Short Coiling Poems

Coy you are.
I saw you be a
Koi in the pond
When you swam by me.
Coiling colors
In swaying reeds...
Then a duck came,
So I ducked in the trees....

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Coiling up
It bursts into the air
Leaving cloud like puffs
To move in the air
Where it disappears to
No one quite sure
Not even I 
Or the wisest of all...

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coiling clouds
like parachutes
on top of the tiny houses
velvet blue dipping
in the snowish white
muddy roads of soily
brown stretching
they didnt know on
the carts before...

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Life is a vortex of pain,
Coiling into the abyss.
To never kill the spirit,
But to cause grief infinite.
Yet with death pain abated,
My mind cleared of all its woe,
I shall rest six feet below....

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Fusing closed
Secrete yourself away
In vermilion blossoms
Inside hushed anguish
Coiling up
In a fetal comfort
Beyond everything
Denying breath
Slowly fading
Within the confines
Of a blood red rose...

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Like a boa constrictor
Coiling round its prey
Cutting off the blood supply. 
Negative emotions slowly
Squeeze out all life.
Agony and anxiety
Ultimately kills hearts.
Life is extinct.
Don't worry yourself to death....

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Upon shy reach,
His fingers touch mine—
Quickly though, they move away from me… 

I bite his lips,
Crushing his coiling coy
And snatch his hands back onto me

I am a cobra…
I dance to the beat of his anxious worship...

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..they swirl in swarms across 
the darkening 
skyline,

spiralling round the huge tree 
like a coiling 
vine;


they snuggle tight for the 
night at the 
canopy,

lansijang birds of Bohol 
doze off 
serenely.....

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Teeming pools of spawning thoughts
   Irrational coiling tendrils and knots
     Restless limbs and rattled brain
        Exquisite need for some slight refrain
          Deprived of basal corporal need...

...I am so...tired....

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Tiny bus bumps along Ephesian roads 
bright orange sun hangs overhead scorching 
uneven ground lined with creases 
library; crumbled and marked 
with seal--Medusa’s hair 
coiling around, eyes 
burning my soul 
she sends chills 
down my 
spine....

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Hand to hand
combat
with dragons,
coiling from the cracks
in your past,
and winding
upward,
like ribbons of smokey numbness.
Is little
left by now?
I remember...
and I forget,
and I hope
you have tucked
them - 
all snugly in bed.

April 16, 2015...

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Lake Superior, Gitche Gumee
November winds, fear starts boiling.
The ship creaks, groans, twists, water spumy; 
Thoughts of loved ones waiting on shore pushed aside.
Evil eye of the storm is coiling
And springs to release twenty-nine souls into the debris.
The church bell twenty-nine times is tolling....

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This tainted porcelain flesh
Shifting, Shaping, Sculpting
Woman forming Woman
Your spirit a dark wind
Coiling, Stretching, Reaching
Your heart a wild stalking beast
Timid, Powerful, Playful
Your body clay soft
Raw, Pink, Alabaster
Your mind a living ocean
Dancing, Magical, Emerald
Depths of Imagination...

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rhythm 
writhing along ~
arms coiling, finger snaps,
free wheeling waist undulating.
strobe light creates a scene otherworldly,
bathed in the shadow of romance.
our eyes and hips touching,
and lips humming...
rhythm

8/28/2018

Oh, what the hell just toss one in Contest (John Lawless)
10th place...

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This tainted porcelain flesh

Shifting, Shaping, Sculpting

Woman forming Woman

Your spirit a dark wind

Coiling, Stretching, Reaching

Your heart a wild stalking beast

Timid, Powerful, Playful

Your body clay soft

Raw, Pink, Alabaster

Your mind a living ocean

Dancing, Magical, Emerald

Depths of Imagination...

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Crisp the leaf she nibbles

Coiling in yellow dress,

Cocooned…waiting to bloom.

Close to freedom, nights pass

Cuddling her lustruos threads…

Chrysalis, queen of frills 

Changed as a butterfly!



11/22/2015
Pleiades, Please for Kim Merryman
...........
Syllable count checked at
www.howmanysyllables.com...

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In a tiara and wings
Zigging
Zagging
Bounding with being
I am a queen
Doing that little dance
That tells you
Everywhere I've been
Abloom
Abuzz
Bathing in
The pollen of play
Lapping up life
Nectaring
Dripping
Coiling to spring

You wouldn't know it
By looking at me
But I can fly!

And then comes the sting



9/21/2019...

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The music cannot be denied,
it unwinds like an articulated dragon
through a metallically ringing void.
Then there is the silk serpent
hidden in the driving engine
the closed-eyed coiling.

The hairs in my ears dance;
the notes are calling out stars;
not the ones we see,
but dark stars
born in the disheveled rooms
of fallen angels....

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Medicant!
Smooth velvet drapes
on a silken skin
Soothing evening operas;
tonic to thirsty tongues.

Tranquil!
Calm as sea breeze
Soporific lullaby sung 
from the
lips of unseen spirits
Drapes of solitude
Cooing
Whispers of words.

Surreal!
Enternity-still nights in
silent neighborhoods
Coy coiling coils
Seeping stillness
  Silence!...

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Primordial Soup

                                  Living Plasma

                                               Virtual Existence

                                        Endoskeleton

                                  Exoskeleton

Central Nervous System

            Coiling Serpent

                            Control Within'..............

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White carpets
of scant flowers
giggle into my ear
as they arc and sway
into eachother
all as memories of you
dance in my eyes
against the reflection of
free-spirited clouds.
Alas, an impish breeze
whispers into skeins
of coiling branches
as the tree replies
by rattling her leaves
in ancient tongue,
that only I can fathom 
in silent enchantment....

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Hectic,
mind,
lethargy,
gripping,
in a mind,
all worries,
nagging,
right behind,
I was going,
under this grind,
no solace,
not for second,
to find,
my nerves,
are taut,
like they faught,
my eyes are shot,
like blood pots,
I am boiling,
and coiling,
if I could get,
that moment,
It would stop,
the foment,
I would cool,
and turn to mental wool....

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Listen to poem:

ponder, puzzle,
pose the tos and fros
let the options reverberate
like pebble rings coiling on a pond
sing a chorus to decide
without punch drunk mantra lines
decide 
when its done, tis done, ink has dried
step forward, progress
never look back
never reconsider
never have any regrets
never retrace the 
whys, wherefores and
if onlys
deed tis done
indeed...

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There's something about doodling;
from an eye's perspective it looks like nonsense-
a long line coiling itself in an irrational manner,
either in bold or light.
Taking a closer look at the guess work art,
we feel the emotions of the artist
who did the work - his happiness, excitement,
anger, frustration.....they all appear somewhere
in the pattern created on paper......

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METALLIC

Twisting rusting wire tightly wound round the base coiling its way from electrode to electrode dancing in blue electricity reflecting off the dull tarnished surface, metallic colours shine in the dimly lit light making pain burn through my body, torturing me with pleasure and pain in a collage of hell.
I’m a human mind hooked up for the electrical trip of a lifetime....

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