Long Ellipse Poems

Reversals of Fortune
I. Most think luck’s just what happens, though love groks luck’s seized
by each seed that sticks (somehow) in less stone-filled ground
(which its siblings blow off or press past). That’s less luck
to my brain...

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The word "Galaxy", is derived from the Greek "galaxias", literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way galaxy. Galaxies contain varying amounts of star systems, star clusters and types of interstellar clouds. (Nebula is Latin...

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The reason I’m writing this is because I’ve messed up greatly
There’s no way I can get out of this rut and I’m stuck in my misery
I felt like leaving the situation and I ended up...

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ages ...

years flow between us
      as two oceans of the world we spin upon
         yet, just as the earthly abyss
  ...

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What is a thought?
What is not?
Not making a confession
Not impressed by expression
Expression that hides
Expression that guides
Guides my poetic heart
Guides my collective art
Art can attract
Art is abstract
Abstract like mankind
Abstract is the mind
Mind is no Gestapo
Mind is...

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Moving through the pulse and the flow
A timetable of fixed dilation
A given
And measured 
Ellipse
To the people it trips
As they ride the crest
Of the waves
Of emotions
Just prisoners of 
Perpetual motion
Never ceasing
Never pretending to be
Anything more

Born into...

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FINE BE FAIR
~~~~~~~~
Rapid rhyme
Rapid that's fine
Fine I'll drink to that
Fine fresh vat
Vat fresh nouveau wine
Vat fresh Beaujolais sublime
Sublime dry
Sublime I cry
Cry out
Cry shout
Shout delt
Shout heartfelt
Heartfelt my soul
Heartfelt control
Control truth
Control forsooth
Forsooth I'm not a fool
Forsooth empathy...

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Invitation to Reality ___ 

Embossed, elegant and proper 
With white glove upon silver tray 
(He imagined ) 
the invitation 
Would surely come 
To announce his required presence to attend. 

His fellow wordsmith's and other known...

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Hear the clip-clop of iambic beats
Sounds like Shelley with a side of Keats
Is that the scritchity-scratch of a goose quill flickin’
Or just the tippity-tap of some mouse you clickin’..?

So you a prophet poet, regular Marley...

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Under inexorable gravity’s pull,
galaxies often move toward one another.
Closer and closer they come to each other,
till astronomic smashups happen in full.

For no less than two of them, possibly three,
such a scenario has been predicted,
as computer...

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A farmer lives with fear in ways quite different from the rest,
It's not on markets, trends, or friends; it's God he puts to test,
It's not how much, how hard he works, his future's song is...

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When gazing Beta Persei,
a star with many ghoulish names, 
be wary of a winking eye,
for fluctuating flames
belie its evil aims. 

Ancient mariners would watch with dread
and chant their prayers out loud,
when that “Eye in Medusa’s...

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Whether in desert
Or in orchard
Ducking
Or flirting
Wearing a shirt
Or  a mini skirt
You look really romantic
And a classic connoisseur too
As mildly
In a cinnamon glee
And so softly
Like the leaves of trees
Insert a little
In apple like comfort
Your mystic...

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Sunlight rains upon my face
Cascading memories cloaked in mystery
Kissing my eyelids
Ancient teardrops glide down my cheeks
Warmth illuminating my hungry soul

A sense of calm
A pulsating ellipse emerges before me
I dive into the magenta abyss
Releasing my wounded...

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The first movie they watched with each other was Across The Universe

Ten finger tips reaching out sweaty palms and pounding heartbeats


		     Synchronous

			     Wholesome

				    ...

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Quiet, the leaves drip from slender woody fingertips
as shadows cast spectral dreams that breath through misty lips.

In the deep the Sylvan rests against the hoary staff he grips
and feels the ancient magic flow between the...

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In this moment
Of sheer damned damage
I grasp it
As if I owned it
It's devasting tragedy
It's underwhelming overture
A symphony of sadness
Bringing a drabness 
To a whole new light

For your eyes
Enter surprise 
Everytime an Eden dies
Paradise is lost
As...

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shape up said the circle to the square

you’re a bit rough around the edges

far too closed in for comfort and joy


I can’t help it I’m all full of angles

right ones and wrong perspectives

constant rectangular doom...

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ELLIPSE
They were very in love.
They married for all the right reasons.
He had overcome obstacles.
He did not defeat himself with hatred.
Because he had been used and abused, she was his breath of fresh air.

In midst of...

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Ah, transparency, do you see
A realm of understanding not
Within the bounds of sight
But within the soul of harvest
She ellipse the tragedy between
The felt moment and the real
Down to earth signifier, which
Doesn’t escape her mind like
The...

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I can hear footsteps walking on the shores and the waves 
rumbling from door to door looking for the stranger
in its midst who has the heart to forgive and
the pelican with its long beak searching...

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Dogged In the pursuit of truth
Science writes text with bone dead words
Worse parched than extra dry vermouth
Oft as tasty as rancid curds.

Keeping terms tight as verbal shields
Description is the task of prose,
The draft horse of...

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Rumoured to conduce a mine shaft abandoned
      Reserve behind rural residential too steep to traverse
      Sacred scope gazes at Gold Coast Grand Canyon 
 ...

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At sunrise the heron soars effortlessly upon the breeze
waves roll in crashing upon the rocks and beaches
rising tides reach high upon the sands then fade away
the sun breaks through my window and kisses my cheek....

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He's Talking In His Sleep

Shhh...Night...he's talking in his sleep. 
Soft...Now...the corner of his lips,
Set...New...one 'hidden kiss' does peep,
So...Near...my heart feels its ellipse. 

Sounds...Nip...at breathless crags of air...
Shhh...Night...he's talking in his sleep. 
Sheer...Nerve...to listen, (if I...

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