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Premium Member Love's Mountain


Written a ton of poems
Many of them silly, many about love
Have decades of experience
But the love I'm feeling now
Surpasses any I have ever experienced before
In my whole entire life
Free of encumbrances or prejudices
Finally able to just let the love flow
And where it stops, is where it stops
My heart explodes with excitement
The thought that after all these many years
I have finally found the one
That special someone with the heart of an angel
The soul of the most precious being
I have ever had the pleasure to know
I call her my love, my absolute treasure
I'm on top of love's mountain
Way up high feeling the fresh waves of love
Engulf me with a rapture sublime
Writing poetry brings out my deepest feelings
Feelings I have never ever felt before
Even after all these many years
At 89, I'm still learning how to love
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Wedding Questions

Honey...

Yes, dear.

When a woman and a man get married,
why does the woman traditionally stand on the man's left,
rather than his right?

Most men are LeftBrain right hand dominant.
So they're used to keeping that hand free
of unfortunate encumbrances.

You're not very nice.
That couldn't possibly be right,
or left, for that matter.
More likely they keep it free to take care of themselves
especially if they're getting married for the first time.

Or the second, or the third...
But, how is that different from what I said?

So, when two guys or two women get married,
how do they know which one stands on the left
and which is on the right?

Maybe they flip a coin.

Would heads, then, stand on the right
and tails on the left?

Honey,
why do you think I would have the first clue?
Honestly, I suspect it has taken them so long
for us to be OK about how they lie down together
that nobody, except you, is yet even wondering
how we should stand up together.

Premium Member Love's Mountain

Written a ton of poems
Many of them silly, many about love
Have decades of experience
But the love I'm feeling now
Surpasses any I have ever experienced before
In my whole entire life
Free of encumbrances or prejudices
Finally able to just let the love flow
And where it stops, is where it stops
My heart explodes with excitement
The thought that after all these many years
I have finally found the one
That special someone with the heart of an angel
The soul of the most precious being
I have ever had the exquisite pleasure to know
I call her my love, my absolute treasure
I'm on top of love's mountain
Way up high feeling the fresh waves of love
Engulf me with a rapture sublime
Writing poetry brings out my deepest feelings
Feelings I have never ever felt before
Even after all these many years
I am still learning how to love

Premium Member Fields of Life

to wend through golden grasses of my past
      with chill winds at my back from o'er the hill
   oh how I wish the glow of spring would last

thus far behind me stands that boy, miscast
      while just a jester, much too bright and shrill
   to wend through golden grasses of my past

the latter lad, thus pressed to love too fast
      so saved his heart to burnish, soft and still
   oh how I wish the glow of spring would last

he stumbled into manhood, loves amassed
      with wisdom gained from tragedy and thrill
   to wend through golden grasses of my past

encumbrances and burdens grew too vast
      while finding warmth in darkness and a pill  
   oh how I wish the glow of spring would last

so now I cross the fields of time, steadfast
      renewed with all the love one heart can will
   to wend through golden grasses of my past
oh how I wish the glow of spring would last.

Iron Balloons Concrete Skies - Part 1

Iron Balloons Concrete Skies  
               (PART 1)

Florescent plants fill up the planet in green light
The gigantic world found us before we found it 
Colliding, taking our ship by tonnage to the surface vast and wide
Strong gravity powered by shear mass that dragged us down
Ten billion light years from our home, simply to explore
Out there to investigate the void 

Memory succumbed by encumbrances of weight
Crushed thoughts by pressure grave embraced 
The crew senses loads intense, alien in nature
Landscapes fade into black open space 
Cast against a backdrop dotted, twinkling white 
So far away the tiny lights go out of sight still fixed in place

No sun or moon to fill in the surrounding emptiness
Space explorers hover in the artificial rocket light
Release submersible submarines in dark 
To reach the surface of the alien sea
Night springs eternal heavy on the shore
 
Trees of liquid mass punctuate the distances
Tall on horizons belly swaying pink with fluids
Yellow translucent branches dip into the atmosphere
Touched sticky, viscous, stretched to their limits  
                                              
Limbs distorted long in elasticity bounce back to shape
Laws of nature break from too much weight
As strong and thick as this planet seems to be created 
Light does not escape from black hole pressure 
Planets pull apart one segment at a time to their own fate 

Infinity looks on a foreign veranda strange
Wide visions on the vista compromised
As far as the eye can see 
Fathomed, reflected on, in the absence of dusk and dawns
On enormous lands looking gigantic on the cosmic storms 
On stars born that stay alive as best they can
Cast against a black backdrop far away
Dotted, twinkling white 
So far away the tiny lights go on into forever faded

Soft buttered views below the solid alien ocean emerge
Clouded sights of sinking submarines appear
Permitted to be discovered by visitors but not touched 


                           (Part 2 of this poem follows on next post)
Form: Epic


Premium Member A Place In My Heart

take my outstretched hand,
            follow me d
                               o
                               w
                               n... 
                to a place 
of beauty and happiness 
that no one else knows.

in this world of infinite madness,
turned upside down, 
nothing makes sense.
            let's spirit away 
                          from here, now... 
yes, come with me, my true. 
where we're going
        we'll make a loaf 
            out of crumbs of chaos 
that is life, as is.
j   e   t   t   i   s   o   n, 
            all that you carry,

your gnawing quotidian troubles, 
 shake loose the monkey on your back, 
elephantine encumbrances, 
mentally and spiritually, 
weighing you down.
after all the deafening noise 
of hustle and bustle, 
after a mighty-long day 
of slaying a thousand or more 
             internal dragons 
that left you feeling 
           cut down to size.  

I know a place of peace 
           to refuel you moribund fire,
to blink yourself away 
without tossing and turning.
when you rise at dawn, 
you do not complain 
about the forces against you. 
you don't argue with any fool,
you don't fight a single monster.
seraphs strum their harps 
    as we foxtrot in the rain 
          and sing in the sunshine. 

there is a place in my heart;
 through a secret gateway, you enter...

           a safe space 
  meant just for thee...
    walk right in, anytime 
      and repose comfortably 
                   with yours truly.

Vagaries of Life

Biological copulation draws Easter egg, 
fecund gooey glommed gametes 
heralding zygote 
(adroit bitcoin currency) 
describing extemporaneous fusion 
generate hormonal influx 
juices kickstarting life manifold   
natural occurrence pregnancy quilts 
rudimentary secrete tapestry 
until vicar wizard yields 
zealous adorable biological concatenation, 
derivative extrapolated filigreed 
Gonads heft, induce jointly knotted linkedin MineCraft 
nascent occurrence 
presaging quintessential reproduction, sharing third trimester, 
umbilical venerated womb  
yawping zee amazing baby, credit deoxyribonucleic acid, 
enigma fantastically grand
husband injected jetted klatch, leaving microscopic nothings, 
opportunistically pierced quarters, readied shutterfly trap, 
uterus vibrantly welded
*          *          *          *          *          *          *          *          *
yoked zappa bun, cooked definitive enchilada, 
formula generations hardy
induced jimmied kin, labored maternal newborn, one pricked queue,
randiness spurred testes ubiquitously, voyaged whimpering yelper
thence subjected to the royal treatment 
whence reality inundates the full term offspring
upon a lifelong journey (initially as a foreigner sans in utero), 
but willfulness viz life source secures survivor 
against the pinging peccadilloes
learning by trial and error to iron out kinks 
as one among the human league
since the modus operandi to transcend encumbrances 
triggers built in impetus
to traverse poet tent shill pitfalls along 
space/time continuum trajectory 
which adversity only serves to net greater strength 
since that instantaneous and spontaneous bitmap 
encoded upon conception.
Form:

Premium Member Words That Inspire Me

Words That Inspire Me
By Miracle Man
3/7/2020

Obstacles were not intended to be stop signs,
but encumbrances to induce thought

Character, is displayed by continuance beyond
 where others thought we’d finish

Think of words as arrows;
Once a poison arrow has left its quiver, there remains time,
but once released from the bowstring,
there remains only remorse.

Our legacy will be measured by what we brought to the table,
not in what we carried away.

Don’t let pride hinder help,
A solitary spoke won’t hold up a wheel!
And a lonely life is a kissing cousin
To a fisherman’s empty creel.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.

The Inevitable Elements

The Inevitable Elements

No prestidigitation, clairvoyance, or incredulous miracle
Can stave off that which is inevitable
Encumbrances of the day with vicissitude in decay
Pray on dramatic soliloquy born to die
We praise element 117 ununseptium discovered today. (Fact)
Like a chimerical era gone by, which seems almost sui genres
Yet not so unique in the comical sense of life and meaning
Encumbrances of discovery of the day seem mundane in the light of day
Colloquial to some not in or of that disposed nature
To understand that which is and is not the truth
The periodic table grows in numbers
We forge on in the dark of days
And pray that the inevitable stays in play
As ubiquitous and sane as ever
Form: Didactic

Premium Member My Deepest Feelings

(Dedicated to those who have found true love
for the very first time)



Written a ton of poems

Many of them silly, many about love

Have decades of experience

But the love I'm feeling now

Surpasses any I have ever experienced before

In my whole entire life

Free of encumbrances or prejudices

Finally able to just let the love flow

And where it stops, is where it stops

My heart explodes with excitement

The thought that after all these many years

I have finally found the one

That special someone with the heart of an angel

The soul of the most precious being

I have ever had the exquisite pleasure to know

I call her my love, my absolute treasure

I'm on top of love's mountain

Way up high feeling the fresh waves of love

Engulf me with a rapture sublime

Writing poetry brings out my deepest feelings

Feelings I have never ever felt before

Even after all these many years

I am still learning how to love



© Jack Ellison 2014
Form: Narrative

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