Long Uninvolved Poems

"Resolving Issues"

Should a problem arise between you and another one,
Handle it maturely with them before you jump the gun.
Take the subject up with the other one affected,
Not with other people while the right one is...

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They fled their land to find safety
instead, they found
cruel life wherever they lived
They've lost everything
because they're that way
Their aspirations crumbled
and they lost all their aspirations.

Something I strive
to be among the shattered
in honor of the broken
Thinking...

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CLOSED EYES

For a false peace of mind, to what degree, 
will closed eyes spare oneself to see?

A desperate man breaking in, 
Doors are closed in his face,
Qualified but denied, for his ethnic race.

Silent cries of...

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I’m in the kitchen at Lisa’s. Her little sister Leeza enters, her pale, freckled face redder than usual. “Liza is the bossiest sister..,” Leeza says, slamming the cupboard door after grabbing a box of Fruity-Pebbles-cereal...

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I’m enjoying spending time with my mom - we have an intimacy braided like rope. I forgot how funny she is. At the same time, we’ve been softcore arguing for days.

She wants me to accomplish...

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There was a place, supposedly, that was my home.
I was born and grew up in that Southern place.
My family was great, but that place, not so much.
I heard it said that home is where your...

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Temerity has become the greed-follicles that puncture peacefulness in human life.
Extruding tangled spires across the earthen lands like trees ready to fall and crush.
Power seekers boldly trample upon the complacent, seldom knowing meekness.
Tromping over the...

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Said to have been the birthplace of man
a sacred place of mystery
Where ethnics inhabited its land
since the beginning of history
Beating drums and rhythmic flames
would echo beating heart
Where man, beast and lushes plains
formed an ongoing work...

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REMEMBER 
          My love.                    Find your strength,...

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May you gently tender whatever surrounding you
As your mother tenders you  

May you generously give whoever in want 
As you are given by beloved ones 

May you patiently enlighten whoever innocently unaware  
As...

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May you gently tender whatever surrounding you
As your mother tenders you  

May you generously give whoever in want 
As you are given by beloved ones 

May you patiently enlighten whoever innocently unaware  
As...

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I wish
I were a cold, cold lifeless stone
when crushed by a careless trudging foot
no pain bemoans.

I wish
I were a nebulous cloud
the playful wind bungles round around
now lady-like floats
then ghost-like bloats
unharmed by its might.

I wish
I were...

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She spoke surly 
knowing both sides of the story 
my side had been spoken for me 
I did not look good or sporting 
this is why she didn’t support me 
I asked her what do...

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another fruitless day
alas, a buck unearned
uninvolved in the fray
nary a lesson learned

o time, where hast thou gone
where's the spring of my life
whence lovers embraced none
daily struggling in the strife

where, the hours in their haste
have transpired...

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Voting
By Franklin Price
6/30/2015

Voting is the best of ways
to say what's on your mind.
If you don't go to the polls,
what you have is what you find.
 
A government elected
not by majority, 
but by the few who...

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A family unit
Life long question
Disregard, a norm
Unconditional, nonexistent
Self-esteem, stifled
Integrity, love?
Please elucidate.

Meager guidance
Rebellious, self-destructive
Ire & lost
Brought Angels of revision.
Sequence interrupted
Anger, selfishness depleated
Former entities
Uninvolved in revolution
Ratification?
Only repudation.

Continuous exertion
Acknowledgment anticipated
Disillusion
Weary heart
Long impending conciousness...
* Love does not derive from...

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Career in crisis
Starlets arrested
Stupidity attracts
Media attention.

I used to read the news
And watch TV
Now I skim the ads
And close my eyes
Because I know
Everyone is someone else’s fool.

Iraq is burning
Politicians debate
Young solders die
And citizens go about
Their lives
Unconnected
Uninvolved
In...

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The voice that commanded us
Admonished us and rebuked
Is so feeble
The arms that comforted us 
Now need to be comforted
The gait is not straight
Needs a walker for support 
Where is all that poise!
Unable to speak
Only your...

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