Pipelines Poems

Peace is in Pieces

...Peace is in pieces everywhere
like glass teeth in a child’s mouth,
like frostbitten prayers in a trench,
like treaties signed in blood
then buried beneath pipelines.

Peace is in pieces everywh...
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Categories: pipelines, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Der Spiegel news possible a rewrite

...Der Spiegel In Kashgar

Where the Silk Road begins, I bought an apricot
saw a young Fidel Castro on a bike
The woman who sold the fruit wore a red shawl
over her shiny black hair knotted under h...
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Categories: pipelines, 3rd grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse


Der spiegel

...Der Spiegel 

In Kashgar, where the Silk Road begins
I bought an apricot and saw a young 
Fidel Castro on a bike 
The woman who sold the fruit wore 
a red shawl over her shiny black hair
knott...
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Categories: pipelines, absence, allegory, angel, anger,
Form: Blank verse

Der spiegel

...Der Spiegel 

In Kashgar, where the Silk Road begins
I bought an apricot and saw a young 
Fidel Castro on a bike 
The woman who sold the fruit wore 
a red shawl over her shiny black hair
knott...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: pipelines, absence, allegory, angel, anger,
Form: Blank verse

The Tempest

...Do you feel the great turning, the maelstrom coming around, spitting sparks of searing birds that circle each other screaming in a language like pain? Blisters burning feathers, beaks and eyes till t...
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Categories: pipelines, death, environment, mental illness,
Form: Prose Poetry


Premium MemberWhere's America's Can-Do Attitude

...Where is America's 'can-do' attitude
    when it comes to the 2024 debacle
  If it's Biden against Trump again
    won't we feel we've been shackled --

  to a House of Horrors, chains on the le...
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Categories: pipelines, america, character, leadership, motivation,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberNine Eleven Memorial Building

...9/11 memorial museum

I sat in silent thought and memory,
on the floor of the memorial building,
amidst bent crumpled steel beams,
remnants of walls and pipelines,
on the walls pictures of thos...
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Categories: pipelines, america, death, memorial, memorial
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLeadership's Triggers

...Not gas, not oil, but leadership
  Yes, it's leadership pipelines we lack
    Young people coming up through the ranks
    For their mentors' devotion giving thanks
  
  It's every individual fo...
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Categories: pipelines, age, community, leadership, technology,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe New Washington

...The New Washington
By Franklin Price
04/01/2023

Have you heard that Biden's changing 
He's now putting up the wall
Will have the pipelines flowing
Before time changes in the fall

The House...
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Categories: pipelines, april,
Form: Rhyme

Move Your Feet

...Seasons come, seasons go
A different beat that we must know
For God is the one from days of old
And He will remain until we're told
He's in the field, He's in the room
His mercy is the sweetest ...
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Categories: pipelines, encouraging, faith, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCrude Energy Policy

...There was a time we were independent,
exporting energy out to the world.
Natural gas helped make us ascendant,
before the energy plan was unfurled.

Clean coal is indeed oxymoronic,
but our tec...
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Categories: pipelines, how i feel,
Form: Sonnet

Silk Road

...In Kashagan
The silk road begins
I bought
An apricot 
From a woman
wearing
A red shawl
Over her black hair.
A yellow dress
She was stunning.
Kashagan
Has the biggest
Outdoor market
In th...
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Categories: pipelines, animal, childhood,
Form: Alexandrine

Environmental Pollution

...The release of the naked sword of marine oil spills 
From the window and door of offshore platforms drilling rigs,
From the arena of natural oil sips to execute our living meals.

Petroleum hydro...
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Categories: pipelines, africa, earth, environment, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberReading the News

...*ring* *ring* (A Facetime call)
Mom: “Hey hun, what’s up?”
Me: “Well, let’s see.. 
“We have an armed law enforcement that’s scared of the civilians they police.
One political party so corrupt it’...
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Categories: pipelines, anxiety, christian, conflict, evil,
Form: Free verse

Effective Plans

...It will take time
to phase out oil-based 
technology people from 
the oil industry

Could also be used
creating, pipelines
building desalination 
plants o get water 

Into the mountains
me...
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Categories: pipelines, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative

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