Short Tensioned Poems

loom tensioned for work
webster's pattern emerges
music warping time...

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Her touch leaves no evidence
of her passing
nor does the imperceptible tremor
of her tensioned ease
alert her prey.
Too late they feel
her closing breath
seizing theirs.


©8/30/2019

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Spirited  Love  

Touch  me thy fingers awaken my spirit,
like fire that’s wild my body it spreads,
through magical touch of passion alive,
my heart strings are tensioned harmonious tunes.

So  nurtured  in rhythm of blood flowing  beats,
inspired with moments of beauty serene, 
revitalised  thoughts a paradise find,
sensual the fruits of love us remind...

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Your moods are like sounding boards.
You can sound serious or sad like a cello or double bass,
you can sound aggressive or violent like a bass drum,
heavy and repetitive like a marching drum;
but also cheerful and lively like a piano or a tambourine.
It all depends on the wood you are made of,
of the frame and the capacity to vibrate
and the "soul" that supports the weight of the tensioned strings....

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Gathering force, speed, anger, malevolence of intent, from barren, rocky, cracked and screaming caverns they creep in howling secrecy.  Slow darkening an unseen horizon, billowing shapes, devoid of purpose, roiling above the unsuspecting, unable to control the unseen future.  Feelings, hatched and harbored hatreds, searing our vision of the world.

>CENTER>talons stretch blindly
reaching through times tensioned fog
clinging to the past


John G. Lawless
10/23/2015 UNSUPPORTED CODE...

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