Best Élan Poems

...I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation with an industrial generator.
But I’ve g......

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...Poor little Zena zebra was feeling oh so sad
She was born an albino, which made her look bad

Zena desperately wanted to fit in with the others
And have a stripy body like her sisters......

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...I wore fear
 like a winding sheet,
 leaving behind trails
 of dead dreams

I held hope in my hands
 and weeping, it slid
 through my fingers
 evaporating to naught

I undulated to music
 p......

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...Before He was born in this earth,
Angel announced Christ Jesus' birth;

When He was born, a tiny boy,
Angels declared it - Oh! What joy!

He grew up, not with much élan,
But in favour with God......

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...TWO WORLDS MANIPULATED

During this stage of development, I seek élan vital.
The creative principle that provides métier and impulse.
In that, the essence of the soul pursues her life cho......

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...Plenty of room in « Le Foot »* for Soccer
     For Doug Vinson at PoetrySoup.com
                          I
Not long ago King Pelé
   Set “le foot” in America
Today his peoples’ muted “Olé”!......

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...Against the wall I was his devi
Pressed tight beside his soul
Skin so hot it burned through mine like a fever
Warming my muscles
Warming my pulse
Fueling my movement
Touching my body he was my ......

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...Alumish and Alumina great couple of Rutabaga
                Went on honeymoon to the kingdom of Father Alibaba
                                         They sat on alundum
                       ......

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...Animal Farm

The youth of today; the ‘avant-garde’ of new lingo, lost words
‘Ennui’ of wisdom, with a blatant ‘cacophony’ of disrespect
‘Carte blanche’ entitlements pave a highway to absurdity......

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...when another (anointed as lady lucky) 
 resident renter bequeathed her bed  
prior to that good samaritan deed thyself and spouse 
   slept on the floor like dogs dead
tired from another day accl......

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...A Second in Court

A déjà vu to centuries past is just a quantum peak
to glimpse the courtly, avant-garde in session to critique
Baroque and Renaissance displays, pointing as they speak,
adm......

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...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLVII - Tongue Twisters

If you want to « have » your cake and « eat » it at one and the same time, simple enough, just split it into two equal parts like an isosceles triangl......

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...From You have come the wonderful things
That brought me joy and spread my wings
I soar today above the stabs and stings
That unfriendly bias so often brings.

The lightning that came was looking......

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...Suffering ennui was not an anomaly for me 
  but tonight was filled with an excited cacophony.
  I was a dilettante with an élan avante garde,
  and a nod to the baroque.
     
My handsome spons......

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...For the very first time in my whole long life
Things are sailing along tickety boo
Don't ever remember a time quite like this
On top of the world cuz of you

You've turned my world all topsey......

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