Short Tethers Poems

The tethers of this 
all too fickle body
fall away
before the immensity
of space and time
leaving the mind
free....

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Blankness staunch
Doll on tethers view.
Mooring void
Aiming high
One choice is on the table.
To gaze through the dark...

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dark and ethereal
stark reminders of being
never tainted nor thwarted
ever present in light
deceptively absent otherwise
now unusable
these tethers
pray tell their value...

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Part of my anatomy I never can live without,
Onset of thoughts that turns all else about;
Every hair-strand bows before its plague,
Tethers and fetters fall at its song.
Rhymes may sometimes sound empty and vague,	
Yet they are the lyrics of the angelic throng!...

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Writing feels loaded with intent
Yet empty of meaning
With nothing to say
But everything to share
Tying tethers to myself
Secured to the words I've spoken
Rather than releasing them
If I close my eyes my thoughts drift away
I'm going to follow them
Goodnight...

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Dreams of living in a world free of norms 
No longer will the word sir be required 
Mam will be no more than a distant memory
Free from one's tethers and restraints 
Mentally relaxed and physically up beat
The general public soars while unified 
Infinite copilots on the flight of redemption...

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What is Love

Trust - unconditionally in that someone special.
Faith - and devotion through divine destiny.
Contentment - in knowing love is equally reciprocated.
Soul connection - that tethers a couple together forever.

8-6-2018

A four line poem on what is love Poetry Contest~Second place~
Sponsored by: Faraz Ajmal...

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Im not as strong as the others
but I can run twice as far
Its the grit in me that tethers
my will to my legs on the ground
Id fly if I had any feathers
 sometimes I think that I have
a stash of drive in my love handles
thats why the wont go away
theyre full of the firey rumble
that pushes me on in my stride
It feels good to be a runner...

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September 27th
You died today
Your life just slipped away
Maybe souls exist and I’ll see you again
Pretty lies we tell ourselves but it’s all pretend
My tethers to this world are growing thin
I often wonder why the say suicides a sin
The world with out you has grown a little grim
I know I need time to grieve
But it’s hard when there’s no time to breath...

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What flips, then flops
What comes in, goes astray
Control is ephemeral
Stability is fraught
For tethers taught
Cannot keep on hold
The obsessive need for change.

You can't stop progress!
Moving on is long gone 
Perhaps you missed the train?
See what you missed 
With head turned back,
A gaggle of opportunities
Wobbled on by,
Goose on the loose, chased....

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Seducing with their siren song
Those who with skyward gaze
Watch with childish fascination
The dance unveiled above

Bright globes of color
Greet the cloudless day
Sharing a quiet moment
Basking in the beauty
Of a clear blue sky

Skipping through the gentle air
Rejoicing in the freedom
Of tethers released
Heavenly aspirations pursued
Happiness is a balloon...

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Though the father of the heathen family is a snob, the mother does blather with others and tethers their cattle with withered leathers whether the weather is warm or not. Neither she loathes any others nor fails to be blithe at the advent of the lithe spring at the southern coast of Southampton where with brotherly affection together run hither and thither sheathers and wethers....

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Free to roam
But never do
Invisibly shackled
Inexplicably remaining
There are no tethers, reins or walls
But I am held
Without comfort

I shift and stir
And pace about
Or sit and stare
But don't bail out
I'm free to roam or leave completely
But I am held
Without comfort 

26 January 2023
Pick-A-Title, Vol 34 - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh

Awarded 4th place...

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Thunder measures out the distance
between lightning flash, and you and me.
We are still together, though separately,
two birds on up-draughts, treading air.

It wouldn’t be fair to ask
"Where are you now?"
for you are here
and everywhere where I can lie

and hear the roll of thunder,
watch lightning tilting at the dark,
understand whatever tethers you to me
is the secret within the art....

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That pit in my soul… 
a space left unfilled
The harder I struggle,
the deeper it drills

Its emptiness constant,
dominion unsure
A puppet on tethers,
with vacuum secured

One choice left unspoken,
whose die never cast
To reach through the darkness,
the blindness unmasked

A backfill is starting,
my cavern relines
The light has reentered
—new future defined

(The New Room: January, 2022)...

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I'm with you-marching-searching for blooms amidst the weeds
you have my white heart-in your hands.
Until you start 
looting
burning 
shooting
"wilding" for white hearts to tear out.
The only slave master you have now is hate,
which tethers the many minds of kindness
whips the back
shackles the soul

Hate is a knee to the neck of peace...
The only slave master you have now is hate,
and it owns you....

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Dear lover you don't know yourself,
yet I'm blinded with awe
and we come together,
but you let me tumble
to other rocks
that surface the shore.
Dear love you said so yourself,
but perhaps it was merely
observation.
Dear friend who tells tales to tare the tale he tells,
because my will tethers easily
and I sway so wholly,
that another already holds my pen
by the end of this poem.

I cannot wait in quicksand,
my legs wont wade merrily....

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