Long Mashed Poems
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The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
mashed, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
Car Wars - 1st Half In Text - Plus Full AudioHere's the scoop, friends...
This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other way...
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Categories:
mashed, car, humor,
Form:
Verse
Fabrics Finding FabricationsA prawn masquerading as a peanut can be quite disturbing. So many times a peel is a garment used to shroud. A tentacle hidden. Here and there. Then to reappear with an often violent burst...
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Categories:
mashed, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
Dorm LoveOurs was daily mysterious,
sometimes near mystical,
rapture;
a sensual yet platonic
dorm-mate love affair,
within the only male grad student corridor
at SFSU.
He was the presumably straight Vietnam veteran
southern white good ol' boy,
athletically studying Japanese,
with a gentle passion for...
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Categories:
mashed, culture, gender, history, love, military, peace, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Slow-Cooked Conversion StoriesI was raised in one of those white nationalist churches,
passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church,
where "evangelical" meant fundamental
and "fundamental" meant we did not interpret scripture
but accepted it as God's literal trans-historical Word
of...
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Categories:
mashed, childhood, christian, earth, faith, health, integrity, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Human Being With a SoulWe are human being with a soul
We were taken from the North and South Pole
And left in a basket at the flagpole
If all the relics in history were unfold
You would discover that the real threshold
Is...
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Categories:
mashed, body, bullying, change, community, conflict, faith, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Half a Dozen Plus Years Ago the Following Became a Near RealityHalf a dozen plus years ago the following became a near reality
Countdown to homelessness –
mars this earthlinked sole Harris - son
panhandler would would register
pyrrhic victory won.
10…9…8…3..2..1…
Found me linkedin at the end of...
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Categories:
mashed, age, america, anger, angst, anniversary, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween GagChief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
mashed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
Recounting Wounding CostsI know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.
I remember learning curious distinctions
between genuine remorse
given, when LeftBrain verbally requested,
yet without RightBrain capacity
to feel even the...
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Categories:
mashed, caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings, humor, parody, voice,
Form:
Political Verse
La La Di Dah Dah LaEarth dwelling mongeese are neither toys nor coins and pedalling backwards then forward is not considered the primary way of jet propulsion off a very high hill. So one two ping means fried rice coming?...
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Categories:
mashed, allusion, baptism,
Form:
I do not know?
Grandpa's Halloween StoryWe all have favorite times of year, and I am no exception.
If I were forced to pick a favorite time, it would be fall.
Though not because it sports the finest garb, although it does,
But rather...
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Categories:
mashed, funny, halloween, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Catch of the Dayby sun-kissed shoreline
patiently I cast my line
waiting for a catch
Fishing was my family’s go-to, inexpensive recreational sport. Many weekends were spent at the lake checking trout lines for fish or standing on the...
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Categories:
mashed, fish, fishing,
Form:
Prose
Rouging of the Lamb BMy sweet mother of pearl struck a ruby eyed reef.
Then quickly sank into the deep, just shy of the cay of life.
Don't remember much about her,
Daddy never had much to say... about the...
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Categories:
mashed, childhood, pain,
Form:
Narrative
Chicken Breast Or Rump RoastFreddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of...
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Categories:
mashed, marriage,
Form:
Prose
Birth of Healthy Newborn Greater Than CumulativeYuletide pageants vis a vis merry go round revisited
healthy progeny regaled being alive
analogous to children ecstatic twenty-five
on December exhaling joie de vivre at dive
in into neat stack of wrapped gifts, when...
what! out of thin...
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Categories:
mashed, 10th grade, 11th grade, appreciation, creation, february,
Form:
Rhyme
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween Gagat Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got the brilliant idea
for his sole son to be dressed
with one of a kind getup.
Missus Shaner...
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Categories:
mashed, 5th grade, adventure, autumn, character, father son,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Egalitarian Garbage Taster Ie White TrashChief egalitarian garbage taster i.e. “white trash”
As Halloween costume,
one year during early grade school,
my father got brilliant idea
for sole son dressed
uniquely rubbish qua
putrid offal getup.
Missus Shaner (talon clawed,
shriveled relic...
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Categories:
mashed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Free verse
Yuletide pageant merry go roundYuletide pageant merry go round
Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style
breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired
per millennia athwart
(this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth)
two plus seventeen carousel rides resonated
veritable pantheon of pagan rituals
and...
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Categories:
mashed, angel, appreciation, birth, celebration, chanukah, christmas, december,
Form:
Free verse
SolutionistSOLUTIONIST:
Drenched soul placed on a bench,
Avengers revenging not ready to repent;
Edge of grudges they always entrench,
Dreading of fate, that's what they depend.
Trends and hypes risen from their wrench;
Pitching and hitching bit of all been said,
Mashed...
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Categories:
mashed, allah, angel, god,
Form:
Lyric
Christmas Past and Present Bring Me TearsChristmas Past and Present Bring Me Tears
My legs of yesterday's
walked into a Christmas storybook,
a glorious past,
pages filled with good tidings.
And as young kid, once with open eyes,
with clinging beliefs
in good shepherds,
it was
my parents,...
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Categories:
mashed, christmas, journey, life,
Form:
Free verse
One Single Dish, One Single Pea - Dr Seuss Contest InspiredOne single dish with one single pea
The sign on the door said,
Come one and come all
We welcome the short
and we welcome the tall
From the east or the west
or some place in between
Whether yellow or...
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Categories:
mashed, food, fun, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
RuinLaughter and ruin tells the story, of our first family dinner.
Married just six short months, ...
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Categories:
mashed, marriage, parents, romance, today, together, wife, words,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Toenail FungusInjustices, victimization,
oppression and other yucky events
of diverse varieties,
are like toe nail fungus:
1. both alarming and embarrassing
2. who knows where it came from
3. we would appreciate it if it would return
from wherever to whatever,
as long as...
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Categories:
mashed, addiction, anger, bullying, health, humor, humorous, love
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Night Soil Man - Part One The Night Soil Man
I
Nothing sticks to-get-her like turds
...
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Categories:
mashed, abuse, discrimination, night, racism, rights, slavery,
Form:
Free verse
Negativity Part 1Ooooh….mmmm….Ooooh….mmmm….
I’m getting fatigued from what seems like endless distress
Listening to people’s complaints and complicated symptoms
They’re always on their cell phones
They’re always on their cell phones
Feeling lonely, but slightly hopeful, joyous and…
And still yearning for God’s...
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Categories:
mashed, anxiety, deep,
Form:
Lyric