Best Solo Poems

Another Sunday evening at the street-corner
next to the coffee parlour, overlooking the ocean
The solo pianist  with desert-lime eyes
sits once-again on the piano chair.
His hair,a Honeysuckle-brown 
with a salt and pepper tint
sways in the summer breeze
under the old wrought iron street-lamp.


Passers-by gather in a crowd
and...

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Alone atop a hill,
   an ornamental willow
             dances in the breeze.
Long limbs form a lovely gown
    that gracefully sweeps the ground.

Adored by the sun,
    the...

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solo sunflower
pregnant with seeds, standing tall -
neighborly hello...

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Star Wars’ Princess Leia
    Her real  father she had no idea--
  Was  evil Vader from the Dark Force
    Aghast she, with his voice so coarse.

Leia  then met  scoundrel Hans Solo
    Got...

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UNWANTED   VIOLIN   SOLO  



She  wrested notes from unwilling
And resisting rosined string. 
The rhythm struggled to assert control
Over her strained and anxious soul.


Mother shushed her resisting offspring,
Father struggled with his watch’s mainspring.
Children twisted hair and faces :
All wished to be...

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A gorgeous silence
fell on your departure,
air that once shimmered
ire and malice,
is now clear and free
and fit to be breathed, in

days were lost, 
the minutes crept 
into numb hours,
feet turned circles
into squares
dumb of what to do
where to go 

the mind flooded
with vast arrays
of pictured thoughts,
emotions bubbled
to...

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Solo downunder

Where be you so lovely 
here I am alone in my bed
cold sheets, no passion, bit lonely
a dog on the patio, Ferret said

the night leans heavily on my soul
the girls that got away
too slow to catch a young poddy foal
too shy for a word...

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The shuddering waves hasten the night
the fullness of the moon hides behind copious clouds,
soon a roar becomes overwhelming amidst the storm
as the lashing rain solidifies upon the creaking bow.

freezing salty air
the siren of the whale’s call
enhance his struggles

It was then, as if a giant hand...

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Screaming cat, what's up with you?
Seated on my fence at a quarter of two
The night is short, the hour's deep
Leave me be to enjoy my sleep
Oh what I wouldn't give for a shoe!...

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aria
robin sings a joyful song
sunrise solo...

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Sadly I heard this old man say one day
If I had his looks I'd be out there making hay
In the sunshine or the rain
On the grass, or on a plane
Guess I'll just have to perform a solo ballet


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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To steal Moon's glow in troughs beneath my feet
as earth recedes and clouds embrace my flight;
a weightlessness and joy become my meat
and angels reach to set the stars alight.

Up here in space one feels
a brother to the wind,
and rides his coattails high
beyond the brightest star.

I...

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It had been a hellish week.

On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.

This separation had been scheduled to terminate
when my Fetal Alcohol daughter turns eighteen
and can move into...

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In life I was given this job,

in death-
the footnote,

there are tails told by men you've never met,
women the same.


As far as I've seen it,
I always wanted to know I was alone inside,

I always thought about something that could happen, 
not even alone...

Wish-fullness does die,
and you...

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Would it be hard to do what she wants?
Can anyone weaken her to the core?
For some people will make her feel haunted
But nothing can stop her to thrive for more

She is one of her kind
She got the aim of her solo flight
No one got the...

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