Long Primaries Poems

Trump's Now the President
(how he got there)
By Franklin Price
1/30/2019

Trump is now the President
Not the cause but the effect
Of  Republicans and Democrats
Refusing to connect

He's not from either party
Though Republicans have the claim
I  think he...

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Imagine.

The canvas is enormous, bigger than you or I.
The brushes are many, 
Though the hues are only five: three primaries and two shades.
I am the painter of my canvas.

Older canvases, like the art of painting,...

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The American Presidential Election on 8th November 2016
Will determine the nation’s future policies and government
Its candidates will qualify by caucuses and primaries successes
And all most definitely with seriousness will give addresses

Hillary Clinton is a democrat...

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The GOP Presidents Club

Nineteen Republicans have occupied the Oval Office since 1861.
Around the table gather GOP presidents from Lincoln to Trump,
Sipping bourbon and wine and diet cola.
Reminiscing times basking in each other’s company,
With smiles of...

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The Candidate

The man with his wife wave and smile at the onlookers;
Then descend the escalator in the posh New York Tower.
Melania’s appearance flares of elegance befitting a first lady,
While her husband ‘thumbs up’ acknowledges the...

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Electioneering

Somewhere in the mind of America is the simmering consciousness of legislative morality… where the politicians and rhetoricians are more than magical magicians

I see you America, with your brains spinning and your eyes rolling
Fingers wagging...

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The Parties
By Franklin Price
2/23/2016

The Parties, and what they represent, are such a sight to see.
What they've done, this election time, seems very strange to me.

Allowed a presidential seeker to run as one of them
But when...

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Pictures shared over the airwaves
Palm trees giving ever so gently
To tropical breezes are captured
As our forever moment in time.
With each sunrise comes the
Rich greens, soothingly calming blues
And gently comforting whites.
A breathtaking scenery of a canvas
Of...

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It's six days since
the Hole was dug...

First frost clings now
to newly turned earth,
to shunted sod,
to stones, to pebbles.

A grave grows colder
today than yet it's been...
Hearts grow busy, too.
Supplanting last images
with happier ones. 
The heart and...

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I take comfort in being dead one day
Cold and cozy in the coffin
Snug in the grave paid in full
Sadly this is not true for me and you

Just because you can't see me
Doesn't mean I am...

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Negative Politics
By Franklin Price
2/10/2016

Negative politics are more
Since primaries have begun
To say someone is worse than you
Somehow is much more fun

It's not what you've accomplished
How you've gotten where you are
But your opponents' negatives  
That have...

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It is said that she only paints with primary colors.

Red for the thin crimson blood that pours carelessly out of her wounded thoughts. Thoughts
she never cares to express.

Blue for the gracious sky. Open and excepting,...

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Your Choice for President
( a suggested method for democrats this next voting season)
By Franklin Price
6/3/2019

Who is your choice for president
Of all who chose to run?
To vote for them as “Idol”
Would be “American” for fun

When the...

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You really can’t talk politics
With one you don’t know well;
For how a person thinks
Just by his looks, you cannot tell.

Conservatives or Democrats
May outwardly appear
Quite similar, but pretty soon
Their differences come clear.

Discussing the elections
I choose every...

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yesterday
watched men try to ride 
in some graceful fashion
a flying, spinning, gyrating, horned beast
for eight seconds
probably should feel sorry  
for the exploited beasts
but none of them grimaced in pain
and limped away cradling 
an injured...

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Marching
By Franklin Price
3/1/2016

Marching into Super Tuesday
Just after Leap Year Day
Many States  are having Primaries
The voters have their say

Looks like things have gone crazy
There's no rhythm and no rhyme
The Republicans are up in arms
Don't like...

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To Hell with Party People
By Franklin Price
5/5/2016

To hell with all the people
Every woman, child and man 
The establishment  Republicans
Have ignored us all they can

In the primaries we have voted
For the  one who's not...

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Black velvet painted by nature,
emboldened primaries of
red, yellow, blue,
melding into
secondary chromatic sensations
that, echo tertiary waves.

I flung my soul upon the canvas,
oozed my essence among the blends
and empowered singing paints
to release their rhythms;
expel their agonies and...

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I don't trust Hillary Clinton because of the allegations that she's facing.
A future with her as President is something I would have a difficult time embracing.
Bernie Sanders is the Presidential candidate for me.
I've contributed to...

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Bernie Be Out of Our Hair
(Being that there is not much of his.)

If someone the primaries were to contest
Would person we eventually have to arrest
Who themselves actually broke the rules
Supporters are fools playing with loose...

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She was in an inane land, 
Unbeknownst to her, since
She was raised by
Diseased, rancid 
Individuals.

Growing up with
Them as primaries,
She had no idea 
That other children
At two did not have
To hunt down their
Breakfast and cook it
If...

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