Short Crisscross Poems

Parents crisscross
Love overrides a sullen display-
My mind is not on time...

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Little thoughts 
like shadows n’ wraiths 
Crisscross vast mindscapes 
under electric fire sky, high...

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ruddy shade of red
autumnal zephyr of war
foe-blades in crisscross

7/8/2021

Inspired by my grandson...

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Ate a sandwich with tomato sauce
my shirt left stained with a crisscross;
Noticed it after the fact 
no way to put on an act;
Sloppy girls gorge food like a boss....

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Black hygiene and red sanity crisscross
exposed to dangers but never his loss
dirts not his health’s mugger
but source of his burger
in need of great help, yet still his own boss....

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The Rolling Stones
  Gather no moss
Not with Mick Jagger
  Their peripatetic boss

They travel first-class
  Partake of the sauce
As the globe they crisscross

Sipping the finest liquers
  ~ Discarding the dross...

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crisscross clouds
leave unseen tracks

warm sands 
ruffle velvet shoals

ocean sprays
release salty tears

fine pebbles 
squeeze wrinkled soles

sapphire waves
grind sparkling glass

supple limbs
explore hazy shores...

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Aloft in once pure blue,
form strings of yellow hue -
pollutant see-o-two.

Man's abuse going on.
Dumping fossil carbon.
More filthy pollution.

Six miles up it is seen.
The sky a crisscross scene 
from tax free kerosene....

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by Michael J Falotico


                                                  wiggling toes touch..
                                          ankles crisscross and hug tight..
                                                thighs cover and melt.....

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I watch the
ribbons of
the silver birds
crisscross the sky
as raindrops
from my soul
roll gently
down my cheeks

I gave you
all the love
I had to
give and yet
like silver birds
in sky above
you flew away


March 30, 2019...

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Chances were taken
    In your loss I've lost myself
        I still choke on your regret
Crisscross not straightened
    Stop hiding under my shelf
        You carried so much neglect

~Written By: Laura Loo~
   ~Date Written: February 9, 2016~...

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Life
the journey of dream,
mixed of illusion and reality

truth- a delusional power!

in  love
the life is
flying to
goalless destination 

Wonderfulness
is standing 
by the side of all crossing

Welcome
to the crisscross 
weaved breathing


-05/11/19 Ctg, BD...

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Nature looks weary abut the boom gate
Like a faithful prostitute dun for her pay
With hand on cheek, the other wave way

By ageless sky con beloving gaze
And Sam to Delilah, a giant betrayed
 In boneless bliss, made Achilles to heel

What fate the peep to me had brought? 
When time..., yet permits me to decide  
To crisscross between heaven and earth. 
©Yusuf, A.O.?...

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Sunday evening stretches and yawns
  drowsy as a tender fawn
Who frolics and plays throughout the day
  then curls up midst leaves to lay

While sleep overspreads her dewy head
  constellations crisscross above her head
How sweetly angels sing in her soft ears
  a moonstruck smile o'er her lips appears


     ~ Sweet dreams, everyone! ~

       Gershon Wolf, Oct. 03, 2021...

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kept apart by pure polarity
you inspire my solidarity
I can't touch you lest I die
still you're living in my eye

oh dear nearly child of mine
how I find you 
more than fine
reaching out to crisscross
stars
to gather gumdrops
and guitars

as the turning world grows 
older I feel you standing
on my shoulder
watch the bright parade
go by
and share your view
with my mind's eye...

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words lay eggs on paper.
           in time,
they break their prison shells,
          crawl out,
        eat and fatten

but may sneak out like hermits
           meditate 
     in the hard crusts 
           of silence

at the end of Metamorphosis,
        they flit round
        like butterflies
 
moving in crisscross patterns
           before our 
        perceptive eyes!...

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No one knows the higher heights to which their love had climbed
Or how their simultaneous thoughts, fluidly flow
Required replies to queries crisscross  from minds in sync
And countless compliments and sweet gentle gestures, he lays upon her heart
Popular redundant rhetoric, now unnecessary is made extinct by…unspeakable love 

~*~

For:  Adeleke's "Unspeakable Love" Contest...

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neath the tree sat a norn
one of three, shears in hand
crowned in nature’s floral fare
and wisps of ancient silvered hair

she has no care of god or man
no interest in some scriptured plan
bad and good have equal weight
when measured in the hands of fate

haggard with majestic grace
timeless lines crisscross her face
she’ll give no clue, no reason why
just cut your line when time to die...

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Sea Minuet

Prima donna restless surf
Dance on shoreline turf
Crash to augmented beat
Trip light fantastical fleet

Pirouette high and low
Gracefully curtsy, as you go
Effervescent tutu foam
Crisscross silt return home

Sea of melodious minuet
Garner stars in silhouette
Highest regards to deep blue
 Keen tis moon to ensue

Reflections of stars on glass
Shimmer at ballerina pass
Chaotic tis waters rebuff
Beauty tis never enough...

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I stand here with every step of my life etched in crisscross lines beneath these
well worn feet. 

Well worn feet that have carried me for seven decades and three years more
through pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, on a path of  adversity that couldn't conquer me.

I stand here today...a  tenacious and contented soul with my mission nearly complete... close to the end of the road where earth and heaven meet.


Author:  Elaine Cecelia George of Canada...

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