Best Tangents Poems

More often than not
The mind is mellow
Frequently
The mind is focused
Sometimes
The mind is unsure
Once in a while
The mind is enraged
And then
The mind has flashes of inspiration
Undeniably
The...

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          It is the glittery eyes of your
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the power
of a single moment
that to the core
transforms your life
launching it 
in new directions
one surprise after another
life full of such moments
each lifeline looking
more like a...

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I decide not to worry about the parallelness
Of the tangents to the circles of our life story
The equation of the curve of my initial decision
Of...

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Whenever the truest edge doesn’t hold,
Another existence it does belie.
When causality is a broken line,
Unseen variable has cracked the mold.

Simple cause and effect gets in...

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To be sung to the tune of Both Sides Now by Judy Collins

Rows and rows of subtrahends
Repeating decimals without end
Regression lines to mark a trend
	I've...

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I explore the tangents of my mind,
to expand the horizon of my kind,
my kin, my friends in sin sublime,
who drink the same wine of wisdom...

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Watching Homer struggle
to explain how a god wounded by a mortal
cannot die but may thereafter live with minor pain

and the humor when that god
complains to...

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Luminescent shadows follow me around, but vanish as I ask who’s there?
Scary monsters and super creeps wait on every corner; a voice whispers beware
I start...

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Apocalyptic sight

 

Six pairs of Homeric children’s eyes
Over the tomb of ice gray world
Multiply my infinite sorrow into sins with no eyes or ears
In tangents...

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Do you have any axe murderers in your family
No? How totally boring is that!
They add a little spice when telling your story
More interesting than your...

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Freedom is an alter ego like a mask
Behind which censor has no eyes, and balm its blood applies.
Poetry is my freedom when wings cannot fly
The...

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Fruit smoothies
Peculiar notions;
Forget-me-not

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Mimosa carpet
On the grass verge;
Violet orbs greet

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Floral bouquet
A lover's gift;
Joy escalates

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Odes and sonnets
Words in-sync;
What's the occasion?

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Date with fate
Don't be late;
A full plate

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April intervenes
Abrupt...

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Rushing here, there and everywhere,
A mind that leaps canyons and space
Ricocheting, bouncing on rock walls,
Dislocation with turbulent pace.
Scuffing up dust and then zinging,
Off at wild...

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It's not when I'm asleep I dream,
It's the stages in between,
The moment just before waking,
The drifting before repose,
When fleeting seconds which with I gamble,
When the...

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Who are you to have ever claimed loved towards me, 
someone whom you’ve yet even seen..
but a fool you are, if when passing by, obsess...

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the great will fall
in the fall of math
resonant shapes crumble
tangents and radius' melt 
multiply pain by infinity
and wallow in sadness

circles contain no answers
mathbooks burn alone...

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I think it's time for a proper introduction,
Many have heard of Rellic,
But few know of Reilly Anders,
I'm a treasure hunter of sorts,
An adept at exploration,
Now...

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I have fun with the world of geometry
The square, the rectangle and the parallelogram
Oh' the trapezoid and the rhombus
The triangles, the isosceles and the equilateral...

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On that day
we found a squandered fate
in loving...
as it failed our inspiration
towards
the truth that our worlds need.

But who am i?
to speak of squandered fates 
of...

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I am a patriot and the daily grin of small town people.
I sometimes wonder why a small town person would even bother.
I hear the breaks...

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Ride over 4000000000 mountains on a baked tray

Times a tide,
Divide a ride,
Equal to no one is the writhe of a sprite,
In a whirl of a...

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Stiff was the blood of bondage
Across the highways of the mind.

Voyaging to the edge of universe
In explorations for hidden girth
The silent tangents explored
Where the universe...

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Look into my eyes
Tell me what you see
A cavernous emptiness
A rolling sea

A flicker of light
Like somebody's home
Or a sign that says,
“Sorry, my owner has flown”

“To...

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Emerge from dark
Into the light;
Let grace set free


Be like a spark
That fires the dark;
Let truth sparkle.


Enter the world
With fiery swirl;
Let joy conceive.


Now is both tangents
Space...

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