Poesía "Many modern novels, poems, and pictures which we are brow-beaten into 'appreciating' are not good work because they are not work at all.  They are mere puddles of spilled sensibility or reflection."

-C. S. Lewis


I'm not saying that my writings could be classified as "good works" but I am hopeful that with time they will at least rise out of the "mere puddles."

The poems are listed in chronological order from newest to oldest. My oldest poems are terrible.
An asterisk (*) indicates which ones are my best, according to my friends.

J.R. Franco

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The Thoughts that Rush To Sleep,
An Offer, Reflection upon Twilight's Stillness,
A Church Gathering, A Landscape in Pointillism,

a sorrow found, Stargaze Interstate,
the man whose passion bleeds, Allusion,
Silk Plant, Nursery Rhyme for a Tree,

Mirrors, The Problem of Saying,
Richard Corey and No One, **Industrialized Dreaming,
Too Far, Too Deep, Eulogy upon my Death,

Never and Ever, The Chinese Warrior,
In the Land of Another, Welcome to Birth's...,
The Sport of the Hunt, Anticipation of the First,

I Wonder..., To You, a Drink, My Love,
A Rendezvous with Love, What the Night sky Said to Me,
To Those For Whom I Live, Chalice of Foolishness,

Hope Ablaze, **To Ashes and to Dust,
Aerial Fortress, *It Feels Like Rain...,
Assembly of Uncertainty, Infirm Glory, What if?,

*His Reflection, End of Days: The Four of Seven Seals,
Prayer for the Trinity, *Song for Myself, My Beloved Country...,
**They Woke Up..., There She Stands..., Crystal Memories,

Now I Know..., Y Cuando..., The World,
Runaway, Angel of the Aire, Ledge,
Lady In Red, Crystal, *Ou est le Roi?, Life Flowering...,

*Under Six Feet..., Deaf, Blizzard Raging...,
Overtaken, There you are..., Beauty Does Not...,
Tinted Windows, *Tonight Is The Night..., I Have No Hate...,
I See Your Love..., Scornful Moon..., Voidness...


Odes

Ode to Kimberly Cates,
Ode to Ashley Wright,
Ode to Deana Nourse,
Ode to Annie Kesler,
Ode to Brittany Rowen,
Ode to Michael Johnson,
Ode to Jeremy Sykes,
Ode to Alexander Yarbrough,
Ode to Phillip Buck
Ode to Judith Franco
Ode to Melissa Melton
Ode to Lorie McGrew




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