Short Elysium Poems

foray at an end
Elysium fields await
souls reunited...

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I combed Elysium 
for my loss in purgatory
but on earth it sits...

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Born of manure
Elysium in a bowl
Portobello bisque


By Robb A. Kopp...

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Finley ground singed flesh
Atop a pineapple ring
Spiced up appetite

By Robb A. Kopp...

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Summoned from Oblivion
Whose darkness I depart
Godspeed to Elysium
The temple of the heart...

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wordlessly pleading.
what's worth of eternal life?
stay brave, it's worthwhile...

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Celebration breaks
a waterfall descends
dewdrops of mirth
twine to form 
theatrical strands
diffusing mélanges
of paradise
 ‘twas a triumphant day
to have reigned...

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Nevermore the river styx shall ye reach 
The trickster has played his tricks leaving your bones to bleach
Take ye heed in life be fair or in death the raven will steal your fare....

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My mind radiates,
A thousand thoughts
Of yearning, of love,
And some uncalled.
My only thought,
Thou shall see yonder,
In an elysium
Or in an orb.
O proper stuff!
Rheumy thoughts of thou, 
Shall live.
In odd-even,
On a reasonable shore.
-Prithvi Gulati...

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*Image of Mount Olympus by Pixabay.

Wedding Top Mount Olympus

Daintiness gauges in the light
Harmonia illuminates the Hall
Aphrodite and Ares delighted
Cadmus finagles an approach
All of Olympus in observance.
~Elysium shines~

2022 January 26...

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Elysium take me now!
My hand is outstretched for you
Send down the cloud
As slowly I close my eyes
Surrender my power to the soil.

I close my eyes and find myself
Under this tree
The sun dapples my skin and the grass
Is like gentle snow
Across the land is beautiful daffodils in prime
In my ears are the tunes of golden lyres....

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This night that helplessly run
On the palm of sleeplessness and boredom
By your presence came to an halt
An angel you are, may I say
Or by me you be called, 
The dulcet tune of passion's flute
For in the open field of your words
I find mellow breeze that blows me into another world
Serene, pleasant, undeniably from Elysium fields....

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From times in past in kingdoms vast 
 Man has taken thou time 
Pandered to his own needs 
Making our world a debauchery 
Fraught with weight and burden
Man fail to cease the day 
Thou has seen the daughters of elysium stray 
As does the world decay 
 So haveth an appraisal see 
Out with materialism in time 
To preserve the world in the name of the divine...

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SHANGRI-LA
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS




I longed for Elysium, in an unending search
I longed to join the chorus in Eden’s church
To bath in the warmth of an idyllic pool
To jump with joy like an unburdened fool
Combing the seas n heavens to no avail
Shangri-la was elusive, yet I refused to fail
Looking outward I could not reach my goal
Shangri-la resides in every mans soul...

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o poetic dear-
you are my oblation 
here, in this temple 
this is mind, 
this is a heart, 
this is the inner inn of diction
 
you are my worshiping motion 
you are my words 
you are my wisdom 
I love you in my garden of work 
I love you in my learning park 
you, the poem 
you, the poetic heaven
every I mark you
in the grove of Elysium


-March 06, 2019 Chattogram...

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*Image of Elysium & Hades by Pixabay.
The Hole: Fibonacci-Acrostics

The
Hole
Exposed
Hidden depths
Awaiting for new
Detainees impromptu procedure
Effecting their salutations unique initial
Status as new preferential residents, plus with a permanent acquisition.

2022 January 14

HMS; 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, syllables....

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A lifetime passes
but she lives on, touchable now
only with mind-beams.

Walking through a cornfield together
seems like Elysium.
Imagination fills in the blanks,
her hand in mine
leads to a future memory.

That cornfield, that soft sunlight
its all smolder and smoke now,
but she is invulnerable.
She has moved to a place
just ahead of my eyes.

I see her in new yellow robes;
the dazzle of her,
waving
between the suns fading rays....

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"Bodies of Work"


Wings lift us up
on the old works 
reinvented 

beauty 
is what we want,
beauty in the mind

we invoke 
a new world,
continuum in harmony

it sings 
in the strange,

beautiful things
in the heart 
to mind 

quantum 
phenomenon
magnetised

Wings lift us up
away from the old 
bodies of work 

Venus rising
luminescent 
via lucis

Elysium


(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
lux vitae
...

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I'll lay down here and rest my head,
in this arc of stones I'll make my bed.
On the moss covered floor of the forest deep,
I'll close my eyes and fall asleep.
The stars shall be my counterpane,
and shelter me from gentle rain.
Moonbeams gild my tired eyes,
and breezes sooth me with their sighs.
No more for me the travails of life,
for nature shall become my wife.
Here, in the forest where wild things roar,
my heart will rest and ache no more....

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Nectar in flowers calmly creams,
Within hearts seep vast, wide, wild streams;
Ardent chill thrills, within nerves, flow,
Passion gallops; reason limps slow;
Earth seems Elysium divine,
Fills and overflows with love-wine;
Fairies, midst blossoms, mind enchant,
Chorus of love-melodies chant; 
Midst wild waves of turbulent seas,
Heart-beats violently increase;
Within endless embrace-filled peace,
Times their times for time-being cease...!


30 March 2022...

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Over the land covered in suet, singed by storms of fires
The Fire Drake surveyed for any breath of life remaining
The humans decidedly in unification ended all existence
Hovering over Elysium once occupied by eternal Spring
The Drake came to rest on wet wood washed to shore
It considered all things and then it took to flight
Once there was a place called Heaven and now it’s forever lost





Note: I would consider this Urdu Poetry.

©Bonnie Jennings All Rights Reserved...

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I kneel 
before an altar of dreams
and haunt the tombs 
of the Unobtainable.

I can't quiet the restlessness;
there is no pacifying
that ancient, 
hand-me-down heirloom
to own an Elysium
I can not describe.

Is it my inheritance
to long for fire
with the sun in my hand
and thirst for a stream
with the Nile in my mouth.

Will I forever crave magic
and gorge myself on it
only to vomit truth
so I might own the emptiness again
and once again
satisfy my restlessness?...

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There have been many pleasantries
As a moppet over the years:
The countless summer night breezes
That whistled music in my ears;
Or lay supine and gaze above
At the moonlit star studded sky
And conceive my dreams undreamed of
As they emerged before my eyes.
But gone are those childish whimsies
Those were born of the wind and stars.
Gone are the musical breezes
That once filled those nights… au revoir!
Gone is that place where I once reigned
Yet in my heart it still remains....

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Liquified in an elixir 
Of eloquence 
I seek asylum 
For I am an asylum seeker 
Seeking for the one and only true Elysium 
But will my eolian language 
Be enough and not only 
Reach daft ears?  I hope not! 

Yet, I do so fear my eolian tongue 
Be too hot and untranslatable 
Worse, unheard of 

I get so caught up in the moment, 
I find myself inside a bubble 
Floating upward, and onward 
Floating higher Into Infinity 
                                         and beyond. . ....

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Stand before you take a bow,
think about us then and now.
Grant the sun another set
to polish this serrated day.
Show me what you can deduce
for splintered love we thrust obtuse.
If merged as one we do attempt
to leave this path we've led astray.

Do redeem the wayward doe,
with staunch eyes on grievous crow,
haunting skylines absent truth;
The once divine, nevermore.
To perceive pure innocence
is to pursue true penitence;
birthing promiscuous saints
from every celibate whore....

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