Short Criss Poems

fragile criss-crossed skin
hidden star inside my palm
hand of a mystic...

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Criss-crossing, ducking
and diving. That's how I roll-
A stealth warrior....

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Mummified zombies
Criss-cross the skies in frightful
Flight seeking stray blood....

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Round and round they go,
Hands criss-crossed in the middle
Of school yard whirl winds....

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the tree roots
criss-cross the brown earth--
skinned knees

*please click on About the poem...

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Glass
prisms
criss-cross the
cold expansive
sea.


Ekphrasis after Sailboats by Feininger...

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veiling the moon
cocaine lines
criss-cross blue sky
intoxicating
like a silent death-
howling winds cry....

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Variegated azaleas, long brown stems,
  criss-crossed in a tall glass vase.
    Such a rush!  I planted that bush....

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The window panes full, one Jack Frost
gets his cold weather image criss-crossed.
Inciting rebellion at the Pole
he fails to take the leading role....

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You might trip if caught in a flap
Or with your foot stuck in a strap
When flooring's criss-crossed
With bras she has tossed
You will need a booby-trap map...

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Beams criss-cross Infinity's skies
    powerful telescopes, like trillions of eyes

  Seeking signs of intelligent life ~
    Pray, friends, it won't cause us strife...

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Here the loss:
Those visions that were fragments
Then, are sparkling now; 
And these same streets
I criss-crossed as a child
Helplessly filled with ghosts....

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An action has been made
without much thought given into it.
It seems right, but feels wrong
nothing but regrets later on.

Mending a broken heart
with a thick needle, criss-cross stitches.
Decisions on a whim,
nothing but regrets later on....

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Fuzzy.
Criss-crossed and 
checkerboarded but mostly fuzzy
Blue neon stain marks 
The march of time
Scary, Espantoso, cualquier prefieres.
All is black now. But not totally 
Negro with dabs of magenta
And not ‘till this line is done.
Fuzzy,...

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Listen to poem:

One, a hole, a dot, a singularity 
Two, twin dots of eyes that look back at me
Three, an ellipsis falling short tersely
Four, connect-the-dots to make a square, shapely
Five a quincunx, criss-crossed diagonally 
Six, a double hyphen of dots, two lines of three...

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Painting happiness
Crying all the while
Rainbows pasted over too

April showers
Hide behind a smile
And puddles beneath a muse

And tiny ripples criss
Across the pain
Reflecting broken hues

But, a dare sun peeks out
Still, I'm drenched in doubt
And harder pours the blues...

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Years passed like ocean 
Turned 50 
But in wheel chair

His hands still around me,  my love!
Wiped my tears..
Gave hope.

Promised to love me
Even the world ends
My love for you is beyond infinity.

Fingers criss-crossed 
Eye looked eyes
Words failed 
But emotions spoke.....

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good intention- bondage
bows knotted- time criss
crossed spirit sudden
(whisked off) lost &
gone with convenience-
holy voodoo sermon 
of leniency- forgive me
for your fractured fist
is my bloody wrist-
hallelujah hideaway-
pride likes to play
poses to pacify- quite
a clumsy clod...

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Criss-Cross Acrostic*: Ai My Eye !

I  Was  Saw  Eye

Eye  Saw  Was  I

Eye  Was  Saw  I

I  Saw  Was  Eye


   *Construe as “words”  not as “letters”:
Lines 1 and 3 read alike reversed;
Lines 2 and 4 read alike reversed;
likewise vertically and diagonally
   from up-down or down-up mode.

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013...

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They guard lost gardens
Criss-cross forgotten rivers of solitude
All future seasons they rotate
Absolving rage with mute and gentle grace
Sweet angels
Blind to reason they spark rainbows
random, silent arcs that transform space.

They are constant, strange, eternal,
the very breath, and brain of God.

Suzanne Delaney...

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Galactic fantastic how I cry
Whilst I criss cross the diamonds in the sky
I tend to paint it ghostly white 
Flying the non fly zone 
With fuel or fight 
A mission to another universe's earth
Another galactic fantastic birth
Would you inexplicably go 
Or stay on this planet all alone!


Contest:   Word Play: Galactic 
Sponsor:  Ir0nic ZiNk...

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You are the newest thread
in the tapestry of my life -
once neatly-patterned, 
but now criss-crossed 
and sig-zagged
with the vibrant strands
of your sister.

You, too, will be interwoven
into the fabric of my life
and be interlaced through
its brightness and hues
and be intricately entwined
and securely knotted
with one golden thread -
Love....

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Suzie's criss cross was for her bow because she always got caught
 Right hand over left hand was something she couldn't understand
 No matter how many times the string crossed her hand
 The poor dear lady would hit the target not..
 After shooting her dad there in the brow
 An incident that really made him scowl
 One dear man felt sorry for her cause
 He looked around and he made a browses...

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I see your stuttering on paper
in criss-crosses and muffled writing.
Years have past;
your confusion still lives on these glossy pages.

Was it a confession?
You know this too well,
but a cool breeze lies at the end of this hell.
Was it something more sinister?--
it doesn't get better,
so I'll just wish you good luck.

I wish I had asked you.

All I have now is ambiguity
forever immortalized
in black and white....

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Variegated streaks
criss-crossing,
soothing lavender
then fiery maroon,
with belts of amber
in between. 

Slate blue bluffs
catch the sun before it lands,
dipping into the rippling orange
of the mottled lake.

The pitch black pines are still,
passed the rusty mesh
of a rickety screen door.
Our eyes were fixed
up to the moment
your coppered profile 
became shadow, 
and I could see you no more
in the hazy light....

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