Long Siri Poems

"Monsters in My Head"



the small gods
inside of us
worry too much

they speak in tongues
that never know the 
depth of what is real or not 

for tongues 
they never think
they just have a taste for blood

trading gossip...

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Daylight dies
Blackout the sky
Does anyone care
Is anyone there 
Enjoy this life 
Pop open a Sprite 
Roll over to the right and kiss my wife 
She's fast asleep
Daylight is trynna come 
It's trynna creep 
When she...

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It was the summer of 2014, I was just about to turn 13, spending June of summer vacation with my Grandmère, in Paris. Tonight, we’re at a fundraising benefit for African relief (it’s always *something*)....

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If memory serves me right it was one year before he died .Before he was killed that I last saw him with my eye.
From kindergarten
 (he was in first grade,  nine months older than...

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Non Believer:

I have heard, others talk about your god
He doesn't sound like a god I wish to know
Sitting in heaven high on his throne
While I'm left to suffer here all alone
Guilty of sins for which...

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I have heard, others talk about your god
He doesn't sound like a god I wish to know
Sitting in heaven high on his throne
While I'm left to suffer here all alone
Guilty of sins for which I...

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Dearest Robert Simmons,
You will always be a part of me.
You probably don't even remember who I am.

You have been with me in my mind, heart, and soul for the past 6 months. since the day...

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(Verse 1)
Remember days, back when we first met
Sunlight through the blinds, a silhouette
Across the room you stood, a vision in the light
Suddenly the world just felt so vividly bright
Like monochrome TV turned HD in a...

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Why am I missing you in Wyomissing

In Wyomissing where WiFi waves warp Whitman's words
I'm wiki-wishing scrolling through digitized déjà vu
Mississippi .mp3s Mississauga .gifs Missy Elliott remixes
Mishmash of missed   misplaced hyperlinks missing persons

Y-chromosomes yearning...

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Every now and then I am asked to write a poem…an honor for which I feel blessed…
but yesterday, in all honesty, I received a very strange request.

I recently wrote a poem on how basic math...

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I was on my first walk of the new year…feeling happy…healthy and rested…
I had no idea in front of The Church of the Good Shepherd…my faith in myself and my fellow man would be tested.

As...

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Covid rules explained 

About the covid 19, in case things don’t seem clear
This is what we need to do, so we don’t live in fear
We can mix with different households, as long as we’re not...

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Been digging my heart. Into any art. I can get my. 
Hands on late-ly

Been feeling 
rough and down and 
Filled with fluff, incorrigible clouds, imperfect
like a do-pa-mine addicted white rat on his cheese
Meat, wine, and...

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“In Love with an Android”




Do you remember Love?



...before dendrites became slaves
strung up on electron pathways
and hearts were tied in knots


tic tac toe 


binary became 
the rot we played
on artificial pathways


Android rooting 


slid easily 
into Jailbreaking
Passwords...

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Calmoruus calamity

Calm, in feather doona encumbered, 
slept soundly.
Even the stars twinkled
in hushed, squelched, muted tones.
Silence reigned in solemnity, in peace.
All of a sudden
the deafening din
of cacophonic hard rock shrill
rattled the rafters,
jolted the sleepers 
starkly to...

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Ag?? (hunger)


Izunna Okafor dere ab? a


Ch??? ch??? ka ? na-atà n'af?
Nw?? nw?? ka ? na-am? n'?kp?kp?
Ag?? b? aha ya
? kp?? ?gan? ? za g?

Ag?? b? echete ebeme
O nwegh? nne, nke o ji enwe nna
O nwegh?kwa...

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I walk in the door, 
my dog is looking at me wagging his tail,
sniffing around my shopping bags, 
He has that suspicious perplexed look on his face, 
Oh I’ve seen it many times before 

I...

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Broad reach branches, dark scarred where limbs emit
Bounce shade places, host seat of friendship 
Parasitic Mistletoe grows yellow finger medicinal cure
Administered in tinctures mixed by druid pure


Ailing then prevaing, seas writhe with full school fish
Activated...

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How Often
By Franklin Price
8/6/2019

How often did we dwell on things
Before the internet
Before it was as fast as now 
Not very much, I'd bet 

And what about the TV
Thousands of channels now to view
Internet is now...

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Some have Siri, 
others have Alexa;
but my GPS 
I call it Robert;
for it seems to always
take the road less travelled by.
I see the highway on its little screen;
while I meander 
down some potholed lane
that somehow seemed to 
have the...

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Your skin glows like the kiwi, blossoms lethargic as the flower in the purest hope of spring.
My yearning heart rises to your banjo voice and leaps like a Oreo the dog at the whisper of...

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SPRING SONATA

Kupendeza kwa kupendeza
Mapenzi ya kupendeza ...
maua hivyo yanafaa
majira ya siri
kuanguka imeita
baridi imefika
spring maua kukua
roses zambarau, maua ya njano
anakuja mbele yangu uzuri vile
kupanda tulips kupanda
hii ni mengi sana
Kupendeza kwa kupendeza
Mapenzi ya kupendeza ...
maua hivyo yanafaa
spring...

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What's to Become
By Franklin Price
4/21/2018

What's to become of all we see?
It's you for you and me for me,
That's where we are; would you agree? 
It's not the place we all should be.

What's to become of...

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8/30/17


In some regards a pro
Don't
You know
This path I chose
Staying on my toes
Taking care of woes
Being composed
Because life comes and goes
Not sticking out my nose
I hit highs and lows
Really got throwed
Sometimes I would doze
Near and far...

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Do these crows have a name, 
What do they talk amongst themselves?
Do they gossip as to who makes the best takeaway dish. 

Do they go to school and learn numbers, wear masks during air travels....

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