Long Whens Poems

Twenty two years had passed  by

She blinked, and a lifetime had passed

She started this job as a lark

She never thought it would last

Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar

The husbands...her clients all...

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In the blackness of night, stars of wonder, so gloriously bright;
With our God-given eyes, terrestrial wonders for us to see.
With these words, may there be a most vivid portrait of:

A beautiful universe whose vastness is...

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She was a Sumptuous Blossom...
That was born out of a Winter's Spring
Her face was framed by Glorious Red
Her eyes were the Bluest Diamonds
That the World had ever seen.

She was born with an innate Attitude
That life...

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Light my world with fantisies
For there shall be a day in a life 
Where the stars smile so bright 
cause I see your smile 
and I know my day will be all right 

cause your...

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I leave little Breadcrumbs...
Scattered here and there...
Sometimes left as obvious
Sometimes left without a care.

Clues to what I think about
Clues to where I've been
Clues to where I used to live
Clues to former sins.

Clues to all the...

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Smoking and drinking what the hell were u thinking ? 
Theres No food on the table , the lights always blinking 
We ain't got cable 
I thought we were stable, now They want us out...

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When you're all confused and wonder what there is to make of life,
When you have a lot of trouble and are left with pain and strife,
When your world is turning crazy and you want to...

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When I value your free speech as much as my own,                        ...

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Barbara Ione Popovits
By Franklin Price
02/15/2022

Barbara Ione Popovits was her given maiden name
When we said “I do's”, and married, it would never be the same.

If you're wondering, who I am, I am Franklin Arthur Price
Writing this...

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Where is our new beginning?
Where is the end to my difficult ending?
I can't believe this is happening
Being with someone that understands
Becoming part of an underestimating land
Your calm waves change my heart
Being with you and never...

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Knowshow

All nodes firing all the time
Shine on—the glare focusing the hacks
Everything shown
Everything known				
Metamalice is good to go
It’s the Knowshow
		
The devolving snarkyskanks are trickling it to the remember-whens
Viral krankdaddies are upsiding leveraged retro to the never-thens
Bouce...

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I looked at my owl cup and this dribbled off my pen:

 

                      ...

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Did we give it a fair chance 
Did we just hold hands 
And shared a dance 
Did we ever feel
That what we had was real 
Did you ever stop and think 
Or retrack 
That I...

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I think that it's easier to go forward if on occasions one recalls back THEN,
A simpler place and time, an era, a period, a generation of 'remember WHENS'. We start our stories with the likes...

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We're Headed Down a Different Road
By Franklin Price
5/6/2016

We're headed down a different road
Could be either good or bad
The times are so much different now
Than the “remember whens” we had

Values that we had back then
Being challenged...

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Frustration fills the mind of a broken hearted woman…
It kills me inside to know that we had this fight; I should have kept quiet…
The damaging words I said to you will scar me for life…
I...

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I like to complain about being locked in 
I like to nag about my freedom 
About how much I have lost the illusion of control over things. Over me. 
I was scared. I was afraid...

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Emma why cant you come hang with me.
We can have fun youll see.
You never have had a drink.
To ease the pain and keep you off the brink.
Ill throw a massive party with lights.
The night sky...

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Soliders overseas in Iraq
Many lost their freedom
Cause they lost their lives

Families over here in America 
Angry about that
No words to spreak to apoligize for that

Hey whens this gonna end
Whens enough blood gonna shed
Whats it gonna...

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tryptophan fills my veins,
lost in lingering lullabies-

i sort out what used to be mine
he was enchanting with evocative eyes,
feverish in tantalizing touches;
a fraction of forgiveness without
atonement made me weak-
and i am left
BREATHLESS

but

i am placid and...

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High on We
High on kisses on my neck 
and the psychotropic affect of the breeze
High on the rhythm of breathing 
Catching rays of knowledge
Sun shining....my mind is

High on words alone
Filling paper with messages 
that set...

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One look in your eyes and I felt like flying,
Boy, now you have me denying,
That you're gone,
We were wrong,
It was never gonna last forever.

It took me this long to feel okay again,
To forget about all...

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I open the bottle and sit here alone 
just trying to find words that rhyme.
But the words seem to pass, so I pick up my glass 
and drink of the poets' wine.
All my tomorrows and...

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Consuming Failure


Pay heed the dancing chickens hot plate feet
lest you believe the music makes him strut
outrunning death by curried peppers sweet

the cooling of the iron his sole treat
keep moving to avoid the final cut
pay heed...

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I can't make you love me
So I guess I'll let you be,
They say if you love something set it free,
But all I want is for you to see
And to come back to me.

It's gotten harder...

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