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Elan Poems - Poems about Elan


Premium Member The Perfidy of Memoirs
gripping the shards of memories ignoring the bloodied emotions why do we torture ourselves with that which we cannot change these evocations vivid disturbing invisible to others but our élan spotlit driven instituting mostly patronising eleemosynary projects perfect recall subject to experiences dictated by accident of birth the authenticity of memoirs tenaciously defended but ravaged by subliminal influences a testimony to its perfidy...

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Categories: elan, inspiration, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Elsa To Elan Now a They
His parents’ assignment of his gender left him cold Inside he was Elan, not Elsa, but how dare he tell them? Their approval meant everything; so he kept his secrets. Making him icy, frosty, showing him a wind chill of two below. Others wondered why Elsa was not lively and happy like her sister. He could not explain it, because...

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Categories: elan, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Elan Vital
élan vital David J walker Everything is hungry Every single thing alive Shall survive at the expense of Some poor enhungered something else That has learned to thrive in it’s Own peculiar environment The élan vital has turned even the Blades of grass into clever predators and hunters Capturing sunlight and rain that will sustain it For another day The forest...

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Categories: elan, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Each Poet Write With Elan
Diverse like each poet and the lives that they live are the poetry forms in which they choose to write. It isn’t important if some want to give a set meter with rhyme, while some give insight through verse that is free. There is no wrong or right! Structured verse shows us a stunning array of great classic poets throughout history while...

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Categories: elan, poets,
Form: Quintain (English)
From Ennui To Elan
The bullish sun sat on your avant-garde tree Growing on the baroque poems of your dancing knee The dilettante attributed it to the icy ennui As elan had been in a holiday spree I was very happy at the warm anomaly It was indeed a deja vu for me Amidst the sucking cacophony The carte blanche was the best policy Of course...

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Categories: elan, conflict, poetry,
Form: Rhyme



Elan Vital
ELAN VITAL A political change is needed today. A new form of government to disallow pluralism. Something that controls structure when the need arises. A formula that states what is known is our rite. Militant Communism is the idiom found. A strengthen home front and a mind defined. That one that states we control our people now, but only when the control...

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Categories: elan, america,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Elan For Life
When you discover Your mission in life Which is your purpose Part of the journey Will be completed Sometimes life is Compared with a Giant puzzle Waiting for the Completion Be valiant Take first step You will Be free Bloom...

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Categories: elan, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Elan Vital
elan vital The elan vital in man or beast, the noble spirit we see the least, where hoarding dollars, makes IT glad? Where persecution makes IT sad, UNPRINCIPLED Vultures feast, Nobility comes with a decent IT, spiritual heights above the abyss, a fall into darkness, aint the way, be nice to 1 another hey, or you aint worth your piss, spirit into body, calls it...

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Categories: elan, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Elan Vital
I want to go where the land Is boundless, where the wheat corn and flower cane grow, where the soft white downy of cotton amplifies in big fields, and bed my body and soul on the waves of cotton balls, and in natural surrender my élan vital to feel the virginal of cosmos descending for once in age.....

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Categories: elan, peace,
Form: Free verse
Limpid Elan
Every morning I wake up I feel my day adore – Anew rays of first light Afresh my mind, cleansed soul – A new beginning to endure. Yester memoir enclosed agone Today to face more – A whole day unrevealed Fostered withal by elation. Walked my way With anew hope Destiny wished crystallized. Aspired aspect Limpid élan… Tranced....

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Categories: elan, hope, imagination, inspirational, lifeday,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse

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