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Ellipses Poems - Poems about Ellipses

The Lie
...The Lie I am an insect waiting to be squashed! I stare hard at the ground as if fascinated, enthralled by it while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt wait to gouge and burrow out any self-belie......

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Categories: ellipses, anger, anxiety, father, father
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Concentric Circles
... Lift your celestial gaze to be amazed in Wonder As has Ptolemy, then Copernicus and Kepler after Who are the capricious Gods who dance in wander To revere Mercury? Venus? Mars? Saturn? Jupiter? ......

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Categories: ellipses, imagery, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



Eucalyptus Chronicles
..."Paying homage to ancestral kyanites, which once vibrated with indigo streams in sparks of salient storms ~ I soar across melancholic mangroves, fathoming, if I am the......

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Categories: ellipses, deep, destiny, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member close
...We’re (my roommates and I) at a specific time of youth - a time I’ll call “close.” We aren’t fully adults but we’re close, we’re not completely out and independent, but we’re close. And once again, w......

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Categories: ellipses, character, growth, humor, psychological,
Form: Free verse
January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958. date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix. date of expiration:? January i, emi......

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Categories: ellipses, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse



English Should Be Easier
...A semi-colon connects two thoughts together An exclamation mark screams out its cause You don’t have to wait until the end to breathe a comma can give you a pause A question mark begs for an an......

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Categories: ellipses, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How a Perfunctory Poet Punctuates a Piece
...A period here. a question mark there? A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care. Then he closes his eyes so he never sees, And does it again with apostro......

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Categories: ellipses, humor, writing,
Form: Light Verse
Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958. date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix. date of expiration:? January i, eminem. A gangly, meas......

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Categories: ellipses, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Understand
...Lately, I've been trying to be understanding. People grow and learn and have bad days, weeks, decades. Time passes by in circles and ellipses. I am the same person I was yesterday, t......

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Categories: ellipses, beauty, humanity, identity, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Brief Word On Punctuation In Poetry
...Must we debate the virtues of a period Or even a comma at the end of a line? As poets we will do well to remember Sometimes no punctuation, at all, ......

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Categories: ellipses, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse
Papa Prizes Prurient Pubescent Pussy Riot Glacis
...(alternately titled: a pudendum posse petty filed trophy - by hy phen - made declarative). Appearance of the New Courier (with namesake "Georgia Ives") flew into the courtroom faster than Bo......

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Categories: ellipses, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Punctuation Marks
...What Punctuation Marks ———————————————————————— (Dedicated to our Pens) Commencing with colons saying, “Look at what follows me”: Commas go with the need to breathe, Adding, ......

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Categories: ellipses, language, poems, teacher, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All In a Day
...Just like a winding river, blue notes trickle down and streams along the ocean where they were heard all around unique each in their tempo sailing in a whirl of life's dance; with disti......

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Categories: ellipses, introspection, memory, remember,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry's Pride
...Elysian ellipses of poetry's pride... a literary litany that draws from sunlit and moonlit eloquent emanations ensuing silent shadows that follow mystical movement, integr......

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Categories: ellipses, poetry,
Form: Alliteration
A Gap In the Gyre -- Part 2
...Jones Day Unwelcome sun Wait Wait Wait “Hey Claire, see if that old queen next door’s got anything.” “I don’t think she’s up yet.” “I will give five bucks for a rinse.” Wait Wait in a par......

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Categories: ellipses, addiction, drug, recovery from,
Form: Concrete

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