Short Elan Poems

dancing with aplomb and elan ~
spontaneity has no plan...

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If your yearning 
  is for learning

Learn like a young boy
  full of zeal and joy

Not like an old man
  who's misplaced his elan...

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Flowers ask not the woodsman
For the address of the butterfly
Radiating love in pulsating elan
It’s magnetism seduces the sky

31-July-2020...

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Barack Obama
Black-white enigma
Benign  real time elan
Banishing time-worn ‘breaks’ over a WAN

PS:  WAN means Wide Area Network
11th Feb 2011...

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When you discover
Your mission in life
Which is your purpose
Part of the journey
Will be completed

Sometimes life is
Compared with a
Giant puzzle
Waiting for the

Completion
Be valiant
Take first step

You will
Be free

Bloom...

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Simple exit plan
Do it with elan
Life a one way street
Our nonchalance greets
Detachment complete

Unaffected
By external
We feel within
Pulse internal

Hues of joy
Manifest
Bliss ahoy

Clear light
Within

Dawns

13-October-2020...

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A gentle breeze can't help but please
When do-si-do-ing through the trees.
It moves the air (to who knows where)
With grace, panache, elan and flair.

When I can sit a little bit
And bask within the realm of it
I feel delight and that just might
Inspire me to start to write....

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I want to go where the land
Is boundless, where the wheat
corn and flower cane grow,

where the soft white downy
of cotton amplifies in big fields,
and bed my body and soul on
the waves of cotton balls,

and in natural surrender my 
élan vital to feel the virginal of cosmos 
descending for once in age.....

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A mercury-free tin of tuna fish
  bolted down, gagging all the way
To the accompaniment of gossipy lips
  a revolting noon hour this hot day

A walk inside COVID's masked prison
  did not appeal to me either
Tossed the tin in the can with a certain elan
  Farewell, tuna fish; unleashed, my inner Tarzan...

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Ten Words


T’was a bone fide anomaly
an avant-garde cacophony
carte blanche imbued with déjà vu
soft ennui of élan
following an endless toque
the dilettante went flat
baroque


John G. Lawless
©1/15/2018

ten words

Anomaly
Avant-garde
Baroque
Bona fide
Cacophony
Carte blanche
Deja vu
Dilettante
Elan
Ennui...

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Every morning I wake up
I feel my day adore –
Anew rays of first light
Afresh my mind, cleansed soul – 
A new beginning to endure. 

Yester memoir enclosed agone
Today to face more  –
A whole day unrevealed
Fostered withal by elation. 

Walked my way 
With anew hope
Destiny wished crystallized. 

Aspired aspect
Limpid élan…

Tranced....

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COMMUNITY CAFE

Love us they, brew and serve the poems best
Jo, Jan’s Mocha mystic ,magical sprinkles zest
Laura’s Latte Lovely lifts our spirits like a fest
Nette’s Cappuccino catchy cures soul to feel blest 
Broken Wing’s Espresso elan puts every stress to rest!


13th October 2016
For Andrea's Contest-CB TRIBUTE CONTEST ONE
by: Anulaxmi Nayak...

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Lickety Split

Life is a vessel 
Inside my mind
Creeping along
Knowingly
Elan is over when the sails topple 
The wind ceases
Youth, and lulls old age

Such is the ascent and descent 
Pressing on now in quick montages
Life in its infancy to ending
In a blink of prized tuna and weathered sails
This vessel sailed by much too fast

connie pachecho

4/10/18...

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Understandably,
we were worn out with love,
romantic movies gave you hives,
love poetry often made me gag.

We had this thing going on,

love and hate had mingled,
ennui and elan had given birth
to a redeemed vision
of that far too simple word.

When we kiss now,
that lip-to-lip caress
has exponentially evolved,
into a whole lexicon
of newfound endearments....

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Anything for you, just mention it to me
Walk across the world? Swim across the sea?
I would do it all with pleasure and elan 
If at the end you'd be there, determined I'd press on
When legs and arms began to tire
A thought of you would light the fire
And onward I would stay my quest
The prize is nothing short of best
Real fur collar, diamond ring
I don't like faux anything...

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Recognising perfection of the divine plan
Unfolding subtly with enigmatic beauty
We celebrate each hue & nuance with elan
As emerging surprises delight in continuity 

Within a continuum of thought free awareness
Attention poised free of memory drawn imagery 
We relax in our innate state of dynamic stillness 
Presence alone witnesses bliss play celebratory 

04-August-2020...

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The baroque politician walked with carte blanche
he definitely was a bona fide anomaly.

The crowd didn't like his avant-garde elan
as the low mummer turned to cacophony.

Politician calmly showed ennui
as though it was deja vu.

Crowd was not a bunch of dilettantes
becoming avant-garde took his shoes.

Then began ripping his baroque clothes
what happened next, nobody knows....

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When I goggle at the screen
Of wild black yonder,
O Stars! I feel a blazing avidity 
In my vital limbs

Elan eyes of the angels,
Invested in with thousand finesses,
Show your cloudless sparkle to
the ignorant world

The magnetic star adjacent the Moon
to guide the sailor way out,
My heart responds to
thy flickering with life,
You ignites my bituminous soul,
With an immortal spark...

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Killed all my own crew
so i i could take yours
on myself
Elongate my language
My elan is obvious
oblivious to my goal
dont you realise this is my mind
going for a stroll
Take your threats so empty
and toss them in the air
Careless words aplenty
from a man who doesn't care
well wishers drowned within the well
sorry just a wisp
away from worry
but no need to fret
i am just a loser
and thats the surest bet...

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Among artists, she is something of an anomaly—
Traditional and avant-garde, austere and baroque,
Yet a bona fide artist nonetheless. 
Amid the cacophony of modernism, 
Where iconoclasm gives Carte-blanche 
To jettison all rules and form and coherence—
A kind of fauvist deja-vu in distorted echoes—
She, neither dilettante nor polemicist,
Has genuine elan, and force, and passion--
In contrast to pandemic, jaded ennui....

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Winter’s subtle hues of grays and blues
decorate and embellish the earth.
The coolness of the colors imbues
youthful elan, and promises rebirth. 

Celeste mountains with electric tops
reflect the fullness of the blue moon
The coldness of the cobalt night pops
urging arctic stars to sing their tune.

Ocean teal with cerulean caps
swirls and twirls the turquoise waves and soon
meet the shore with Aquarius laps
and excites my lonely heart to swoon....

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Besides being a wife to soldier
She nurtured life skills in her daughter
How to overcome odds and upsets 
Only to reach the collosal heights
Trained her doting doll cute
Thus being her first pedagogue astute
Not an easy task of
Being an army man's better half
But she did with elan and finesse
Symbolic of Her Highness
Making her kid very successful
She did her job simply powerful
I yearn to be her son in next
Birth so that I have her love best..!!...

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I feel a sense of déjà vu as I listen
to the cacophony of voices:
dilettantes discussing poetry 
under baroque chandeliers. Masquerading 
as avant-garde writers or bona fide critics 
(black turtlenecks; color is an anomaly and suspicious), 
they claim carte blanche to spew 
pompous platitudes,
pronounce entire oeuvres as lacking elan
while all they create is endless ennui.

1/22/2018
For contest: Contest: Ten Words Ten Lines 2
Sponsor: Silent One...

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An elegant baroque auditorium,
filled with bonafide audience,
awaiting for an eminent avant-grade maestro,
to hear his modern musical cacophony;
A fusion of ancient and modern magical tunes;
that makes the people feel pure elan and bliss
and he never makes his fans embrace ennui.
He was once an epitome of anamoly and failure's friend,
but a hardworking dilettente and was given carte blanche,
he exerted himself to prove him and now his success is a deja vu...

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Anomaly don't enter contests like this
the style is a bit avant-garde,
I'm a bit of an oldie, preferring baroque
and finding this bona fide hard.
The cacophony of words dancing round in my head,
carte blanche to use this ten word list,
this is my third attempt, seems a bit deja-vu
but my dilettante side can't resist.
Not sure if I can do this write with elan
but hey-ho, ennui go.

For contest 'Ten words, ten lines2', sponsor Silent One
January 23rd 2018...

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