Short Tying Up Poems

finally tying up
loose ends
signing the artwork



posted on September 30, 2018...

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Has this ever happened to you
While bending over tying up your shoes
You let go a big fella
Destroying the credenza
You thump your head and don't know who's who...

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The night shift…
working in anonymity
semi-detached
Finding a hidden
emptiness
blinding daylight always hides
Tying up the
looser ends
of conscious dislocation
Bringing you back
inside yourself
through darkness circumscribed

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)...

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The Birth of Pegasus

No, they really didn’t mean anything
by tying up a dancing, cavorting, prancing 
colt with a heavy halter -
 but God saw a use for spirit.

I feel sure no one saw them sprout,

just wings spread out over a garden, 
hovering.

A vision for useful dreams.

Suzanne Delaney...

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Plush red velvet pillows rest  secluded
light bent amid scenic shoji screens
ornate vines twist and turn giving way
a silhouette stares ahead without face 

Pin pricked blood blackened by pain
drips  holes drilled out   stitched
loop by loop  the fabrics of life 
tying up loose-end-less thoughts 

Time  still  lost but never found
feelings frost within a frigid wind
felt  in the recesses of the dark
trembling  fingers wave farewell...

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Took a walk down the road that she said I’d been on,
took notes of the words I’d forgotten. 
Those I could remember, could be returned to sender
if I weren't now the only one.
 
My conscience is bleeding, I'm tying up knots
in my stomach and kneading them out like emptied lots
in the night, quiet,
deadly silent, fading with the fog.
Let it come clear and I’m still here, silent, waiting on that song
spoken so softly, of old lovers in repair;
a promise to another in the end I’d see you there....

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