Long Push up Poems

The 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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KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom

Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...

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Heaven for Dummies, Yes, You! (Hell Debunked)

You may think I’m all ‘Ego’ or ‘Certified Loon,’
but I pray you’ll consider this humble attempt
to move riffraff from ruts, to unstick (maze stuck) muse
through a monstrous attack on...

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"50 Words for Poe: Foxglove"



What goes through the mind 
of Winter, when you are Autumn
just past Spring
Sometimes you’d squeeze IT
in the hot spaces left-of-centre
with the remnants of the
Summers-In-Between

She liked to keep it real.

She’d escaped
and had...

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I spent the last five years living in her shadow
so young, beautiful, and intelligent
and everyday he let me know what I was not

I did not do the things he liked, and we had nothing in...

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Janice’s Looks in the Mirror

Like a pendulum from an orange clockwork

The agent high above on raucous prayers

She hung high and dry suspended in drought


Resembling a shot of liquid poppies injected

The heroine succumbed in Noah’s wet...

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to make 2008 great you need to roll away that stone 
that rock that has closed you off and left you feeling all alone
Jesus had been crucified and then placed in a tomb
and on the...

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Once there was a famous king,
More famous than Ozymandias.
His name was King Wolf. 
Sultan was his nickname.
He called himself a benevolent despot;
And his style of government 
A ‘democratic dictatorship.’

He spoke good English— 
A foreign language,...

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NOMPUMELELO (SUCCESS)

She is the KEY!
The key to Good, Gold and ongoing life 
Through her progression is guaranteed!

She is the product of positive mindset and creative thinking!
 Education is just her mother and she rose her...

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You question was disassociating essential?
Dire Straits, your presence? 2 dang influential 
Press play, the beat drops. It was all a dream. 
I feel it, just like heavy d up in the limousine 
Stories bleed together,...

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A light beacon in the iciest of regions,
Solar winds full of both brilliance and bluster
Glory of trenchant travelers from afar;
Skyward sorcery that time does not mar.
Shining with such a wonderful lustre,
Lantern of lucidity wherefore philosophers...

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They say you can not be both black and female,  
you can only be one and dare you ever choose to be both, 
what an abomination!.
If you choose to be female,
immediately you bleed from...

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My whole life I felt alone,
A stranger, in even my own skin,
But my soul, eventually outgrown,
I rip, to try to dig deep within,

I cut, for a slice of peace inside,
A dart sent to pierce my...

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He's in self-isolation keeping company
a rooftop crow reminding him
a wiser authority is still at work!
No sense of distance within four walls
sickroom alien, where dawn comes early
and long night falls.
He's lost track of time, the pilgrim...

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i could sit here. day in and day out
thinking of the most proper way
to let the ink in the pen spill out
but as of late im feeling prehistoric 
so much weight on my shoulders 
and...

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The hustle of the
Khyber pass
Dusty 
Dirty
Traffic chaotic 
Pori’s border
Like the ground
Soaking up my foot prints
We move beyond
The bus is silent
In this barren landscape
I look upon the discarded
Shells of war
Interesting
I identify shells
From many wars
Like a walk
Along...

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Yeah I'm different, I'm not impressed with none of these women, most dudes are only on your heels because of your sex appeal. Yeah I'm different alright, I don't trust none of you, your standards...

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My yard harbors lots of big trees
And in them live squirrels, with ease
In comfy twig nests
They do what is best
To live and survive as they please.

I feed them some nuts every day
And watch how they...

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Words



Words make verses and rhymes. 
Expressions of my mind
have been with me throughout time.

Rhyme and reasoning
Words with grammatical seasoning.
They can hurt you
or nurture you.

My words can be uplifting
life shifting,
even spiteful,	
some needing decrypting.

They can be soul...

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Springtime rain brings fresh array 
of flowers east to west.
The Rockies’ red and purple tufts
of mountain pride are best. 
And mats of foliage named moss pink face south to get the sun
while buttercups put forth...

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Hypothetically speaking
Dreams have me running about seeking
Angels in the daytime
Dreams don’t wait for night time
Words can’t form the right line
To say what it is I’m feeling
The way I’ve been dealing 
With this new life I...

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To the young man who kindly bought me a drink,
I am in my sixties so what did you think,
my reaction would be to advances you made,
when it's over ten years since I last got laid?
I...

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Bow down 
when you hear the music

Stand up
when you hear the sound

Limber low
when you see the golden image
Babel Tower rise pyramid erect 
like a flagpole

Toes arched high,
elbows bent with hand over heart
Eyes swaying side to...

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It’s due to a facet
of  your hectic
nature
That you repose for
such a short time
Totally remiss in
your ignorant bliss
Unaware of your
beauty sublime

A deep sip of
Milkweed nectar
With proboscis quick
unfurled
Diaphanous wings
idle gently, lazily
Then long probe is
once again curled

Magnetic...

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You ask what the scars on my knees are from
I say its because I've been knocked down
Over and over again
But it just means I’m good at standing up

And you ask about the dotted white on...

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