Lightening flashing a glimpse of spark :
Rainbow of heart hides in the dark !
At night shrill whistle of sky lark :
We two together to venture !
Path at turquoise night turns hazy
We two roaming being crazy
Though untwined and being whimsy
always rush in rue or rapture.
But dull darkness we must overcome
Our enthusiasm is awesome
No rest : We wander at random .
Dynamism ! Vibrant nature.
We run haphazard, not rhyming :
Charcoal night ! Morning not coming.
Our dormant desires are swimming !
Rainbow in the dark to capture .
I don't see us beating the odds this time,
A bitter truth, a fading rhyme.
I don't know why I keep trying still,
Instead of letting go against my will.
You've shown your true colors, stark and cold,
A story in harsh realities told.
And I won't let a man, no matter who,
Treat me like trash, that much is true.
So I would say, with strength I find,
We are through, our threads untwined.
And she gave one more toy to her cry-child.
Yet, not a single look, it wailed on still,
Grew restless, hard to soothe and deeply riled,
But as mothers do, she knew what was ill.
She was Maya---the formless that we find,
Who strews along our paths a pile of toys
In hope that human souls, by grace inclined,
Would winnow fleeting pleasures from true joys.
Her deep illusion-clad love we can see
As light from darkness is at last untwined,
From ignorance, foam from the waves of sea,
And from Maya, mother is seen so kind.
And lo, when tallest of ceilings we tame,
We learn: ceilings and roofs are all the same.
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Sonnet | 07.01.2012, recast July 2023|
Note: Maya is traditionally seen as an elusive thing that misleads. This piece sees her as mother that in maternal care spreads a lot of toys in our path so that we know to discriminate the good from bad.
Closeness contrived
Benign bonding fragile
Untwined footprints fork
On fate.
July 4, 2021
Contest : Bite Size Poem No. 10
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Sometimes you have to break
So that the light seeps in
Slowly through open cracks
Sealing scars and your fears
Shining bright inside out
Sewing cloaks of wisdom
Spools of thread now untwined.
22.4.2021
Contest: Pleiades 5.
A Few twisted minds
or if people combine,
it’s a perception untwined or a deception well tried.
If everyone’s kind
and see’s preconceptions as lies
people unite
Then the masses Aline
I stood wandering your complexions
As you stood wandering mine;
Following signs,
We got enshrined;
Our minds connected,
Our bodies intertwined,
To each other, each heart reclined,
Souls touching,
We were entwined...
Even so, through difficulties
I noticed you were uncompromising;
I thought we were aligned.
Now, the only sign
Is that you got untwined;
I don't know if you even knew what was worth,
Because you just left a broken shrine...
Now, I'll just try to realign
My heart, mind and soul
With renewal and rebirth...
I thought you were another soulmate which would stay.
I'll just try to be balanced and unbroken;
Ignore the fact you left me stranded,
And just keep walking on...
Yet, even in silence and solitude
I wish you well and sing you lullabies
Because I still feel
That such memories or our souls are still entwined;
Because we stood wandering complexions,
While you left a broken shrine
Which would still welcome you
If you understood what's worth through time...
Tonight,
Shadows are like,
A veil of calmness,
Swathing the mind,
A peaceful aura,
The knots untwined.
Palpable darkness,
Stroking the skin,
Almost too passionately,
We’re akin.
Flows the tender breeze,
Ushering the spirit,
Drifting it away,
The heart is then,
Free of any fray.
Sweet air gushes in,
So the aroma of night bloom,
Pure emotion flows in,
And the let out of gloom.
Heart that longed to fly,
Dive in,
Into the sky,
Touching the stars,
With all its might,
Oh so beautiful,
Tonight.
She took a Long trip
in her mind to help all
those things come untwined.
The shadows that follow
need to go away,
so she took along trip
to release all the pain.
She went to the woods,
a cabin in time,
She noticed all the trees
and the wind beneath
her wings.
She went into a dream
she saw her master
within,
she fell on her knees and asked
when will it all begin?
He said you took along trip
to find me deep within,
let it all go now
at my feet below,
I will lead you and never,never let you go.
Written by:©Betty Bolden
Love flew out the window, the wind took it away
Hoping you would catch glance, but you did not look its way
There are no beats filling my heart, our love is now untwined
Like a captain abandoning ship, I will leave it all behind
Ears not needed for listening, there is nothing to converse
Two people branded by papers that are difficult to reverse
Feeling like a punished child, I am done giving reasons
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall...I just need a change of seasons.
©Holly P. Moore
November 2012
Down the road lest been betrayed
Now my hopes have ran astray
Down the road to forgotten
I lay my dreams unsoughten
Dashing the way in to the day
Down the road to forgotten
The way it's paved for another time
The less it is untwined.
Let me remember how it was today
And the thoughts if disarray.
Betwixed the lines unseen
The reason seems a kind of dream.
Michaela Hatfield 2011
I want;
a world that cares more than less,
that doesn’t hide behind flowery dress.
A world that doesn’t lie about truth,
or being “un-cool” isn’t being uncouth.
A world where friends are gifts not bought
and mindless actions are a forgotten thought.
A world that sees, not like the blind
but with tinted vision at last untwined.
A world whose head looks to their feet,
unafraid of what their sight may meet,
a world where “I” can really mean “we”,
a world that accepts, me for me.
this baby pine
had two young branches
growing entwined
I untwined the branches
set them free
now each will find
his own sun
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