Best High Tension Poems

HIGH TENSION

Horizon to skyline traversing panoply of greenery
High over verdant land they drape an elegant catenary

Stark constructs of geometry stand noble tall and fine
Their mission...

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Inspired Thinking

Inspired, I’m thinking
I haven’t an inkling
From where it comes
And where it’s going.

Crawling from a rock
Laid down atop
Fossilized dream silts
Beneath the rivers of
My mind?

Inspired, I’m...

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I don’t have a blueprint,
just this smudged version
of what she would look like, 
an impression in a shop windowpane,
just as the light catches her in...

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Mosquito menace
Dengue and Zika;
Fever inoculates

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Rainy weather
Stay indoors;
Talk to myself

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Dusk dark drowns
Eyes strain to see;
Sudden light blinds

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Sexy brisk walk
Lady of the night;
Stuff of dreams

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By kerb side...

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I sometimes find myself listening for God's footsteps
as He treads softly,oh, ever so softly round about me....

I sometimes find myself wanting to shake God's hand,
gently,...

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As a giant wave rises with passion
aroused by the overtures from the moon
I surf within its folds with high tension,
As a giant wave rises with...

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One day a Starling did speak with his brother
He twittering and whistled ten minutes or more
On and on about preening and bees, 
About sly cats...

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All of him professes, she’s the best,
four years later, his neighbour’s older wife, he sees better.
Tongue, once a warm compress to her needy soul
has been...

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My lines are sharp like a mallam's dagger
my lines are long like dreadlocks, a mad man's dada
my lines have the suspense, they can hit you...

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dealing with imbalance
between harm and harmony
in a loaded circumstance
all hope seems so phony
      comfort is infamous
    ...

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O! Ferocious temptress of the land, sea and air.
Spread not thy leathery wings in fancy flights.
From the generic evolution, into future clones.
Lust raptures into unknown...

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I think of my ancestors building you,
Tying and placing tree-trunks, like girders, in queue;
They constructed you, then, with stones,
Twisted, turned, criss-crossed, hung, dangled in zones;
Road...

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It has been a long time.
Summer of sixty-nine.
Dad, Uncle Don, and I
Their decision to fly.
Wires, you control type.
I ran and walked inside.
For Pepsi cold as...

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“Some Other Poet, White Iris”

When I look in the mirror what do I see?
I question existential questions and fiction, 
my eyes are the eyes of...

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The young ailanthus tree grew in a narrow yard
Behind a rowhouse in a block facing the boulevard,
And anyone could tell it never would grow tall;
Only...

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