Long Unclasp Poems

The 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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Roaring engines, wheels on tarmac
Flight 82 is running late
Pilots push the throttle forward
Flight 82 disappears into the black

The nose rises, the speed quickens
G-forces push you through your seat
Inkiness outside the windows thickens
The planes’ destination silently...

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Ton nom - New English Translation of Amel Bent's song "Your Name" by T. Wignesan

Je me raccroche aux détails du passé
Details of our past I cannot unclasp 
?Nos souvenirs le sourire aux lèvres
A smile steals...

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We have exchanged few words today for I know you have the need to problem solve, fire watch deep in your mental cave. 
 
I shut my eyes,  to take in the atmosphere, there...

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- continued from Part 2

I Am Making More Profits
Than An Open Window Can Scope!
But More Importantly
Than Any Viable Earnings Can Invoke …
Lovely … I Am Sending Valuable-Love
… Inside This Envelope

(Isa. 54: 11, 12)
Yes, Lovely …...

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I  cannot wait any longer.
Hearing your screams will not suffice.
I must see your pain.
I must see your blood.

A single dirty bulb flickers to life
Hanging from a rusted chain
Beneath a water-stained ceiling.
Its dim light finally...

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Paradise, the only word that can encapsulate the emotion felt while looking into her eyes. 
Her soft, gentle hands intertwined with mine; truly the epitome of glorious bliss. 
Her angelic poise beckons my awe, proving,...

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Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self. Norman Vincent Peale

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Three

Note:  I do hope it’s clear to readers by now that – strictly speaking – in these ruba’iyat, I deviate from the original Persian medieval model, introduced...

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MY BEAUTY
Piece by piece
I will remove them
I will undo them now.
I will undress now
Like the stripper you wish me to be
I will throw them at you
Daring you to grab them
Measuring how vast your desire is
Seeing...

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Waiting Room
                by Odin Roark

One’s special space
Where chin resting
Upon knees tucked
Arms wrapped tight
To be the ball we wish to be

How...

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There she is, makeup layered on, like the sunblock you wear each and every day. Dress resolutely winking your way, pulling you closer, for she's the flower and your the bee, attracted to her imbuing...

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Written: May 10, 2024, For Jay Narain Summer Contest

Rumi Quote: Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder
            ...

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The thought of endless is so hard to grasp;
   we live on Earth where most things are finite.
Ideas of boundaries, minds must unclasp-
   can't vision an unbroken, boundless sight.

We live on...

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The Picture

Where should I put the picture
It’s the last one that we took
Like a flower that I long to cherish
Should I place it in a book
Then one day when it’s raining
I’ll take out that book...

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I have chosen You.
Sweet and handsome mortal, come to me…

Whisper to me your longings, 
and I shall tickle your ear with my saccharine breath.
I shall take you to places 
where only gods and goddesses roam.

Aware...

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It has taken me time to get to here,
a journey of pieces, fragments I grasp;
I have climbed up life's mountain-  every tier !

Good morals, values and wisdom - I clasp,
I now have perception...

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Written: June 17, 2023
 
In a world where shades ooze and swirl.
Wherever fear spreads its nasty curl,
Dread covers the world in an icy grasp.
And bleak stories that often unclasp. 

As moonlight weaves a haunting tune,
Tangled threads...

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I see you with her
and I know from your eyes
your vision whirled
You hold her hand
and when our gaze met
you unclasp it
No need to hide honey
I know we expired
I thought at first
Time would make us wine
But...

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MINDFULNESS

      Monitor mind magnificently on meditation
      Inspire intensive intrinsic innate inherent introspection.
      Concentrate conscience on deep careful contemplation.
  ...

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Stay elusive shade
of my beloved
I wish to caress
the rounded hills
of your form...

My hands seek
the fertile valleys
entangled in gentle branches
green and cool
that are you...

You, silent giver
of secret worlds
sweet love of non-illusion
hands of tender leaves...

With obedience of...

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I want to say good-bye and rip this net between us.
 It's nothing but a mess brought with a stars we shared.
 That melody you put directly to my heart,
 This song is all about...

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I

The metallic clunk
of intervals between voices -
cognizant cogs drive fluctuations
like ducks crossing a road.

I tilt away from
the coils of your being,
your sounding.
I see you speaking,
twirling
like a spinning six pence
in the rush of
on-coming traffic.

II

Together, we want
the...

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At my mother's hospital deathbed,
w a i t i n g   for her final gasp;
breathing death with unfathomable dread,
tasting it-  with each rasp.
Praying for mother's  ETERNAL  rest.
To lips a kiss...

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These shards of bitterness, they sting
a shielded moon in hiding
for I have nothing left to bring
but for this fear abiding
when it’s the fear deciding

hold it tightly in my grasp
this brittleness of pain’s embrace
refuse to let...

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