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The Night Before Christmas EveThe night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016
Prologue
The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of poems
Read to children aloud
By their parents in homes
To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...
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Categories:
til now, christmas,
Form:
Rhyme
When It Struck 11When it struck 11, I sighed in relief
When it struck 11, I haven't felt grief
The time kept ticking on and it wasn't brief
And I'm so… patiently shaking like a leaf
Vigorously feeling vital everyday...
Every minute...every second...come...
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Categories:
til now, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, courage, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
til now, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a ProblemIt’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...
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Categories:
til now, grandmother, hero, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 98 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Teenager Invaders MisbehaviorLate evening March 2045
The Teenagers were adventurous
They were venturing. DJ and
Damali Trech were both 18 years
Old. The Copy Cat Club was the
Place to be for teens. It mostly
Served...
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Categories:
til now, confidence, courage, emotions, father daughter, father son,
Form:
Alliteration
Mathgeek PassionsHealthy nutrition research
starts with wealth producing past searches,
individual through community co-investments
in good and fragrant meals,
or even harmonic and graceful music with dance performances.
Ingesting healthy passions
consumes PositivEnergy wealth
for future co-productive system projections.
My evidence for future...
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Categories:
til now, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, math, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
GilgameshGILGAMESH . . .
Story has it you used your power to run amuck
Putting fear into the people, and brides in Unuk
So the people of Unuk pray to the sky God Anu
To sort out...
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Categories:
til now, adventure, best friend, brother, character, deep, emotions,
Form:
Epic
Chapter 16 -- Damian Hakim Polly Dolly and Molly: Damian's Plans and Family TimeMarch 2026
The final weeks of the CCC plan:
Damian and Polly planned the
Copy Cat Club convergence with
Molly and Dolly. The meet was postponed
A few times until everything was set.
Damian and Dolly knew one another...
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Categories:
til now, allusion, best friend,
Form:
Alliteration
Please Consider Those Who - Not By Choice - Are Living Alone - 2nd ThirdThis is the 2nd THIRD of my 3-part poem - see Mark Stellinga on Poetry Soup for the other 2 THIRDS - couldn't be helped.
“What about neighbors,” I carefully pried...“do any of them check on...
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Categories:
til now, love, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
The JourneyOnce upon a weedy lawn
At Cedar Oaks Retirement Home
There sat my mother, weak and old
On an afghan knit to block the cold.
It was summer, but in mom's grey eyes
Was winter, when all around us dies.
I...
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Categories:
til now, appreciation, child, daughter, devotion, family, forgiveness, mom,
Form:
Rhyme
Sins of Supreme SuppressionNot to play any blame game,
in this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language Enculturation
long become YangDominant associated
with 'civilization',
co-arising anthro-centrism,
including Earth's newer history
of revolution by Empirical Elitism.
Processes of empirical empire supremacy,
kill or be killed,
became not really...
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Categories:
til now, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine ego quest for affaire d’amour;
her night-loving body
c h a...
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Categories:
til now, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery, love, lust, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
MEMORY THERAPY-You Have Entered the Twilight Zone Poetry Contest~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nick Tipton lived a quiet life,
west Kentucky, in rolling hills;
been farming there for ten years,
all according to his own will.
This simple life would’ve have kept on,
‘til one night, age thirty-three,
a nightmare burst into his mind,
so...
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Categories:
til now, memory, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
Oncle Albert - Part 1Here he stands, Edwardian vogue, sometimes with his spats,
sometimes with his brogues below his dungarees. With rounded collar points and tie, and jacket donned below this flying suit, his waste is tied with simple...
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Categories:
til now, flying, history,
Form:
Narrative
Old Man Crabb - Both Audio and TextSixty some odd years ago, when I was just a kid, our home was on the very edge of town.
The man that lived next door to us - a Mr. - O. M. Crabb -...
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Categories:
til now, inspirational,
Form:
Narrative
4 More Poems About Poetry - BWho hasn't this nightmare of forgetting an inspirational word or phrase happened to?
...
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Categories:
til now, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Reveren' Carlton Whitney - Both Audio and TextReveren’ Carlton Whitney was the pastor of our church, and someone I looked up to as a child.
Six foot six, with piercing eyes, a booming voice, and yet…his disposition, thankfully - was mild.
The very...
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Categories:
til now, character, uplifting,
Form:
Narrative
Thelma Lou - Both Audio and TextThe biggest funeral I've ever attended...
Thelma was a waitress at the diner on the corner of 4th and Oak, across from Ron’s DX, in Abilene.
They had an old brass register that rang when it was...
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Categories:
til now, heart, love, memory,
Form:
Narrative
Memories In the SandIf ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...
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Categories:
til now, memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
10 Poems About PoetryBeing a “Poet” Can Be Painful!
I’ve likely told you, more than once, that poetry can be painful, and whined about the need for penning verse
That stems from deep inside my soul...fashions every word...and has become,...
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Categories:
til now, poetry,
Form:
Verse
How I Got Richer and What I Did NextHow I Got Richer and What I Did Next
I struck a sly deal with some Wall Street investors.
I shorted 'em stocks that didn't exist!
But they got me back (those post-empty-nesters)
by making fake deals I couldn't...
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Categories:
til now, allegory, funny, heaven, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Tail Spin, RevisedThis page shows my writing process and is part of Poetrysoup's first workshop. The workshop's intent is to reveal how revision strengthens a poem. Constructive feedback can be a gift. Should any journal...
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Categories:
til now, courage, fear, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Tiny Town Events - 1st Half -- Text With IllustrationNOTE: THIS IS ONLY THE 1st half of this piece-- its 2nd half is posted separately due to Poetry Soup's poem-lengths-limitation. Be sure to check out the balance of this poem = "Tiny Town Events"...
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Categories:
til now, love,
Form:
Narrative
Xenophobia Pt 1TITLE:
Xenophobia
Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings
They're bound to be a bit tart...
Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...
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Categories:
til now, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form:
Lyric
My Corporate Life and How It All EndedI met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
til now, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet