Short Labyrinthine Poems

The few twigs and leaves that litter the trail
seem labyrinthine and strange in the eyes of a snail...

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black widow webbing
intricate labyrinthine
deceptive deathtrap 



AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on April 2, 2018...

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Friedrich Stowasser was Austrian born
some find is art a bit of a yawn
Hundertwasser moniker was his first choice
labyrinthine*his lyrical artistic voice...

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Friedrich Stowasser was Austrian born
finding that name a bit of a yawn
Hundertwasser was his first choice
labyrinthine*his lyrical artistic voice

*https://www.hundertwasser.com...

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At the centre of a viscous net
The sly spider waited alert
A fly flitted closer on buzzing wings
Was caught in the labyrinthine strings
Alas, wound round in ductile rings...

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A Cimmerian hue overlaps
The thoughts encroaching my psyche
They seem to harvest labyrinthine symmetries
Of which I covet
It matters not the appositeness
The unidentified may bear
For by passages of valor I transcend...

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His mindfulness led me
Through a labyrinthine maze
Rambling sinuous thoughts
Planted in thorny tangles
A wandering elegance
Baffling in its simplicity
Mazelike in its meanderings
A wise and twisting serpent
Entangled in the complexities
Of its naivety...

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Labyrinthine mind jams  along mazes
Searching restlessly for inner fortitude;
Till  amaranth weeds point eastward--
Reams clearing passage  through sunrise
To unveil enlightenment—an epiphany!



For Contest sponsored by Nette Onclaud
Minimalist Form--- dated Oct 16, 2O17...

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Loneliness lurks like a live leprechaun,

Leering at her loss of love and laughter;

She leads a luckless lamentable life,

Lacking light, leaning towards lunacy,

Laden with longing and lacklustre lies;

Listlessly lingering in lethargy,

Labyrinthine lady looks lachrymose.



03.25.2021
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Time is a tunnel of fears,
Funneling years
Down a spiral of darkening dread
Twisting ahead.

Somewhere the passage ends,
After it bends
Millions of labyrinthine turns:
Somewhere Man learns.

Somewhere and someplace we find
We’ve been but blind
Burrowing brutes in the devil’s night,
Shunning Christ’s light....

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A baby is a bundle of jangling receptors
    a limb-wiggling curiosity machine
  Equipped to record and retain every sensation
    with nodes and neurons labyrinthine

  We watch her nap and feed
    pray she gets the sleep she needs
  While deep inside her, a learning explosion
    moves mighty mountains, fills vast oceans...

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Altiloquent in behavior
Quick to carom
Unabashedly pawky
A labyrinthine of misadventure

Like living in Greenland
Hardly felt warmth
Got the oil-
Wanted nothing more

Silenced your weapon
Named it trust
In the end
Just shot yourself

Like Halloween everyday
Since the mask came on
A new disguise
Darker and darker you stay...

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It was oneness, 
which brought my poetry 
in the folds of autumn.

From words apart 
you want to talk in space 
for transparent signs.

The city sleeps 
in morning mist, without 
opening the windows? 
of consciousness.

I come out in open 
to watch the lone ficus tree 
waiting to become a deity 
of the walking shadows.


Satish Verma...

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LABYRINTHINE

An injected nanobot in the bloodstream
I am now swept along by the constant flow
And I transmit what I see back to the team
They can see what I see, wherever I go
Jostled by red and white blood cells, thick as cream
If I come across a blockage, then we’ll know
Labyrinthine, with tiny capillaries
My feedback will determine how bad it is...

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Labyrinthine thoughts, and
     limitless  e n d l e s s  grief-
  Longing, I yearn, for those
        LOST days of happiness . . .
   Loving hands  r e a c h i n g   out. 
Life fades away . . .  OH, my
  love wait, wait in death's maze.

____________________
April 13, 2017

Pleiades Verse/Labyrinth
Copyright Protected, ID 892218

Pleiades L
Kim Merryman

First Place...

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emblazon the biosphere
   abstruse blue, shire green
      shaken out of the shadows
                                 fire opal, daystar yellow
                              every color under the sun
                        embodying the labyrinthine canvas

                                            10/25/2021
                                      BITE SIZE POEM no24...

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unrearthing the fallen saint
you wash your feet
and enter the temple of forgotten god :

cult of escape from
tangled half-truths
with dramatic entry of hysterics

you fail to accept yourself,
the grieving death-mask
transcends a fresco

labyrinthine, spacey
soul-sick mates
disputing for no things

the unstained shirt
reminds the absence
you bake a new recipe


SATISH VERMA...

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unrearthing the fallen saint
you wash your feet
and enter the temple of forgotten god :

cult of escapc from 
tangled half- truths
with dramatic entry of hysterics

you fail to accept yourself,
the grieving death – mask
transcends a fresco

labyrinthine, spacey
soul-sick mates
disputing for no things

the unstained shirt
reminds the absence
you bake a new recipe


SATISH VERMA...

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Poverty of thoughts
beats you endlessly.
What  was the other form of violence ?

Body of water bursts.
There was an absentee lover 
trying to overtop the levee.

Pounding of chest
was figurative.
Someone was dying of hunger.

It was a great paradox.
The eagle was rising
for a sudden dive.

Labyrinthine. An intricate
argument. From which-
side will come the death ?



Satish Verma...

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Lavish lilac layers link lofty laurel lunar lanterns
 laissez-faire luxurious largesse lifts labouring lumberjack 
loop-de-loop  lilting Limerick levity lessens life’s load
laughter laden-lampoon, a little lacerating labyrinthine lip 
limelight lustrous leonine lithe lady launches lavender lace
lucid lissome leisurely land loper locket livid loom
Lopsided lounge lizard’s love-lies-bleeding loose leaf...

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I am made from broken pieces
An assemblage of fading memories
The cracks in my mind are a penumbra
To the pulchritudinous of its art.

The surging ways of my
monachopsis are kept at bay by
The mellifluous voices that I have 
miraculously been surrounded with.

My ethereal scars have given
Their labyrinthine paths over to the
Palimpsest that is my life
The writings of a new era.

I will make broken beautiful....

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I found a large bottle in a second hand store
and something about it spoke to my creative nature.
Right away, I imagined a beautiful bottle garden
so, I gathered earth, pebbles, pretty rocks,
and of course delicate fetching lush green plants.
The result delightful with gossamer threads of vines
and labyrinthine lush green wandering twisting growth,
all within a bottle to create a lissome graceful scene....

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The crazed obsession 
    to rule the lives of others
rends the ruler's humanity 
    into tatters,
feeds, fills and bloats 
    his overweening vanity,
deludes the ego 
    with invincibility.

But stripped of his mask, 
    the tyrant shall fall apart
for pomp and vainglory hide 
    a sham, hollow heart
of a cursed, cowering canine 
    that creeps to crawl
through labyrinthine caves 
    of what's left of his soul!...

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The cosmic opus,
The nature offers it all.
enticing, ethereal, expansive
Are you enchanted by how vast it is?
refreshing, rejuvenating, relaxing.
Does it fascinate you to see the creation so invigorating?
It's Nature, an epitome of exhilaration and unceasing growth.

Never forget the labyrinthine it is,
It's tunnels coequals the branches of nature,
At each end,
invariably, something new awaits 
So pick up the principles it purveys....

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How to navigate this labyrinthine called life?
So many hurdles, so much strife
Complicated maze we can get lost
Anxiety takes over we count the cost.

My prayer at night is hold my hand
I am smaller than grain of sand
Tossed and turned by angry sea
To be calm and peaceful is my plea.

As I grow old labyrinthine is cruel
challenged by life but wisdom does rule
Step by step onwards will go
Like peaceful river gently I flow....

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