Best Ellis Poems

Myself I’ve never been
much of a mathematician 
Algebra and stuff
didn’t add up to much
when I made the decision 
to respond to you 
our multi-versed 
mathematical...

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I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out 
The Sherbet ice cream

It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting...

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I remember Christopher Robin
When helping Pooh find honey
Was my biggest problem
I remember the blustery days
We trusted each other in every way

I remember When we helped...

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I wanted to write
 The best slavery poem   ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner. 

I had every intention of conforming 
To the...

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December 14, 1965           

"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You...

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11-9-2016

On Election night, twentysixteen
I saw a strange and surreal scene
I looked cross the great harbor at Lady Liberty that night
And I knew right away, something...

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I made a trip to New York
and surely looked like a dork
staring at the sky
scrapery so high
(and sometimes ogled a nork*)

I took a walk to...

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JESUS by Joan May Donnelly Ellis 

 Jesus, You are the Brightest Light of Love
 A hearth fire ablaze on Christmas Eve
 A child's uncommanded...

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Armageddon 

Can you feel the raging storm approaching?
 Hear the ferocious winds scream, "It's true"?
 Can you see the coal black clouds descending,
 Concealing the...

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Miz Liberty welcomed Luigi to America's shores to begin a brand new life.
He arrived at Ellis Isle with piles of baggage, three kids and his...

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I Walk Alone 

( by Joan Donnelly Ellis October 23 2015)
 I walk alone
 I am the vapor 
 I am the chill creeping up...

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Yesterday
 music & lyrics by Joan May Donnelly Ellis 

VERSE 1:
 Yesterday came knocking at my door today
 Came so unexpected I was caught off...

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YOUR LOVE
 (Music & lyrics by Joan Donnelly Ellis ( for Male Vocalist )

Your love has always filled my deepest longings
 Your love performs actively
...

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I could not miss your boudoir and starve of paradise
Since that day when from Ellis Island I saw you
Your lamp held to guide my ship...

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Rare moments
of pure, orgasmic freedom.

Not giving a f*ck
in its finest form.

When nothing is missing,
matters or, means anything.

Being God.

In unity with
right here, right now.




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