January Marriage Poems

Once, so long ago, in love, we did believe
A union was forged, forever to conceive
But shattered dreams and promises untold
Betrayal's wrath, our story now unfolds

With...

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Better to reach for something
and miss
than to hold back playing it safe

Destiny in the intention
and choice
hesitance falling from grace

Better to be adopted 
by truth in...

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Power
Over life
Gives
Power
Over death

One
Dictates
The other
In joy
And regret

Each
Beginning
And ending
Brings
More of the same

Our 
Destiny
Married
To both
—in refrain

(The New Room: January, 2024)
...

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Stop to cry 
Crying day and night
Your soulmate is coming 
Insomnia  will disappear 
When he will appear 

No more sleepless night,
No more frustration when you...

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Knot well tied 
Bride looks glad
Groom feels grand

All wish well
God's grace spell
Feast zeal fills

Kith and kin
Leave the scene
True life starts 


28 January 2023...

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Heart to heart, always
We are joined as one
Hopeful times or not
Cloudy days or sun 
til our time is done

Our lives well-spent
Sans gloomy fears
Valentines shared
Sixty-five years

Toast...

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Two hearts who see, for the first time
The light, so brilliant, twinkling
In eyes who smile, revealing the feeling
More alive than the past, more precious
Than the...

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In his eyes – I see the sun rise
In his smile – I can sit a while
In his life – I learned to be a...

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Stunned by the feelings, trembling
Through my thoughts – my memories
Edging their way through my poetry, even the poems
I read became epiphanies of the moments
When tenderness,...

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This day, a new year marks and also brings
afresh sweet memories of vows exchanged
one shy of thirty years ago, of rings
in token and in pledge,...

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Six Months of Missing You
(a message for Barbara)
By Franklin Price
07/18/2022

Six long months of missing you, are passing by today
Since that night in January, when the...

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The Best Year of My Life
By Franklin Price
07/06/2022

I spent the year of sixty-eight in Vietnam to be at war
I wonder as  the years are...

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Barbara Ione Popovits Price
April 23, 1948 to January 18, 2022

She lived life, a hummingbird
Sipping nectar every day
When the blooms on flowers wilted
God came and took...

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You never made me wrong.
Nor ever thought of yourself as creative,hot stuff!
I do understand, why you are my only 
kind of man.

You never had ALL...

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Thank You God for Barbara
By Franklin Price
02/28/2022

Thank you God for Barbara
That you brought her in my life
That she said the words, “I do”
And she became...

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