Short Combatting Poems

Smiles of joy always win hands down
The main ingredient for combatting a frown
Simple and yet
Not everyone gets
This simple solution to all negativity


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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UNCLE

under a tree family stories fell to me
next to my uncle the world was opened wide
combatting smiles and tears he told them carefully
little ears are delicate through mayhem suicide
ever watching for my mom,  who’d stop him in mid stride...

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Clashes of riches
For everyone wishes to be pronounced “thor”
Their hammer being the only way for them to score,
For they all need keys to unbind forbidden doors.
The answer meanwhile has been stitched to a lame roar, 
He who hears it, can decipher all the nameless lores.
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Blinking characters
Silent speakers

Awesome images 
Emotional carriages 

Beautiful thoughts 
Words fought and mutes sought 

Hiding behind hands
To make its own stands

The shy faces 
Gladly embraces 

While chatting 
To avoid combatting... 

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Its rather hard to remember when the days bleed together.
Bruised yellow, low melancholy soul
combatting vibrant purple highs.
Its diffucult, 
when something resides inside of your ribcage
ripping you apart.
When all you have to give the monster 
is the rolling black of a lonely 3 a.m. 
Its hard,
when all I am is gray. 
Gray matter heart beats too slow.
Gray matter brain splatter on the wall. 
But all I see is red...

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N-icely support the frontliners
I-n combatting the terrible threat; 
C-onstantly obey the protocol, 
O-nce the rules are strictly set.
L-et's support the frontliners, 
L-et's pray for their victory; 
A-sk the Lord to save them from
I-nfection that causes agony.

J-ust let them do their task, 
A-llowing them to fight the curse; 
C-orona pandemic will wither, 
A-s we support the frontliners.

Topic: Birthday of Nicollai Jaca (April 10)...

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