Long Retractions Poems

According to the 700 Club host's Gordon, "This could be coming very shortly to America, of course Congress would have to approve and President Biden would have to sign it."

In Sera Lanka the protesters burned...

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Today is the day I decided I'm not going to let my love for you hurt me anymore.
No more staying up past midnight wishing you were by my side. Or being crumpled up on the...

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Zoomanity

Ponderous pretense 
blindsiding any ability to cope, to hope, the 
fabric of reality gropes, worn 
Torn, promises shredding like swilly alibis	
Hoovers and fakers 
backing into their mangled apocalypse,
can only stammer and stare
Movers and shakers denying...

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If idiocy and democracy could carry the blame..
If intent and purpose were one and the same
If love and life wasn't such an uneven game
Before even a given name, it goes from whence it came. 

If...

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Measure by humanity, the capacity is overwhelming.
We take for granted the nature which surrounds us. 
Gradually reaching the end- by business suits and their passion for currency--
Look around and observe this earth- Sounds, water, trees,...

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Much better places

It hides from the moon light
beneath the brush and thistle
of a desolate landscape of patchwork failures,
appearing one more time seething,
slicing open old wounds once healed,
blood thirsty appetites favored

Slick but imaginatively unkempt,
disguised as someone...

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Cult and trend and recalcitrance 
I'm from the streets and have seen things
But this I have to admit is beyond me
It's hunting season and they are all in
Pontificating politicians demanding penance
Pointing fingers at pimps and...

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poetically fractured retractions
   gnashing night prayers, 
scribbling braille,
     written sideways
 dipped in holy water's resolution,
compromising statements
     of disbelief's proclamation
spinning music the color
   ...

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Poetically fractured retractions
   gnashing night prayers, 
scribbling braille,
     written sideways
 dipped amid holy water retention,
compromising statements
     of disbelief's proclamation
spinning music the color
   ...

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I am pure Russian and I am the bear
I have  deep dark eyes and black , black hair
Russian girls are very pretty and very exciting bare
Straight and tall  with  features very fair
They...

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Stilted words, hesitation, a pause
once best of friends, now over in an instant.
Strangled breath, stomach in knots
surreal out of body sensation.

Our bond so close, like Jonathon and David
I saw, yet ignored a fragile weakness
believed her...

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Not Our Founding Father's Nation 
By Franklin Price
7/7/2016

Not our founding father's nation 
That we're living in today
We're no longer using horses
To move ourselves along the way

Autos, planes and satellites
Make this country very small
The World is...

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Sometimes....
I think that I might be allergic to life...

Like, every sarcastic remark,

Like every rude response,

Like every eye roll,
Every rebuttal, 
given about every infraction...

Isn't me being snarky or difficult, 
But an allergic reaction. 

Like every angry,...

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I Never Cease to Wonder
By Franklin Price
9/22/2109

I never cease to wonder 
How our leaders are today
How the truth's of little matter
In much of what they say

How they're using innuendo
And untruths to overcome
Never saying how they'll...

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That resting's sideways mat
and resting's oblations seem exact
no thought defined, but to extract
life's residual interact!

I can't but bide in wait
God's asking is my fate,
what e'er the cost or blessing's loss
 insolvent or belate!

In thee now...

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Quest be, will we exist ... 'tis hit or miss
be of a lifetime. I gave no degree
of my retractions that constants amiss
my seeing yon desk an intimacy
be measured as the worth of passages.
A ponderous virtue...

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