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...
...
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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
Where'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
Nine 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
Leadership'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
The 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
Crude 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
Reading 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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