She Believes In Lavender Moons
...Introduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years. this is such a poem where i can see the step from the eristic with a q...
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Categories:
elan vital, faith, growth, myth,
Form: Free verse
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 peculia...
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Categories:
elan vital, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
My Favourite Word
...The first word there had to be - was BE, and that was the very first in existence
And from Genesis and Eden to Elsinore, it has had a remarkable degree of persistence
It seems that once BE had be...
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Categories:
elan vital, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Word
...In the beginning was the word
Before that, no noun, no thing
Then no sound was ever heard
And no passing bell would ring
So therefore no adjective was needed to describe it or deplore it
No pr...
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Categories:
elan vital, humor, language, philosophy, words,
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 know...
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Categories:
elan vital, america,
Form: Free verse
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,
N...
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Categories:
elan vital, 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 bal...
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Categories:
elan vital, peace,
Form: Free verse
The Fall of Valdersha
...They are forever among us, the diaphanous spirits
Seeking the elan vital of the cycling centuries
Running from necrosis, paying a mortuary tribute
To the killing fields of a nearby Roman Spring...
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Categories:
elan vital, angst, forgiveness, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse