Long Sunshine state Poems

Now I seal these lying lips until forces open.
I confessed. 
Now it is time for my silent repenting
Deserved shame is the string sewing my sinning lips closed.

For unworthy lips as mine do part, 
no right...

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Home is where the heart is,
Or so the saying goes.
There Is really much more than this,
As everyone, surely, knows.

Home is where you hang your hat,
Is another slogan that Is nifty.
There’s much, much more than that
In...

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A "Highly" Debated Issue


From glaucoma to chemotherapy
Medical marijuana has its place
But you won’t find any prescribed
In the conservative Sunshine State

Chris couldn’t eat while under treatment
Watched him lose one-hundred pounds
He had no access to an appetite...

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"Grandpa tell me the story 
again!", the young boy yelled in 
excitement, as he and his 
parents entered the room. It 
had been only one month to 
the day since the last time they 
had...

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I dream of a right and jolly Christmas
I don’t dream of a white or snowy Christmas
It’s very slippery and treacherous when it snows
To go to church, I wear leather shoes
And it’s easy to fall and...

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They are on the final stage 
Of being in their Nascar cage 
Soon they will leave the Daytona sun 
And under the lights this car racing contest will be done 

After putting up with the...

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Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate

Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the Cree
Dakota Sioux, the Dakota, meaning little snakes in Ojibwe

Euchee, or...

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In the depths of the Sunshine State,
Where tales of darkness resonate,
Lies a world concealed from the light,
The darkest side of prisons in Florida's sight.

Behind iron bars and towering walls,
Echoes the agony of lost souls' calls,
Where...

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From glaucoma to chemotherapy
Medical marijuana has its place
But you won’t find any prescribed
In the conservative Sunshine State

Chris couldn’t eat while under treatment
Watched him lose one-hundred pounds
He had no access to an appetite stimulant
His weight was...

Read More

Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate

Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the Cree
Dakota Sioux, the Dakota, meaning little snakes in Ojibwe

Euchee, or...

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To the north are the gators 
Growling “see you later” 
Then going south 
Playing French quarters with their mouth 
“We love our Hurricanes
And bit coin games 
Hitting the table 
Making a basket if able 
And...

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The sun emerge from its hide, smiling bright and it glide
Promising a fine stay, for those who toil by the day
Oaks surround the landscape, as ferns add in to the grandeur
A heron’s displaying majestic pose,...

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Ode to Palm Trees                               ...

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Irma
 Franklin Price
9/7/2017

Irma came to terrorize
Spawned in the East Atlantic
Intensity as never seen
She's something quite Satanic

Became a category five
Before she touched the shore
With winds above one eighty
Around the wall and more

Came into the Leewards
Destroyed Barbuda...

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I don’t know much.
Left my Spanish speaking country 
To live in San Francisco when I was one.
Lived there four years before departing en route to Japan,
Another Four years abroad.
Hard to master, let alone speak 3...

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When I was only 10 years old,
The dreams I had,  they seemed quite bold.
I thought that I would make a change,
But the world turned out to be so strange.

When I was of the age...

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I know the land where the lemon-trees flower,
South of the border, in the Sunshine State.
Where the warmth lifts up a lithesome sunflower
and the sour juice cleanses my fruitful plate.

The warm breezes
my wan spirit seizes.
The palm...

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on tree limbs jutting out over rivers
sleepy gators bask, absorbing summer’s heat
in fall, the sluggish reptiles do the same
temperatures exceed 100 in the Sunshine State
till November brings a brief reprieve

water lilies, oleanders, daisies
boast vibrant blooms...

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(a-NAY-le-fin)

Come, let your imagination flow free
Climb aboard, fly away with me
To this magical land called ANEYLEPHIN
A land of goodness with 'ear to ear' grins

Play among fields of perfumed flowers
Dance between drops of warm spring showers
Hugs...

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Come, let your imagination flow free
Climb aboard, fly away with me

To this magical land called ANEYLEPHIN
A land of goodness with 'ear to ear' grins

Play among fields of perfumed flowers
Dance between drops of warm spring showers

Hugs...

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Retire To Florida?

By Elton Camp

It’s for old persons with leathery skin
The refuge of every sort of has been

Doctors who can’t hear a heart beat
Butchers who no longer can cut meat

Store clerks who are too old...

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Living in the Sunshine State

By Elton Camp

The climate is mild most of the year
Earthquakes, residents need not fear

The hot sun is warmly on your neck
Get skin cancer?  Oh, what the heck.

Susan’s house is right...

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Known as the sunshine state:  Florida
a good summer place to stay.
Green and leafy trees accost me with delight
while I drive through the road and enjoy the sight.

Some attractions in the so-called Disney World,
a place...

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I'm the Soup's Joan Jetski reporting live
From Florida’s Gulf Coast where seabirds thrive
The leaking oil grime has not reached us yet
Tourist dollars are needed to ease our debt

So please come on down to the Sunshine...

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The New World vultures – buzzards and hawks,
Circle-soar as they look for prey, among stalks.
Chomping smaller bird out of their feeders, so keen.
Turkey buzzards, so ruthless and intensely mean.

Spindly pink flamingo, a water-bred bird,
Loving South...

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