Long Unrepairable Poems

I feel rather empty…
Flushed, confused, free me?
I’m feeling kinda dirty
To be honest, I’m fake happy

Wearing a smile like the rest of us
But, there’s a million rivers and fires between us
So, don’t throw me under the...

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Carmel-By-The-Sea, CA is 114 miles from my home in San Francisco. It's home to my friend Jane (a former fellow worker) she now finds California's central coastline to be the next best place to live.

She's...

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(this is another throw-back - a piece of writing, from high school, used in my Yale applications)

I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.

The sun finally rises and its rays slantwise...

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This poem was submitted for a work competition at CEX

Twas the first day of CeXmas, and all through the land
The taverns were a buzz as grog was in hand,
Participants were giddy about the quests they...

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A train door closes packed with passengers.

Destinations being most different than others.

Typical light touches, embarrassing rubbing,
Lastly, the ever so bothersome nudging.

Unfinished conversations, from platform
Carries on within the overcrowded train.

Yapping and gabbing, defined as gossiping,
Amidst disgruntled...

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Funny how a path can lead you to the truth when you least expect it.
Life’s crazy way of leading the blind to what they choose not to see.
What stubborn hearts won’t let us hear when...

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It shreds me when released, then bursts into confetti.
Words are papier-mâché, articles of all of us, tabloids torn apart then glued
back together piece by piece. 
Playing pretend made a masterpiece that will be gone before
that...

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everynight haunted by the pictures
my life now a repeat of the scriptures
close my eyes its too real im fallin deeper
emotions too famailar to me 
panicing, heart off beat
nauseous, cramping, can't even eat
its too real it...

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I pound the pillow, curse the clock and mock injunctions to rest.

The sun finally rises and its rays slantwise fall through the curtains as I dry my hair.

A meal, like a forced dose, we soak...

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Quest the shove your fate, my mate.
With the advice of the dough of joy sate,
To coincidentally run into one's soulmate.
In the way of other options, we baste.

Though worries were springing up thus briskly,
Settle on the...

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And you didn’t make me 
I formed myself 
From the periodic table 
with a little help 
You added slurs and 
blackened my milk 
Turned me into a scapegoat 
and my flesh to filth

And you never...

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Wounded Earth


we did a big deal to destroy your dear earth
coming from a broken heart for you 
letting you to melt in our quest of unending race
making you more sick and week


asking for forgiveness would...

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It's okay 
It's okay Not to be Okay
It's okay to feel frozen in the midst,
To feel trapped in the storm,
It's okay to feel struck by a thunder
To feel broken and unrepairable.

It's okay
It's okay to feel...

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It's just a small crack
 much like the one in the Old Liberty Bell
but here it is again growing,
 in the torch of Lady Liberty's hand;
like any crack first made
 it tends to grow and...

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Like antique china that slips through clumsy fingertips 
Shattered into tiny fragments
Unrepairable, unreplaceable
A blameless mistake 
It's beauty disintegrates 
Never to be appreciated again
By future enthusiasts

Like a daisy tweaked from the vast landscape
Once admired by all...

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If Only…I Wish…Maybe…

If only…
Shards of shame
Lay splintered
In unresolved pieces –
Bits of crystal intentions
Unrepairable…

I wish…
Minutes of regret
Not revived – 
Living unreachable 
In lifeless echoes sighing
No resuscitation…

Why…
In a whirlwind
A tornado
Uproots shallow graves 
Screams at the unknowable
Unanswered…

Yeah but…
Expletives...

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Once I held you close
My dear sweet loveless soul
So rigid cold jagged your
Edges left unrepairable scars
Tears caress my cheeks
Lingering in the fine lines
Of age so dimly left by time
But it was always you 
Every dream...

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Being hurt is being human, now I know
been blind all this while, this I never saw
Inside a bottle I am placed,I am controlled
A sad story of love told, I am duped.
Never going back, this is...

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Tears fallen in solemn places
With questions why you left,
Even with the threats
Why didn’t you fight for the most important part of your life?
A mystery remains
Brewing in lonely corners
Familiar to that very deep loss
Unrepairable
Dividing the soul...

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Presidential Debating
By Franklin Price
9/2/2016

Presidential debating 
Will be a little strange
Only two to listen to
Not many to arrange

Just Hillary and Donald
Throwing lefts and rights
The only ones left standing
After the preliminary fights

We the people will be lucky
If...

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Born and raised in you
You, I heard in my dreams
Dreams made me live you alive
Alive, you were all of me

I walked and slept in you
You were my sun and my rain
Rain filled up and down...

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The day you took your life,
You destroyed our family.
Unrepairable damage, 
You couldn’t possibly foresee.
But you were caught up in your own pain,
And you needed it to cease.
So, you went for the immediate fix.
And with a...

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