Knotty Poems - Poems about Knotty

One Coin, Two Sides

What's true for you
even if it is insanity
may not be the same for me
as we each have our own reality
'There's two sides to every coin'
some are said to say
'But what about the edge,
when one is on display,
showing tails and the obverse?'
as a numismatist I insist
even a mirror reflects the reverse
yet when confronted with a conundrum
maybe

Knotty

Is my life getting knotty! 
Which was once simple and fun! 
Love came like blue ocean-waves, 
lapping on my heart! 

When your thoughts aglow in mind,
Shine...flicker of a moment,
Hundreds of bright sunflowers
Blossom in my dream!

I utter a gasp...oh no!
My heart was never missing, 
I left it in a safe place, 
With you, for ever!

Knotty

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” - Khalil Gibran

I am a delicate deck of cards,
alabaster roots, tossed
across time’s yard
from foolish patterns
of poker promises,
like the days
when scorching summer
was an ace of solstices.

You’ll find my name
in numbers where
the perfumed forget-me-nots
in pressed pages slumber;
defined as the black hearted
queen

Knotty

"Serene is the green of the sculptured knotty pine, arms uniquely reach and none the same, with woody scent of heaven." Quote by poet

Knotty pine enfold in the sate gold sun 
stands stunning in an arboreal view.
Bound by forever changing blend pale blue 
pure air of homespun charm, unflagging none. 

Upon the pine needle and

Knotty

A knotty path, woven in twine 
With twists and turns like frizzy vine 
With ups and downs and rugged plains 
With teary tales and bloody stains 

Above and below knots of square 
Are damages one can't repair 
For they're engraved in hearts of stone 
And their hellhole reaches the bone 

But time is kind for

knobby knotty

                              life knobby knotty
                      

Knotty

They seek him here
They seek him there
But he can't be found
Anywhere

They seek him high
They seek him low
Someone saw one 
Long ago 

A knotty problem 
A mess to undo 
Will need an expert 
To see it through 

It's hard to find 
This particular skill 
Much in demand 
With costly bill 

Of what issue 
Do I speak?

Knotty

I cannot just confront the spider web 
It sticks to my face wherever I go 
Like the physique-psyche entangling ebb 
Uncertainty, in each vein, seems to flow  

Muscle knot happens; so too do vein knots
Isn't Kith and Kin link-line a we too?
There are knots amidst showy flower pots 
Doesn't the relationships seem to woe?

I

Knotty

Finest pine has knots
 just like finest person too 
just a common fault

Knotty

half smile of caged concealment
Mona Lisa like, kindling desire
awash in pixelated illusion
your dark dreaming eyes preserving secrets
the glow of an image, layer by layer

my wish to un-knot the shifting shape form
with its unknown gravity
a stance
painfully inscrutable 

till your voice, dusky, breathy
washes over me like smoke
reassuring in a kilowatt smile
telling me our lives unfinished 
 

Knotty Totty Rottsy Day

Crone arrived masked as crescent moon.
We knew her by her star cape and her attitude.
I was wearing a warring pirate ship as a skirt.
The day was ripe for all kinds of shenanigans.

A trumpeter arrived to announce the next eclipse.
It’s one of those knottsy-tottsy-rottsy days.
I put on my star gazing hat, and tried to look average.
Difficult

Knotty Ash

Darkness descends and most folk
Are slowly wending to their bed
But, across  there in Knotty Ash
Some Locals are stirring  instead.
The residents of Diddyland,
Where the sun always shines,
Are pulling on their working gear
For night shifts down the mines.
The Diddymen of Knotty Ash,
That dedicated working band
Who supply Jam Butties to
Buttie shops across the land.

Ecologically efficient,
Cosmetically sound,
Jam

A Knotty Nightie

A naughty knight, his maiden sought,
Had high hopes they might tie the knot.
And though they ought, or so he thought,
’Twas all for naught, disaster-fraught,
Forgot how tied her nightie knots.
She, humored not, said Gute Nacht!

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SECOND PLACE WINNER
for the "Naughty Yet Innocent" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Mohan Chutani
Written on 03/01/2022

Knotty Pine

knotty pine design
asymmetrically random
fragrance of the gods

Heart Matters

An heart is a handy thing to have
except when its not -
Hands are of course handy as a glove
Except for ties that knot.

(c)Deo, Fort Beaufort, near Newtown "mixed-race" (In RSA English, "Coloured") Township. May 13th, 2021

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