Best Poems Written by Jackie Elston

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The Seabed

A wave of sorrow
like yesterdays, tomorrows
is the ticking of the heart
it's the tick tock body, of the clock
So, a day is born
knowing, the night is torn
as the impossible light
keeps, trying to fight
the Seas, engulfing steps
climbing backwards, as it wept
for it's knowledge, you thought had lied
because the waves tried to crush it all
before it reached the shores
so it takes retreat
and takes their pain
down to the deep
there, stays anchored
to Seabed floor
because, freedoms light
felt, through storms of night
was seen, though not believed
and through the cutting shards, you glimpsed
a hand, descends
amongst that Sea Glass, and it bleeds
saying, 'now believe
  
 l was always here,
  l was always near
  and do not fear
  l conquered death'

Copyright © Jackie Elston | Year Posted 2026


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The Ice Sculptor

He Sculpted her from,  a block of ice
       and he had an image, drawn down, it twice

a million ice pleats,  in her dress,  that glowed
      he must carve it slow, must carve it slowwwwww

and the light behind her,  showed no imperfect flaws
      so he sculpt her more, scattered shards,  fell to the floor

and he carved her bodice,  of frozen plumes
      to mimic feathers, that appeared to move

 so up and down,  frozen , round and round
      and just like Artic water, but it had no sound

and strings of ice beads, from her shoulders edge
        her covered garment,  the strands did blend

not once , imagination ,  did ever wavering 
        though her ice cold eyes, had splintered shavings

  so he kept stepping back,  to  view , his work of Art
         sublimation decor, this woman, would never part

but he took too long , in this Art, admired
        for now it melted, for time makes , ice, 
                        ....so very tired.




Copyright © Jackie Elston | Year Posted 2026

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Blue

She walks amongst the Stars
and fuses, catching particles of woven energy,
in calmness and serenity
through porous, seeping, vein filaments
what looks like, frozen reflecting ice ferns.
Is it the activity of sensory
Spiritual depth ?
Is it electric current ?
Dressed in atmospheric lights
flowing through transparent tiny droplets
its lightening rivers, seen in the iris of the eye.
Volts, like the nervous system
and tattoo's permanently,  of an image
in ones mind
an invisible face, 
hidden by a visible veil
of Blue

Copyright © Jackie Elston | Year Posted 2026

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Icebergs Dancing

Freshwater ice, compressed, 
breaks off, with tremulous lights
and shakes
and rotates
in intricate snowflakes
like wings,  of ice crystals

then floats away, in the open Ocean

and she's tracing his steps, leaving white dust
like crushed shells
as she walks , gracefully, as if on
Japanese Okobo

They were attached, as if by circuits of frozen stems
with lacings , of smaller molecules
its microscopic
and its perfect

her ribs split open, and a mosaic of musical strings
reveal,  what looks like melting precious silver
and her face, is draped in a mass
of webs, upon webs

she looks at him, through the haze
he's the parchment Worlds were written on
now a sychronized flight path,  he illuminates
all the crowd of beams
of celestrial,  night skies 

and there, white noise combines
in steady, different frequencies
with excact, united, intensity
heard and seen, by only a few

is it choregraphed ?

Icebergs Dancing.


Copyright © Jackie Elston | Year Posted 2026

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