Short Tenuous Poems

I feel your soul,
farther and farther away.
Tenuous is life....

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Negotiations

War torn countries in conflict

A tenuous link...

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tenuous
budget
tightrope
dance
slips
      into
    freefall...

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Still mourning dove nests,

safety for tenuous eggs.

Calm dove births her spawn....

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Pain: the giant predator
On life's jungle field; always hunting
Joy: the tenuous prey...

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Majestic wetlands 
Reflecting tenuous limps 
Under a blue quilt 




Inspired by Raul Moreno’s “Tranquility” contest !...

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Mundane cells not immune to death
Upon exhale of final breath,
Tenuous trails towards the past,
Luminous legacy to last. 

July, 20, 2021...

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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....

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

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

sharp notes 
compose  
a subtle dirge 
of mournful 
ambivalence 

14 May 2023...

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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...

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 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...

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

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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...

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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....

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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. 
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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....

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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