Best Tensely Poems

The young men sat, planted under the overhang
like the pansies and geraniums that surrounded them in boxes,
as the rain pelted the terra-cotta terrace.

The mountain air was sharp with the taste of lightening.
Having bid farewell to the arched shard of a rainbow across the valley,
they sat...

Continue reading...

A blood-dipped letter lies before me,  
Wrapped in moth-ridden silk,  
Written by your ghastly fingers.  
The cold of another bleak fortnight settles in,  
While crimson-eyed ravens rest upon creaking window sills.  

Stoking the fire, umbers rise and dissipate before me,...

Continue reading...

UNWRITTEN  ABSENCE

      
                           Reminiscing bygone golden days
      ...

Continue reading...

Into the eye of the tiger I tumble
Fangs of grief claw at my heart.
The growling pain a low rumble
Threatening to tear me apart.

Emotions ripple beneath his skin.
Flexing muscles tensely reminds
This bloody battle I'll never win,
For in my soul, weakness he finds.

The tiger of pain circles...

Continue reading...

Tensely polarized 
Fiercely alienated 

Furiously devoid of
Space and peace

By deeds unjust
By antics blatant

Short-changed
****-noshed    

Orphaned 
Offended 

From people
To pieces 

An equation 
Unbalanced

Sinister motives
Documented

Grand strategies
Visible mirrors

To annihilate
To assimilate 

Partisan practices 
Warped policies 

Of can’t pilot 
Be passengers 
  
 
Lost trust
Lacks shine

Lost lives
Eternal

Galvanise...

Continue reading...

Pleasant pleasurable 
spot of delight, let my 
touching spark your 
light. Ventilator by your 
side as you grasp for 
breath tonight. May
my kissing make you
weak, as in this heat 
you fight to remove 
the quilt and sheet.

As your goose bumps 
begins to rise I'm left
to...

Continue reading...

Took the kids to the Petting Zoo.
All the tame animals came through. 
While I was standing watching the monkeys
And chimpanzees there in the few trees
I felt something tugging at me;
I turned around to see
A goat eat-ding my tee-shirt.
I shrieked, walk backwards, fell to the dirt.
Standing...

Continue reading...

My heart skips a beat
Whenever a door slams
My heart skips a beat
Whenever I hear footsteps

Days and nights tensely lived
Not knowing what to think
Locks on doors, windows shut
Living a life in a cringe and a shrink

Shrink from most shadows
Images of the unknown
Freezing, still, in my sleep
Waiting...

Continue reading...

In the whispering breeze I hear the birds sing
for you as the sunburst sky flushes your face.
How endearingly attractive you are then to me, 
mesmerized I know, the clue you do not find.

After sullen night melts, in your garden I find me
sparkle as the opalescent...

Continue reading...

I smell fresh light wafting 
near this dissolving darkness

I hear its faint ringing
the second hand ticking
while the refrigerator hums

and the distant driver drones

I tensely anticipate 
the first tweet to ripple the silence
a tentative answer
an assertive reply
a confident rejoinder,
the ensuing cacophony of chirps

and
the distant driver cross...

Continue reading...

In this house so ominous, I did hear a hiss.
What could it in this, alone in house and room.
It was a sound of a crack, like shivers go down the back.
There it is again, a low-lying sound of gloom, 
“Tis anyone out there,” I mumbled...

Continue reading...

We see his parents in the stands
As they sit tensely clasping hands
In silent prayer for their loved son
And for the task that must be done.

Another recalls the child she knew
Who early showed the skill that grew
With hard work and determination
Into a gift for her loved...

Continue reading...

The air was full, pregnant,
shivering with anticipation.
All of nature held its breath.
The trees stood their small branches,
like eyelashes tensely open,
waiting for the day to blink....

Continue reading...

Do You Think We Are Not Tough Enough?

Poets and contests are not a strange mix.
Though, winning or not, emotions play tricks.
We are competitors, really quite buff.
And “fighting” with words, can truly get tough.

We might not be rough or want our knees scuffed.
It might be true,...

Continue reading...

My affection is more than just a flame within my heart.
Your lips make my passion, burn hotter then the sun.
One touch bleeds my body slowly, makes chills run
Wildly and rampantly until a reaction, shakes the start.
Our bodies caress, then tingles swish silently like a dart.
Kisses...

Continue reading...