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Knurls Poems - Poems about Knurls

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...

Categories: knurls, 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...

Categories: knurls, 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...

Categories: knurls, age,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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...

Categories: knurls, age, growth,
Form: Free verse

Knurled Gnarled Wizened

...keep old frail weak trees
for scars knurls holes and wrinkles
birds and bees call home...

Categories: knurls, tree,
Form: Haiku

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...

Categories: knurls, age,
Form: Free verse