Long Weathermen Poems

_ a symphonic, folk rock, blues song
1.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm looking in the places
Where the people say love...

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Irma Sunday Evening
By Franklin Price
9/10/2017 -  6:22PM

For six hours we've been watching
The eye of Irma twitch
As the winds and rains around it
Are making life a bitch

Since I last wrote her actions
She has twice come...

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To predict the weather do we need a meteorologist?
Not here, although this method by some is dismissed
Maybe not so scientific but time tested and long lasting
Welcome to the prairies and pig spleen forecasting
Call your nearest...

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Yesterday as the sun was rising on our walk…what should catch our eye….but one humongous…elongated white feather…stretching across the sky.

Our weatherman is quick to inform us…that it’s a cirrus cloud and in it we will...

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Into a place inside the mind
Rivers flowing cascades of time
Violent winds
Melting rhymes

See a colour before my eyes
A song playing softly
The multitudes cried
As a baby was born


My friend died
Because of Viet Nam
People cried
But nobody heard


We saw...

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I'm dreamin' of a dry Christmas
just like ones I use to know
where weathermen announce, all use our bypass
where you may go, all clear of night's white snow
I'm a deamin' of a dry Christmas,
just like ones...

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Rainy and dreary with clouds overhead
Easy to start feeling down
But pull yourself up by the boot straps
Wipe off that ugly frown

When weathermen frown, smile right back
It'll chase all those blues away
No one can tell you...

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It’s rained ‘most every day this week – 
Good news for all the flowers.
We can’t complain, ‘cause weather’s whims
Are not within our powers.

Umbrella sellers have been pleased
And stores which peddle boots;
Perhaps they and the weather...

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Squalls in the head, the weather of observation.
Dreadful matters that may erase edification.
Thus, every prognosis is begotten in that way.
To dwell on the bewildered during the day.

The visible image appends our worms.
Weathermen may warn of...

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Winter Woes

There is snow and more snow and more on the way
As weathermen take over the networks today
There is a blizzard on the way
So the weathermen say
Excited to scare us today	
The winds growl and whip
As...

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The storm was called historic
Before it even hit,
The weathermen euphoric,
As reports they did submit.

They closed the subways and the schools;
Prevented cars from driving.
The pols used all their lofty tools
For snow not yet arriving.

The Broadway theaters...

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Water’s wet, the yard’s not yet,
but I’ll bet the sprinkler’s set.
Right as rain, here goes again,
clouds containing deluge drains.
Car’s just clean, and man, I mean
they prance, preen, and soak the scene.
Wonder why weathermen weep?


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A short...

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Going to a wedding - 
We will watch them tie the knot.
It’s nice to know that younger folk
Still give this thing a shot.

I’ll get myself all gussied up 
(That word is proof I’m old),
Although I’m...

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My plant by the window is drooping;
Don’t know if it’s thirsty or cold.
In the mirror, my body is stooping,
More obvious as I grow old.

The radio needed replacing;
The static was driving us nuts.
The search for a...

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Out for dinner – forecast: rain.
Sat outside, a bit insane.
Every outdoor table filled – 
People chatted, laughter trilled.

Got our drinks – the sky grew dark;
Weathermen were on the mark.
Soon came thunder, also lightning,
Which was just...

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The word is out – the snow will come,
The inches still in question.
Make sure you’ve stocked up all your shelves!
(Of course, just a suggestion.)

The hype’s begun; to ratchet fear
Some rules have been suspended
So you may...

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Outside in the winter cold?
Remember to wrap up, keep warm.
If you have a horse, keep it warm, be told!
Intentions, empathy for the needy, make it your norm,
greater now for the homeless, who think they're being...

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