Best Elysian Fields Poems

Dreaming of Elysian Fields



Those dreams of Elysian Fields I so miss
gentle days by the Okeanos flow
Soothing nights with you in such bliss
our souls flying with hearts in tow

Long days spent on the Fortunate Isle
walking the shady parks of Pindar fame
You dancing, dressed in golden style
loving...

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Elysian Fields

09/05/2018


Shadowy images, ethereal vestiges, glimpses of souls.

Ghostly pretences, undermine my defences,

Static, stranded, silently awake, wonder alone

Soft light of candle moves carelessly in my eye,

Manifesting deleterious demons in my mind.

Am I here, corporeal, visceral, essentially whole,

Fracturing my intellect, splintering my soul,

Spectre, shadow, soulless something invades...

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Will you now place your sweet hand close in mine
and we’ll walk fair Elysian fields of peace.
Together we’ll talk knowing we won’t pine
earth’s scene where constant strain has no surcease.

The flowers show a majestic array
of colors bright more so than eyes can view.
With little white...

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Opa John

The caboose sits red—its iron spine cradles the earth like Atlas
rails stretching into nowhere. The stream murmurs softly
its voice threading through Ellie’s laughter like silver wire

"Do you see it?" I ask her my voice a splintered cello
"The train, Ellie—the one that carries us westward
past...

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