Short Unfaltering Poems

still
visibly shaken
by your beauty
sagacious eyes
reveal untold
tales of our
unfaltering love....

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Cesspool of unfaltering Love, 
Vortex of eternal Hope.
Vanquisher of false ego;
Labyrinth of opportunities for growth....

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It's Canada's Thanksgiving, today is the day
We give thanks for a country that continues to amaze
Peaceful and prospering
Steadfast and unfaltering
Proud as punch to be Canadian, this oath I convey


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Exuberant rapture
Spinning pirouette
Incandescent burning blaze
Spirited phoenix lost in lucent glory

Her anguish
Tired wings
Searing searching eyes

Leathered hands reach softly
Embers steady flame
Unfaltering gaze
Whispers of midnight
Blissful respite...

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An autumn wood
displays the wonder of nature
in it's peacefulness
and quiet glory.
I sit under a gentle yellow sun
watching the leaves
as they fall slowly to the ground.
So fragile is the health of spring
that in fall
the ritual of passing
is enacted with unfaltering dignity.
An autumn wood
is not unlike
myself...

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Amazed watching all of the pieces synchronized in time

Pure Wonder My Lord to allow me to behold thy Strength 

So Magnificent is thy Wisdom 

My Brain cannot conceive thy gift of Knowledge 

Show Mercy on this Heart 

I Trust in Your Unfaltering Love

Rejoicing in Your Salvation ....

Unto You My Lord..... My Humble Spirit...........

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Saturated, each 
labored breath 
holds the weight of 
a jet plane, 
rumbling through 
closed bedroom doors,
booming with echos
down the hallway's 
extension, unfaltering to 
continuous clock ticks,
rattling with shouts 
above the pounding rain,
penetrating through 
cork canal barricades,
brazen and relentless
in the hour of rest.

6-25-2021...

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In the cast and crew of heaven
Where the curtain never falls
You are a beautiful actress
Doomed to dance forever

Your hair, now long and brown,
Shimmers around your shoulders
Your eyes, dark hazelnut,
Show echoes of a past you don't remember

Your hands, they reach
For the faces of those living 
Your smile, unfaltering 
Only remembered by a few...

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veiled in moonlight
I see your contour
I draw your lines 
as they oscillate
with every breath
barely visible
if not for the subtlety 
of your steady
and unfaltering 
rhythmic breathing
like a soothing wave
undulating with your pulse
sweet silent murmur



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on February 9, 2019 for STANDARD CONTEST 175 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  RANKED 1ST...

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I see smiling faces
friends who surround me
in depths of darkness
when all hope is gone

Friends who surround me
undying love they offer
when all hope is gone,
they come when I need them most.

Undying love they offer
an unfaltering belief
they come to me when I need them most
the most wonderful of friends.

An unfaltering belief
they give to me
the most wonderful of friends
when they come to me....

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Hideous cancer chisels away
With strange tragic sculpturing
And exposes dark flaws
heavy and black:
Inoperable, they say.

Ever present cigarette
Tenaciously supported
By shaking hand
and unfaltering need
Moved toward fried death
As wrenching cough spewed
Fire in weakened lungs.

A machine by the bed
Connected to tubes,
She wavers between
Sleep and reality
Fighting to hear 
The voices around her....

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scheming and deceitful
it prowled shrouded
early in the morning
but there pretending
to not hear its warning
he closed his eyes
not to see the signs
when the clouds of darkness
wallowed in unfaltering
he couldn’t slow its roar
or ease the quivering
the disruption
the devastation
the teeter tottering
of invisible bowling pins
in rumbling chaotic raucus
tumbling down as rose the sun



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on March 14, 2019...

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