Short Loosening Poems

Sighing in pleasure sliding inwards,
Then out of a loosening drench....

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Explosion into myriad colors leading to a lovely loosening of the struggling summers...

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I was loosening the soil
On the roots
Around the trees

I was shock to hear
Saying
Thank you
Taking one voice
All the trees...

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Old
lattice
of brown vines
loosening their grasp
from a cracked dwelling-
Nearby,  I  trace
sweet girl's years 
bouncing 'round
trees...

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It’s that time of year
         The turkeys are in hiding
Pumpkin camouflage 
No matter their endeavors
          I’ll be loosening my belt...

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This

Psycho
matic
Babble

Drama
fueling
Trauma

Is

Loosening
mind
Screwy

By

Mending
amist
Rending 

Right
 
Into The
Tightness 

Of An
Ending...

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love lays...
liquid lunar light
licking lips, lobes, languid limbs
lovemaking, loosening linens
loving looks
leisurely liaison
lingering, lyrical lovesong
love's lullaby...

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She listened carefully
Without comment
Learning their secrets
Filing them in compartments

They were honored
Revealing things long hidden
Loosening up their hold
More open than they should have been....

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"Jazz me in"

notes climbing blue light shining pulling the heart plucking it 
on a silken satin string the ties binding loosening submerged 

Jazz me

in

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
...

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I saw the huge beast from the dock.
The scene evoked bowel loosening shock.
Run and hide, Nessie!
It's about to get messy.
Rosie O'Donnell* is swimming in the Loch.

(*or insert your "favorite" celebrity name here)...

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Your love is scored with lines:
The thin one of a bitter smile,
Loosening after while,
The legal ones you sign in ink,
Those ‘round the tub and in the sink,
The battle-lines you draw in bed;
Lastly, lines said in your head....

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Your love is scored with lines:
The thin one of a bitter smile,
Loosening after while,
The legal ones you sign in ink,
Those ‘round the tub and in the sink,
The battle-lines you draw in bed;
Lastly, lines said in your head....

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A proud rose
transfixed by the sunlight
into awesome beauty
opens her petals wide
to fullest potential
and feels the first loosening
of a petal.
She wonders at her fate,
and further wonders why
she never thought of it
until now....

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it seems
the seams
are coming undone

each little loop
loosening
as the threads
slowly unravel
around us

all we can do
is hang on
to this little piece
of hope
dangling
by the knot
forming
in our
throats
as we pray
for a cure...

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Loosening up to let go of control as slowing down soothing my soul
Options exist to decelerate now since feeling good to unfurrow my brow
Welcoming whatever comes my way by riding the wave to lean into today
Black and white fading to gray with the middle road keeping me above the fray...

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with this sing
i songly wed
i did you and
you did too

i bridled the not
French but Spanish
kiss thus tightening
the knot not loosening

i now pronounce you
pronouns in the eyes
of a looney tune spit
sputtering Sylvester

stutter Puddy Cat
and i say i say i say
Leg Horn as a
southern fog drawls in...

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Sweet concord mellow wine
Loosening my tongue
As I tell all
To all
About you, the volcano erupting
Into my life,
Storming verbally
Crushing my heart...
But I don't cry,
Not me!
Sweet concord mellow wine quiets me
As as you claim you are mine
I ask, "Lord why me?"
"I asked for roses and you sent me a tree!"...

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Grip loosening; 
the lesser evil-

will liberate you-
from the nights terror.

The moon bleeds, 
in your bed.

A raw wound-
unblinks in pain.

No words will speak 
for the fallen icon.

The death has extracted 
its price.

Black milk exudes 
from the round breasts.

Sun was rising.


Satish Verma...

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Sweet concord mellow wine
Loosening my tongue
As I tell all
To all
About you, the volcano erupting
Into my life,
Storming verbally,
Crushing my heart...
But I don't cry,
Not me!
Sweet Concord mellow wine, quiets me!
And as you claim you are mine,
I ask, "Lord why me?"
"I asked for roses and you sent me a tree!"


Cynthia...

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A thought starts a fire
loosening the lips.
I want to scream.

Between dreams and stars
a sky hung with
inverted moon.

The desire springs a scythe
but cannot cut a
jellyfish of eye.

A sunstroke was speechless
without a sun.
The gift of a night.

The sweet tooth of a lie
scoops a truth,
king of bitters.



Satish Verma...

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Sunday morning under my quilted down comforter
Coffee smells loosening tension like a good massage.
My alarm clock snores on, this being its one day off
And I gaze at the dresser replete with family photos.
Contentment fills me, dampening every exposed, jagged nerve
And begins to overflow as my cat purrs her approval.

February 17, 2019...

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Chains
Forged by you
Designed to hold me down
Loosening
Weakening

Your iron grip
That forced me to lye
To sit by your side
Unclenching
Relaxing

The web 
You cast around me
To make me stay 
Untwining 
Unwinding

Everything you've done
Broken, erased, destroyed
You have no more control
I run away to my first
Taste of freedom...

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Love that's gathered in heart's glow
the season comes upon
scarlet smiles - attachments pure
encircling life most golden
where in spirit shadows fade
only brilliance seen
round the table - nourishment
substance feeding all 
canning love's great fortitude
to store for yonder's need
helpings drive the loosening of
soul's tender belts to sigh...

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Slinging slang, snazzy…dang
Zoomers zing, zazzy.
Loosening tongues, eroding
out the path well set.
the text of millennials, lit.
Forget about correct spelling—
Sit on the keys…amirite?

Nov 2021

Amirite - slang (merriam-webster) used in writing for "am I right" to represent or imitate the use of this phrase as a tag question in informal speech...

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He pressed onward
Unsure of his destination,
Smiling as the storm intensified—
Tearing at the sails, loosening the rudder.
His smile was not born of humor
But from recognizing his own strength
In the face of adversity.
"It's a beautiful chaos," he remarked
When questioned about his calm.
For he understood
That to unburden oneself
Is to find relief.

...

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