Long Take to be Poems

My Dear, Sweet, lost Child ?
Daughter of my wasted youth !
A confession

I am truly sorry Gail, for all that I was  
- that selfish, inconsiderate, thoughtless man -
I am truly sorry Gail, for all...

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I wonder how long it will take to be great.
I wonder will my people ever be safe.
I wonder what happens to the boy who prays every day. 
I wonder what happens to the man who...

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As the days become shorter and cooler,
   And my age climbs a little farther up the ruler.
Life has taken on a new and wonderful meaning.
   I’ve finally reached a point in...

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If God’s omnipresent, we must see Him,
feeling His love and light in each heartbeat,
else we roam rudderless at ego’s whim,
twirled about by fate, feeling incomplete.
Upon making God search, our earnest wish,
we begin by slowing the...

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Enthusiasm sustained while anticipation intrigues 
To capture a glimpse of a Cooper’s hawk
Hours pass by, keeping patience as a virtue 
I span the sky and tree tops each step of my walk. 

Oh my gosh,...

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A REAL HERO?
                                ...

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I'm nothing special, just plain old me

Ancestors from my past came down from the tree

We scratched our knuckles and found that hurt

Scraping our skin through our neighbourhood dirt

As wise as I was at that young...

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When Cries and quite prayers fills the air
As things go wrong, as they usually do
When life starts to hurt as seconds fly away
And the Paths you plodding seems all-uphill
When Love is lost and hate is...

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Apollo, 
God of prophecy, music and eloquence
Had advised Man two things he had to do
In order the truth of things to discover
And as a result to see the world anew:

"Know Thyself" and " Nothing in...

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What does it take to be Mighty, you ask?  
How to find the edge and climb up over the holes?  
How to find the energy to Breathe, to Be, to Exist?  
How...

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Under the sun is the earth, a place for the good and the worst. Only to hurt to feel pain, only to live an stay sain, the mind is a weapon of choice, to live...

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Cowards, not terrorists, Call them what they are
Not Martyrs, killers of babies, children both near and far
Cowards, not terrorists, Call them what they are

How much courage does it take to mow down people with cars...

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COWARDS, NOT HEROESv

Cowards, not heroes, Call them what they are
Not Martyrs, killers of babies, children, people both near and far
Cowards not heroes, not terrorists, Call them what they are

How much courage does it take to...

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I AM WHAT I SAY I AM

The way I am I like
The way I talk I like,
I am what I say I am;
I am who I thought I am.
My thinking controls my life and destiny,
Be...

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”Oh hermit, our eye cannot be single ~
unless polarities within mingle”
            ~ quote by poet 


Narrow is our perception,
leading to misconception,
which if we take...

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I cried out to the Lord today the world being in such pain
In so easily seeing the moral decay as these final days wane
With every step that I take and in every direction that I...

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I am in this emotional state of GLADNESS 
Because i have grown.
I have  grown so much and still have so
Much more to grow.
Who ever thinks that he has reached his growth limit really
Does not...

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It takes life to live life, 
Fresh air to breathe; 
Sunlight to have energy, 
And a power to create.

It takes war to win freedom, 
Courage to be a hero; 
Pain to be a poet, 
And...

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Father Christ Jesus listeners often got swept by His charismatic manner
Blurted their intention to follow Him
That does not mean they were ready to be true disciples of Father Christ Jesus
In this Gospel story
A man wanted...

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we readily admit that we know not how
the tumbler falls each morn
enabling us to awake
from our slumber

we are astonished!

so here we are then
like a computer rebooting
memory infusing sense of continuity 
to our fleeting mind-body ego...

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Tonight I am the loneliest star in the sky,
As the whole universe can not hear me cry--
Even though I am in the center for all to view,
I am too far to shine in this infinite...

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A lifetime of security you will find in him,
But a good man is hard to find.
He's always there even though the light is dim,
But a good man is hard to find.
He's a full time lover,
But...

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What does it take to be a man?
Other than the biological aspects, which we all understand.
There are no special traits or any test that needs to be passed,
Or any special skills or big muscles amassed.

It’s...

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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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It is a ritual the old man has observed since he was a little boy…
a ritual that fills his heart with love and fills his mind with joy…

Every morning…the moment he rises from his bed…as...

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