Long Uphill battle Poems

Good morning from the ascending light 
Good night from the descending night 

I'm sorry, darling of past glee
I'm not sorry that we were together and happy

I'm a house and you're the ground
I'm the mouse, caught...

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Here's why this is necessary...

   This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations. No other...

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That is your job, the mama tells us at school.
We feed her child breakfast, lunch, and an after school snack free of charge.
We give her child a safe place to be, while she has seven...

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Ready set go, pick yourself up off of that floor
Because you probably drank to much the night before
You have an alcohol problem you can't ignore

Put your pants on one leg at a time 
Now make...

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The day had dawned with the sunrays pouring through my window,
I saw myself scratching my head,
Since the number of gripping ideas in my brain amounted to zero.

I had been asked to compose something-- which will...

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My heart is pounding in my chest real loud
The moment we met eye to eye in a crowd 
Expressing myself in bizarre ways you don't understand 
Obsessing with the past and I've lost my head...

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It's when aristocracy begins to feel like a mid-uphill battle
It's when the armageddon features evil on both sides 
and,
the good are speculating from the auditorium
It's when a 10year old is ducking depleted uranium in Benghazi
It's...

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The Last Debate is Over
By Franklin Price
10/20/2016

The last debate is over, and here I am once more,
Doing my due diligence to try to show the score.
Don't think either candidate hit the ball out of the...

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Land of the free
Home of the slaves
The blood, sweat and tears of my ancestors resonate
Amongst the soil where they were slain
I’m hearing their struggle
I’m feeling their pain
I can’t imagine being forced to part from my...

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My life as I see it wasn’t easy, but I didn’t have it that rough,

I got my share of breaks, but it was virtually an uphill fight,

There were nights when the moon shirked its duties...

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It All Started May 2, 1975
The Day This Man 
Took This Woman
To Be His Lawfully Wedded Wife
 
They Saw Their Share Of Struggles,Grief, Hardships,and Strife
But Hand In Hand
They Faced The World
Together
This Man And His Wife
...

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We play, we stray, Life, many a doorway, all areas grey. A mystical array, along the way.

Along the way, to destiny we travel night and day. Sometimes predator, sometimes prey. life's a game? Is what...

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Take life for an escalator
Go both through its ups 
and downs
Ride it like on an elevator
Expect both smiles and 
frowns.

Take life for a suspense 
novel
you and I unaware what 
the next day will hold
Meditate and...

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Upside down and inside out 
I keep turning 
Not long ago I stopped believing
In myself
My mind keeps adding fuel to the fire
And the bottles been responsible
For the hit taken to my health

I'm a full time...

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She is a loving mother, 
 her pain is like no other.
Kids taken all at once away.
 A price too steep to have to pay.

Holds her head up high, 
 when all she wants to...

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Some days are a gloomy trek through an unbearably heavy heart. 
Every step taken is difficult,  and every breath seems like the world is working against me. 
I had the impression that I was...

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Courage is a quality that describes well this star who fought an uphill battle since childhood when abandoned by a mother suffering from mental issues, and later having to overcome sexual abuse in several foster...

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My life has been a neverending uphill battle
My travels have taken me far and wide
Its bends and dips drags me thru mud.
Many a night i have shivered and cried

A survivalist that meets every demand
I stumble...

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When you die how many people do you think you know will go to the funeral?
When a friend or a helpful hand is hard to come by can’t understand why we just numerals.
The fingers on...

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Each day I spend a little time with my friend Sisyphus in the morning,
He tries his best to give me advice or at least to offer up a warning.

He can tell by the way I...

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The world I see is blinding me
violence and hate surrounding me
pluck my eyes and make me deaf
then only may my faith be kept
I am losing hope for human kind
an uphill battle inside my mind
crazy... crazy......

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Sometimes it's so hard I think I can't deal
Ties have been cut and I can't break that seal
Feeling like I need that someone to show me
Guide my way to the new me

But only I can...

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I just want to write, just let the words pour out my brain,
Dissecting each word quickly to make sure I'm not insane

I break down my thinking often, some would call me anti-social,
I can't tell if...

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Here I go again
Same story, different day
Now I feel the rain
Washing my dreams away
This uphill battle has come to a hault
My legs go weak and I wilt under pressure
The enemy whispers it’s all my fault
Doubting...

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East St. Louis, IL
City of Champs

A city with untapped potential and mountains of hope,
A people with great dreams, reaching forward
Looking for ways to manage and cope.
From the outside looking in, it doesn’t appear to be...

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