Best Knotted Poems

in the fervour of my sweat
sheets drenched
i wake to the toxic bellow of my own voice
in the torment of my own thoughts

in the complexity of my simple life
i lay eyes swollen wide open
 in the measure of hours set aside for sleep

overwhelmed by recent events
i...

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 Knotted in the Dance

Our eyes in a silent promise locked, 
the way only stranger's can.
Perhaps foretelling of lover's, unfrocked,
langoured and breathless ran. 

You, I think, blushed in surprise,
though I really don't remember.
For I, like a thief rushed window pried,
saw only endless splendor.

Your face laying...

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Kindled love, promises - 
keepsake blue in her dress,
kindest heart in his chest.
Kapoks sway in soft breeze.
Kindred souls wed beneath.
Knowing joy, lives unite,
kissed lips seal - man and wife!...

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despite some consideration for the hows, whys, wherefores and whether
unguided, wandering through known universe tying things together

aged in millenniums, centuries, decades, days, hours and minutes
each one existing where all things may be true within their own limits

why, oh why have such tribulations of strife and...

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I could be less positive of time's resolving karma
without not(not) as negative
binomially defining
what is not polynomial not
and what must be more positive
you see, or not.

This double negative binding positive
hurts my bicamerolling brain
intuiting what is not Right
deducing what could be Left
to permacultural imaginings
balancing economies with ecologic
synaptic...

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I sit here with my mind in in a tangle and twist.
Wondering how in the world did it get like this.

My stomach is in a knot, and my heart is racing.
Hoping you're mine for the taking.

Your melodic laugh and dazzling eyes will be the death...

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Your hardness deepens,
Lusts essence flowing within,
My knotted rope tightens.

(c) 2015 PJ Bayliss

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Tree befallen...
Moss crept, covered green
Bow thyself down 
Onto ache of knotted knee

Ashen Oak...
Ageless elder, time's casualty
May you molder 
Swift into winter's drifting sleep

Sacrificial timber...
In decay, another's sanctuary
Are thee eternal, yet alive
In a peace of nature's dream...

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A person asks a question
Simply looking for a fact,
And then appears surprised to hear
The answerer react.

For what he meant within his mind
Was not what was received;
A harmless query somehow’s got
The questioned one quite peeved.

It isn’t only Venus-Mars
For gender’s not to blame,
As words are often twisted,
Adding...

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All life I wandered,
In search of vague meandered,
But when I pondered,
Said my long subdued heart’s voice:
Unknot all knots, mute all noise.
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Tanka |15.12.2022| life, journey

Poet’s note: Is it not how the journey of life we travel? One step forward, two back and never straight forward! But...

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I tie my shoes in a double bowed knot
Unfortunately I'm wearing penny loafers

2/26/18
by James Edward Lee Sr.2018©...

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You make simple things 
become  crudely entangled; 
Knotting up a string;
Strangled thoughts and emotions
constricted to bated breath....

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In the midst of our lives we experience knotted phases,
where life happens quickly and we only remember moments
through hazy clouds,

Even through our joy and pain we try to unravel the
threads of life that remain tangled and obscure,
hoping that the clarity will lead to a brighter...

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1
i have 10fingers that have no
skin ____ what happened? my
bones sucked them in.

2
i have 2mouths that can't keep
shut, one sees pain, the other
eats it.

3
my tongue is double-knotted
lies inside a tooth fence
strains to speak, so hard it
keeps the knot tight.

4
there are trails that look like
veins that...

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P-artners'
A-ffectionate
T-ogetherness
R-ightfully
I-ntensifies
C-ouple's
K-notted

J-oy
O-nce
H-appy
N-uptials

&

J-ust
E-mploy
N-ecessary
E-ndless
L-ove
Y-ou
N-eed

Topic: Wedding of Patrick John & Jenelyn Laxamana (February 08) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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