Long One night stand Poems

Im going to tell you a story about a skateboarder who thought he was destined to only love skateboarding. Not to long ago there young man who was missing something in his life years and...

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Sally had been to bed with a few guys in her time, but she had never been to bed with a guy who had managed to find a lump on her breast. He told her...

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In history one can read of an earlier time,
When poetry and lyrics written in rhyme,
Were commonplace.  A travelling band
Of troubadours would wander the land,
Writing and singing, to bestow delights
On ladies, peasants, and errant knights.

Their...

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The shades are drawn, and the paint is peeling on the façade, the door is cracked open as though the person inside is ready to run
He lies there positioning himself into a relaxed state, wondering...

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I see me, 
seeing me..
In the surface of a reflection...
I see the past, the present
And a future not yet mentioned.
Who am I on the opposite side
Of that reflection?
This man that lives and breathes
With all these...

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This is the story about the man who sought refuge in my heart
His glance told stories
It sang songs, reviving and pioneering all at the same time 
His melody was beauty and foreign, a vacation I...

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Is there a life after death? I'm about to see
I'm ready to find out, got no one looking out for me
Been betrayed by everyone I gave my all too
They dug the hole, they made me...

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A Woman’s Worth
When she walks in the room
she wants people to stop and stare
not because they’re whispering…
what she got on girl, what’s up with that hair?
But because she looks good, conservative and chic
looking her best...

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I wish i was at home in my bed
But i'm stuck out in the cold and alone in my head
I Hate this place
No matter what turn I take, i'm forced to relive every mistake I've...

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My greatest one-night stand occurred
on a drizzly, spring Friday night,
my long-term girlfriend had let me,
I meant to drink her away right.
Went down to a club I knew well,
just to drink, wanted nothing more,
then came this...

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In The Meantime (Somewhere Between)

You are somewhere between Politically Correct, And nothing at all
If it weren’t for the fact that we work together, my existence stalls
But I am thankful that I got to meet you
Cause...

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She turns from side to side in the mirror
As she critiques her body
Comparing it to the fashionista standard size 2 
So far she’s found at least 6 imperfections
Blaming it on the food that she ate
She...

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CRY OF A DEAD TEENAGER

Last night a car wreck killed me--how quickly life has passed!
I thought I had so much more time, so long life yet would last!
But now I’m on the other side, and...

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I shouldn’t live in the past but I’m not just expressing myself
I’m over myself
I promise not to stay there too long but the pain makes everything high definition
Never in the back always a leader, I...

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I had a girl for company.
She answered to the name, Time.
It was love at first sight;
who else could've a girl like mine?

Moments we lived in, were dreams
We spoke through thoughts, no words to tell.
She was...

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Hello Walls, do you mind if I talk to you quickly?
You've seen the real me so I don't need to make it pretty
Can I paint my ugly truths over you in a beautiful colour?
Hello Walls,...

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Nineteen sixty-nine
By Franklin Price
5/22/2019

The year was nineteen sixty-nine
A year for change and to adjust
Had just returned from Viet Nam
Was alone, without much trust

Married when I went away
January sixty-eight
Received “Dear John” on April Fool
It's a long...

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The Feeling of Love

Verse 1. 
Come on Come on
Why does this feel so wrong?
Aren’t you already gone?
Don’t you know I’m not there?
Why does my heart have such a big tear?
You were like a coat I...

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Losing the Light
	by Cheryl Higgins
 UNSUPPORTED CODE  - with a quote
from J.D.
McClatchy's
three-part poem
"Three Dreams of
Elizabeth
Bishop" UNSUPPORTED CODE 

What sold me on the
architect's clever
evening tour
besides designer
lighting and too
many vodka bitters
wasn't this
relentless dawn
scraping every
skylight in 
every...

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An Oldie But A Goodie

Lyrics to "Into Something Good" by Herman's Hermits

Woke up this morning feelin' fine
There's something special on my mind
Last night I met a new girl in the neighborhood, whoa yeah
Something tells me...

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The female heart is complicated.
Love comes and goes and we are left deflated.
When all that we want is to always be loved,
Sometimes we are,
Sometimes we are not…enough.


The heart of this man is not to be...

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I've never had a one-night stand,
with me it always was the family plan;
I thought I found Mr. Right 
seems I only saw him with blind eyes.

Faithful till the day I die
Yet he has a...

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She senses before she sees
The manicured nails - the elegant fingers
Holding out the hundred dollar bills - enticingly - so temptingly
A generous nights takings of busking here
In one proffered hand
She grabs at it petrified it...

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The morning after
I wake up to my pillows talking to me
Your are gone but they say you were here
You left some time in the night after I said you couldn't stay 
Even after all that...

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Restless soccer moms,
whose kittens have all become mature,
got plenty of suburban boredom
Time enough for sure
to get hooked on every advertised lure
As daytime soaps and gossip kitsch
are the mundane, daily double feature
So they buy themselves some...

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