Short Tortuous Poems

Tortuous night over
Sun comes up slowly - morning
Mourning black loss...

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the path of truth
     It's fair and simple...
       the way of the lie
   it's tortuous and infinite......

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Breath of deep relief 
Escaped as a soft whisper
Lost in the dark night
Ending a tortuous past
Closing forever cycles...

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Dyslexia is our superpower;
And from know-it-alls we never cower.
They torture one's head with tortuous talks;
Dyslexics instead think outside the box....

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Concrete path, Callous-Creet
Ordinary, Offensive to my feet
Nasty, Narrow Tard
Cold and hard
Resinous rebuke
Exhausting EwwwK
Tenacious Tortuous vex
Egregious Ex...

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Listen to poem:

when feelings rage
to fever pitch
and seas rise
to tortuous,
the simplest
open arms, loving embrace,
with puppy pats on the chest
quells and dispels
the fury
quite unexpectedly....

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immense
on the surface,
massive
in depth
yet 
 if   overblown..
malevolent:
a tortuous
      reflex..
..allusive
    as mercury
to grasp:
a threat
      perhaps
if
assembled
and paraded
sans
   modesty...

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passing
    fads
       astir
so experiential,
multifaceted
       excesses
without
    perspective:
prolific
prevalent
freeflowing
a tortuous
     trail
of
melancholy
   mistakes...
...with no
way
back...

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Motion's mementoes -- 
babe's tiny fingers uncurl
centenarian's eyebrow raised
the sun darting behind clouds
an earthworm's tortuous wiggling 
performers all, a broad panorama --
  seeking approval
  glimpses of meaning...

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draw one’s own future
pass through certain tortuous roads
gift of nature’s voice









Honorable Mention
Contest: Haiku on probabilities
Judged: 8/8/14
Sponsor: Poet Marvin Celestial

June 8, 2014  (old poem)...

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When you’re young
  you run with the wind
    laugh in the face of time

Of a sudden you’re old
  you hobble, chagrined
    every step a tortuous climb

Though if young knew of old
  as old knows of young
   no melody’d ever be sung...

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On this tortuous path called life
I go harvesting and drinking the storms
without having too much calm...
Sometimes with the chase
of men with blind sights
I proceed staggering, among staggering...
Sad is the spoil of this life
little time of virtues
and an arsenal of mistakes...!...

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The hurt within has a calming effect, 
Hidden inside my mind's covert entrance, 
I rest with torment, happy to reflect, 
On my emotional independence. 

'Let's go out' a grim and ghastly sentence, 
Tortuous and loud, louder than I thought, 
Noise engulfs my ears, silence it is sought....

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Everyone cannot clearly see 
Messy Objects, drama, pain or abuse 
Tearing tortuous rips
Into emotions 
Or 
Named 
Attacks 
Lacking its regard for your soul. 
Severe pain often is
Covered by a smile 
And 
Rages 
Scornfully about dragging damaging painful scars on emotions.

Emotional Scars...

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My heart yearns for you
Like air to breathe 
Or as lovers do
Need only each other 

Tortuous time away
Hearts ache so deep
A heavy price to pay
To build our future life

Though one more sleep
One more morning’s light
For your arms to keep
Me warm in your embrace 



For my loving MK
1-24-22...

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Merrily merrily I say unto thee
It's time to go in for surgery!
Anesthesia pumping through my veins; knocked out for forty five
Oh please oh please do not let me die
Post-op's a *****, tortuous at that
Splints in my nose, feeling so whack
But **** it I say, this could be more dire
It could be worse, I could be on fire!...

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Side stepping love's starfish sun bathing about, time's shores....
While amoeboid parasites these sponges in resilient, take up residence
Atop her capital hill; residuum's resonant evil kismet's, true, liverwort lobbyist 
Waterspout gargoyles autism's algae tortuous angleworms this, immoral's realities ?
Shuttered truths antipodes their view; his shad's tenement tete-a-tete's, voodoo virtuosity....

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Shining metal
Open on the lake
Blistering heat
Reflective sheen
Swim with caution
Burning with light
Pain intensifies
Over water’s edge
Combine the hurt
From terror
And flight
Find the reflection
Not found at night
Where continuous agony
Finds the fight
The irritation
Covers every pore
Seeing the sensation
A sting in the eyes
Creates a tortuous
Blinding sight

Russell Sivey...

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Take 5-
A step back
Your distortion of reality
Deteriorating subconsciously
Unable to distinguish fact from fantasy
It’s not so bad –
Living in your imagination
What’s real or a hallucination
My mind is trampled with anticipation
Body facing ablation
Tortuous mind, its obligation
To dissipate the stagnation
Of a creative mind-
Obliteration of the finest
But hell, my own mind is biased...

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Apple orange grapes
Murder plunder rapes
All and sundry things
Empty vessel rings
Sunset evening dawn
Easy leasy loan
Tortuous treacherous path
Fresh and fragrant bath
Crazy curious crowd
Town talks aloud
Dizzy merry-go-round
Folks tradition-bound
Catchy cute couplet
Astute images inflate
APOSTROPHIC INTERLUDE:
Flow !flow! thou vacuous word
Thou are not so absurd
As man's ineptitude...

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   For a poet, love
   it's reliable...
   For me it is immense sea
   of tortuous waves
   that curl up...
   free clouds that float
   over immensities, with
   the certainty that powerful hands
   sustain them...
   In storms, eyes of brothers
   cry...
   Mine are on fire... joy...
   Is that for me the sea
   it's my floor... and my body,
   a sailing ship
   inside the storms......

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sometimes i feel depressed in my loneliness
other times i’m refreshed and invigorated

there is a life inside of me, its stimulus
i can’t control. though i wait it out and breathe

perhaps it’s a shadow that shows up time and time
again. it’s ugly haunt, a tortuous neck that lurks

yet i look upward...the Spirit throws a cloak around
my shoulders, pats my hair and loves me through it

7/4/2018...

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FUSION

Breathtaking brook braving brazen bruises became broken
Entered estuary emanating exuberance
Reopened rosary resonated rhapsodic raga
Together these tides tried to tackle tortuous terrains
Flowed far fathoms freely fertilizing fallow frontiers!




~18th November 2016~
~River Line - Poetry Contest~ 
~ Sponsored by Rick Parise~ 
5 lines; 14 syllables in each line...

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It’s an exquisite,
excruciating, brilliant

Hell in which he lives

An agony, a
torture,
the finest steel badger’s trap

Deep inside

the arid zone

It’s a blasted, 
blighted,
bloated desert drought
filling his head
behind his eyes,

Alive only with
swirling-dervish dust-devils
and skeletal,
giant tumbleweeds

Attended only by
the incessant, bereft
and tortuous screams
of a burning, banshee wind...

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HURRICANE

whirlwind of the sea ~
ferocious spinning disc
gaining speed and wrath

the hurricane’s eye
with torrential force of tears
~ winds tortuous strength

wild waves warn the coast
with boats crashing into docks
~ only lunes remain

palms are tested as
coconuts plummet like hail
~ storm assails sailboats

Objects settle wind
to lesser tropical storm ~
sea salt soothes the wounds

9/7/2017
Hurricane contest...

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