Short No Man Is An Island Poems

Every man is an island
Eros harasses him alone
It is the hot ice-cream 
Never shared with other men...

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Man on Stone Island

Cars whiz by
as ragged, tufted 
man on stone island
carries his sign,
"hungry"
"homeless"
he has written
on the cardboard;
cars whiz by....

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Youse guys are my inspiration for writing each day
Appreciate and listen carefully to hear what you say
No man is an island
My skills have widened
Since reading your comments on my daily essays...

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Pray
for me.
And I will
Pray for you too.
We all need a hand.
From above at this time.
For no man is a island.
And no woman gives birth alone.
From the Source we are all connected.
Our goal should be peace-until we're called home....

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I think
I will
and I create--
keep your thoughts
pure, with a heart
full of love;
be conscious
of who you are
and the power
of mind—we
share both our
blessings and
horrors.

Man is no
Island...and the
universe, a sea
of relations....

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Some days are diamond, some days are diamonds
Hey wait! Somethings wrong, each man is an island
What's good for some
Some fall on their bum
For me, it's diamonds, no ifs, ands, or hyphens

(Hyphens? Well it sorta rhymes doesn't it!!!)...

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If no man is an island,
  what can one man be

If no man stands alone,
  to write the words, himself to free

If never beats that distant drum,
  one marching out of step

Who will swim against the tide,
 —their ink forever wet

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)...

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Some days are diamonds, some days are diamonds
Hey wait! Somethings wrong, each man is an island
What's good for some
Some fall on their bum
For me, it's diamonds, no ifs, ands, or hyphens

© Jack Ellison 2015


(Hyphens? Well it sorta rhymes doesn't it!!!)...

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The Convivial Mancs Minx
Stirrer of the Soup
Front and center of the Loom
Feminine rat pack crooner 
An erstwhile trusty steed
Who participates and loves to read
No man is an Island
But a women's playground 
To fell with words and pose
And she is a sullen rose amongst tidal waves...

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Ripples in a pool, like the ramblings of a fool,
Arc outwards and die, like us all, you and I.
Incurable romantics, and, despite the semantics,
No man is an island, we are one under the skin,
Be it gay, straight or bi, we are all of one kin.
Only remember, we are what we are
Wisps of dust, born of the same star....

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Why can't I forget your name?
You swivel my head around and ignite a warmth feeling in my heart.
Surely,I cant and don't want to let go of this feeling stimulated by your presence around me.
Like Taylor swift you'll leave me with a blank space if you walk out of my life.
Stay with me like Sam Smith sings as no man is an island....

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You speak to my spirit with logic,
I answer your mind from my soul

With words in two disparate languages,
our discourse to never be whole

Your left hemisphere sealed in a vacuum,
when my right hemisphere comes to call

Though Donne said, “No Man Is An Island”
—you’re marooned there adrift toward the falls 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Fresh pressed words like
leaving lovers if they
never come back
they were never yours

drainage pipes leak your
lucky stars down until
they reach the sea
now horizon bound

old man on an island
picks them up and reads
the lines you lost and
takes them for his own

carefully count the lines you
write for you never know
that if you tumble or fall
you could lose them all...

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I think
Therefore I am
What a joke
Its really toast with no jam.
Save it for a rainy day
Do you know how many ive had
I dont want to come out and play
A penny for your thoughts
Yup, you nailed it
But thats all i bought
Give me liberty or give me death
Hmmm a coin toss
I wont hold my breath
No man is an island
Really?
Is it all inclusive man
A bird in hand is worth
Nah, im not even gonna go there...

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He is his own best friend.

Everything he does he shares with himself.
He laughs with himself.
He cries with himself.
He enjoys life with himself.
He is bored with himself.

He can say good things to himself.
He can do new things with himself.
He can talk with himself.
He can stay up all night with himself.
He can write to himself.

But he is bored with himself.

No man is an island....

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R-ainbow coalition 
A-rrives at a common purpose; 
M-any a varied race 
I-s in search of solace. 
L-et the rainbow coalition color 
Y-our life with brightness; 
N-o man is an island, let all find togetherness. 

M-ake the rainbow coalition 
O-bliterate the disunity; 
R-emain in proper order, 
A-s we worship the Almighty. 
L-et the sheep around the world 
E-njoy the promised salvation; 
S-eptember twenty-sixth Tuesday, stay in the rainbow coalition....

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