Tensing Poems

fall is a reminder

Fluffy tailed rodents chasing rings around trees
Cool air, bringing a realism with harsh new breeze
Leaves redressed in yellows, oranges, golds and reds.
Nothing but brown ugly things in my flower beds.

Autumn is here, tooting her coronet about winter.
The wood on the porch is rotten, the edge has splintered.
Jackets and sweaters are searched for, I discover my old blue.
Mittens are almost never a match, you find one, but not two.

Fall is a reminder that the world is tensing up for snow.
Frost and sleet, ice on the roads, hope you do not have far to go.
I scrunch down in my chair surrounded by fluffy fleece.
Eating warm foods like potatoes with gravy made with grease.

Bird on a Wire

A bird on a wire
Taking in the world
Looking around about to fly
Into the beauty of the sky

Ruffling of feathers
Body tensing for take-off
Jumping from the limb
Flapping of the wings

As it soars majestically into the air
Stretching it wings to full length
Sweeping down into the Valley
Hunting for its prey

Screeching through the air
Stretching its claws out
Grab what is his
An afternoon delight

Beautiful Tension

I got tensed the other day
Asked myself will there be heat in the may, 
Some stupid question over the bay, 
Tonight I learned that I may not be the one but always bright as day. 

Tensing is not bad in the breaks, 
It lets you flow like the water of the lake, 
Make you more of you and less of fake, 
Flowers in my hand and life on stake. 

I asked them to get me a cup of tea, 
So that I can beautifully tense near the sea, 
Short, sweet and soft but it got me hurt by knee, 
Maybe a sign to stop having the beautiful tension baby.

Songs of Soul COS No 10: ABAB

Absent of pride, gave their lives, those they owed,
bloodlines warrant one soul's intended quest
persuades a past, that they constantly sowed
pastoral guides sculptors essence is blessed
Readiness spurs insights, smoothing passion
unforeseen tests that fool-hearted, not them
their unbidden stare on death's face, cash in
pushed e'er determined, tensing a rose stem
Unchecked horses, intrepid horsemen burst
barrage relents as foe feared those affirmed
lurked rears castle shadows most accursed
chance lights and afront darken all confirmed
won swords gained Heaven rewards fruition.
Bold victor of few words, save salvation.

Drowning

Suffocating
By my own hands.
Falling apart,
I’m my own demise.

When last did I breathe?
Why can’t I now?

Falling off 
The edge of the cliff,
Failure to grasp
Onto something;
anything.

Beneath the water
I plunge,
Sinking down.
Should have learned
How to swim
When I had the chance.

Lungs filling up
With water,
Air stolen from me
By the thieves 
Of the sea.

Shackles weigh me down,
To the bottom
Of the ocean.
Not a breath 
Of air
To be found.

Body trembling
In the ties
Around me,
Muscles spasm, 
Tensing 
With fear.

The need to 
Get free,
To find an escape.
But I’m drowning
And shackled
With no one
To save me.

Anger Management

Anger sets in, deep in the mind.
Amygdala fires up, logic becomes blind.
Tightness of chest, muscles tensing, preparing for fight or flight.
Anger sets in, deep in the mind.

Thoughts crash and topple trying to find.
Scrambling to make sense, to rationalise!
Eyes widen, jaw stiffens as adrenaline flies!
Anger sets in, deep in the mind.

Darkness is craved from the logical side.
Trying to find somewhere to hide.
Quiet needed now to temper the mind.
Alone with yourself but of a different kind.
Anger sets in, deep in the mind.

Rage containment, holding back the tide.
Sitting still, of warring will to contain the anger inside.
Draining strength to cool the blazing fire.
When anger sets in, deep in the mind.

Fire and Flood

This time of year
the lake is an island of cool
in a cauldron of heat. 
A few months ago, 
the surrounding grass 
was fed by flood
and stood tall and green
in a bog.
Now it is bleached, bent over 
and crackles underfoot.

By January, the landscape 
shrivels up and tightens 
into a parched, 
knotted ball
tensing for the burn. 
Baked and blackened, 
its ancient soul readies
to resurrect again,
breaking out
of its charcoal sarcophagus 
with a green shoot as if 
it was giving a raised finger 
to fire.

Ergonomic Position

Tensing, and about to move,
Clouds hover twisting with hoof, 
Lingo parapentes this flush body: 
Hurling shavings’ stop the prove.

A whale, psycho or streetlight:
Moss convenes the hefty truss,
Armoured spears fling to the bat,
Frozen in time to lure the buzz.

Naked! Bereft of pen and paper - 
Paparazzi’s might slithers in dipole:
Collision kills this vapour, tribe, vibe;
The soul fraps, flapping a gold taper. 

Whence is thy labour parapet -
Where are your stations and grain?
Why are solid requests paraphernalia?
When adjustments are fisture gain.

How you loath me - the self, soul:
Incanting verse and troth to fight;
Whilst proxy, spread, call, sound,
Legitimise oozing, sore canons - tight.

Butterflies come from caterpillars,
The human comes from trait, said dead,
Poesy loves grammatical technology,
And diversity clothes in personal thread.

O self, worldwide! How do you drift?
The miniature scoops cleaving the spirit:
Fine detail creates the abstract flint beside,
And structure charts float the pixel’s sift.

Dominique Webb

Get a Grip

is that a tremor
  calm down, take it easy
sure it is, distinct this time
  fingers trembling slightly

get a grip now
  no, I can't
I can't grip my pen
  my fingers are shaking now

O, the vagaries of age
  one goes from light to dark
in the tensing of the neck
  and the knot of the stomach

Forlorn Hope

*Image of Tennyson Cross, Isle of Wight provided by Pixabay.

Forlorn Hope
Poetic Form: Sonnet

Divined amassed, thinly advance their scope
bloodlines warrant one soul's intended quest
persuades enhanced history, constants hope
pastoral guides sculptors essence is blessed

Readiness spurs insights, smoothing passion
unforeseen tests that fool-hearted, not them
their unbidden stare on death's face, cash in
pushed e'er determined, tensing a rose stem

Unchecked horses, intrepid horsemen burst
barrage relents as foe feared those affirmed
lurked rears castle shadows most accursed
chance lights an afront darken all confirmed

Bold few opinions charged submits warlords
fruition won swords gained Heaven rewards

2021 May 08
*1st Place*
ALL YOURS (May 18): Judged 2021 May 18
~~Brian Strand
*2nd Place*
This or That, Vol 2
~~Edward Ibeh: Judged 2021 May 13  

*HMS checked 10 syllables x 14 lines.

Cat Nap

Fractious feline
sensuously stretching, 
languorously lying,
soporifically slumbering
(monocularly monitoring).

Meandering mouse! 
Tail twitching...
tautly tensing...
Predatory pounce!
Salubriously surfeit! 



February 6, 2020

When I Feel You

When i feel you
            under my body my pupils dilate
            my arteries conscrit...
            You make me rise temperature.
            my heart skips a beat and races...
            My blood pressure skyrocket.
            You take my breath,
            my respiration becomes
            shallow and rapid.
            You impulsate my brain,
            put fire and burns me in
            electrical vibes....
            Secretions spit out
            and i have no control
            of my glands...
            You cause me spasms
            pressing my muscles,
            tensing my body that
           i feel i could lift tremendous
           weights...
           I feel violent, ugly, messy...
           But as a miracle all in
           love way...
           I am grateful for all
           incredible feeling i
           carry inside when with you... !

Taffy Goes Golfing

Taffy and I walk together
finding golf balls in the heather.
A true friend as we slog around
a best partner so I have found.
Wanting my dog to have a proper name
in line with respect for this noble game.
Named for rotund William Howard Taft
a golfing president that sounded apt.
Though a pedigree mongrel hound
we share moments that are profound.

Off we go to our little town course
Taffy watches as balls hit the gorse.
Traversed the front in level par
felt a tinge of confidence thus far.
Breezing the back with a birdie or two
misses catching up, maybe coming due.
Tensing Taffy sniffs birds of prey
looming ravens, an omen they say.
The last before me, the count at three
can I shoot my age, will it ever be?

Taffy and I stood staring at the hole
needing an up 'n down to make my goal.
Set up for the chip with breath quicken
Jumpy, trembling as I struck it thin.
A shadowy being leapt from the right
Taffy had snatched my shot mid flight!
Then he dropped it right next to the cup
I stepped in quick and cleaned it up.
From now on, no matter how I play
Taffy and I will have this one day!

Suddenly I Awake

Suddenly I Awake                                             

Suddenly I awake
Nightmare, dreamscape
Pulse racing, heart quaking
Brow sweating, hands shaking
Body quivering, muscles tensing
Mind racing, senses awakening

Eyes opening, reality seeming
Subconscious, what meaning
Body erect, mind spinning
Awareness, just beginning

Questioning, reasoning
Acceptance, forgiving

Quieting, stilling
Darkness, fulfilling 

Calming, breathing
Heartbeat, repeating

Suddenly I am awake
Suddenly I am aware

Gritting Your Freeway Teeth

Daily rushing,

Anger on freeway,

How can we slow this down?


Daily rushing.

Clenching my gum teeth,

Level 10 Hostile


Daily rushing

Lower back tensing

Is work worth it?

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