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Best Elliptic Poems

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Declaration of Conception
Declaration of Conception:
(Books are life)




Syringe of knowledge
Injected into my vein
           Before birth
   ...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elliptic, on writing and words
Form: Free verse
I'M Leaving Eventually
I'm Leaving (eventually)

I'm going to leave the planet 
never coming back
wave you all a quick goodbye 
as I vanish into black

Traverse the great elliptic 
skipping...

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Categories: elliptic, dream, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Room Made of War
There is a room 
no walls, no floor
woven black
and made of war 

no sun to crawl
no stars transcend
elliptic arc
never descend

in this place
mirror of death
brought to...

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Categories: elliptic, absence, depression, psychological,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Love Is Her Belief and Her Commandment
Love is her Belief and her Commandment
by Michael R. Burch

for Beth

Love is her belief and her commandment;
in restless dreams at night, she dreams of Love;
and...

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Categories: elliptic, angel, faith, god, heaven,
Form: Verse
Bio-Thermal Geometry
	
Mama, mama ...
I got a triangular problem
And I need you
to give me the square deal truth
Straight honest for real, lying foolproof — 
it’s a rectangle...

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Categories: elliptic, cute, fun, humor, math,
Form: Light Verse
Slate Sea Swirls
Slate sea swirls
a breath of air.
Quiet illusion
not so rare.

Electric charge
hair stands straight.
My heart and pulse
palpitate.

Kayak rocks
though not a storm.
A silent ship
elliptic form.

Hovers right above
my scalp.
Terror...

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© Kim Shaw  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elliptic, boat, dark, mystery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Summer Solstice
Summer solstice 






As Sun appeared to stand still in the sky
hence a Latin term solstice arised,
Summer sweltered till to fierce heat's wilt, 
came closer to...

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Categories: elliptic, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Feeble Little Mudskipper
In alternating bad attempts;
To reach a puddle of regret.
   A bathing suit of scales he weighs;
   His mouth a circle of...

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Categories: elliptic, animals, funny, nature,
Form: Couplet
Biothermal Geometry


Mama, mama ...
I got a triangular problem
And I need you
to give me the square deal truth
Straight honest for real, lying foolproof — 
it’s a rectangle...

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Categories: elliptic, best friend, girlfriend, satire,
Form: Light Verse
Nephalim Oracle
A cosmic clash of epic force
Split Tiamet like brittle thread
Nibiru hugged its distant course
Propelling moons to gnaw and shred

Kingu marveled at what was formed
Asteroids shed...

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© John Weber  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elliptic, life, mysterywork, life, work,
Form: Rhyme
Ban Assault Weapons In 2017 - Part4
Firearms magazine offer manifold big bang for their buck, 
many ear rational per son or daughter loves advocate, the late chuck 
heston (now a shooting...

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Categories: elliptic, poverty, prayer, racism, silence,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Spring On a Trolley Car
Like the Sun
a trolley car
Is bound to the tracks

Like the Sun
A trolley car
follows an elliptical path

Like sunflowers
People need the Sun
For life

The Sun journeys on the...

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© Mel Brake  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: elliptic, adventure, allegory, moon, morning,
Form: Free verse
The Oort Cloud Cometh
The Oort Cloud Cometh

A few million years from now if we are here
Comets by the thousands will appear
Sent by cosmic forces originated from out there
Science...

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Categories: elliptic, change, death, image, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Canoeing On the Current River
Our riverbank launch at dawn
where dense forest chills the breeze,
where cottonwood leaves flutter like wings,
and weeping willow penumbras tease.

Glistening, rippling turquoise water churns.
Crystal swirling pools...

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Categories: elliptic, allegory, dream, extended metaphor,
Form: Pastoral
Premium Member Comet
elliptic orbit  ~
giant mass of rock and ice
a dirty snowball ~...

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Categories: elliptic, nature, space,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry