Élan Poems - Poems about Élan

To new beginnings

...

ahhh... the crisp feel of the new notebook
its spine never cracked open
its pages of virgin white perfectly aligned
awaiting their marching orders
eager for all and any pen markings
from sun...

Tickety Boo A Love Poem

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For the very first time in my whole damn life
Things are sailing along tickety boo
Don't ever remember a time quite like this
On top of the world cuz of you

You've turned my world...

Lapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy place

...Lapsed contra dancer rediscovers his happy place

I tip figurative hat to the late Cathy Robertson, longtime (lifetime) Thomas Paine Unitarian Church member, who unwittingly and quite casually made...

Ample Rose Bush

...Silken whispers greet the blithe morning
damp mist spring tap on red  oak door
joyful treat preempted faint dawning

Felicity a phase one can’t ignore
bright daffodil white and pink bloom
fragr...

Toujours L

...il était une fois, à Saint-Marine,
Un regard si pesant sur cette fenêtre qui m'illumine,
Douce, immobile, fort appréciable,
L'envie de te rencontrer, inoubliable.

Mais notre rencontre ne se pro...

I'M a Poet

...I'm a poet through and through,
Though I cannot explain to you
How it happened or what it was
That led me to it.
I didn't set out to pursue it,
I just, one day, began to do it,
And then ten yea...

The Perfidy of Memoirs

...gripping the shards of memories
ignoring the bloodied emotions
why do we torture ourselves 
with that which we cannot change
 
these evocations
vivid
disturbing
invisible to others
b...

Great Thoughts

...Great thoughts are the great means we have
To rise from the lows and miseries of life
And soar high to the levels never reached
By those who never had to suffer the pain
The setback, unmerited, t...

Gratitude To the One Who Made Me

...From You have come the wonderful things
That brought me joy and spread my wings
I soar today above the stabs and stings
That unfriendly bias so often brings.

The lightning that came was looking...

Out of Hiding - a Ninette

...Bright
shines spring's
fledgling sun.
New blooms praise her,
inspiring élan.
Now effusive,
she conquers
winter's
dun.

4/7/2021
Written for Caren Krutsinger's "Spring Ninette" poetry conte...

Elan Vital

...élan vital
David J walker

Everything is hungry 
Every single thing alive 
Shall survive at the expense of
Some poor enhungered something else 
That has learned to thrive in it’s 
Own peculia...

Slander

...I cannot help wondering about Vivaldi.
Antonio was a priest they say,
a cleric of the cloth.
I can’t help surmising
when as a young man
at the Ospedale della Pieta,
(a home for foundlings
and ...

Sequestration

...I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation with an industrial generator.
But I’ve g...

Louise Imogen Guiney: Poetess and Writer

...Louise Imogen Guiney – Poetess and Writer

Louise Imogen Guiney sought a certain poetry of 
perfection that rang true with a real radiance in her
poetry, that also bespoke a passion and feeling f...

The Dumb Keyboard

...I saw it in one of those chintzy antique shops.
I recalled that it was made for travelling musicians
that wanted to work out scores while not being overheard.

It was old and all wood. When I tap...

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