Short Tethering Poems

shades of cerulean enclose my ice-bound heart
and radiate misted frost into the breath of the earth,
tethering love in its glacial grip....

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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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Adventure - A Didactic Cinquain



Adventure
Freebooting, foolhardy
Fantasying, voyaging, tethering
Ever so imagined
Gamble

2/3/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©...

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With a cool frosty wind 
He came calling 
Swiftly drifting inward 
With a  fruit 
Stretched as a reward 
For every word
Subtly tearing the branch 
From every trunk 
With a canny laugh
Tethering the head
Roping the man
Sounding the beginning 
With a bit
For every bait....

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" It's a short venture into the golden fields,
where blank leaflets remain unpressed by the teacher of its province, the sole architect of conception that remains transfixed upon the gossamer harvest, that binds its influence in the tethering of its being. "


Alfredo Gonzales ©...

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flowers
                      abloom, flory
            loving, wedding, growing
bouquets, blossom, inflatable, bouyant
        deflating, bursting, tethering
                  helium, colorful
                         balloons...

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As if you tether the thesis
I posit you with lines and signs
as if eternity could be planned
hasten you with delimited maxims
may there be a strain 
in my heart that echoes
will it dwell needful in my tone?
amidst burns
angle, design, logic
lie the ashes of
had been, is, would be

Written: September 28, 2022...

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astral travel 
luxuriously lingering
among the stars

cosmic awareness
ghostlike fantasies
nightly ventures

extending past the horizons
reaching far out galaxies
soul spiriting forward

Hearing angel music
unleashed, uncaged, uninhibited
Silver cord tethering you to body but barely

astral travel
highly recommended
during dreamstate...

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Spry of step, your clover feet
green with chlorophyll oil
sugared the soul, contained, complete
bergamot imprinting soil

You are a butterfly shy of wings
tethering a cloud in your net
Immersed in the wonder that wonderful brings
you give just as much as you get

Swept of hair, eyes of blue
imprinted with languid desire
Imagining me, Imagining you
From the earth to the sky, even higher....

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For the nonce, living soul,

you will breathe in new lessons through our tender tethering

as your seeking thirst is slaked through your skin;

for life's osmosis seeps mortal knowledge not implanted at conception.


Susan Ashley
September 16, 2019


~ Second Place ~
Contest: Arbitrium Divisa 4 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Gregory R. Barden


*An excerpt from: Odyssey Of A Soul; written June 8, 2018*...

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Precious, life sustaining oxygen flows
no longer; linking chord tethering me
severed, I lie upon hard cold table.

I see cloudy images--a table
holds my angel mother. Sweet red blood flows
from soft nurturing nest once holding me.

Mommy, don’t discard your babe. Look at me!
Life can be saved. An abortion table
Should not separate with death our love flows.

Love flows away. Save me from this table.

Copyright, July 17, 2014
Faye Lanham Gibson...

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Fearless and ignorant 
Consumed by curiosity
Like a child, I am unadorned 
with the burdens of hate

Regardless of years surrendered
Or intellectual opulence 
I find no comfort 
In self-indulgence

Days are filled with intrigue 
Adventures born of imagination
Youth is the leash
Tethering the soul

Conscience confides
with reason
Neither holds the key
To peace of mind

Hope is never-ending 
A virtue paid in full
With calloused hands
And a strong will...

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