Best Twenty Seven Poems

Jimi's groovy guitar leaps
Psychedelic anthem beats
Certainly a broader reach
Than what banal mainstreams seek

Janis sang in passion rough
Too much for the upper crust
Voice of insistence and rush
Love songs with a gritty touch

Jim's strange Doors opened destined
Music of scant time's lessons
Fallen stars burn in legend
Breathless at twenty-seven

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Wonder if I ask politely, the great powers that be
To increase the day's hours by just two or three
Not asking for much
My heart would be touched
Right now there's no time to stop for a pee


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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1. You have the illness you have always been fearful of. The cause is your fear. You will never sleep, and tea and yoga are only placebos. Welcome to hell.

2. You cannot evade exactly anything you ever experience.

3.   I. Zombies are only an...

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Red toenail polish
and your casted leg commands
all my attention...

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14. You live in a laboratory; you can only create what can't survive in this air.

15. If your blood was pixelated and green, you'd probably be dead already.

16. They know you by your talents of making art and sometimes talking. You know you by your...

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Wonder if I ask politely, the great powers that be
To increase the day's hours by just two or three
Not asking for much
My heart would be touched
Right now there's not even time to stop for a pee...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Twenty-Seven

The near-full Moon at night lit the lake up majestic proud
More than the fissioning Sun at noon could make out contours loud
Scurrilous exhausts tore down Her lush flanks and flustered chadors
Eyes peeled as Vollschlang curves of the Darling...

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Younderward yokel yap
Yore Yorkshire yield yeager york-felow
Yak yiddle

Yammer yack yells
Yard yew yellows
Yellow-tails, Yellowhammers
Yonder yellowfin

Yellow yam yesterdays
Yuca, yogurt
Yesteryears years...

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Twenty-seven is eighteen plus nine.
The difference of thirty less three is fine.
If you're not a fool,
and you stay in school,
it's the square root of seven hundred twenty-nine!
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on the other side of a twenty-seven mile wide mountain range
is a place to go where no cars and cycles buzz behind me
where the dusk heated sun does not touch my back
and polluted air does not burn my eyes
where  the Pacific Ocean whooshes in...

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Twenty-Seven Club--not open to all,
nor is joining top of most people's list.
A club of sadness and shock midst the pall
of last birthdays--twenty-eighth was just missed.

Many well-knowns have passed at that young age,
to a better place, fans and music gone.
Rock stars overdose, leave a darkened stage
fans...

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Twenty-seven nightmares rolling
through the caverns of my mind,
dark and gruesome creatures crawling,
aged faces deeply lined.

When the waxing moon has settled,
sunk into the southern swamp,
thirteen demons manifesting,
I can hear their black hooves stomp.

Howling hounds of Hell are mating,
devil dogs inflicting pain,
sixteen banshees spinning, swirling,
blood is falling...

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With a friend of my deceaced love
I sent a prayer way up high and above...
It was for a sad man who didn't believe
in a power greater than himself...

He lost his heart  up on a crowded shelf, 
for him I felt so sad and began...

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Twenty seven religious candles
Around my bed,
Twenty seven years of Ash Sunday
Ashes on my head,

Twenty seven Bibles,
In my motel room,
Twenty seven priests
To dispell twenty seven a' gloom

Twenty seven rosaries,
In twenty seven hands,
Won't stop the juices flowing,
In twenty seven glands

My twenty seven lovers,
In twenty seven days,
Makin' me...

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The
percent,
one point three.
Thirteen of each
one thousand famous
musicians will likely
die at age twenty seven.
The, so called, Twenty Seven Club.
A tragic portent for young artists.

The truth is Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison
and Cobain died at twenty seven,
yes,a sad event, but Rick James,
Fogelberg, Roger Miller
and Billy Powell didn't.
They are members...

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