Long Within reason Poems

The night Before Christmas Eve
By Franklin Price
12/17/2016


Prologue

The Night Before Christmas
A most famous of  poems
Read  to children aloud
By their parents in homes

To children who gather
'Round the brightly lit tree
To hear Santa is coming
Presents for...

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Sean McDougal is eight years old and has a special 'something' about him that is so endearing it's very difficult for me to deny him anything... well, anything within reason. He came up with the...

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Date:   September   2050

Warm end of summer night. Slight
Breeze a tease manageable season.
Pleasing and within reason. 
Molly  Dolly and Holly tended to
Their 4 months old infants with
 mother Daughtry.
While Damian, was...

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Things can be intimidating within this future of life as we know 
like a luring spiritual souls path intricately lingering
departing its everlasting glow 
Nullifying life’s hardships 
Prospering life’s greatness 
Alluring as my mindset is trying...

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Love?  But he always hurt you.  

Can’t leave the punk?  But he is abusive.  

In too deep?  Just leave him! 

Alone?  Isn’t that the best way to be? ...

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I’ve been stuck on the back of your mind for years
Trying to develop a pattern that is within your thought process
See you were my first project..
Not that I had any other options, but I was...

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PROUD OF MY SKIN

I didn't ask to be the color I am, I was born this way. Talk about it all you want it still ain't gonna change. 
I'm proud of my skin and even...

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XIII: Dreams and hopes...

Dreams and hopes will take new form
Sky's the limit, break the norm
The brain is sensible, follow it blind
Happiness will redefine, even if a different kind

But if I really ponder what that something...

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But who knows whose the leader of which or what tangents of mans divine plan 
of twisting and changing words and accusation of lies and liars
To look for those who synchronicity and dangerously know the...

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I waited too long
to mow my lawn
biopsy my lung
yet lived long enough, anon,
however long is long.
Whatever. It's not wrong
to count along
while busy living. Sing
and stay strong
absorb the sun's photons
and store them in your bones.

Those bones
outlast...

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Within reason
lies a house full of ordinary
a chest of bland memories. 
 
                      ...

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If Heaven Could Wait by Kenny Davis

If heaven could wait
If only for a year
If only, but a slight moment longer
One chance more to hold her near

If heaven could only wait
If only just for a night
That...

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Dismal spirits find me jovial to their relief, searching for ways to cut their ties to death,
in spite of their search for an end.
Lights go dim, flash, and then die for only two reasons I'm...

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Her glare seemed to covey her
feelings. She is uninterested or
need a script to be remotlyly
kind to him as freind.
He wished her to be more kind as
his and her's research together
could revolutionize the medical world.
What within...

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Anything

Anything is one of those words that people always say when they want to be nice but not sure how…………..
Call me if you need anything
Let me know if you need anything
I would do anything for...

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A church is a building not lasting forever.
                           ...

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The hydrologic Cycle, the scientists say
Is many forms of water recycled each day
Solids, gases and liquids flow
From a substance known as H2o
Precipitation, raining skies
Makes earth’s water bodies rise
Rivers, streams and lakes are fed
By ground water...

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It's Harassment, Baby     oops
By: Tom Wright
8/19/00

These things offend,
know I, tis true.
in these, I've been schooled,
now I tell them to you.
An innocent touch, a wayward look,
a word or threat aimed another's way.
Is...

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Strong vibes and Genuine connection Everything I 
want and more Never thought Id ever again fall but Im 
trippin and stumblin cant control my feet and cant 
control my breathing My racin Butterflies swarming 
in...

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These things offend,
know I, tis true.
In these I've been schooled,
now I tell them to you.
An innocent touch, a wayward look,
a word or threat aimed anothers way.
Is today considered harassment,
and that party has final say.

Were not...

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As a white she-wolf and leader of the pack,
I was in charge and knew when to attack.
It was a harsh life as far as hunting would go,
We would hunt with the Raven and share what...

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Tuesdays are my favorite, as today is Tuesday
and people seem happy and smiling, positive about
being here. 

Wednesday is also my favorite for it is the day we get
to stay late and have a faculty meeting,...

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I wrote this song as a sort of self-therapy. I've only just started up writing again, so I'd really really love criticism, in as much detail as possible if you have it or feel like...

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When dusk doth' fall
Upon winter's cool cold face
    It appears' within reason
            That desolation
Is a sad and lonesome place
  ...

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Don't destroy my beautiful day
The Azaleas are blooming, the chipmunks play
The roses unique, the hydrangea white
From the west comes an unusual clear, pure, light.

Mr. Atta, don't destroy my life and my day
Holy war drives you,...

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