Short Tenuous Poems

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Untouched Moments

Majestic wetlands 
Reflecting tenuous limps 
Under a blue quilt 




Inspired by Raul Moreno’s “Tranquility” contest !
Form: Haiku


Premium Member Last Not Least

Mundane cells not immune to death Upon exhale of final breath, Tenuous trails towards the past, Luminous legacy to last. July, 20, 2021
Form: Quatrain

How Tenuous, How Softly Demure,

How tenuous, how softly demure,
Sounds this interlude, which I trying to catch!
Like bereft of a sigh, non  formidable sketch
It is soaring around, immutably pure.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Tenuous Gossamer

Thread cast, a lifeline stretched touch, finger to finger, poised for connection. But without grip, can't hold on. Out of reach, connection snaps.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Melancholy Melody

tenuous strands 
lithely tethering 
the soul to reality... 
strummed unevenly 
by life 

sharp notes 
compose  
a subtle dirge 
of mournful 
ambivalence 

14 May 2023
© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.


Economy of Words

say much
saying little

speak volumes
in few words

keep quiet
silence roars

economy of words
whittling away
paring down
all I say

tenuous talking
baby steps
to arms
there all along
© Barb Black  Create an image from this poem.
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Premium Member Pooped

p o o p e d laptops workbooks schoolagers out. weekend is here Saturday workday from home a tenuous reader stoops
3/20/2020 stoops - yields, submits
Form: Tanka

Premium Member P Q R S T

Prancing purple polliwogs playing prissily
Querying querulous quail quite quietly
Reviving romantic roosters respectfully
Sassy swooning swans sighted saucily
Tempting tenuous trickster trout tastefully
Form: ABC

Premium Member Falling Stars

Listen to poem:
Warm stars huddles in
     Froze expanse oblivious
          To its tenuous strands hold

Vague falls one or more
     Breaks free in beheld eyes gaze
          Froze in imagination.


Date: 06/02/2019
Form: Sedoka

Love Is True

Loves
Ocean 
Vast, calm, and
Endlessly deep.
Indescribable  
Sunsets rise and they fall.
Tenuous memories fade
Relieving us of faulted love.
Understanding there has never been
Engulfs perception and alters our gaze.
Form: Etheree

Without you

When you left the time stopped,
Without you everything is restocked, 
You were like light in nebulous, 
Without you this light is tenuous, 
We were so close like two stars, 
Now we are separated like two parts.
Form: Rhyme

Remains

THESE WOUNDS ARE FRESH
MY BRITTLE BONES
CAN'T HOLD THE WEIGHT
SPLINTERED LIKE GLASS
I'M FLIMSY
IN THIS FRAGILE SHELL
RELEASE ME
FROM THIS TENUOUS COIL
I'M BOUND TO THE EARTH
BY PAPERY THREADS
I AM THE ETHEREAL ONE.

Premium Member Face Down In the End

tenuous connections
porous holes
slipshod precision
damaged souls

furious, the pace
rounding the bend
a devil of a race
face down in the end

the black crow flies
the vulture thrives
countless, the lies
empty, their lives
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Carpe Diem

Life is so Precarious...
So Tenuous...
So Fleeting...

I would be happy right now...
Just to open my eyes...
And SEIZE the Day....


(November 11, 2010 Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2010 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved

A Spectral Change To Another Space

A spectral dream
to forestall
they can try
but can't prise my grip
from my tenuous grasp
of reality
in the dream
it's myself
i'm most afraid
and the night
is not my friend
when the ghosts
rise from the dead
and howl to keep me awake.

Intangible Obscurity

Unwritten chapters of poetry
 hidden mid brick-wall blank
 pages 'tween lines of history's
   past grievances and faux pas,
relentless whispers of tenuous
   echoes chanting unintelligibly 
whilst abstruse inky passages
  fade further intangible obscurity
© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.

Brother

Brother

Riparian observers watch waters pass
left behind, huddled in loss
our tears added to the flow
memories blazoned in our mind
with each tenuous gasp
we pound the bare earth
love and loss mingle with shock
remember
how could I forget
he’s my brother

Premium Member Tintinnabula

Sounds, sweet sounds, smooth, pure pleasure, ding, ding-they call to me, tinkling tiny tenuous tongues. Ring, ring they sing in angelic voices enraptured chorus to heaven, cry of bliss.
06/08/2017
Form: Concrete

Creativity

A river that flows silently from one’s psyche
Fragile, tenuous, abiding

I sigh like a thirsty traveller reaching an oasis at dusk
A sailor welcomed into the bosom of a secure shore

I search unceasingly for meaning and words 
Marvel at creativity waiting to be tapped

Premium Member The Mind Drifts

The mind drifts
  free-floats gaily
far, far from its moorings
  lighter-than-air

Associations stream
  in-and-out on
ribbons, wisps of lazy strings
  hanging from rose-colored kites

Dark forces loom
  yet undetected
thoughts breathlessly racing
  beyond our tenuous grasp

Defining Laconic Verse

A Poet – Chiseling a Tenuous Verse
Scrutinizing for—Refined Brevity 
Distinguishing on—Verbal Rarity 
Mastering the Art of—Succinct and Terse

Analyzing the—Precise, Fitting Word
Harsh,Choppy—and Concurrently Flowing
Continually – Engaging —Growing   
Placing – Failing Limping Verses—on Hold

Love and Hate

Hate is lack of love, is thick,
         dense, almost stone ...
         It's an icy mountain
         in the chest of the person who carries it ...
         Love is soft, tenuous,
         almost cloud ... almost 
         gaz of happiness in laughter
         of those who utilize it ...!

Hysteria

H esitant, tenuous, an inconspicuous mind,
Y ielding incoherence, as reality collides,
S ubtle, grim, emotions strive,
T ormented, distressed feelings glide,
E ncrusting the soul, as fear ignites    a
R ambling fire of strife…
I ntimidating, terrifying, an adversary of might,
A n aspiration to fight…
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member A Blind Man's Path

Towards this world I am ambivalent.

Seeking not for retribution 

but focusing on clarity of mind.

One may have a tenuous grasp on  reality 

and still, achieve this.

For a blind man in the fog 

has the same chance as the sighted.

Self-reliance and intuition are his eyes.

As clear as day he walks his way.

Only he knows his own heart.
© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Frames

To me there is nothing more sad than finding old photos
at a flea market or antique store
Their value upheld only in the frame that contains, what was once,
someone’s cherished memory.

Who were the people in these photos? What did they do?
Who loved them?
How is this their legacy?

Such a reminder to me,
Just how tenuous life as we know it can be.

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