Short Untangle Poems

Three
score ten
to travel,
life's a puzzle
we unpick,untangle and unravel....

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Mirror untangle
This mirror
The soul
Have jealous eyes
What mirror
Cast this stone...

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This knot in my chest
won’t untie itself
And I know that 
I’m the only one who can untangle this mess...

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young red poppies
sparkle in the air
spring flair awakens
untangle their hair
poppies poppies
everywhere...

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let time pass, let it ~
emotion will untangle 
to just drift away
observe how eases to a breeze
after every single storm...

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She's too short and he's too tall
When they kiss, their braces mix
Hard to untangle, twisting
Smiling, they giggle.




Written on 2/5/2015...

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To be well, is to have Doors opened
             close the inapt doors
             attempt to do it right
            untangle from the mistakes...

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A girl caught in her boobie trap
Struggled to untangle a strap
The preacher yelled, "Whoa!
It seems you don't know ...
Do I need to draw you a map?"...

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I so love my investigative angle
Peoples lives I so love to untangle
I thank my Auntie for this
Taggart in Scotland was bliss
Watching the Detectives, was my handle...

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In this tangled web of chaos, 
trying to untangle my being 
of this spider's lacework; 
if my soul will just assent
to a haven of order.

11/2/2014...

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Mazes I've learned are not amusing 
My brain has become one of the most confusing
My thoughts are now tangled up in each other 
A larger mess is made as I try to untangle one from another...

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As depression sinks in,
you ask whats wrong.
my mind floods with answers
all the wrong ones
my mind drowns in lies
all too dumb to say
my mind dies in confusion
too insane to untangle....

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Kinetic journalist 
words swerve in outlooks
Stashing produce 
In an overproduced monkey-fist world

Our evolution spells
Desertion or soil-reversing 
To untangle the fist
And document inner bliss...

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I wish you would
take a breath; exhale, 
let the knots in your
stomach untangle; 
let us see you unravel,
all of you.
There is no shame in
letting us love you, 
letting us love
all of you....

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It starts with little white lies
Ever hungry, deception feeds on itself

A monster with a grip that won’t let go
Webs become impossible to untangle

Words that never see the light of truth
Bound with the silken thread of deceit...

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Once was a smarty-pants now they're down at my ankles
My thoughts are all scattered, my brain's all tangled
What can I do to fix my mojo
Chat with my loving friend Mo-Mo
That'll fix it as well as untangle my wee spaniel...

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i
untangle
my love
from your
silence
nocturnal dreams
withdrawn heart
of rain
surfacing wants
waves are rising
lost frontier
remnants of the
war of love
you
rise and fall
digging deeper
half closed
eyes
salty saliva
new dawn
is here...

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Go on your way
My beloved daughter,
turn aside from the swerving path;
untangle your gaze
to center on Christ.
Stand in courage,
hugging wisdom.
Protect your thoughts
leaning upon pureness of the heart,
release what's behind
and you shall walk on in joy....

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We were lying in the sand,
With our hands locked 
You were looking at me as I was staring at the sun
Why can I see it?
You untangle your hand from mine
Then the sun disappears
I turn to look at you, 
but you are gone too
What did i ever do wrong?
Is it me or is it you?...

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Three
score ten
to travel,
life's a puzzle
we unpick,untangle and unravel.

NOTE:The challenge with Ray Stebbing's tetractys form is -that each line is required 'to stand on its own ' & the poem itself  is to express a complete thought,within the narrow compass of 20 syllables....

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embrace the darkness

for it knows the light

squeeze and hug the clasp

untangle threads of false caress

hold on to the journey

take a seat on the ride

then pull the clutch

release and cuddle up

kiss away lost connection

align shadows and lustre 


13th May 2021...

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Written: by Tom Wright
8/26/2019
Limerick

I once knew a man with a penchant to wangle,
Every story he told was from a left field angle.
Always with a slight grin,
He’d just apply more spin,
The yarns he would spin I could never untangle.
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Oh! A shilly-shally puzzle it is
an oracle's unfulfilled prophecy
a snarl of vagrant kind it is.
A riddle quite hazy to resolve.
May the impending morrows,
untangle this weird rune.
May the tale bearer blurt out
the augury of my future.
Can it be a mirth or gloom?
The all knowing superior deity
laughs at my uncanny anxiety....

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Co. 

Breath intertwined, mine his. 
Gulps visceral
Hold it, hold it, hold it. Please. 

Hair tickles chin, coarser now. 
Hand hooked. Grip for protection. Mine, his? Discomfort hits after a time of cocoon - untangle a limb, like once before. 

The prising of sweat-dampened skin. Skin
that had been forced together. Forced apart....

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Timberland
That
Of her spirit
Cribs mildly
Fairness about
Living organisms
And
Flowering plant

Within
Bees hum
Birds flutter
Gnawers
Are not so
Quiet and mystery
As arachnoids
Untangle their cobwebs

And
Within her mind
She generates
The sun
Gleaming from her
Soul
To yours


Written: September 29, 2022...

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