Long Ellis Poems
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I Feel So Little Send Me what you heard around the worlds said It is Good It feels Like Good Energy
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Categories:
ellis, adventure, america, analogy, beauty, endurance, history, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
A Poem For My History Teacher
I wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics fluidly written,
Perfect...
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Categories:
ellis, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust, humanity, memorial, slavery,
Form:
Rhyme
Of Winks and Wings - Part 2
"Oh, indeed she was, young man ... I mean Greg. It IS Greg, if I recall correctly?"
"Yes. Or you can call me True Friend if you like." I turned to...
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Categories:
ellis, autumn, life, lost love, nature, soulmate,
Form:
Free verse
Kaleidoscope
"Kaleidoscope"
They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy
and far removed from
such an alien world,
would not possess the knowledge
of such terrible and ruthless, lusty
characters of strong will;...
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Categories:
ellis, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
A Poem For Sam Cooke
December 14, 1965
"Mr. Samuel Cooke. Sam Cooke??
You been in that casket for three days..
You a long way from Chicago, son?"
And Sam said, "What happened
Where...
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Categories:
ellis, america, celebrity, devotion, music, sorrow, sympathy, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
K373 and K374 of the Thirukkural Translated With Commentary
K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary
The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...
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Categories:
ellis, appreciation, bible, christian, fate, philosophy, tamil,
Form:
Couplet
To Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Prize Winner
As soon as I heard
You were the First African American Male
To win the Pulitzer prize for Poetry
I wanted to run out and celebrate
I wanted to wake up Hughes and Dunbar
And Baraka and say we...
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Categories:
ellis, assonance, black african american, books, muse, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Acknowledgements
1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce...
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Categories:
ellis, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form:
List
Rainbow Sherbet and Dying Poems
I never got why you always
Ate the red pink color out
The Sherbet ice cream
It was like excavation
How you removed all the cherry
Without even affecting the other colors
Leaving the orange and the vanilla
Neatly for others
Who...
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Categories:
ellis, bereavement, best friend, cancer, caregiving, death of
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Old Myzie
OLD MYSIE
“As crazy as Old Mysie” my grandma used to say.
Land company made promises, too good to be true,
To fisherfolk from Isle of Skye, it seemed the thing to do.
Cleared up land and new built...
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Categories:
ellis, brother, death, depression, endurance, immigration, loneliness, mental
Form:
Rhyme
WE ARE CANADIAN, EH?
WE ARE CANADIAN, EH?
We came across the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago.
We didn't linger long up there – 'twas 99 below!
We wandered south while looking for a Timmy's 'round each bend,
Just something in...
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Categories:
ellis, humor, pride, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Iolanda beautiful bella
Iolanda I am named after Yolanda
Princess Savoy Italian princess
my patron saint the only saint
of two countries Poland and Hungary
When italian princesses were being
banned from Italian soil my brown my
great grandfather...
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Categories:
ellis, angel, art, celebration, inspirational love, journey, poetess,
Form:
Kyrielle
Chandra
CHANDRA
Down to my last dollar, staring at the floor,
As lonely near two million as on Sable Island’s shore.
Another grey Toronto day, the saddest I had known,
No place now to lay my head, so...
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Categories:
ellis, dream, grief, heartbreak, loneliness, love, romantic,
Form:
Rhyme
Thin Line Blue
THIN LINE BLUE
Sworn to serve and to protect, the dedicated few,
We are the ones who...
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Categories:
ellis, anger, conflict, courage, death, evil, fear, violence,
Form:
Rhyme
Miracle On 44th Street
Lyrical On 44th Street
The argument started at the table
He was too soft,
too timid to quote Gable
She said ,"Your dreams aren't keeping the lights on.
If I see you writing again, your...
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Categories:
ellis, caregiving, change, family, father son, inspirational, retirement,
Form:
Free verse
HERE COME THE SNOWBIRDS! Royal Canadian Air Force
HERE COME THE SNOWBIRDS!
...
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Categories:
ellis, celebration, flying, military, patriotic, song,
Form:
Rhyme
Hopscotch In Harlem 1948
EXCERPT (Approximately 30% of Poem)
...
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Categories:
ellis, black african american, familywork, sick, work,
Form:
Ballad
Curious George
I remember Christopher Robin
When helping Pooh find honey
Was my biggest problem
I remember the blustery days
We trusted each other in every way
I remember When we helped Eeyore
Find his way home from the Sea shore
Everything was good
In...
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Categories:
ellis, adventure, child abuse, childhood, conflict, hope, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
TIME IS LIKE A COSMIC RIVER
TIME IS LIKE A COSMIC RIVER
Time is like a cosmic river running to a somewhere sea,
As wide as all existence, long as eternity.
Time to be or not to be, time either foe or friend. ...
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Categories:
ellis, change, creation, history, space, time,
Form:
Rhyme
My Life So Far:
I met my love one summer's day
Amongst the fields threshing hay
Her bonnet slung about her neck
As homewards afterwards we did trek
Her bonny brown hair
to waist length did fall
A comely wench with wherewithal
She at first was...
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Categories:
ellis, voyage,
Form:
Free verse
Shout Out
I had to hook you up after Bloom dropped
Shout out to Tag in and Tag out thank you for helping me out
To Erwin Ellis and Papa K thank you for sticking with me...
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Categories:
ellis, friend, friendship, inspiration, journey, success, thanks, tribute,
Form:
Lyric
11-9-2016
11-9-2016
On Election night, twentysixteen
I saw a strange and surreal scene
I looked cross the great harbor at Lady Liberty that night
And I knew right away, something wasn’t right
I saw Lady Liberty and she was crying
Because the...
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Categories:
ellis, allusion, discrimination, fear, history, immigration, patriotic, political,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Apple City New York
While listening to Schumann’s “Arabesque”
and “Fantasiestüche” for the Mozart B flat Sonata,
I feel the warmth and love that’s powerful within;
a moment of instrospection, a source of intervention.
I live in a wonderful country, beautiful and...
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Categories:
ellis, happiness, hope, imagination, life, peace, people, city,
Form:
Narrative
Settling Old Grudges, Part Ii
...“The bloodshed grew, the army was called in,
and sided with settlers as they often did,
Blue Hawk’s people were crushed, all rounded up,
put on the rez and told to stay within.
“Despite the peace both sides still...
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Categories:
ellis, conflict, confusion, family, father daughter, history, native
Form:
Narrative
Armageddon
Armageddon
Can you feel the raging storm approaching?
Hear the ferocious winds scream, "It's true"?
Can you see the coal black clouds descending,
Concealing the bleeding Blood Moon from view?
Do you smell the deadly...
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Categories:
ellis, bible, christian, deep, god, gospel, jesus, judgement,
Form:
Rhyme