Long Toe the line Poems
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FinalityCloser to the edge I walk
Closer to my mind I reach
Everything that has been foggy
Clears up In a blinding screech.
Am I worth something?
Will I be worth anything?
Why am I alive?
Why do I breathe?
I toe the...
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Categories:
toe the line, angst, dance, dark, death, depression, identity, lonely,
Form:
Free verse
Quality CultureA
Desire
For Good
For Order
For Equalities
Humans have lately drawn
Devised - A “Quality Culture”
Now there is A Crack in the structure
Hacked Humans. Statistics...
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Categories:
toe the line, culture, technology,
Form:
Concrete
Memo To All Journos - BuzzwordsA poet's work [like journalists] is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, to start arguments, to shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. - Salman Rushdie
Don’t think...
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Categories:
toe the line, humorous, poets,
Form:
Couplet
A Come Down World View From On Highsome-tin-can-tan-man
playing in the sand
with paper tigers
a bear with many tentacles
red everywhere
in the skies
clouds streaming down
hispeed downsload online power lines
pavement-red trees ripe for slicing
and many motored mobiles moving
i...
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Categories:
toe the line, parody, passion, political, social, lost, lost, may,
Form:
Free verse
A Lament For HumanityWhere to go, when your heart is torn in two?
When the sky is dark and very far from blue...
When fear runs all nations totally blind.
By insane leaders, not right in their mind?
Mental illness is our...
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Categories:
toe the line, corruption, dark, history, humanity, passion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
It's Time We Had a PartyIt's Time We Had A Party
By Franklin Price
8/4/2017
It's time we had a party, threw the tea into the bay.
I'm only speaking figuratively, this is what I have to say.
The Sons of Liberty arose when...
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Categories:
toe the line, hope, how i feel, political, rights,
Form:
Couplet
Concrete CowboyHe was born too late to be,
What he knows he is in his soul,
And though he’s quite accomplished,
Sometimes he doesn’t feel quite whole.
He’s a lawman of sorts,...
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Categories:
toe the line, cowboy-western, faith, life, people, time, time,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Sharing Success.Adrenaline pumping.......heart thumping
I toe the line.......must do this in record time.
Glancing, glaring ,got to do it right.
Acetone smells........others panting ,
chests expanding, shrewd eyes
stare at this champion standing.
Waiting, watching as the gun...
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Categories:
toe the line, peace, race,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Debate of Trump and BidenThe Last Debate of Trump and Biden
10/22/2020
By Franklin Price
written - 10/23/ 2020
The last debate of Trump and Biden
Neither one of them in hidin'
Both came to the stage to have their say
To tout what they were...
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Categories:
toe the line, america, political,
Form:
Rhyme
Pushy ParentingYou create them
You give birth to them
You nurture them
You raise them
All the while seeking to rearrange them
For you insist on always owning them
Kids are forever
Children are our saviour
Dynasties become prolonged
It is never best to have...
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Categories:
toe the line, abuse, betrayal, children, dedication, depression, identity, power,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
toe the line, 10th grade, america, freedom, patriotic, philosophy, political,
Form:
Rhyme
King 'Enry the ViiithKing 'Enry of The 'Ouse of Tudor ruled merrie olde England, the mighty and the meek.
'E was quite obese in 'is elder years and threw 'is weight around - so to speak!
'E governed from 1509...
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Categories:
toe the line, funnyengland,
Form:
Rhyme
That's the Way It IsThat’s the way it is…
I drive across 3 counties for work every day.
I count the Confederate flags along the way.
That has always been so puzzling to me,
Why would you fly the flag of the loser?
When...
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Categories:
toe the line, america, change,
Form:
Free verse
The PreambleThe Preamble
By Franklin Price
12/13/2020
The Constitution is the U.S.A. It is our Federal pact.
Says how our country's organized; defines how we should act.
Preamble to it, sets it up, shows us all the reasons why
it was written...
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Categories:
toe the line, abuse, america, political,
Form:
Couplet
My Ten Grands and MoreOne of my grandsons, name of Benjamin
He likes eating toast made with cinnamon
But uses his wits
To not eat his grits
Then excuses himself like a gentleman
Charlie thrives on competition
Out smarting you is his mission
Bear hugs
Tiny bugs,...
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Categories:
toe the line, familyme,
Form:
Limerick
Est Est Est, Part 2 of 2"Just take this chalk," (so went his talk,
to servants sent before):
"And do not balk. When you uncork
good liquor, mark the door."
This way, the churchman planned to pass,
when pausing for a...
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Categories:
toe the line, humorous,
Form:
Quatrain
Blinded By Tears Or Ignorancehttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/shankmrbob/00290-24.jpg
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thoughts of emotional detachment
yet I'm so happy that I cried
how selfish of me
to take joy in sadness
their eyes filled with hope
the sparkle fading fast
like yesterdays dream of bread
or of a loving hug
maybe...
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Categories:
toe the line, life, people, sad, joy,
Form:
Free verse
Yea Baby On a Universal Scalerole and On Its Entity, U Know the RestHi keep me in your visage,
keep me in your sociostew
quote me in a passage
or hey, F U
themes, ideas, sonnets,
mambypamby contrivances set to words
tell me your thoughts are merely
terds. No creativity, stilitd patterns,
prose passivity...
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Categories:
toe the line, betrayal, corruption, education, future, love, parents, son,
Form:
Free verse
CompassesA compass is an instrument that guides.
Using this technology the ancients followed the stars outside.
We as Christians in this world have lost our moral compass.
Teaching vulgar subjects in schools, our true faith is in the...
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Categories:
toe the line, faith, father, god, world, lost, faith, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Undo the ChoiceI just dreamt I needed to read the poem "Darklessness"
It's makes no sense now
As I slept I was troubled
The resolve called into question over and over
"What you need to understand is..."
I've always got it wrong...
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Categories:
toe the line, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
She Done Me WrongEvery time I turn the radio on I hear a feller's plaintive song,
About his achin' heart and how his woman done him wrong!
How they once held each other close beneath the harvest moon;
Now, he sits...
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Categories:
toe the line, funny, lost loveheart, woman, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
Double Trouble Preacher's TwinsAs preacher’s daughters we had to toe the line,
But sometimes our halo slipped and we weren’t too divine.
When my twin sister and I were 15 we rebelled against the rules,
And pulled a fast one on...
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Categories:
toe the line, father, funny, humorous, religious, sister, teenage,
Form:
Narrative
Appendagethe martyrs' dream remains unfulfilled,
we race toward immortality,
not having learned to live,
searching for succinct sentiments,
find only engineered impediments,
more to being than just becoming,
...
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Categories:
toe the line, motivation, peace, philosophy, religious, spiritual, truth, word
Form:
Free verse
Days of Old
A long time ago in those days of old,
there was one thing we were supposed to do.
They scribbled it down in letters of gold,
treat others as you would have them treat you.’
We are supposed to...
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Categories:
toe the line, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
I Won'T LieI shot you in the eye still you won't lie down and die ( jus die cos I say so)
I made the rules to say what's cool
but your ruse is to be cool outside...
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Categories:
toe the line, conflict, emotions, feelings, funny, humanity, introspection,
Form:
I do not know?