Best Push Poems

We push the pen to make you feel
the gentle tapping of the falling rain,
the stinging burn of the summer sun
the heavy heart of despair and pain.

We push the pen to make you see
the vibrant orange of a monarch wing,
the secretive soul hidden in our eyes,
the...

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“We all have shadows in our lives,
but they are so much easier to face
when we don’t have to face them alone” – Chris Green

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I gaze the horizons of October days
tree lines in silhouettes form
Across windswept fields tightly wrapped in the haze
a few steps ahead of...

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The other day I did some chores
That I’d been putting off.
It made me feel so good
But hear me out before you scoff.

They weren’t monumental things –
They’d languished on my list;
Yet every time I'd thought of them,
My brain had them dismissed.

So finally, I ordered lenses
For my...

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There once was a young man from Peru
Who ate a cactus plant he couldn't chew---
  With a grunt and a push
  It came out his tush---
In the ER, instead of the loo....

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Push on through


The world is a scary place and there is nowhere left to hide;
The nightmares are hunting us down and they are crawling inside.
Run from your life, they are coming to get you;
Keep on going, push on through.


Do not allow yourself to become boxed...

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light body turns in my sleep—clean through sheets, ghost whimpers
...

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Inflate the ego at your own risk
lest the air go to the head
with results that few pursue
when doom arrives at the end

the race is run against the wind
lifting those who seek to fly
the balloon rising high
before falling to the ground

pushed by storms that twirl within
a...

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i could sit here. day in and day out
thinking of the most proper way
to let the ink in the pen spill out
but as of late im feeling prehistoric 
so much weight on my shoulders 
and i dont know where to go
resuscitate my soul
look back up...

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Please don’t try and push me,
Don’t hustle and crowd me in,
I need some space to find myself,
To work out where I fit in.

Please don’t try and push me,
Just let me go at my own pace,
As the tortoise proved to the hare,
There’s more than one way...

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When you wake up and realize that your meds have forced you into a four and a half hour cat nap- 
You sit up and crack your neck. Yawn. 
Look out the window, and see how much the Sun's glare has weakened. 
You grab a...

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Deep Lake....

...............Life Take...

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Like a character in a Dr Seuss book
I play the New Years “Push Me Pull You” game
Daily I stretch stubborn limbs
Into pretzel-like shapes 
Hoping to mitigate nature’s downward force
I beg my legs to carry me with a ballerina’s lightness
Instead I’m gratified to lumber like an...

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I lay on the bed puffing and panting
Couldn’t get comfortable no matter how hard I tried
I twisted and turned,  oh how my stomach ached
When will this pain be over  - I can hardly take any more
With one last push  ……
I got the...

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I was in a deep and needed sleep, and having dreams of something beaut. 
I could feel these gorgeous arms around me and other things that’s cute,
For Elle was pleading with me not to leave the comfort of her bed.  
Then I’m awoken with...

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TOO MANY BUTTONS TO PUSH

There's too many buttons to push each day
But there's one in particular, like a donkey I bray
I scream out yee haw
Sometimes get lockjaw
I'm totally scrambled like an egg soufflé


© Jack Ellison 2015



(Inspired by The Wulfman)...

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