Short Ellis Poems

Mr. Chuck Schumer
Is a Baby Boomer
   His real name is Charles Ellis
   Aren't you just insanely jealous?...

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Heaven Is
Heaven is the love and trust from a child
And the approval of God
by Joan Donnelly Ellis May 23, 2021...

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Born across the sea
Freedom through Ellis Island
Worked her life long
Gave her children her own dream
Worn, lined, beautiful face...

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Emily,Charlotte +Anne
using pseudonym of a man,
their writing soon rang a bell-
with talent so secure
their literature still sells well....

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At Ellis Island there were tons of lines
If you stood too long you were given fines
Your name easy if
It was Rose or Big Biff
Mine was misspelled about a hundred times...

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'Twas a horrible thing called the blight,
diseased potatoes a depressing sight,
starvation begone,
crossed over the pond,
arrived Ellis Island future looks bright.



3-13-17...

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Single life
Unto transaction 
Shredded Wheat
Fine-line
Love is hard, sticky like glue
Money grows, money saves
Ellis Dauwalt
Living until 35
Untie my knots, specialist, heave-ho!...

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I get really inspired
When it’s truly seen
What has transpired
For just Halloween

Russell Sivey

Entrant into Patricia Ellis' "You Are My Inspiration" contest

10/1/2012...

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Sisters
with a nom de plume,
Currer,Ellis,Acton-
Charlotte,Emily,Ann died much
too young

see their portrait by their brother Bramwell @ npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp00572&rNo=0&role=sit...

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Ethereal enigma echoed empathic eel ‘s emotional elevation
Elongated elusive elephant-like Edison expected ectoplasm
Extrasensory efforts of exacting Ellis effortlessly eludes evildoers
Exasperating empathetic eel and elusive ethereal enigma...

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I can't help but wonder what condition this planet would be in had the billions of dollars spent on the search for a second Earth , were instead, spent on saving this wounded Earth we struggle to survive in.
 By Joan Donnelly Ellis  January 5, 2021...

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E-xcellent
L-ines
L-et
I-nspired
S-cribe

P-oetically
A-maze
R-eaders
K-eenly
E-mploying
R-ighteous

B-irthday
U-nder
T-he
L-itterateur's
E-xceptional
R-egards

Topic: Birthday of poet Ellis Parker Butler (December 05) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Born two centuries yesteryear
A young pair who passed through Ellis
Built a frame home with rose trellis
Intertwined blooms like them bound dear.
Last roses on their headstones rest,
Grandparents by whom I was blest.

Bitesize Poem no52 Poetry Contest...

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born on foreign soil
she came through Ellis Island
American dream

she never had much
worked from sun-up to sun-down
wanting more for me

dying much too young
wishing I could say once more
"Mother, I love you"



For the Senryu for Mother contest...

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He lives off scraps somewhere north of High Park,
and bleeds art into the air in sections,
Mike Ellis, I don't know you...
but your colour is confession,
paint,
wrapped in the pale yellow ribbon of childhood,
tells of an ancient
paper sun, illuminating figures 
on blue silk canvas....

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by R. Ellis


Blue falls on the river
tonight falling and recoiling
in a splashing wave of stars
like frozen rain.

I miss the most of you that
I know which is a little piece
of something small but powerful
No burning flames no one the
sames just the now of I love you.


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By R. Ellis


How Much Is It Worth 
not counting money 

If I think I can talk 
like a friend to you 
and cry, laugh, or smile 
for us and you 

but then it's only me 
trying hard in this way 
to say
something

to listen to you 
as if I knew 
you could really love me.



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Big Bennie Davis and Joe Nally are walking down  to the pub 
 Joe's about five four and wiry.
A car pulls to the curb . The driver calls out
Hey Shorty. How do we get to Ellis street?
Nally" How did you know my name was Shorty?
Driver "I guessed"
Nally " Well guess where Ellis street is"
They went into the pub....

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The Head of the Eagle 
 by Joan Donnelly Ellis

 It is not the wing of the Eagle that enables it to soar to great height
 Nor is it the feet of the Eagle although they've impressive might
 It is not the eye of the Eagle that carries it to where sanction abounds
 But it is the head of the Eagle that lifts it to higher ground...

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Weightless then, I tiptoe on sand
One to wonder on her strips of gold.
Naming each leaf that curls up to rest
Dressed in fabric of glossy  strands;
Ever gracious, earth’s harvest brims twofold
Reeling, I am fed by musings' honeyed fest!




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You Are My Inspiration Contest of Patricia Ellis
By nette onclaud...

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There is often a lie behind 'I didn't mean it'
 A cruel intention in the giving of a gift,
 A selfish motive behind a compliment,
 A betrayal in a kiss.
 There are often truths discovered in fiction,
 Goodness accomplished in a white lie,
 And usually the worth of a friend unappreciated
 Until after they die.
 by Joan Donnelly Ellis July 5 2017...

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Lord, Jesus,I find myself in the Valley,
 And ask that You guide me through.
 Calm my anxious spirit. and show me what I must do.
 Saturate me with courage and wisdom,
 As I have never before known. 
 Fill my heart with blessed assurance.
 I need not walk this difficult path alone.

 Inspired by Angela Meyers
 by Joan May Donnelly Ellis
 Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015...

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How do you expect me to respond
 When you say I love you then you're gone
 Yes I know you're shy but how can I
 Prove my love true when away you fly
 Are you teasing and playing a game
 If that is so you should be ashamed
 Seriously if you really care
 Board the love train we've a life to share

Monorhyme
 9 syllales per line 
 Joan Donnelly Ellis March 3 2016
 Inspired by Silent One's poem ," Come A Little Closer "....

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(Ellis and Julia Bland)


We strode along the silvery sands, 
to the clandestine cove, found of alabaster
The moon shone brightly upon our hands ~
As our feet-- tides of blue gently rushed over.
Our hearts embraced by a sweet chant
‘Though, no words were ever uttered
In this place -- only for lovers meant…
Complete, we swayed with each other.





Comments: Here is to wishing you, my dear cousins 52 more years of wedded bliss...

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many have lost sight..
>love as a law, forgotten.
perception of depth askew..

in search of purpose,
truth viewed relative to goal.
>fun submerged in past...
adolescence falls behind,   
as figures make time to pass...

imagination spread thin,
over minds chasing schedules.
conversation lost, with haste,
>poetry, frames the moments.




written by: Ellis Cobb
written for the contest: fun and frolic
contest sponsor: Linda-Marie...

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