Long Stem the tide Poems

Please do not weep for me!

(alternately titled: dost newt expend
precious tears toward pitiful poet!)

Intense passion to read
doth foster divine enlightenment...

Also simultaneously, albeit instantaneously
triggering brutal mind-numbing self awareness
starkly underscoring how existence (mine)
devoid scant trace
positive life enhancing...

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* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY - LXXVII

IF ever I had a country proud of its wall-less porous boundary

And if ever by no mistake of the Supreme High Command of the International Militaro-Business Conspiracy I...

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I don’t want to hate…but when I hear hate spewing from other people’s mouths…when I see the way certain people are treated for being who they are…when I see Ukrainians on the run…
I don’t want...

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In the depths of the Mediterranean's embrace, 
Where waves and sorrow interlace, 
A tragic tale unfolds each passing day, 
Of lives lost, dreams shattered, swept away.

Ten souls, on average, meet their end, 
In this watery...

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Dear Serena Williams…I want to take a moment and apologize to you
for something I didn’t say…something I did not do.

As we waited under a crab apple tree for our pizza the other day
a group of...

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The ill-equipped revolutionaries fought and died to set this nation free.
Against all odds they triumphed sending George's troops back across the sea!
The precious freedoms we cherish today were won due to their staying power.
It can...

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I watch a hare race all about the woods, 
Along with children from the neighborhoods. 
Stiletto claws of hawk pounce on a mouse 
While I am watching from the wooden house. 

Today I watch the...

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DO YOU SEE?

Did you see the picture of the swollen-bellied child,
Beset with flies nobody had the strength to brush away?
Did you see his mother, as weak as he is,
Whose one remaining hope is that he...

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What Would You Give for a Chance?

It seems unfair that girls must wait for each first kiss to have respect,
Boys fear girl's slap, fears overlap! They drive most teens insane!
A child needs nap, a tree...

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There is a place far up above
where dreams, ambitions never die,
the place that is the stuff of dreams
though there all is not what it seems,
it is the place of love and lust,
the passions that burn...

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I combed the mid-day meadows
    To find your dappled kiss
       The sweet, delicious, melting mouth
         And flavors, You,...

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When times make me wary, where do I seek strength to carry
me through? I pray the chaos, loss, and grief won’t tarry
till all are bereft, with nothing of our “normal” left. 
God of Grace, please...

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Cat got your tongue? Hey what’s the matter?
Why ain’t you sayin’ what’s there inside?
If I were somebody who didn’t know better,
I’d say you been simplified

Simplified, simplified
There’s forces all around you, son
And they’re tryin’ to stem...

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...oooOOO Tears of Gold OOOooo...
Prickling hot glistening tears from the eyes above
Fall in little rivulets round the nose out of pain, thoughts or love
Hot tears roll down the cheeks cooling as they fall
Salty on the...

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The sun's face a shapeless grey
In my heart I know it has to be this way
One less child now I hold an open space
Not tears or shame or sadness can replace
The not knowing and distant...

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What is the point?

What is the point of smoking a joint?
Just to anoint the jester inside?
Or pester the hide of others whose noses
Get out of joint? Perhaps it imposes
An alternate order
Or wrinkles the border
Between high...

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Desert heat cuts no quarter.
Ever.
Blanched white sky
deceitful promises  of ‘the American way’ –
“Bring us your tired, your hungry, your poor . . .”

We lied.

They come.  We build higher walls –
They come.  We...

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Emotions get the best of me
at times. I’ve felt betrayal’s bite;
the pain runs circles in my mind
and owns me. I’m too weak to fight.

When into this unhealthy mix
comes anger, I try mightily
to stem the tide....

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Stem the tide your pride rides
To a puerile pinnacle
In a vain belief it makes sensational strides
When like a locust your spiracle

Exhales carbon dioxide
To catalyze photosynthesis for red roses in your green garden
While your pride derides...

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he looks at his side
where her dagger stabbed deep
he tries to stem the tide
of the blood starting to seep

she never felt so happy
watching his pain
for he treated her crappy
as if she was insane

she walks away...

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For my friend who is struggling right now. Take care and stay safe. Faith over fear, together. 

Dark vortex
By Michelle Morris
19/01/2023

Don't go to that dark place
It will grab hold of your soul
It is a dark...

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The Democrat Debate
By Franklin Price
10/16/2019

Could not believe what I was watching 
On the the Democrat debate
The outset not surprising
Has been no change of late

The direction of the great event
Set by the CNN
Further hurt the left...

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Happiness
By Franklin Price
4/7/2015
inspired by June Baker

Happiness how to define
Is your happiness the same as mine
Having things for which hell bent
Or is it just to be content

Keeping up with Alias Jones
Expensive cars and camera phones
Yachts and...

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175,000 Corona Ghosts

The corona ghosts get together
The 175, 000 band together 
And vow to haunt the living

As the voice of the dead
Need to be heard 
In the halls of power

They march to the WH
Surrounding the...

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