Short Tenuously Poems

  In the shadow
  Where all the pieces be
  Laid out
  For the world to see
  Connected parts of thought
  Filaments joined tenuously
  Bits created
  Flightiness
  
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lone leaf left clinging

   tenuously to its twig

      wind whistles away



             November 06, 2019
A Late Fall or Early Winter Haiku Poetry Contest
           Sponsor: Tania Kitchin...

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a Mystic candle
enamouring Fire
             is so light --

shimmering tenuously
lurching shadows
            and listening 

intensely disinterested
neither attracted
             nor compelled --

only
waiting
with storms all around...

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Almost bereft of the last vestiges of golden glory
The few remaining leaves cling tenuously to the tree
With the certainty that wind and frost 
Will suddenly cause them to succumb
Finally falling to the earth beneath
Hungrily embracing them in the cause of growth
Rendering them down to feed the next cycle
Of leaves and blossom and fruit
That will surely come next year....

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PULLING THE TRIGGER

a centrifugal shot
captivating

     officers investigating
     knocking on doors

across the street
silence

     until a single mother
     returns

a siren screams
for two hours

     the coroner
     appears, placid

neighbors nudged
the mother, of one son,

     outside, where oxygen
     could not breathe

where a home, once stood
only walls speak

      neighbors listen
      tenuously

9/15/2017...

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