Long Reimbursed Poems

That soft-spoken Sovereign commands a big stick, 
runs the world into ruins, once our bailiwick.
If asked why, He grins grimly, pale lips slightly pursed:
"Vindication? Straightforward: It's Me and Me First" 

(To mesmerise people He needed...

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Too seldom tolerated,
much less explicitly noticed
by Christian theologians,

This historical interplay
at work and play
in Jesus of Nazareth's
recent post-colonization day,

When Jewish Rabbi Elders
were squished inside
Roman WhiteMale Dominant
empire-building denial
of their own win/lose subjugation
defying Judaic empowering culture

Rather recently overwhelmed
by...

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My eyes have not grown too weak or dim
to ignore what they've long been seeing
pretenders who wear a mask of disguise
like a skier who's not proficient at skiing

Everyone who labels him/herself a 'poet'
thinks he's composed...

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Life means I can talk to my friends and others,
When the untravelled sea fills with brothers,
Pleasure rushes the uninhabited areas we just don't sail, 
And when we semiotically emit our meaning, we will prevail; 
Freedom...

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The Electoral College
By Franklin Price
9/17/2017

The Electoral College is outdated they say
Should never have been, and is not for today
They say that the people are not having their way
That the College votes wrong, for the right...

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Sometimes, I find myself on a battleground
in the present or in sieges from the distant past
It may be a war I've been waging within myself,
a thorn that needs plucking so that I might heal
I wear...

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She’s no longer here…but I like to keep her near
because that’s what children do
So when I have the time…sometimes in poem…sometimes in rhyme
I like to relive a memory…or two

Like how she always found a way…at...

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EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM HEMINGWAY 


“Man is not made for defeat. 
A man can be destroyed but not defeated”
These words from Papa Hank are true as can be
And so to myself...

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We found out the author of a book in which a friend of ours is mentioned
about a tragedy he was involved in over 50 years ago…
was coming to talk about his book…and we really wanted...

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In case you haven't noticed I'm a poet verbal usage explosive,
Wrote it to show I'm potent while showing I'm still unfolding,
With words I manage verbs the action within observed,
Then swerves I'm pitching curves a gentleman...

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Satan had a daughter, her name was Indiana
Came a time Satan could not understand her

What my young lass what does ails with thee
That none of your pains come in less of three

You moan in the...

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Inadequacy inevitably impairs my marvelous mindset
I pray, wish and hope for God’s word with no regret
I am in need of His abundant grace in my sorrowful mind
Turn my grief into relief and gladness that won’t...

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I've been feeling extremely unstable
Each migraine makes me cry for some comfort
Each tear dropped uncontrollably onto the table

I've been stressing for that feeling of PAIN/HURT
Each stroke of the razor I know will sooth
Each drop of...

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Welcome to the British isles, where cash is flowing
Where much resides, history on every side of killer
Kings and queens provide, a tapestry of style and wiles
Villan's and villein and many wreckers; rode tides; attuned to
The...

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The sun was newly risen above the Earth
his heated smile warmed amber desert sands.
The grand landscape resembled barren lands
as sepia grains were slathered by rippling waves
That's what I would see through blurred vision,
the hallucination of...

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I suppose it shouldn't come as such a terrible shock,
That each of us is allotted just so many ticks O' the clock.
The gifts of time and talent used well are our responsibility,
So at the end...

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The sun was newly risen above the Earth
His golden smile warmed amber desert sands
The grand landscape resembled barren lands
as sepia grains were slathered in rippling waves
That's what I saw through blurred vision
the hallucination of turquoise...

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PUSH

Uphill I saw him push on his wheelchair sweating
Reached out to offer a hand
With a sad face he declined swearing
It’s my burden to carry
Didn’t mind him I push anyways
Let go he shouted, harsh n I...

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A Statue... Man with umbrella
It was May in Lisbon had been walking long sat down on a bench
near a statue of a great Portuguese navigator, resting sore feet. 
I had earlier that day bought an...

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As my soul nears it's journeyed winter resting place
memories of past seasons are thoughtfully traced
footpaths that were traveled which gladdened my heart
grateful of the spring which gave me my start

Honeyed by the bee's attracted too...

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“CPR is only done to dead people,”
   or, at least, I was taught that
    in an oddly-lit conference room 
at a local EMS center. 
The instructor would’ve had to have...

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The give and take in love should reach a mean
whereby the two be equally disbursed,
so givers' hearts would never suffer lean,
cold hungry hours without love reimbursed.

And those who take would never reach the stage
of ravenous...

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The more money that I loan you, the more the situation gets worse.
I've loaned you five thousand bucks and I haven't been reimbursed.
I live on a budget and you're getting me into hot water.
You think...

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The Giver's Heart


Give 
and take 
in love must
be dispersed so
givers' hearts do not
endure lean hours without
their need of love reimbursed.
Those who take must never reach a
shameful stage of one-way, selfish traits.
Sublime, when give and take...

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I look at you,
you look at me,
we look at us, you know,
its not meant to be.
I look at love
and now I see
what once was,
and what's there for me.
And now I find,
I'm living a lie,
something I'll...

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