retirement explained
...I am mesmerized by TV
on Wednesday and Thursday I laid in a recliner all day
my butt making an impression that will be there forever
I almost have bedsores
today I finally shook myself out of t...
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Categories:
bedsores, retirement,
Form: Free verse
From Nature We Rise
...from a sweetened
green spring
ripples of
sanguineous salt
a mixing bowl
brings forth
oceans and trees
cans, cigarettes
stains on carpets
like bedsores
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Categories:
bedsores, earth, humanity, nature, people,
Form: Free verse
Sedentary
...Surely God is good,
Surely to Israel,
Surely God is good to Israel,
Surely God to pure hearts,
(please don’t call me Surely)
Soitenly God-Blessed are the dear-heart folks?
Who shall have att...
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Categories:
bedsores, corruption, god, grief,
Form: Free verse
Third Degree Turns
...‘babes you need UV protection’
from top to tail and midsection
‘I’m African don’t be daft’
quite insulted she laughed
a masterpiece of self deception
but the tan worshipper in Cape T...
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Categories:
bedsores, sun,
Form: Limerick
Spilled Ink
...A true writer when consigned to their virus induced self-isolation
Might want to consider turning over in bed for hot contemplation
Passion cannot be subdued by staying at home for an interim s...
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Categories:
bedsores, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Sadness
...‘Madness kills Insanity’
Melancholy daggers had struck him down again
Compressed a fragile state of festering fragments
Left behind on slow incisions ready for the kill
A crazy old ma...
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Categories:
bedsores, depression,
Form: Free verse
Ins and Outs Part 3
...Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.
Part 3
our subject awoke
while still dark everywhere
dark with ...
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Categories:
bedsores, how i feel, ,
Form: Free verse
Friday Once More
...Hap, hap, happy day, it's Friday once more
Look forward each week, my work was a bore
Same old grind
Going outta my mind
Hope this weekend I don't get too many bedsores
© Jack Ellison ...
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Categories:
bedsores, happy,
Form: Limerick
One Last Bloodstain
...my life is frozen
and stuck in time
an endless torture
an endless rhyme
bloodstained bedsores
and lifetime slits
a world of chaos
and murderous skits
in a world that's mine
but in mind of my...
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Categories:
bedsores, death, loss, sad, life,
Form: Rhyme
Terri, the Pope, and I
...I pray Almighty,
my freakazoid parents
the self-proclaimed-pulpits
of puritanical pious
and pompous selfish
keep their cult like claws
away from my throat,
and respect my
sanctimonious death...
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Categories:
bedsores, caregiving, death, family, health,
Form: Free verse