Long Redder Poems

T'were the night after Christmas, 'n' the house was all dark.
Not much money for 'lectric in the ol' trailer park.
Ma waitin' tables at the club on the base,
jist me and my sisters alone in the...

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The room was dank and dreary
The past hung in the air
There was a scent of mildew
A smell of history was there
The paint was old and faded
With stains all dark and brown
The wallpaper too was dated
And...

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Here is a lesson, a tortuous tale for your next-of-kin,
About a political hack we'll call the Bigly Pumpkin.
It's a bit like star wars, he is more an older Anakin,
Who fooled the Nation even though he's...

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"A Mother" 

An angel planted itself
in the womb of the world
for a short while 
a mother carries humanity
trying to heal her wounds
the chalice of her ocean earthed 
bleeds life for all it is worth
Gaia cries...

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4/30/17 


Underneath what they consider lunar 
Don't care if your name is super 
So much for your future 
And all of the rumors 
There is nowhere you can go to outmaneuver 
When I turn into...

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I’m in the kitchen at Lisa’s. Her little sister Leeza enters, her pale, freckled face redder than usual. “Liza is the bossiest sister..,” Leeza says, slamming the cupboard door after grabbing a box of Fruity-Pebbles-cereal...

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There was something about her smile that said something is not right.
Or that I am a pigeon; or that I am not totally on task or very bright.
But I am slow on the uptake, so...

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Oh so delightful
Not at all frightful
Oh just one taste
It wont go to waste
One kiss down low
Oh I want to know
Would my tongue slip in
Would we sin
Steal just one kiss
No one would miss
Savor the flavor...suck the...

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The air grew chill, as she sapped my will,
with the heat of her words and manner,
though it was all on the phone, and I was quite alone,
still my skin became redder and redder.

With the heat...

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Alone I sat quiet quiet as a mouse

In the shrieking creaks of my old and broken house

Watching shadows warp and twist and turn upon the wall

Hearing haunting howls howling begging screams for more

 

“lies don’t...

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I Can't Believe the Ignorance
By Franklin Price
7/31/2016

I can't believe the ignorance that in our candidates abounds
And how lacking in intelligence their conversation sounds

Both are an embarrassment from this observation made
Both make most our faces turn...

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A FAMILY

                        “Anna” is so happy to declare,
    ...

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Stopped for lunch on our way home from Philly.
All visited restrooms and didn’t dilly.
After consuming our lunch, 
in preparation for a long drive,
He, again, dashed to the restroom getting ready to ride.

Emerging from the toilet...

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Where blood is not enough

Blood flows, flows, flows
Competing with Nile waters
Blood Threatens to overwhelm 
Tigris and Euphrates
To make Red Sea, redder
But the head goes crazy, crazy
Where blood is not enough

The people cry, cry, cry
Yet the...

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I still remembered that night
the snow was heavy and unusually white.
We gathered around the fireplace,
Momma was sharing her Christmas grace.

Daddy went home and brought us presents
Momma stopped her story and away she went
out into the...

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'No pain,no gain‘ Mum reminded us wryly.
'No lemon no melon' Dad quipped adding pith to the bitter- sweet maxim.
So there we stood, Sis and I, incarcerated by our own parents and ordered to repaper the...

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"Every year since I've been married, I'd rise
To a tapestry of color and cool embracing feel.
To the rooster crow so, family can feast their eyes.
I'd work for two days preparing thanksgiving meal."

~

  Thanksgiving Day...

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heavy metal horses on bloody battle hooves
stampeding serenity underneath their raw and ruthless rules
with red eyes burning bright, fire shooting through their nostrils
they burn like asteroids and the heat is coming hostile
with sadists in their...

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Old friend you came where grass is dewed, 
Dear friend, you came to start anew
A rooster crows announcing you
I stretch and yawn, and wash my face
and shuffle down to start the race

Dear friend, beyond the...

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It was October the tenth of eighty-eight,
The memory still keeps me awake,
When I agreed to my first and last blind date
And thus made a HORRID mistake!

We met for cocktails at six on the nose
Knowing I...

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Abundant Autumn


Cooling air with colouring redder skies
Fooling landscapes upon marram lies
Fuelling frosted with dewed sunrise
Ruling leaves falling from revver highs

Deciduous trees succus leaving nectars
Mellifluous winds creating rotor sectors
Ambiguous pigments in sexes of hectares
Conspicuous colours within...

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The ramblings of a yellow rose,
What are they, do you suppose?
And is there any sense in prose,
When written by a rambling rose?

     And does it have a single purpose,
  ...

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Kinda weird you were.
Some days you were absent but then really funny.
You were like a blank white sheet, every little thing poeple wrote on your body, you did.
Tried to do all, which should last long.
A...

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perhaps prosaically I see only apples                             ...

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10/27/19
"Better Than Ever"


Took a lot of tries
Opened up my eyes
And became wise

Thought
A lot
Took a shot
And got after what I sought
Fought against torment and rot
So oft
People mock
It never ceases to stop
Finally connected the dots
I took it...

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