The Jagged Edges
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Natural things are rarely smooth
or flawless as they appear on the surface
Smooth fur on skin and curve on wing
are rough and jagged underneath
Push back against the grain show...
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Categories:
gnarls, angst, anxiety, environment, growth,
Form: Free verse
Gnarls Knurl the Grip to Fight
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after "Do not go gentle into that good night", by Dylan Thomas
Age can not scour away the furrowed gnarls time obeyed,
Nor mask the snarls, gouged as trenches on brows.
Grace knurls t...
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Categories:
gnarls, age, old,
Form: Sonnet
Grace Knurls Decrepit Gnarls
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Grace can't grind away the wrinkled gnarls time obeyed,
Nor hide the snarls, ploughed as furrows in the brow.
It carves the knurls for grip that age has disobeyed,
To a shape what decrepit, flai...
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Categories:
gnarls, age,
Form: Sonnet
Taunted by Trees and Leaves
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Why to you have sides, front, back,
left and right besides, betides?
I'm offside, on no one's side.
Why regret and hide the gnarls,
scars and wrinkles on your hides?
Why be ashamed of the...
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Categories:
gnarls, tree,
Form: Free verse
Gnarled
...Age gnarls, weather beats skin to flaky dryness.
Wrinkles and lines, furrows, knots and blotches
Twist and contort the skin of babies and youths
to a knurled, rough, compliant easy to grip surfac...
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Categories:
gnarls, age, growth,
Form: Free verse
Now That We Are Here
...Life is entanglement plus time,
A Gordian knot of opportunities,
Each ravel a riddle to solve
or a battle to be won.
We grab and pull at the gnarls,
Greedy fingers seeking solutions alone.
Th...
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Categories:
gnarls, appreciation, growth, love,
Form: Free verse
In My Garden of Freedom
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In My Garden of Freedom
To no human, do I belong!
I am the afterglow of freedom’s song.
My friends bring me water and light.
The hour matters not, even at midnig...
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Categories:
gnarls, god, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Transport Terminals
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"Transport Terminals"
When ghosts find ghosts
they walk through the
core of each other
expecting knowledge
of the other’s being
it’s surprising mirrors
are consider...
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Categories:
gnarls, muse,
Form: Narrative
Little Ant
...Little ant, you are invited to rest here
on the back of my hand.
You’re invited to think about time with me.
I am always thinking about time,
all those thoughts pollinate my very skin.
Time li...
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Categories:
gnarls, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Come Here, My Dear, and Have No Fear
...BEHOLD, see, times tower hast struck three, hour chimes for thee,
The Devil's hour is here, my dear, but thee need not fear,
Sound, nay bells, snarls? Demon dog's gnarls bound from Hell...
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Categories:
gnarls, allegory, character,
Form: Rhyme
A Mermaid Whisper
...A mermaid whisper
She said, " be mine"
From today moving forward
Let me see you everyday at dawn
May your face be a fresh imprint at dusk
Whisper words that revive me
Messages that hold the b...
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Categories:
gnarls, fantasy, love, romantic love,
Form: Narrative
Nature Unaligned
...Who says a tree is bent, not straight, kinked?
For there are no straight lines in nature.
A line is a human abstraction, a connection between points.
Look around, all of nature is curves, coils, g...
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Categories:
gnarls, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Love of Tiamat
...behold now everything on this earth;
the fields with abundance of grain,
palm-grove harvests rich and fruitful,
the forests that separate kingdoms and the fires that scorch them;
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Categories:
gnarls, mythology,
Form: I do not know?
Gnarled By Age Knurls the Grip
...Babies and young saplings are silky smooth,
adorned by curls and twirls, unfurled.
But age assails and weather beats brows
to dry, and wrinkles the smooth with furrows and lines.
Twists a...
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Categories:
gnarls, age,
Form: Free verse
Gnirps, Syrups and Turnips
...Gnirps, Syrups and Turnips
Guess what Gnirps are or is?
Two gnus had meet two gnirps
Had burps and tried many syrups
By time problem was final solved;
Eat no more gnirps they resolved;
Foun...
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Categories:
gnarls, allegory, analogy, humorous,
Form: Limerick
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