Best Knotty Poems

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” - Khalil Gibran

I am a delicate deck of cards,
alabaster roots, tossed
across time’s yard
from foolish patterns
of poker promises,
like the days
when scorching summer
was an ace of solstices.

You’ll find my name
in numbers...

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Rolling in
Meadows in her hair
A tango mass of
Butterflies
And what knots

Roped in

Tongue tied

With a pollen smeared smile
Smack smitten by every cinch





8/22/2019

Wow Me Poetry Contest
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the pair stood together by a warm hearth
strong andirons of wrought steel

shared log, a charred remnant

(7/30/2020 – ‘00 Destination 53 DMS)...

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"Serene is the green of the sculptured knotty pine, arms uniquely reach and none the same, with woody scent of heaven." Quote by poet

Knotty pine enfold in the sate gold sun 
stands stunning in an arboreal view.
Bound by forever changing blend pale blue 
pure air...

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MY LOST ROMEO

You're my only love
And I call you my love
You are my Romeo
And my inamorato

I feel so captivated
To be loved by you
All I ever wanted
Was to be with you

And finally will you marry me
You asked me
Yes I will marry you
And live my lifetime with...

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half smile of caged concealment
Mona Lisa like, kindling desire
awash in pixelated illusion
your dark dreaming eyes preserving secrets
the glow of an image, layer by layer

my wish to un-knot the shifting shape form
with its unknown gravity
a stance
painfully inscrutable 

till your voice, dusky, breathy
washes over me like smoke
reassuring...

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A ten-foot-high sunflower man
with a gold-capped tooth in his mouth but
there ain't no plan
yet he wears the same old knotty 
dreadlocks again and again
While walking himself through 
Black Folk's yard in that bebop-style
no doubt along the avenue road
while smoking some of that sweet sweet Gunga
Yet,...

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There once was a knotty couple
She had an eye made out of wood
He was as fine as finished pine
As was one leg, on which he stood!

They met in a park one morning
He walking with a cane, plop, plop
She failed to see his broken gait
Bumping said...

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Darkness descends and most folk
Are slowly wending to their bed
But, across  there in Knotty Ash
Some Locals are stirring  instead.
The residents of Diddyland,
Where the sun always shines,
Are pulling on their working gear
For night shifts down the mines.
The Diddymen of Knotty Ash,
That dedicated working band
Who...

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A naughty knight, his maiden sought,
Had high hopes they might tie the knot.
And though they ought, or so he thought,
’Twas all for naught, disaster-fraught,
Forgot how tied her nightie knots.
She, humored not, said Gute Nacht!

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Don’t Get Caught
Games of yester’s  busy bees
Flattened farthins off the tram track
Ticklin trout and snarin rabbit
Sailing stick boats in the gutter
Stealing one stop rides on trams
Throwing  stones at slow train firemen
Collecting coal he’s throwin’ back
Home fires carried in a sack

How to tickle trout
Find...

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Is my life getting knotty! 
Which was once simple and fun! 
Love came like blue ocean-waves, 
lapping on my heart! 

When your thoughts aglow in mind,
Shine...flicker of a moment,
Hundreds of bright sunflowers
Blossom in my dream!

I utter a gasp...oh no!
My heart was never missing, 
I left...

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Crone arrived masked as crescent moon.
We knew her by her star cape and her attitude.
I was wearing a warring pirate ship as a skirt.
The day was ripe for all kinds of shenanigans.

A trumpeter arrived to announce the next eclipse.
It’s one of those knottsy-tottsy-rottsy days.
I put...

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                              life knobby knotty
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An heart is a handy thing to have
except when its not -
Hands are of course handy as a glove
Except for ties that knot.

(c)Deo, Fort Beaufort, near Newtown "mixed-race" (In RSA English, "Coloured") Township. May 13th, 2021...

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