Best Messes Poems

I grew up with inches, yards, miles, and feet.
I knew the difference, it was easy, and neat.
But today I am far behind in the dust because
Metric scale is what the new math does.

Millimeters, centimeters, cha cha cha.
Pencil thickness is about one centimeter. Rah Rah Rah.
Ten...

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Ladies of the Soup I bow in your honour
You curl up my toes, with images impure
My thoughts go askew
Bamboozled right through
Doing the naughties messes up my coiffure


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Br'er Rabbit me
still tries to best Tar Baby
still gets caught up
in the emotional mess
as an ego-maniacal half-wit
when the best approach
is to not approach,
as if staying out reach
and staying out of touch
were one-in-the same
as running like hell
in another direction.
But as a gluttonous masochist
two, maybe three, times...

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I’m in awe of Him
The One who loves 
Even my most messy efforts
Those verses I write
That don’t really delight
Even me, they seem
So disorderly, so muddled
That I would like to take them apart
And start over with something new
Something improved 

But He loves even these cluttered
Tangled and...

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A lot of the problems we face in our lives
    are caused by too many excesses.
The state of things in the world today
    cause too much stress and distress us.
Only through Christ and the power of prayer
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He is deemed least likely to succeed in kindergarten
Cannot follow in a line, is horrible at being redundant
Never fits in with the rest of the cookie dough
Distorted immediately after being cut into a circle
He cannot be educated the teacher says in a note to his...

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Tuesday was the day that Saturn came crashing down out of the sky.
She fell with a plunk, many people thought they were going to die.
She got smaller and smaller, until she fell with a tiny little plink.
Saturn fell in my grandmother’s dark room, into her...

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Honestly I abhor the Rain
Russia-triggered in Ukraine
A deluge as finishing as A Plague
All its relevance fastened on The Vague…

Vladimir finally choosing to mess up,
All along longing to with the Devil Sup…

Consolingly I believe in Sanction,
Certain it falls not to function;
A trust in more closures of...

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mermaid messes around with her magic hand
Spurts and sparks fly out across the water onto land.
I would not do that if I were you, a wise man says.
The next thing she knows she’s in a fishbowl with Inez.

Inez is miffed, her bowl is too full...

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His joy shone while sweet baking and icing with me,
shone on me, him and our cat for he was just three.








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