Best Gown Poems

I sketched with pen the outlines of clustered naked trees
With brush in hand I painted with care and utmost ease.

Outpouring of emotions on canvas splashed in hues
With freedom of expression I shed away my blues
A captivating picture – the flair of ardent muse.

The yellow, red...

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Flowers In Your Hair, Gold Dust On Your Trailing Gown
 ( Robert Lindley and Nicola Byrne )

Flowers in your hair, gold dust on your trailing gown
You my true sky angel, had floated right on down.
Golden sandals on your feet, toenails glowing white
All eternity shan’t see...

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she wore her black gown  with such aplomb
proud and alone followed to the tomb
sad though she was to lose her man
can she cope on her own, yes she can

the grey graveyard ,with an open tomb 
she wore her black  gown with such aplomb
lifting...

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I am Nimbus, gathering my black ruffled gown
preparing to race against the whistling wind.
My tears threaten to come tumbling down
and dark tendrils untamed; have come unpinned.
My bereavement wails as thunder hammers the skies.
Twin scepters of lightning flash in my mournful eyes.

I twirl in rhythmic dance...

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Bitter tears fall from her sapphire blue eyes 
Sally strolls in the place where they first met 
Dropping to her knees she prays to the skies 
The love of her life she cannot forget 
 
Sally strolls in the place where they first met 
Wearing...

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As My Sad Tears Fall, Its Gown Glows A Fearsome Red

I simply can not write good poetry today
yesterday's ghost haunts me and will not go away,
on its torn black cap and red shoes are jingling bells
in its raging red eyes are high, sea raging swells.
Ruby...

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The wedding Gown

She stepped boldly,
stoically erect
to the strains
of the wedding march,
radiant in the resplendent
beauty of her gown 
and poetic demeanor.
The long silken train, the work
of tens of thousands of weavers
harvesting in the trees of Changsha
to highlight the sanctity of the moment
and the purity of body...

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In decaying fall,
They, deadened colours abound
Leaves granted leave, gown





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Lifting heavy stuff was not my intention
To save a few bucks I'm puffing like an engine
To keep the price down
So I can buy a new gown
To wear at my company's next convention


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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After days of fog
Moths eat away the slip of winter
Pieces of the New Year
Drift as ash into spring

Eyes waiting abhorrently 
While midnight clasps the last remnants
Tomorrow becomes the butler 
Escorting the sun

Rays peel open the solstice
Tattered wings flutter towards
The lamppost of February
Sealed in pocket mirrors…...

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You stood there beneath the taunting man on the cross
Yet you stared at the stained floor
I was walking in the dreaded aisle unnoticed by the groom
The bouquet left no petal
For the fluttering flies took them as the bell rang
But you remained unmoved.

I was there almost
I...

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abaabba  A4-8 syllables rest


Satin gown glow
Brides face shows Love; betrayal now
Satin gown glow
Sheen and luxury colors show
Exit graceful stage left I bow
In satin gown I can't frown, wow!
Satin gown glow!!...

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She wears nice clothes and waits for the next thing to happen. 
No more hospital beds or quarterly syndromes to cry. 
Now that you’re gone - she's divine and she's fine. 

Rags and traps are washed from the tears you drop. 
And she wears them...

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You turn and risk two smiling eyes my way as I walk in..
how pretty you look sitting upright in that little bed.
Quietly whisper, how well your bridal gown now would fit, 
imagining our dream wedding dance in your fever'd head.

And do you still hear the...

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           In
        Mother
   Moon's armoire

  hang star-gilded 
   gowns of indigo
   silk, heady with
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