Intricacy Poems | Examples

A Butterflys Lament

Why do you see only the frailty of my wings
Why are you mesmerized by my beauty
Intrigued by the intricacy of my colors
Dazzled by my aerial antics

Do you not see my strengths
My passions, 
The urgency of my being
The immediacy of my purpose

Let me kiss the flowers for you
Ride the gentle breezes of your hearts
Tease the paws of frantic kittens
Alight upon the fancy of a child

Share with me the beauty of a moment
Fulfil the prophesy of the “Butterfly Effect”
By accepting the challenge
Let us become…cause

Opals

O my precious jewels
Opulent are my rings
October birth is cool
Opus of colors bring
Objects of mystery
Ode of poetic fuel
Of truth’s intricacy

Lofty Doppler Trimeric

Lofty phrases echo the quagmire,
labyrinthine there’s no easy exit;
Treading water but still feel I’ll sink,
intricacy leaves me meandering;

Labyrinthine, there’s no easy exit
for what prattles on inside my head;
I am starving for a turquoise breeze;

Treading water but still feel I’ll sink 
beneath this atmospheric storm surge;
Maverick emotions lift me to crash;

Intricacy leaves me meandering,
the weather within is so complex;
My doppler radar spins endlessly.

Blue Lotus

She is a blue lotus  

touched by the sunlight 

the intricacy of her emotions 

becomes clear with time. 

 

As shades of twilight fall  

Her love, subtle has entranced me 

I hear her voice calling  

 drifting on a soliloquy. 

 

I’m her captive, pleading  

weaving words in a tapestry 

foamy seas in the distance 

and her footprints shatter me. 

 

The hue of red 

and a gold braided thread 

woven through and through  

how I long for you. 

 

Blue lotus of mine  

delicate, adrift cool streams  

among the raining moonlight  

your hair falls gently.  

 

Don’t let the night pass 

until love finds meaning  

composing beautiful symphonies 

and moments that last.  

 

I adore your worth  

In each measure 

profound this love 

the blue lotus I cherish.

Nightmare Knowledge

Moving away from time and place
Creates some opportunity 
From laws of nature, as we know
A sweet visage once a face
Now a nightmare changed by magic
Sanity tries to fight and race
Vanity does not allow this
Consume truth at a slow pace
To understand the intricacy 
Knowledge flies on the back of a crow
Wing beats share in a landing brace

Let Me Be

gilt
but of intricacy
of a mirror’s frame
guilt
shown an ember in me
am I not the reflection’s heel
am I not intrinsic
   asked, though eschewed
you judge me mirror
   abased, now
heavens just let me be
in my own camouflaged
hypocrisy

A Discovery - more wondrous than all others

Within each intricacy
And delicacy
This shell's, this snow crystal's
This web's, as lovely

His thought process; first worked through;
Traced back now by you.
Playful child's, for a creator!
Toddled once Earth too!

Have You Ever? II

Have you ever paused to skim a stone,
Seeing the interplay of physics, frolic and force?
 
Have you ever driven to a place unknown, 
Meshing technology, wanderlust and law?

Have you ever danced with your own,
Moved by rhythm, play and gladness?

Has ever a moment’s passion shown
You your part in the infinite pool of being?

What string of happenstance brought you, alone
To here, this spot, reading this?

Whatever your answers, whatever their tone,
They matter not a jot!

What matters is that you have grown,
Feeling joy as part of the infinite intricacy;

Delight that the universal tapestry has been thus sewn.

Forest Canticle

This intricacy, this forest
fanfare of green life, flower 
and fungi, the creatures
that crawl its damp understory 
of bush and fern, and above,
the wing born marvel 
of those masters of the air -
cause the mind to pause
with wonder as when under
the high ceiling of a cathedral.

Here too is something made
to hold what seems holy,
an ideal blest by a notion
of some unspoiled thing.
And here too are hymns
composed out of an innate 
desire to praise by being true,
bug, bird or towering tree
all sharing in the presence 
of that unfathomable mystery.

My Friend

Dolphins in altruism
Camel in Tropism
Dove in intimacy
Fox in intelligence intricacy
?
He is not an animal yet.
In him, I find no threat.
Having gained him, I have won.
All the graces under the sun

Have You Ever?

Have you ever paused to skim a stone
And considered the interplay of physics, frolic and force?
Have you ever driven a car to an new place in an unknown country 
And  been awed by the meshing of technology, wanderlust and law that made it doable?
Have you ever seen a dance with partners intertwined to music 
And pondered on the reasons why?
Have you ever had a moment of passion that lead to your own addition to the global gene pool 
And marvelled at that coincidence of impulses?
Have you ever contemplated the string of happenstance that led you, to be here,
In this very spot, reading this?
Whatever your conclusions, they matter not a jot.
What matters is your wonder
And feeling of joy in being just a tiny part of this infinite intricacy; 
Delight in this universal tapestry of unending motion.

be too small

I know but little 
   of God…
I see His   creation
it’s breathtaking   awe
   striking   for its beauty
   its complexity
its unfathomable intricacy.

But my knowing be   as nothing,
   smaller than   a nanoparticle,
but a whiff understand
   of God

I be   too small
and God 
so   unimaginably   vast.

Deleting the Copy

There is a lot of information out there
we may all be in overload mode.

Oh how to be simple in intricacy,
oh the enormity.

I take out my ever moving mind
lead it into the park

where the sky is also moving.
Time is the culprit
the impostor
the script writer.

I should delete all the thoughts in this poem
forever,
but
I will make a copy anyway.

It's in my DNA.

Insight

Jury
to the affairs
of complex intricacy
with insight none, bears folly's sign
Unwise 

Tranquil
Witful repose
of the mind in ordeal
A sign of wisdom embodied
Insight 


20th April 2023


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Life Is What It Is

You say Life is rough
O tell me what makes it tough;
If not of your idiosyncrasy
Life is a rock of intricacy
Room of animation and stagnation
Those must be tasted as abnegation
Yes, even the opulent must travel through

So live it madly or sweetly
And sing it silently or loudly.
Life is dark mode's light
It shines when lit
And overshadows the dark parts
Should you lust for Life's fancies
You'll end up calling it hard
If you spite its idle games that pad
It'll be all right.

Life is a message
And you are the very prophet of your life
Strive, therefore, to preach it to the world with charity
Of worthiness and integrity
For your star to scintillate brightly.
The choice of Life lies where it's courtesy.

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