Best Bashful Poems
~ daylight... due her nap -
kissed the bashful sea's rough cheek...
as he blushed crimson ~
~ 3rd Place ~ in the "Haiku No Titles Theme Nature" Poetry Contest, Mick Talbot, Sponsor.
Categories:
bashful, day, metaphor, nature, sea,
Form:
Haiku
anonymous card
passionate cowardice words
a valentine wish
asking for a date
benevolent gallantry
one kiss too many
tensed on one knee
proposal of love
will you marry me please?
Categories:
bashful, love,
Form:
Haiku
Why afraid of war
When you have fearless gear
Attacking like the brave
Sending lives to the grave
Brave warriors to the ants
Mimosa pudica to elephant
You are loving peace
While killing innocents
You want to win the battle
When you do the bombing
You don’t fight the mountain
But only from the mole hill
I love you peace. Let’s sail together. Layag Sug
Purple Coach, City of Widow
12 April 2015. 3:41PM.
Categories:
bashful, adventure, anger, anxiety, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Said Bashful Billy
To this pretty filly
"Can I give you a peck on the cheek?"
Said the pretty filly
To Bashful Billy
"Yes, but first there's something I seek!"
Well, Bashful Billy
Really had no clue
What this young filly was asking for
So he whipped out a frog
From his colourful togs
Said, "If that's not enough, I have more!"
"No! No! Silly Billy!
That's not what I mean
I want you to do magic for me!"
"It is told you can bake
A great Birthday Cake
While balancing a cup of hot tea!"
"Well, yes if you wish
So then may I kiss
The tender young cheek that I yearn?"
"Well, not quite so fast
There's a thing I must ask
That you teach me a trick I may learn!"
Well Billy agreed
To teach this young filly
A trick he knew she would love
With a wave and a shake
Of his magical cape
A pink cloud came down from above
The two were hidden
The young filly was smitten
Bashful Billy had won her dear heart
He gets all the kissing
He'd always been missing
They're together nevermore to part
© Jack Ellison 2012
Categories:
bashful, fantasy, children, may,
Form:
Quatrain
Eyelashes
Batting in bashful style
Like the dance of weeping willow leaves
Sculpted nose
Crafted in perfection
Double caves in a sheer rock mountain
Rosy lips
Tender in lusciousness
Juicy strawberries dipped in pure cream
Vibrant eyes
Framed in deep mystery
Ebony gems enclosed in pearl shells
02.20.2021
For Joseph May's "Images in parallel" contest
Categories:
bashful, beauty, girl, simile,
Form:
Verse
Come out from behind that
distant cloud, don't be so
bashful, we won't hurt you.
Spring flowers delaying
their growth without
your light to shine on them.
Gardens having hissy fits,
without your heat to
dry up the water that
the rain sent.
So don't be bashful, or shy
come on out and shine for us
once again.
Written 5-23-11
Categories:
bashful, nature
Form:
Free verse
With bravado, during a bayamo,
A bashful barbudo
with a propensity for dissentiousness
Flits bottomward, toward a sand encrusted crusado
A crusado, mayhap, wellaway once possessed by
A seafaring hildalgo skittering
Over cirulean crests
What wry musing must the esurient bashful
barbudo mull
While it wends it way to the wayworn crusado?
Once and now tantalized, the fearnought barbudo,
Now disappointed over a once thought commestible
Now ponders
An omen? An augur? A delitescent apocalypse--of doom, or
Delight?
Oh, bashful barbudo, unmew this encrusted crusado: expugate it!
Expurgate it form its extant niche
Release its' recondite spectres anon, without cunctation
What tales may it portend with a tactile congress?
Wend not to your shoals yet; shun the skates importuning
Now before a malevolent maelstrom wrests the soothsayer's crusado
Away
Vocabulary: barbudo-species polydactylus virginicus; crusado-Spanish coin;
esurient-hungry,greedy
Categories:
bashful, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Said Bashful Billy
To this pretty young filly
"Can I give you a peck on the cheek?"
Said the pretty filly
To Bashful Billy
"Yes, but first there's something I seek!"
Well, Bashful Billy
Really had no clue
What this filly was asking Billy for
So he whipped out a frog
From his colourful togs
Said, "If that's not enough, I have more!"
"No! No! Silly Billy!
That's not what I mean
Want you to do magic tricks for me!"
"It is told you can bake
A great Birthday Cake
While balancing a hot cup of tea!"
"Well, yes if you wish
So then may I kiss
The tender young cheek that I yearn?"
"Well, not quite so fast
There's a thing I must ask
That you teach me a trick I may learn!"
Well Billy agreed
To teach this young filly
A trick that he knew she would love
With a wave and a shake
Of his magical cape
A pink cloud came down from above
Although they were hidden
You knew she was smitten
Bashful Billy had won her young heart
Riding into the sunset
With love a sure bet
You knew they would never part!
© Jack Ellison 2014
Categories:
bashful, fantasy,
Form:
Quatrain
Bashful heart I have become because of my past,
I have loved so much and thought it was the last.
Then you came to my life I was happy it was a blast,
Because of you I love again, I'm not anymore out-cast.
Bashful heart I don't know how to you I would react,
You are always sweet and caring to me, it's such a fact.
The manner you treat me in special ways I got attract,
Having you in my life dear Honey made a great impact.
Bashful heart you never had for me, you were so real,
Now I miss you so much and our life together in surreal.
At times it makes me think if it's possible to make a deal,
For us to still be together or just get over with it and seal.
Categories:
bashful, faith, hope, love, life,
Form:
Lyric
innocent flirtation can be a dangerous game
yet and still i play it in the hopes of it coming to fruition
distance can be the merciless foe of a love so desired
though now she is with him, the connection we have still shines in our replies and reactions
though i am now with her, the way we clicked before still radiates brightly in our tonalities and our hidden arousals
time is still a distant cousin unseen till the lottery of reality hits home
reality is still an unpredictable stalker till the sweepstakes of the here and now throws its unfortunate confetti
flirtation in the secret admission of guilt can be a hopeless waste of energy
nevertheless, i participate in every aspect of the game hoping for the trophy oh so far away from my grasp
Categories:
bashful, dream, hope, how i
Form:
Free verse
I wonder whether the birds I watch
mind being watched?
Do they wonder what the hell
the bird watchers are looking at so intently,
with such devotion to the census?
Or wonder what are the itchy twitching bewitchers
are carrying in their camera bags?
Can there be no privacy for flimsy shy flutterers?
Why can't the twitchers leave us be
to flock and gaggle free of the
unwelcome stares of
the watching wardens?
Categories:
bashful, bird, self,
Form:
Free verse
bashful as dawn breaks
It's about to start raining~
leaves sputter in joy
Categories:
bashful, autumn,
Form:
Haiku
The Bashful writer
He had been into a bookshop a few weeks ago
had asked the manager if he could place his books there,
yes, that was ok just bring me the books the manager said.
When he had asked the shop was empty, now it was full
of people and he was too shy and nervous, waited outside
for the shop to be empty.
He was a man of little self-confidence perhaps his work
was not good enough to be sold, he had been refused
so often when sending a manuscript through the net.
In a café, he had a glass of red wine to lessen his anxiety,
it helped, but the bookshop was closed for lunch when
he came back, he had lunch came back but the shop
decided it didn`t want more English written work,
“Come back in January,” the shopkeeper said.
He took the bus home knowing well he would not come
back for more humiliations.
Categories:
bashful, abuse, allusion, books, creation,
Form:
Blank verse
a shy teenager
coaxed to try on pink lipstick~
breaks into a smile
Submitted on May 31, 2019 for contest WRITING CHALLENGE 5, MAY 2019 SENRYU sponsored by DEAR HEART - RANKED 3RD
Categories:
bashful, girl, growing up, innocence,
Form:
Senryu
Said Bashful Billy
To this pretty young filly
"Can I give you a peck on the cheek?"
Said the pretty filly
To Bashful Billy
"Yes, but first there's something I seek!"
Well, Bashful Billy
Really had no clue
What this filly was asking him for
So he whipped out a frog
From his colourful togs
Said, "If that's not enough, I have more!"
"No! No! Silly Billy!
That's not what I mean
Want you to do magic tricks for me!"
"It is told you can bake
A great Birthday Cake
While balancing a hot cup of tea!"
"Well, yes if you wish
So then may I kiss
The tender young cheek that I yearn?"
"Well, not quite so fast
There's a thing I must ask
That you teach me a trick I may learn!"
Well Billy agreed
To teach this young filly
A trick that he knew she would love
With a wave and a shake
Of his magical cape
A pink cloud came down from above
Although they were hidden
You knew she was smitten
Bashful Billy had won her young heart
Riding into the sunset
With love a sure bet
You knew they would never part!
Categories:
bashful, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme