Long Shrunk Poems
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Rumors
Rumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
shrunk, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hotel Caretaker
How unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.
‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...
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Categories:
shrunk, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________
A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...
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Categories:
shrunk, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
The Frog Prince - Part 1
A funny frog called Mr Snog,
once lived beside a slimy bog,
he was a most peculiar fellow,
his hat was red, his boots were yellow,
his waistcoat was an olive green,
the strangest sight you’ve ever seen,
no matter where...
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Categories:
shrunk, allegory, fairy, humorous, metaphor,
Form:
Light Verse
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice Adventure
Continued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure
When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the day might bring
Their guns were charged and ready and...
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Categories:
shrunk, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
"A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand."
(Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)
The muskiness...
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Categories:
shrunk, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion, jealousy,
Form:
Prose
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 28
Quietly, the memory of my grandfather manifested itself,
In the colors and shimmers of the Holy Spirit,
I saw his human face,
The familiar lines, the flesh,
The pair of oceanic eyes, slowly blinking
Smiling,
Like a heavenly beam
Splashing...
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Categories:
shrunk, allegory, analogy, deep, emotions, humanity, meaningful, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Yes, I Met Alice
What if I ,
Saw a waist-coated white rabbit,
Pass and disappear down a hole
Would I think I was going quite mad
Or would I want to follow him
As he exclaimed I’m late! I’m late!
For a very...
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Categories:
shrunk, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
The Lewis Trap
“The Lewis Trap”
Well, of course he's misanthropic
He’s a Misanthropic Man
The Devil’s in the details
Buried deep under the covers
Of bedtime stories, slithers ‘neath loose sand
A Liddell bit of cake
A Liddell bit of julip
Sweets for a sweet...
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Categories:
shrunk, abuse, addiction, child abuse, imagery, judgement, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Saguaro
........Cactus
....Water Towers
Isolated desolates
Wrapped in spikes
Fluted aqua Greys
Or in military green
Reaching the skies
The desolate cacti
The desert fingers
Withholding blaze..
Desicating breeze..........
.Blistering freeze..................
Where not a blade....................
Nothin' germinate......................
Them root in dust.....................
Wasteland, gravel.....................
The fluted barrels......................
They shrink in dry......................
Bellow up...
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Categories:
shrunk, nature,
Form:
Concrete
The Battle For Betterment
Is it possible, in times like these,
To fight off such adversity and selfishness
And to save other souls that you owe not to?
Gaze into these pain-filled eyes,
Contemplate their crushing calumny
And see why I must...
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Categories:
shrunk, blessing, dark, evil, forgiveness, heaven, inspirational, war,
Form:
Free verse
America, 1933
They are conflicted haunted images from black and white photos of America 1933, when there was no place left to run.
It was the hunger of people lined up, scraps of food ladled out, the...
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Categories:
shrunk, character, culture, history, life, natural disasters,
Form:
Narrative
Pee Yew- Collaboration
Yesterday I was in a little funk
because I got peed on by a big skunk
took a long shower
...
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Categories:
shrunk, humor,
Form:
Limerick
Horizon Winkling Cosmos
wobbling
earth
Phoebus
slipover
&
...
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Categories:
shrunk, analogy, autumn, creation, inspirational, meaningful,
Form:
Other
Acid reflux very early morning March 3rd, 2024
Acid reflux ~ very early morning March 3rd, 2024
Ah... nothing more enjoyable
than acidic gastric fluid (bile)
flowing backward into esophagus,
resulting in heartburn, meanwhile
disrupting pleasant dreams,
which phenomena also known as
gastroesophageal reflux (GER)
found me discombobulated
and swiftly...
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Categories:
shrunk, angst, baptism, body, dream, fire, grief, scary,
Form:
Free verse
Acid Reflux Early Morning August 9th 2022
Acid reflux ~ early morning August 9th, 2022
Ah... nothing more enjoyable
than acidic gastric fluid (bile)
flowing backward into esophagus,
resulting in heartburn, meanwhile
disrupting pleasant dreams,
which phenomena also known as
gastroesophageal reflux (GER)
found me discombobulated
and swiftly tailored...
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Categories:
shrunk, anxiety, confusion, dream, fate, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
The Trunk
The attic trunk, dirty, and oh so old
Had survived the many years untold
Sitting there midst the quiet dust
The hasp and hinges brown with rust
In the young girls’ mind she was compelled
To see what it was...
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Categories:
shrunk, family, history, identity, nostalgia, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bride of Christ
To the bride of Christ I pen this letter.
Aya Jesu
Nwanyi Chineke.
I see you wobbling your feet lazily.
Blissfully content with the comfort of this world.
Forgetting you were sent on an errand.
For this world remains a marketplace....
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Categories:
shrunk, christian, devotion, gospel, humor, journey, joy, love,
Form:
Ballad
Existential Storytelling
“I heard a note once,.” Charles said with conviction and bass from his gut.
Every night with chuck we reached this point ,
Existential storytelling, usually after four drinks or eight drinks.
Talking about government and it’s...
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Categories:
shrunk, philosophyme, beauty, beauty, drink, joy, me, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Work In Progress 12
Though the destination when we left Illinois was supposed to be Waco Texas we ended up in Bowlingreen, Kentucky.We were in a trailer park
behind the lost river truck stop where my mom
cooked. I enrolled at...
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Categories:
shrunk, freedom, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
The Onions
THE ONIONS:
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with the glory which
shall be revealed in us. - Romans 8:18
I was an onion before Christ set me free.
Layers...
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Categories:
shrunk, bible,
Form:
Pastoral
Mr. Crab and Mr. Anemone
(A hermit crab has just realized that he can barely fit into his shell and the only other
creature in earshot to hear his cries is a sea anemone who lives on the hermit crab's...
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Categories:
shrunk, animals, children, funny, seame, sea, me, sea,
Form:
Narrative
Crossroads
Please God, have mercy on my soul.
Pour cold oceans, make me whole.
Let it soak the sins of my foes
and let it heal the wound that they tore.
They speak words I can not comprehend.
The time they’ve...
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Categories:
shrunk, break up, heartbroken, lost love, love,
Form:
Prose
Looking Back
Searching for mistakes in rich history, I came across the joy I used to feel and the looks that we both used to steal.
What the hell has happened to you anyway, where is the kindness...
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Categories:
shrunk, adventure, life, lost love, love, wifelife, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Urban Attitude Rhyme Refusal
I put eyeballs on rivals
as I survive and rise forth
an arrival of an idol
standing Eiffel with force
surprisingly viral
taking titles and more
in a wave wide and tidal
winning prizes for sure
from miles behind to in front
a...
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Categories:
shrunk, urban,
Form:
Rhyme