiccups the cabin has waiting for us.

This year we did know one hiccup...

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OH--- To be a beautiful bird
                             Flying...

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Schwegmann, Winn Dixie, the Superstore and more
Customer service was instilled indeed in you for sure
You hungry so you pull up in the drive thru
Welcome to McDonald's, how may I help you?

Baskins Robbins, oh so sweet
Brownie...

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UPON THE SEASHORE
Off the blue Nantucket
music of laguid hours,emerges
from the labyrinth,delicate
snail-horn perceptions of beauty,
thronging this world of sensible
things.Stirred by majesty,soft
flowing surging impressions
where sea meets sky.Infinite
purples,fragments of rainbow
gleam in the spindrift,sensuous 
lively,lovely,many-hued restless
gossamer,abysm of time in...

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Thing About It for a While

St. James is determined to be demanding
Resulting in a mysterious misunderstanding;
At Midway and Two Eleven much wind blows;
Have heard there won't be the likes of Lowes.

Also, is some news about...

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Sunlight entered the aquamarine potting shed from the east
Beating the master gardener by a few minutes or steps
Ruffled marigold seeds were waiting to be planted in seedling trays
It was March the fifteenth, an opportune time...

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Another Springtime Chore
By Franklin Price
03/08/2022

I wrote of springtime yesterday 
Of the flowers, birds and bees
And of the leaves and blossoms
On the bushes and the trees

Of the gardening and raking
That is needed out of doors
Not the...

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One day I woke up with a
dream in my eyes,
Faith in which, then made me rise,
I felt broke prior to the day,
Now those broken,
beliefs and lies,
One day I woke up with a
dream in my eyes,

Dream...

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where are the old wanderers,

whatever happened to Steve>

a different holy book in hand every week,

the wise man of the thrift store.

“we just aren’t made for these times.”

you’ve either found the Way,

or the Way has found...

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