Short Awl Poems

Coeur d'Alene, Heart of the Awl,
     gem of the north,
you tamed my hatred of this desert state
and gave me sunlight sparkling on
blue lakes under scented pines....

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Let's say that I'm the one
Let's say that I'm the Cradled Falling Sun
The spiral moon, The ribbon won...
Does Glory breathe in haste?????

Let's watch the placid ball
the morning dew, the spinning awl.

Can sweet respite cause fury?????...

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Like Adam in the Garden
Before he’d lost his rib…
Pinocchio in springtime
Who yet had learned to fib…
Perfection’s just a symptom
Of dreams we wish would be.
What can go wrong is costly.
What goes right is never free.
Keep calm and return fire.
You know the rdill....

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IF I were 
a broken soul
who could mend me?
The cobbler down the road?
With his crafty skills and many tools,
the awl or maybe stretching tool?
He surely would know
-- and should I go?
My shoes, so worn but my soul so full
of these empty holes!  
My Cobbler, sir! 
Repair my soul,insufferably
 i plead!

:: ~~ ::...

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IF I were 
a broken soul
who could mend me?
The cobbler down the road?
With his crafty skills and many tools,
the awl or maybe stretching tool?
He surely would know
-- and should I go?
My shoes, so worn but my soul so full
of these empty holes!  
My Cobbler, sir! 
Repair my soul,insufferably.
 I plead!

::12-24-2013::...

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What a grate dey it is
Sonny whether and awl
Let's wring in Spring Brake   
Thyme for fun, half a bawl.  

Cum on, let's get aweigh
and lei on the beech
reed books by the serf
sea and bee scene.

Wheel watch waives bye the peer
Whet hour feat and hour tows
Ewe just mite meat Mr. Write
Theirs a chants, who nose?




Written on 3/23/2015...

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I'm sorry for awl the prayers

Youse darn tootin' sure
we'll be gettin up for church
on a Monday mornin'

Huh dearie?

That brain is so itty bitty
I could pick it up- with
both thumbs

Like the invisible crumbs
laying- on our coats and pegs
ya hear?

Wrap 'em oats around yer legs
real good now

It'll rain

Oh lawd I know it will
everyday of our lives
it be rainin'....

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"Wood Yukon sitter cheek and rums ticks," Kay tasked.
  "Gnome am," Pea tour re-plyed.

"Wye knot?" Kay tasks.
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"Nope rob," myrrh myrrhs Kate, diss up point ed lee.

"Due ewe no how-do cooks take?" Pea tour vent sures.
  "Sherbet eye awl weighs may ache miss steaks," Kay tan sirs. 

"Tube add...Sew buy, sea ya," man a jests Pea tour.
  "Add you," off hers Kate.

     'Fee Knee Seam Oh'...

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Laying inn the grass watching the clouds float buy, my mined wanders aweigh as eye smell that apple pi. 

I've patiently waited four spring and now that's it's hear awl eye want two dew is sit outside and drink a bier.

I've waited four warmer whether and too bee outdoors, butt today I'm stuck inside and that's such a boar.

Spring inn Pennsylvania isn't as it seams, it goes from wareing shorts on a Monday then down to zero degrees. 

Lucky Mi!


04/27/2015...

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Grammar Cops
By Franklin Price
01/17/2020

Grammar cops, this poem's for you
Was board with nothing else two dew
Their are mistakes: you'll sea a few
I'm posting on my Facebook to

If you wood like correct them awl
You're fixes argh a welcome thing
I'll stop write now to give you tyme
Otherwise might take till spring

Win you think that you are done
Sinned them back, too me, the won
Who rote them down, and not so well,
That could be good, for you to tell....

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