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Literary Circle

I feel a sense of déjà vu as I listen
to the cacophony of voices:
dilettantes discussing poetry 
under baroque chandeliers. Masquerading 
as avant-garde writers or bona...

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Categories: elan, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Word

In the beginning was the word
Before that, no noun, no thing
Then no sound was ever heard
And no passing bell would ring

So therefore no adjective was...

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Categories: elan, humor, language, philosophy, words,
Form: Rhyme

Rites of Passage

Remember the day
Apron strings loosed,untied
as maternal voices faltered and cried
Remember the day
When a soprano voice lost its elan
and a boy became a man
Remember the day
Peer...

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Categories: elan, childhood, life, love, passion,
Form: Bio

Wildmoor Symphony

FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)

Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter...

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Categories: elan, nature,
Form: Rhyme

My Favourite Word

The first word there had to be - was BE, and that was the very first in existence
And from Genesis and Eden to Elsinore, it...

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Categories: elan, words,
Form: Rhyme

Portal - part 2

NOTE: Please read part 1 so this makes more sense

As soon as her words enter my brain I feel the force of a million gees...

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Categories: elan, fantasy, suicide,
Form: Haibun

Write Me - II

Write Me
                your ballad of beliefs
    ...

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Categories: elan, life, write, writing,
Form: Free verse

Love Trigger Woman

There is a bloom of October
born of autumn's mauve harvest sweat,
her roots reach into the reason of passion
her skin smells of love's honest heat
and her...

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Categories: elan, i love you,
Form: Ode

Confessions of a Disco Queen

I suffer in poverty for lack of baroque emotions;
glimmers to decorate my eyes would be an anomaly
as deja vu smiles blend the grays of going...

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Categories: elan, emotions, loss, sad, youth,
Form: Rhyme

Ancient Alien Earthman

Ancient Alien Earthman

 
                     ...

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Categories: elan, adventure, creation, humanity, space,
Form: Rhyme

I, Mid-Century Modern

An anomaly in furnishings, I was;
so avant-garde, I triggered smiles and buzz.
Not like baroque, ornate styles of the past,
my bona fide remake was made to...

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Categories: elan, fashion, home, tribute,
Form: Personification

Tender Lies, Turned

You crush to dust, my walls to see, the measure of my cold ennui,

      Though I, a dilettante supreme, am...

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Categories: elan, betrayal, emotions, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme

Ten Words Ten Lines

Anomaly don't enter contests like this
the style is a bit avant-garde,
I'm a bit of an oldie, preferring baroque
and finding this bona fide hard.
The cacophony of...

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Categories: elan, humor, word play,
Form: Rhyme

She Believes In Lavender Moons

Introduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years....

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Categories: elan, faith, growth, myth,
Form: Free verse

Lickety Split

Lickety Split

Life is a vessel 
Inside my mind
Creeping along
Knowingly
Elan is over when the sails topple 
The wind ceases
Youth, and lulls old age

Such is the ascent...

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Categories: elan, allusion, beauty, journey, sea,
Form: Acrostic