Short Heartstring Poems

Tender tug on heartstring as a child is born...

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Beautiful spring
Brace us stroll the city
With full of heartstring....

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Heartstring Plucker

Twilight time…a song
That matters…especially when
Sung… by the Platters...

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I’ve got heartstring vacancies and I’ve got an empty bed
It seems some hearts are places I'm not meant to tread...

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clew
a thread
unraveled
it pulls me back
away from the scene
where I had done battle
other heroes are god-touched
their fathers' powers aiding them
sore and wounded ... I retrace my steps
the heartstring of my love will pull me through...

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one last heartstring pulled
i linger but not for long

when i turn to go my way
i let go of yesterday's dreams
leaving all regrets behind
~ i leave it all behind me

today's the day i turn
and walk towards tomorrow



AP: 3rd place 2025

Posted on April 5, 2025...

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Catie Lindsey poetry contest: Let it Be

Cross Stitch

Years do not heal words
stitched into the mind with a needle,
a sharp needle making its point
over and over,
'til every heartstring is used up.

What now?
What can we say to each other?

Just, let it be.

August 23, 2017...

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An ancestral anomaly
A sense of escape
Cannot chase inner workings
Trust in what you feel
As the tide pulls you in
Fear not for you’re safe
Be one with your heart
And hold onto me
Take hope as you sleep
While you wake in your dreams
Close the gap with reality 
And make home in your soul...

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(for Pemi)

You are the woman
You are my other half 
and I find it hard to desert
You are the thoughts in my head
You are the grip on my hand
that wills me to a fixation
and I find it hard resisting
You are the reason my heart beats
and the reason I feel this nameless pain wrap around me
And still, you are the rare elixir--the balm to heal my wounded soul...

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Color on a canvas
Blocks of shapes and lines
Form into a picture
Interpretation mine

The subject of a heartstring
Sweet to think upon
Recalling something special
Never truly gone

On my back a bluebird 
Giving her a ride
Soaring high above the clouds
Right there by my side

Color on a canvas
Thoughts of her sublime
Capturing a moment 
Frozen there in time...

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A brief moment 
You were
That sliver of hope
Surprising my heart
No matter my plan
His was for You
And although brief
A promise became 
My heartstring to God
That now tugs hard
At the thought
You are gone
I'll feel the tug again
in the smiles of my loves
And warmth of his embrace
You softened my soul
Pulled back the thorns
Protecting my vulnerability
Prepared me to Love
With Everything...

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Gurl, you’re becoming a memory now
One that I won’t care to miss
Gurl, you’re just becoming one of many memories 
One I won’t miss anymore 
You left, what do you expect 

You’re just becoming one of many memories
One I won’t miss anymore 
I pray that I’m stronger than your 
Heartstring pulls
How you bring me back from your disappearance 
No more
No 
No
I pray that I’m stronger than your 
Heartstrings pulls...

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The core of my existence shines only for you,
           bringing all the goodness in all that you do. 
     I embrace your essence with every heartstring,
for you are my endless love, my everything. 
Spring is arriving, and I hear the Blue Jays sing,
   they whistle for us, my beloved, and our hearts so true. 
          So, come here with passion so we may rendezvous. 
            Yes, our love shall never end, as it began in the Spring.


March 19, 2019...

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