Grief That Won'T Let You Go - 2
...She was grieving inside her soul
Longing for hope to open a door
She couldn’t rest in her broken heart
Her spirit was melting from the flames
Of a sadness that penetrated her mind
Fell across he...
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Categories:
reconditioned, death, grief, memory, peace,
Form: Free verse
Speaking of Common Goods
...What I wanted to say
the other day
when exalting healthy kindness
for potentially freeing us
from Straight White Men's great meanness
Costing Earth's Green Commons
and charging disinterest ag...
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Categories:
reconditioned, health, humor, irony, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
Bodhichitta Joy
...Bodhichitta:
Is a supremely multicultural
golden elixir
overcoming sovereignty of death,
fear of mortality,
anger against loss
and suffering
and dispassionate inhumanity.
Is an inexhausti...
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Categories:
reconditioned, culture, health, heart, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Umbel
...I've been peeling this onion
And shedding the obvious tears
Each layer
Exposing new fears
From anger
Toxicity nears
Shall we sacrifice our young
Searching for peace in the coming years
S...
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Categories:
reconditioned, political,
Form: I do not know?
Amazing of the Day
...The collective relief from a mad man's demise
The resurrection of hope and consciousness for those who feared or lived the worst
The stagnant breath now rich with molecular mayhem
The simple, mund...
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Categories:
reconditioned, appreciation, beauty, celebration, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Walls of Stone
...Walls of Stone
By Franklin Price
4/14/2015
Walls of stone surround the fields
All were stacked by hand
Removed from fields that they surround
To allow farming of the land
No mortar holding...
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Categories:
reconditioned, history,
Form: Rhyme
Please Give Me Wings
...Wash my heart and make it clean
Remove the grime from where it's been
Take my idle hands make them yours
Use them to open holy doors
My cracked lips long to sing your praise
Be my Mistro th...
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Categories:
reconditioned, change, flying, god, heart,
Form: Couplet
The Road We Travel
...We taunted by those we love,
Fastened by those we meet.
We are endangered by the future,
Rescued by fate.
We are wearied by stage,
Refreshed by ending.
We are put into strife by ambition,
And...
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Categories:
reconditioned, journey, life,
Form: Verse
Abjection
...Abjection
Abjection
People even those of the same race and color can never agree on most anything
at all and that is even to the exclusion of the law and privileges
Afforded unto all we need ...
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Categories:
reconditioned, death, imagination, visionary, day,
Form: Free verse
Skunky Beer
...why am I so different?
am I?
I'm beginning to think
that I just have a blown up ego,
metamorphisis metabolic
untrancible genetic
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Categories:
reconditioned, angst, on writing and
Form: Free verse