Tensioned Poems - Poems about Tensioned

...Your moods are like sounding boards. You can sound serious or sad like a cello or double bass, you can sound aggressive or violent like a bass drum, heavy and repetitive like a marching drum; but......Read the rest...

...the outline of the silhouette suggests a torso but a torso is not a man the concentric circle emerges from the surface of the lake and the insect revolves in the center if the air had consis......Read the rest...

...Growing up in twentieth century USA, without a recent immigrant history, nor a Native American indigenous heritage, just another in-between victim of Straight WesternWhite Male privilege, I r......Read the rest...

...Youngsters , how to wait of young people maturity, if they were born yesterday...? restrained gestures, calm, silence? If they are bodies tensioned, hunting traps checked, boxes of re......Read the rest...

...There's something to be said for doing the right thing, even for the wrong reasons. Reasons are about becoming, a work in progress, as doing is about living, a lifetime process, both fully whe......Read the rest...

...Her touch leaves no evidence of her passing nor does the imperceptible tremor of her tensioned ease alert her prey. Too late they feel her closing breath seizing theirs. ©8/30/2019 Sil......Read the rest...

...When I was a male child I prayed to an eternally mute dualdark goddess, Gaia was our name for each Other's secular sane sacred sacraments to share passion. And so I heard bird songs praisi......Read the rest...

...Cooperative kindness to others is a fake kindness if this liberating word or freeing action compromises your own integrity, which is disintegrating thereby, an unkindness to your own healthy Eg......Read the rest...

...II And did his rash actions give this prince Cause, in moments of troubling quietude, To ruefully ponder on all which could not Be rewound? ......Read the rest...

...As I age the formerly wide chasm between ecstasy and despair grows narrower, deeper. I had not thought this an attribute of maturation, quite the contrary, but perhaps an aging crevice, a th......Read the rest...

...Could we be doing our best to invest in Earth's cooperative health markets? While you sell our most competitive killing machines to our Saudi Arabian cousins. Referencing this touchstone as an ......Read the rest...

...Let's do a bit of sacramental gaming. Oh no, Dear! That smells and sounds coldly inappropriate. What would your great-grandmother say? OK, well... how about a mutually refining discussion a......Read the rest...

...loom tensioned for work webster's pattern emerges music warping time......Read the rest...

...The intended was upended by upshots unexpected. Star burrts of ramifications shot into the air despite all efforts to stop them. It was like trying to control an armful of crazy cats frighten......Read the rest...

...Once upon this time I was listening to the Christian Fathers retell traditional stories of God's election and predestination. Predestination is like being born into royalty, power, privilege......Read the rest...