Long Passings Poems

Have You Lost and Mourned
( Thank you Tamera)
By Franklin Price
02/17/2022

I have lost and mourn a loved one
She was my long time cherished spouse
Was the best friend that I ever had
Brought bright sunshine to our house

If...

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my presence was needed
the announcement echoed thru hospital halls
which meant the medical team assembled
but that kind of expertise
was not why i was called
my lot in this equation, a signature
i was in another room in a...

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Whether passing a ball through the air or a peg on ice,
the execution thereof is much like the game of life.
It is also akin to the passings and transitioning of the    ...

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I guess I thought a couple of years or so ago

To hold the cures or hold the ills, or even myself, alone....

But in the end I found no reward anymore, within the world of my...

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Stone elongated nearly 4 thousand miles,
across the country of china, smiles.
The 16th century would see many small,
fortifications become a great wall.
The long wall's surface area is massive,
thus far, nothing man made has surpassed it.
Born of...

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Who is he who skips the mountains crest
and in the forest takes his play
who wanders flowering meadows blest
and paints her majestic peaks by day
 
Who roars like a bear emerging from his den
rises from the...

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I have emptied myself out in front of my friends,
poured onto their shoulders,
poured onto their tissue paper, 
got up from their floors,
and finished their drinks.

I have spewed pain onto your screen,
and hopefully into your mind,
so...

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A CHRISTMAS POEM

IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR
TO LOOK BACK AND CELEBRATE
THE BIRTHS AND PASSINGS
OF THOSE WHO SURROUNDED
US THROUGH OUT THE YEAR.

CELEBRATE OUR LOVED ONES
AND THOSE WHO LOVED US
UNCONDITIONALLY.
THOSE WHO WRAPPED THEIR
LOVE AROUND US AND
PROTECTED US...

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it is was on my morning stroll 
i first noticed that common
white house dress, pearl buttons
busy in her garden
sauntering on, a most common sight
on subsequent passings 
my evaluations were she was
not of any particular beauty...

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It hurts Him so to see my pain.
Though I would see my loss as gain.

My mind beclouded, devoid of reason,
Remaining hot through passings seasons.

The years have come and gone again,
And still my anger ramains the...

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an introduction  
written upon her wall
even in the darkness    
sparks struck  
where one could see it all  
   
blood of man  
chalice'd    
leaching...

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So brittle is our finite life's short stretch.
   Demurely, we spend out our early years.
Immutable at first, we're glad to sketch
   each interlude of life without deep fears.
Our time seems limitless...

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Red, Red Romance


crimson sky's crimson skies
where storms are formed
from the good byes
crimson tear crimson cries
all just whispers
cross crimson skies
crimson skies like paper walls
don't muffle the sounds
of crimson's calls

I hear her whispers
echoing off the wind
like natures...

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Thoughts unraveling like loose strings on a ball,
then rewound to make useable opinion.

Past and future lose all their intrigue,
in the clearness and fulfillment of a present moment.

The intensity and immediacy of a brilliant thought,
becomes calm...

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I've cried too many times,
 that flood of tears at a loved one's passing
 that indescribable feeling and emotion
 that wrenching in my breast
     heart beating too fast
   ...

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I pray this afternoon that in your works
In your studies, whatever so you’re doing
That God enables, magnify for and in His glory
I speak no stress,
I speak success
Speak glory unto the those things you doing
 I...

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