Long Not convinced Poems

I remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack, 
How I loved those Wednesday evenings, 
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps, 
The different coloured scarves, sweaters and hair 
During the mass meetings, 
The solemnity...

Read More

Lavinnia Lewellyn Canasta…my great, great grandpa’s sister…
and only childless woman on my mother’s family’s side…
Moved to town to live with us when she was eighty-five  
to help her great, great nephew raise us kids...

Read More

Jimmy Joe McSweeney is a long haired, bearded caveman, who lives in West Virginia…in the hills!
Tales abound from those who claim they’ve actually heard him howl…to finding gruesome remnants of his “kills.”

Some are down right...

Read More

Don’t you ever feel insecure?
Don’t you ever feel like your worthless?
Will I ever find some sort of cure?
Will I survive this feeling of hopelessness?

There are ghosts in the shadows
You got me with your many blows
Felt...

Read More

The chairs are neatly arranged and they are waiting for the end game, eight men and two women are among the execution pack
They say that they have a better way to run the show and...

Read More

Untamed self control my own worst enemy I can be
I can not be the poison and the remedy
The voices I hear are not in my head
I hear the words as if they’ve been said.
Horrific thoughts...

Read More

Overboard
(commentary on the January 6, 2021 capitol invasion)
By Franklin Price
01/17/2021

Many have gone overboard, as we sail the ship of state
What Donald Trump did on the sixth, was far from being great
I'm not convinced, the reason...

Read More

A naughty glimmer then came to her eyes,
she grabbed her man’s wrist, and led him inside,
and for a month this arrangement went smooth,
sure, some people talked, but naught could they prove,
until Preacher John saw things...

Read More

"mathew" 6: 12-13
“and forgive us our debts”
(not only does a sheep get 3 squares a day,
but it is also believed that if one begs the
sky enough, one’s problems will just
wash away---this is to be the...

Read More

Tresa faerie was excited. 
Today was the day assignments were coming out.
She had been in training for six weeks. 
She wondered where she would be placed.
Alaska? Paris? Tokyo? Hawaii? New Zealand? 
Kenya? Texas? Rome? California?...

Read More

It was a mistake to take home economics out of the curriculum at so many high schools, says Wally, a retired teacher who has an ongoing interest in education. He taught high school for many...

Read More

I am far from adored innocence
I am a flawed perfection
Believe me, I want significance 
Felt useless by rejection

I am willing to feel peace all day
I need to be heard during nostalgic nightfall 
Crickets call for...

Read More

Send Help! I’m trapped in an Insane Asylum!
Well most of the time, and although there is only the two of us here 
The other inmate, for therapy, has put me on a programme of day...

Read More

I could sense something was wrong

So I went to see moving carefully among the trees, 

I saw a building of harsh stone

Unforgiving standing alone, 

I crept up with stealth to see through a small window

Hoping...

Read More

[This was written for Matt Caliri’s Dialogue contest but
withheld because frankly I’m not convinced I can call it
a poem… 
But whatever it is… I kinda like it, so here it is.]
    ...

Read More

A childhood memory, i vividly remember...
I was detected with blood cancer, doctor told I will not live for more than 6 months.
That day we all cried like I had actually died
It was the toughest period...

Read More

The effort and time
Just to lose my mind
So blind that I cannot see
That all I am is loves’ lost tragedy
Time has not been on my side 
Makes me want to turn, run and hide
From all...

Read More

The effort and time
Just to lose my mind
So blind that I cannot see
That all I am is loves’ lost tragedy
Time has not been on my side 
Makes me want to turn, run and hide
From all...

Read More

It is the 27th January,
And I sit here all alone
My memories keep me company
Of times not too long gone

Started again just last night
When a show was going on
They call that show the “Heartbeat”
Filmed over on...

Read More

The story is told of a Maori King bold
Who dared cheat the Prince of Siam.
I’ll leave it to you to decide if its true.
But if you're not convinced, at least I am!

This king was annoyed...

Read More

WHY?
A Soldier's Anguish

A poem by Brian W Fisher dedicated to all soldiers serving in Afghanistan.




We left. It was the time of lush green.
Deciduous trees sucking moisture to their leaves.
It was the way. It was England's...

Read More

The say twins think alike, but Cha and Chee
were poles apart
For all the kindness Cha spread
Her sisters cruelty matched
Cha painted sunflower balloons
Chee blood drenched moons
Cha looked for friends to meet
Chee alone just seethed.
Cha her sisters...

Read More

(Pema, spring 2019)

It’s All About Grooming

I’ve had my pug now almost 13 years,
and we both adore each other,
but I clearly have the advantage
because I’ve been grooming him all along.

It’s no contest really.

In 13 years, or...

Read More

As usual I have a lot to say, but for your sake I’ll try to be brief.
I know, I bring at least a smile to all your faces when I walk into
the room after all...

Read More

The reasons we call her Mother Earth are easy to concede…not only does she give us life…she provides us everything we need.

If you’re not convinced of what I say…from the Earth to the sky above…here...

Read More