Short Wracked Poems

In youth's full bloom
   a stick of TNT

Now wracked with age
   He spells it Tea 'N 'Pee...

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A real charmer when I was growing up
My skin's now all wrinkly and wear Depends
Walk with a cane
Wracked with pain
Why can't we all wind up totally undamaged...

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There once was a monster called Bess,
Who lived on the shores of Loch Ness.
She was wracked with sudden guilt,
After lifting someone’s kilt,
And said, ‘Hoots mon, what a mess!’...

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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
Journey's been tough
Who am I kidding, it's been like sipping champagne...

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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
Journey's been tough
Who am I kidding, life's been like sipping champagne...

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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
Journey's been tough
Who am I kidding, life's been like sipping champagne...

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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
Journey's been tough
Who am I kidding, life's been like sipping champagne...

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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
Journey's been tough
Who am I kidding, life's been like sipping champagne...

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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
The journey's been tough
Who am I kidding, life's been like sipping champagne...

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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
The journey's been tough
Who am I kidding, life's been like sipping champagne...

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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
The journey's been tough
Who am I kidding, life's been like sipping champagne...

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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
The journey's been tough
Who am I kidding, life's been like sipping champagne...

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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
Journey's been tough
Who am I, life's been like sipping champagne




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My body's all aching and wracked with pain
Not sure I want to travel this highway again
Once is enough
The journey's been tough
Who am I kidding, life's been like sipping champagne


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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I survived the 60’s,
can I ask the same of you…

With soul in tact, my body wracked,
and conscience split in two

My parents now have I become,
these days of future past

With bloodshot eyes and memory owned
—by that decade not to last

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2019)...

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I'm stuck in bed, 
my body wracked with pain,
My good health a distant memory. 
I see now how much I took it for granted, 
my joints so weak, 
my fever soaring like the desert's sun.
I crave a sweet dessert, 
but my tongue is numb,
This sickness a curse that I long to outlast....

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Cultivate peace
Under this open sky
Love is often elusive
To cultivate peace
Is a catalyst to love
Very few people know peace
Are wracked with abuse
They are victims of 
Every vile thing.

Peace can be found by
Everyone within
And we all must
Come into our closet
Every day to grow peace....

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Today I didn’t know
What I was going to write
I wracked brain for ages
But inspiration not in sight,
I feel my creativity 
rising recently
Yet today my inner poet,
Has been a little hard to see.
I can see the irony
It's there upon the screen
To write the fact I can't write
Is a mystery to be seen....

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“Poke the bear
you get the claws
Chase the shark
you get the jaws”

With each lie 
foundations crack
A friend once hurt
your soul left wracked

Timeless rules
 do still apply
Where you can run
but never hide

 Truth outdates
the oldest Sage
With us its servant
— time its slave

(Dreamsleep: August, 2024)
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It was during those bleak nights
when I’d wake up screaming
in a bucket of sweat.
The times I hailed you with bullets
full of ugly insults.
I’d cry in your arms,
my mind wracked with guilt.
The holes in the walls—
they’re plastered up now.
The room is silent as I watch you weep
holding the last photo
you took of me.
I did try to tell you.
Do you hear me now?
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Cough, blood everywhere, sneeze
Rotten flesh, wracked in disease
Brainless, basic instinct to eat
Cannibal, horror that they greet
Wanderer, on the road to no where
Dead eyes, unintelligent stare

Groan, the cry of death
Violence, like a junkie on meth
Shuffle, lack of balance
Virus, for the living zero tolerance
Decay, everyone will die
Apocalypse, the time is nigh...

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Crest fallen try to make best of something
Left lost for US no life of hope returned
All like dopes obeyed the sudden shifting
Alarmed adrift while pointless parody remained

Wracked with joyless laughing nature cries
Arrested skies attest how man abstained
Under cycle siege a reign of mixed belief
Advancing chaos judgement failing all disdained
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I can’t find any peace of mind.
It’s the one thing I can’t find.
I’ve wracked my mind, 
But I can’t find the piece 
Of peace I need to right my mind.
I wonder if I’ve lost my mind,
Or just a piece of my mind?
I‘ve tried but there’s no peace to find
Anywhere in my peaceless mind.
If you have any peace or a piece of 
Peace of mind to spare,
Would you find it in YOUR mind
To share?...

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I went to the wilderness 
By following her voice
I drank from her wisdom
A cup chosen by choice

Preconception abandoned
I went with a clean mind
Predudices, experiences
Often make me blind

Love the replacement
In a World wracked with pain 
Hate is often chosen
Over and over again

A few make a difference
Love spreads flavor like salt
If some of us begin helping
It won't matter who's at fault...

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The tree was wracked with age, disease
  her branches missing bark and leaves
Chill rains attacked -- it coughed, it wheezed
  Resistance gone, what good to grieve

Once tall and stately, proud to be
  the loveliest of maple trees
Her sap flowed rich throughout the Fall
  Delicious treat for one and all

So sad to see a landmark die
  Enough to make a grown man cry



     ~ Iambic Tetrameter ~...

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