Tangent Poems | Examples


Musical Tangent

Just a whirlwind of thoughts has taken me off on a tangent

Where am I running too 
Only my deviant mind has allowed me to proceed
To an unchartered place leaving me unsettled
It is a fear within

Puzzling music follows like footsteps behind
Is this hell-bent or what twisting my mind

Some say I am razor sharp in thought
I just think there is too much damn commotion
The Some-Say people should concentrate on their own thought process
Rather than worry about my morsel of a life

One should contemplate all the idiosyncrasies of our existence
Determined to learn and acquire the knowledge
To master our spiritual passageway to pure bliss 
Before extinction

It is utter lunacy to think different
Or do you hear what I hear…
The music following like footsteps behind…
Categories: tangent, journey, poetry, spiritual, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTangent Fears--

Just what is at stake
 I'm at the strange plain in my life
 I'm touching those fears within my doubts
 just what is at stake 
curved surface at a point and yet my Lord keeps me from it just what is at stake 
I am at a straight plane in my life 
just what is faith
 I'm at the straight plane in my life 
Faith something that I can't touch
 just what is Faith 
Tangent fears
and yet it lifts me up 
and yet my Lord keeps me from it
 just what is Faith 
just what is this fear
 I'm at a straight place in my life
 this unpleasant emotion caused by unbelief
 just what is this fear
 and yet it lets me up it's in my mind
 and heart and it's dangerous
 just what is the sphere


11/26/19
James Edward Lee Sr. 2018
Categories: tangent, allegory, allusion, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberBeauty Tangent Girl---

the loving lovely
you are so adoring so
tangent beauty girl

radiant lights more
so alluring adoring
beauty tangent girl

I love the views of...
your cuddliness embracing
falling so in love

beauty tangent girl

05/24/18
Written by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018
Categories: tangent, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, black
Form: Haiku

Tangent of Intangibility

well-spoken well-meaning 
attempts at getting to the 
heart of the matter getting
down to the root of the problem
never worked out to my benefit 
always went a stray off onto another 
tangent of intangibility
Categories: tangent, age,
Form: Lyric

Off On a Tangent

my mind touching things                                                                                                                                                            point of coming together                                                                                                                                               what was I thinking
Categories: tangent, allusion, humor, nonsense, satire,
Form: Senryu


Premium MemberTangent

Poise aligns voice
Choice between noise


Light in clear sight
Flight beyond plight


Stare at bold dare
Flair funnels fare


Live as you give
Grief utters brief 


Thrill in fine will
Feel surreal fill


Joy knows sound ploys
Toy with stuff coy


Speak of grand peaks
Seek to be meek


Date your sure fate
State wonder's gate


Room where love grooms
Bloom without gloom




Leon Enriquez
26 April 2016
Singapore
Categories: tangent, allusion,
Form: Couplet

Tangent

Two lines, looking for answers 
Who dared to cross different planes 
They gambled with numbers and letters 
Searching for x in sun and rain 
 
From east to west, they tried to find  
They also tried from north to south 
The value of x they'd always mind 
They cried all night just to be figured out 
 
And so one day, before they finally give up 
They crossed again the crest 
And there their lives have touched mayhap 
That was the first yet also the last 
 
So tragic and so odd 
Their lives have met yet then parted 
O life is really so sad 
It just divides anything united
Categories: tangent, cry, feelings, first love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTangent

So many cracks
Falling now stacks


So much violence
Tangent tensions


So little space
For joy's embrace


So hurts now farm
In violent harm


So what to do?
To discount hues


So much sorrow
For tomorrow


So spread the pain
With terror's strain?


So out of poise
With still small voice




Leon Enriquez
16 November 2015
Singapore
Categories: tangent, change,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberTangent

Feel feisty flame
Opt odd ordain
Ripe rapture reigns


Observe odd one
Unzip undone
Rich rivers run


Prize pretty pace
Run remote race
Etch earns embrace


Charm creams clear case
Opt old out-place
Choice claims cute craze


Impulse ink-stains
Ooze opts obtain
Urge unrestraint


Sense swift sounds speak
Mind meetings meek
Intense ink-tweaks


Chase crazy crop
Hurl happy hop
Appease apt-opt


Ear earns enthrone
Live lovely loan
Zesty zeal zones


Answer apt ask
Choose crispy crust
Heed hoarding husk


Apply apt aid
Ripe rounds reap raid
Yields yes you-paid




Leon Enriquez
28 August 2015
Singapore
Categories: tangent, blessing, , cute,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberTangent 2

Fruit smoothies
Peculiar notions;
Forget-me-not

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Mimosa carpet
On the grass verge;
Violet orbs greet

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Floral bouquet
A lover's gift;
Joy escalates

~~~~~~~~~


Odes and sonnets
Words in-sync;
What's the occasion?

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Date with fate
Don't be late;
A full plate

~~~~~~~~~


April intervenes
Abrupt endings;
Motley stuff

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Old lovers here
Vintage furniture;
Clumsy clutter

~~~~~~~~~


Those sad eyes
Staring at me;
Lost for words

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Old sepia prints
Time mellows stains;
Ancient memories

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Nightfall cicadas
Creepy cacophony;
Frogs croaking

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Sums and tangents
Spreadsheet items;
Profit-and-Loss

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Spring serenades
Cherry blossoms flaunt;
Mystic magic moments

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
30 April 2015
Singapore
Categories: tangent, change,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberTangent

Black crow surveys
Two sparrows chat;
Food for thought

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Air-con leaking
Messy affair;
Slippery pathway

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Two toddlers laugh
Playground adventure;
Proud parents chit-chat

~~~~~~~~~


April showers
Thundering rain drops;
Wetness blooms

~~~~~~~~~


Moments freeze
Swirling slowly;
Rainy day moods

~~~~~~~~~


By my work desk
Piles of paper books;
Hoarding feels good

~~~~~~~~~


Telephone call
Old friend chuckles;
Brief encounter

~~~~~~~~~


Chocolate ganache cake
Home made delicacy;
Out of this world

~~~~~~~~~


Time and time again
Same old complaint;
Not enough time!

~~~~~~~~~


Kahlua and cakes
Tea time conversations;
Mingling sighs

~~~~~~~~~


Stone bench moments
Old man resting;
Sunny sparkle

~~~~~~~~~


Bamboo leaves
Spiky ornaments;
Oriental scene

~~~~~~~~~


Arithmetic means
Weak economy;
Tighten your belt

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
29 April 2015
Singapore
Categories: tangent, change,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberTangent

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Disturbing isn’t it?
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Categories: tangent, art, psychological,
Form: Blank verse

Tangent Lives

We are indeed two parallel lines
That run in eternal agreement
Continuously our course defines
A harmonious stand for our sentiments.

This united length of partnership
Runs side by side in platonic direction
Perpetual lines of enviable friendship
Will never be found in an intersection.

Fate may be kind, our lives may cross
Destinies in a future engagement
But at the moment, we are both at a loss
Our lives, our lines are just... tangent.



CynBuhainBaello 7/13/12




July 3, 2012 Cynthia BuhainBaello
Categories: tangent, friendship, happiness, life, may,
Form: Rhyme
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