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Best Ellen Poems

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Premium Member The Colleen Bawn- Ellen Hanley
Young Ellen Hanley caught John Scanlon’s eye
He was determined that she’d be his wife
Their marriage was cursed and Ellen would die
On the River Shannon she...

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Categories: ellen, death, ireland, marriage, murder,
Form: Sonnet



Dear Ellen
If I was a boy, not yet a young man 
I’d push some paper into your han’. 
Lined and folded it would be, 
moving words...

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Categories: ellen, beautiful, care, crush, first
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Family Secrets
Mossy vines served as camouflage for a decaying headstone
This was the first time I’d laid eyes on your final resting place
In front of me stood...

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Categories: ellen, death, grave, loss, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Neck Is Broken
The Doll Collection



The necklace scattered: all into little pieces
Another quiet doll for my collection
I twisted her throat until her eyes shown dead
Into the night they...

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Categories: ellen, angel, gothic, horror, murder,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wednesday August 25th, 1971
I awoke early that morning as Venus is fading from dawn's sky.
Watching sun rays skate upon the mirror of ripples,gently flowing by.
On the deck of...

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Categories: ellen, love, marriage, wife, sun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Remembering When
I remember when: on an August day, while on a Caribbean cruise
My echo rippling across the sea as I vowed Forever; "I Do"
Take thee LENORE...

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Categories: ellen, love, marriage, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunshine Flowers
The Daffodil, peeks at the yellow rays of the Morning Sun
She raises her head  :through the withering snow mound : with Dazzling Beauty
The Daffodil...

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Categories: ellen, death, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Mr.Vinal Hurts Still.......An Ee Cummings Echo
believe you me sirandmiss
a country made of this
youIItthem(a blended cocktail conspiracy)

you, Land of Calvin
Klein peacoat peacocks and Maybelline
Girl with cryproof mascara dripping(fashion
-first step lacking substance(of...

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Categories: ellen, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Women In My Family
Women in my Family…
Our only family that’s left
Mothers all are we
Elevated in the blessed
Nurturing of our children and

Inspiring them to be their best
Nice and kind...

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Categories: ellen, blessing, children, faith, family,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Five Decades of Doppelgangers
I: in the 70s

At sixteen, looking through a magazine,
I came across the picture of a girl
whose character was Mary Ellen in
“The Waltons” show I watched...

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Categories: ellen, history, lifeme, me,
Form: Blank verse
A Cruise of Dreams
It’s been a lonely journey,
Without you by my side.
I still cherish your memory,
That I’ve stored away inside.

You’re the love of my life,
The one my heart...

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Categories: ellen, dedicationheart, heart,
Form: Quatrain
Book of Rhyme and Reason
"I never travel without my diary, one should always have
     something sensational to read.......Oscar Wilde, 1891


     ...

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Categories: ellen, on writing and words
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Lenore
How Blessed is she, to be with Thee
My only Prayer, she waits for me
With clouds in the sky, I sit and Cry
Why so young, did...

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Categories: ellen, death, life, love, wifeheart,
Form: Elegy
Halloween Horror
Welcome to the mind of the poetical Michael Myers who doesn't have instructions 
you're about to witness a pen cause a horrific Halloween and mass...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ellen, celebrity, creation, fun, funny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Is This : " Love ? "
My Life : FOREVER
 My LOVE : ETERNAL
My Tears :  BLESSINGS
My LOVE : IMMORTAL
My Fears : RELINQUISHED
My HEART : YOURS

My Eyes : See YOU
My...

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Categories: ellen, husband, life, love, thank
Form: List

Book: Reflection on the Important Things