Short Convoluted Poems

Convoluted me,
Intricate and devious,
Clarity for you....

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the wounding of youth


and the wringing hands of time


convoluted rhyme...

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don’t try to read me
no convoluted motives
still in the making



posted on November 5, 2017...

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LIFE

The road of life twists and coils
Occasionally doubling back on itself
Threaded through convoluted 
Tangles of happiness and pain...

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skirting issues
in roundabout ways
mysterious and baffling
deliberately foggy



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on May 28, 2020...

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Convoluted while being refuted,
And for no one was ever suited.

Will have to work on this one for 
a while. How about you giving it 
a try? Jim Horn...

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Polarity, inception within a feigning ascension. Bleeding continuity grasps doubtful 
insanity. Paths diverging into a convoluted bereavement, a stagnant validity....

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Some people are all Smartness;
Their brains are so convoluted
Under straight curves
Producing all kinds of trivialities
In hackneyed lines; 
Darn, they are good!...

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I'm sure it's my imagination
 that absolute ludicrous, convoluted
 nonsensical, useless, illogical, even
 comically forced rhyme is applauded,
 lauded, praised and commended
 as splendid...

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Squandered inky poetic renderings
blood ensued parchment's apertures
led astray in convoluted evolution
'tween muses fiery premonitions 
and starlit descending skies' envy...

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A mass of tangled twine
Convoluted madness
A center core of darkness
Each strand restrained
No logical way out
No sense to be made
Succumbed to the growing darkness
Silenced and forgotten...

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Santa Claus did not dare yell, wiggle, move or shout.
Kicking his feet over and over in convoluted pain. 
Reindeer heard and ran in to helpfully pull him out.
Now he carries glass cutters to open a client’s window pane....

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The boo boo gnu of pinkish crew had the Russian flu
Without a substantial clue, their jeu jeu curiosity grew
Whew! Said two, one who had a convoluted cough like moo.
Might have been spoiled stew from Café Rue down in the Loo....

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I've got to warn you of my songs,
Although they're fun and rhyme,
They aren't all sing-alongs,
Nor happy all the time.
So reader enter, if you dare,
My convoluted mind.
For like Pandora's box,
It's thoughts, you can't unfind....

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Convoluted patches
    freely patterned and set,
Stretching from a wide horizon
To a cover of cloud fleece.
Bared ridge tops
    defining crests
And trails of many feet
Turn and twist on hills a plenty,
Then in the valley meet....

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absurdly convoluted 
intricately motivated
twists and turns 
combined to form 
an emotional maze 
in which the two 
souls were trapped 
within for years 
till one day one of the
two souls found it's way out 
leaving the other behind...

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hid insecurities within
  ambiguous humor &
   convoluted whimsies,
rules consistently changing
 in a game which required
hardly more than breath,
  nothing less than obscurity
     twisting a fallible fancy, 
    seizing day's intangibility...

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Yellow line, guiding me home.
No complaints and without a groan.
Pulling me up and down.
No problem and without a sound.
Twisting and turning.
No churning and to be home I am yearning.
Why does this convoluted journey keep reoccurring?


By: Richard J. Long – January 2010...

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Corrupt and 
Convoluted thoughts
Swimming through 
The dark ocean
Of my brain 
Like hungry sharks 
Blindly drawn 
To fresh blood
Every fiber explodes 
With adrenaline-charged 
Energy
Hot vibrant ticking 
Like electricity
On unseen currents and 
Conductors;
Madness 
Sharpened 
To a fine point....

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Listen to poem:

unknown to anyone 
down a convoluted secret path
in a hidden corner of my heart

it's there and waits for me
beneath a summer sun
the playground of my youth

and when quietly I listen
I still hear the sweet melody
of children's laughter



AP: 2nd place 2021

Posted on June 13, 2021...

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Listen to poem:

insinuations, veiled intentions
subtleties and undertones
whispers and innuendos
half truths and hidden meanings

in the convoluted meanderings
in the midst of the charade
i've lost sight of what we had
and i fear i’ve lost my voice



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on March 30, 2022...

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Exodus in the dark: golden lioness stands
a tawny, brilliant edifice 
She is Chernobyl raising the doves.

Stone kamikaze follow me: into the fire:
my war. Tariff on my mother
Cubicle squares another suicide.

Do what you must, but reality
A misunderstood turn of phrase;
The inferno within us all....

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he had an inkling
as to what the world was
as to what the universe was

which is why 
his sitting on the porch step
playing a beloved jews harp
was so poignant 
among the other spheres

and as if, through it,
these convoluted orbits
of journey-filled rounds
contributed dearly
to his rhythm


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Arc light blazed
circus arena
clown turns 
tiger tamer
timidity painted 
bold façade
and now for something
completely different
in a new show
a black sheep
on the trapeze
courage convoluted
life malleable.


May 22, 2020
Contest : And Now For Something Completely Different
Sponsor : John Lawless...

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bunen hund
i called
vukta ute for the wings
so spicy
so meaty 
they called to her

from stove top to stomach
they were screaming with sauce
only few left 
so convoluted and lonely
EAT ME EAT ME

but bunen never came
i guess the wings would have 
the same effect 
as real bunen would when she eats them
o bother...

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