Best Tangles Poems

While whispers shush on sheltered shores, as soon the cockcrow quakes,
the seas descry a skittish sky, sense summer zephyrs wake  –
roused passions neath the...

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Oh wrap me close dear jungle deep, with fronds and fruits entwined,
          And hold me to...

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I still look for her. 
In the middle of the typing and the traffic 
and the deadlines and the bills, 
I look for her–the girl,...

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Place your head on my shoulder,
let it stay there
and we'll just breathe
together
in
...and... out

Inhale positivity,
exhale negativity-

Pluck the sadness from the air,
unravel that ball of worry...
We'll find...

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A fierce wind howls as dark clouds race across the horizon,
     and beneath the hood draped over his face the man...

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I open the book of time once more and again,
where pages are engraved in my mind;
the worn old pages-   all tattered and yellow,
oh,...

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gently beaming just above
you tempt me with your glowing charm
and stir within these thoughts of love
while sending softly fear’s alarm.

and on this late October eve
with...

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The curtain of pain fell upon us as we stood,
at his tomb and snow kissed our quivering lips;
my voice was lead and it seemed I...

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Big Cypress stirs, heated by Miccosukee 
sky hung in spun gold. Rising in the east, 
morning sways with waves of river grass
as the elder paddles...

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My life is very insular, I move from page to page
never straying far from words which prance upon the written stage.

like a sputtering engine my...

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The best of all of God's creations
Flipping through my radio stations 
Kisses when I'm feeling blue
The world revolves around me and you
You point out daily,...

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There's a girl in the graveyard that never seems to leave.
She hangs like dust in the autumn air.
She has beautiful flowers and tangles in her...

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I was a runner
fleeing from homespun horrors that
wrapped around my delicacy like a tourniquet

Only a child attempting to bestir
the warrior dormant within;
having no idea the...

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A glistening cobweb, on an old timber gate

Rainbows reside in each drop of morns dew.

Thin strands of white mist in the sun dissipate 

A scurrying...

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the lake sits glassy and smooth
	songbirds of noon
have long since retired
in their place sound shrill chirp
        squawk and...

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Waking to sight of day
The ironic disorientation
bedroom ceiling moviescreen 
fades out this dreams last scene
left looking dumbfounded at tiles

Sunrays shine splintered through bent blinds
 ...

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A fierce wind howls, and dark clouds race across the horizon,
   and beneath a hood draped over his face, a man whispers;
of a...

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"And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins" (Mark...

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Sense it


When a memory picks you up 
carries you off like dandelion fluff 
To a gentle place and time
Planting old seeds in your mind
Your senses...

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I shall comb the tangles from my hair
But not today
I shall wash the smell of death away
But not today
For today I sit in disbelief
I sit...

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We inhale and exhale air to survive on Earth,
it cannot be seen but we need it from birth;
made up of oxygen and nitrogen and...

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She's dreaming.....
her hair in tangles ,
and all astrew on her pillow ,
frame the face of a sleeping angel.
I could sit and watch forever,
the rise and...

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Oasis

The cup of kisses
Poured from lips
Such savage beauty
Must fight for breath
Its grave the body
Relinquished
Rides hurricane winds
Of coiled fascination
The images of everything

The tangles of thought
Are ribbons...

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Two successive dates
I failed to hit the mark
I'm sorry for the mistakes
And the crestfallen shark

On the first, I didn't use
Much needed commas and slashes
Flowers I...

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I woke up late,
I meant to be early. 
I ran to my fate, 
I dream of the pearly. 

The great gate of Our Lord,
The garden...

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