Long Unappreciative Poems

Some children come into the school building dancing, singing, hopping, bursting with uninhibited glee.
They exchange giddy, happy stories about their day at the mall, dropping name brand names,
Showing off their glittery light-up shoes, and light...

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why are we here my friend? 

----(a soft growl came upon the wind of his exhale and he saw his own face, and gave a knowing grin akin to our softening skin) ---- 

why do...

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The Old Lady In The Shoe
November 22, 2013 at 5:57pm
Dedicated to all my children around the world;
 
The big and small of it.
Some appreciate the little
things that encourages
them to do big stuff.
 
Some  won't...

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WHY WOMEN ARE COMPLEX
 
 
Women are emotional by nature , they like or love with all their might.When she likes or loves a guy, they do it with all their Breath. Here are things us guys...

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I Could Have Been
By Franklin Price
Ediited 6/22/2017
(originally written 6/22/2014)

I could have been a lot of things I'm really glad I'm not;
A liar and a cheater, a druggie or a sot
A selfish inconsiderate, treating others quite...

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I Could Have Been
By Franklin Price
6/22/2014

I could have been a lot of things I'm really glad I'm not
A liar and a cheater a druggie and a sot
A selfish inconsiderate treating others quite unfair
Looking down from...

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The Best Thing You Had...
May 27, 2013 

"Frankly Speaking" I can't hide my kindness? My exterior says tough; Yet, for some reason you looked right pass that!
 I did not intend to care-or to love...

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Myopic Discovery Tool

…Strong orchestrated introduction builds to a crescendo....

An artist gifted with a loving partner, for with which she did not seize the day and use each possible moment to cherish and strengthen all the...

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I spoke to the universe and calmly said 
That I wanted a marriage. I wanted to wed
So I was sent to Johannesburg and into a monster's bed
Where God taught me a lesson of life instead...

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Dear Dr Diagnosis,

Thank you for your concern and attempt to put me back together.
It isn't that I am unappreciative of your labors in fact I've rather enjoyed our talks,though sometimes they were quite painful.I concluded...

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I originally wrote “Remembering Memorial” on 24 May 2020.  Thinking I was through, I posted it on Facebook, Poetry Soup and e-mailed it to friends. When I awoke, this Memorial Day morning (25 May...

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Verse 1)
Take a look around 
What do you see
A world that's crumbling
People not trying to help
All for themselves 
No longer listening
We think we know it all
To much pride
To except advice 
It's not a game 
Nobody's...

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The night is cold, awaiting the early light of dawn
My body shivers, my feet like ice, I long for sleep but it does not come 
Like so many lonely hours in the darkness
The ache of...

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I wonder if she knows I cry myself to sleep!
That, every second that passed; I continued to get weak.
Or that the nightmare wakes me up; screaming out her name…
That I feel I’m lost here, although...

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he’s been with her for 4 years,
having knocked her up the first night
they did the deed &
she had 2 kids by 2 other fathers
prior to that hot & steamy
moment,
some time after work
where they had met...

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A fire blazes behind the veil 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This veil I wear
is not made of cloth
for no fabric could withstand
the incendiary passion
I command

It's self-imposed
not forced
no man's hand
would dare cover me
yet here I am
swathed in these layers...
folds of...

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If scorn were tangible, my neighbors' feelings 
would be fiery red. Through my window, I just 
saw them pass by. Seeing me, they quickly looked 
away, as if my brief gaze could be fatal. What...

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Boundless inkiness
Set colourfully ablaze as lightning thoughts
Burst through the intricate maze of grey
Eyes opened, shimmering with fragments of imagination
Overwhelmed with bubbling awe-struck wonder

A glimpse of a creature of imperceptible beauty
Rising from the shadowy ashes of...

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By his hand was grown a forest
trees aligned as fence posts
trunks accentuated lavender and blue, 
but not as a spruce
and purple strokes, not disguised as prose
in a woodland cut short in proportion
somewhat a distortion of...

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My youth was too brief
and whenever I felt distraught, 
I clutched my belief:
to give faith a defined worth;
free, but not truly liberated
as a wandering soul in exile:
reminding itself of how it inwardly bled
amid thoughts that...

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We hurtle down the last few hundred feet 
of steep lavender lined cobbled slope 
shaded by majestic umbrella pines - around
a last hairpin turn and there they are:

The blue-white Pampelonne beaches, of St Tropez.
Their indecent...

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Written: September 19, 2023
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In a world where gratitude often fades,
And thankfulness is lost in the haze,
Let us appreciate the gleam and sheen,
Of the amber sun in the sky's iridescent scene.

For the unappreciative, the ingrate 
Who...

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Thankful
Yet unappreciative
Perhaps I have been given too much
My mind encased
Out of touch
Expecting more
I need one but grab all four
Exceptional has become ho hum
I'm marching to a muted drum
Forgetting who I am and where I'm from
My...

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It's fearful to think
that your last moment has come,
and like a pen out of ink...
it stops when a word needs to rhyme.


Keep off the edge at any cost, death waits avidly
for another victim to be...

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In these precarious times,
I would be most unappreciative
not to give thanks to God
for what remains of goodness in the world:
the love and support of family and friends,
the kindness of strangers,
and the bounties of the earth...

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