Short Diagonally Poems

at one
of the many
intersections
in the multiverse

i quickly
shifted my
car in reverse
having just passed

a parking
space back
in nineteen
twenty three

but i knew 
it was a ticketable
offense to park diagonally
in a parallel universe...

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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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For your charges
Wear a bandolier diagonally
From shoulder to waist.
Fill it with rounds
Of crayons
The color of a rainbow
With that arched calm
Following a terror rain.

Let this be a lesson
To ring from bell to bell
For children 
Without number,
Without interruption....

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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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tracing lines on the syntax
          grammar cascades down resonant folds

hand over hand
   mishandled hands lost grip on the handholds

travelling through time diagonally and sideways

found by no one for infinity of days
                                  lost for never 
yet at the same time always

GONE...

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Zippers and Velcro and snaps and straps
nylon loops are found everywhere
pockets there are of every size
pockets in pockets can be found

flags of black hang upside down
holding meanings that are not found
over shoulders diagonally hung
made to fit over either one

covered with tools of every kind
stuck in loops and on Velcro  hung
swinging on straps as they walk
ringing softly with tinkling sounds...

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Beautiful stars twinkle in the clear, midnight sky.
As the stars align in the hemisphere, the twinkling begins to magnify!

The stars emerge, row upon row, diagonally and horizontally.
As light begins to surge, words begin to glow, and names are spelled out above me.

The names seem to be engulfed in flames for the whole world to see.
Although the phenomenon is unnatural, clearly the words spell: "Jimmy and Audrey!"


Wrote for my dearest friend XOXO...

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we sit as a family in a restaurant
my son turns to me and says,

"we are chess pieces now
you're the king, mum is the queen."

he tells me my two-year-old daughter
in the high chair is the bishop

and she has to walk home diagonally 
which means it'll take some time for me

to reach the restaurant door
but mum will race home weaving

in and out of other pedestrians
my son tells me not to touch him

if i touch him, i have to move him
i touch him...

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